Mary Tziraki is a Physicist with more than seventeen years of research and academic experience. She holds a PhD in Physics from Imperial College London, an MSc in Radiation Physics from the Medical Physics and Bioengineering Department of UCL, and a BSc in Physics from the University of Crete, Greece). She also hold the state registration for clinical Medical Physicist in Greece.
She has been awarded twice the prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship. The most recent one was at the Biophotonics group of the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery at the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London. During her fellowship (2013-2015), she developed a flexible endoscopic device that combined spectroscopy with Laser Speckle Contrast Analysis (LASCA), to image blood circulation, microvasculature and study tissue haemodynamics. She has also held postdoctoral fellowships at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School, the University of Strathclyde Glasgow, the Eye Institute of Crete, and the Medical School of the University of Crete. Her research projects were mainly in Biophotonics area and covered a broad range from Laser development, Holography, Spectroscopy, Biomedical Optics, Microscopy, Endoscopy, Surgical Imaging and methods for Eye Imaging. She is interested to carry on transactional research in Medical Imaging, Data Science and Machine Learning. For almost nine years, Mary had been a senior Lecturer at the Physics Department of the University of Crete and at the Hellenic Mediterranean University in Crete. She has successfully established, managed, designed and delivered courses and labs in the Physics and Material Science, Biology and Medicine departments of the University of Crete. Since 2015 and for 5 years she had been working as an independent consultant advising on Business analytics, Technology, Science and grant proposal writing. She had worked at a variety of industries, at start-ups as well big companies. Mary has proven her independence via her academic teaching and via securing her own funding for her research.
