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Sebastien Ourselin

Professor Sebastien Ourselin FREng FMedSci

Professor of Healthcare Engineering

  • Head of School, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences

Research interests

  • Biomedical and life sciences
  • Computer science

Biography

Professor Sebastien Ourselin, FREng FMedSci, is the Head of the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King's College London.

He is also the Director of the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering, the EPSRC King’s Health Partners Digital Health Hub, and the London Medical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence Centre for Value Based Healthcare.

Alongside Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, he is leading the MedTech Hub located at St Thomas’ campus. The vision for the Hub is to create a unique ecosystem enabling academia, industry, and the NHS to work in synergy and develop health technologies and medical devices, and workforce and operational improvements, that will be of global significance.

He has over 25 years of experience within academia and research organisations across three countries, plus significant experience of healthcare technology translation and commercialisation, and MedTech entrepreneurship.

    News

    Hospital of the Future completes three-year winning streak at New Scientist Live

    The School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences presented its 'Hospital of the Future' exhibit at New Scientist Live 2024 and was voted the most...

    nsl 2024 award

    Secretaries of State for Health and Science unveil new cutting-edge scanner at King's

    The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting MP and the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Peter Kyle MP met with...

    Secretary of State Peter Kyle visits St. Thomas’ Hospital to launch the NPIP Total Body Scanner.

    New software developed to support surgical robotics

    Researchers from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences have successfully integrated KUKA's Fast Robot Interface (FRI) with ROS 2 and Python,...

    Man and woman standing near KUKA robot arm

    Celebrating 10 years of innovation: Siemens Healthineers joins King's at LIHE

    King’s College London celebrates the 10th anniversary of its partnership with Siemens Healthineers as the company takes residence at the newly opened London...

    Siemens 1

    The AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare partners with deepc to accelerate and transform NHS adoption of radiology AI

    The AI Centre for Value-Based Healthcare has partnered with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and radiology AI platform developer deepc to accelerate...

    deepc ai centre

    EPSRC digital health policy day comes to LIHE

    The latest EPSRC policy day on the potential of digital health has been hosted by the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering.

    Charlotte Deane EPSRC

    MRI research funded to detect sickle cell brain injuries in children

    BMEIS researchers have received seed funding for a new project to advance MRI detection of Sickle Cell disease-related brain injury in children.

    image of a brain scan

    Twins MRI study celebrates 250 scans in first year

    The Department of Twin Research and BMEIS has marked their first year of research collaboration using multi-organ MR imaging in twins for ageing research.

    King's researchers from the Department of Twin Research and the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences

    UK's first MedTech Venture Builder backs 12 new companies

    The London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE) has launched its inaugural MedTech Venture Builder programme, funded by Research England.

    Venture builder launch

    £1.8m funding to extend London's healthcare AI technologies and capabilities

    The London Artificial Intelligence Centre for Value Based Healthcare (AI4VBH) has been allocated £1.8m by the London Secure Data Environment (SDE) from...

    AI Centre

    Events

    14Mar

    The MedTech scale-up journey: Opportunities for UK-Greece collaboration

    The Embassy of Greece in London and the the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE) are hosting a panel discussion on the MedTech scale-up journey:...

    Please note: this event has passed.

    16Jan

    Living well with technology: AI and the future

    Amidst the rapid changes affecting all industries, how do we navigate the AI revolution?

    Please note: this event has passed.

    18Nov

    AI Deployment Engine – Demonstration and Q&A

    Join the AI Centre for an overview of its work and a demo of the latest AI Deployment Engine (AIDE) Technology

    Please note: this event has passed.

    02Mar

    The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

    Join Professor Sebastien Ourselin in this online lecture on the topic of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

    Please note: this event has passed.

    18Nov

    The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

    Join Professor Sebastien Ourselin in this online lecture on the topic of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

    Please note: this event has passed.

    18Nov

    The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

    Join Professor Sebastien Ourselin in this online lecture on the topic of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

    Please note: this event has passed.

    Features

    Transforming cancer care at King's

    King’s is the site of future breakthroughs, transforming cancer care and therapies through innovative research. An injection of philanthropic donations...

    cancer-cells-blue

    King's contributes to pandemic response

    Staff and students from across the King’s community are supporting efforts to combat the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.

    Coronavirus CDC promo

    Spotlight

    ZOE COVID Study app: How King's researchers slowed the spread of COVID-19

    On March 24th 2020, the ZOE COVID Symptom Study App was launched. Since then, it has more than 4 million users and is now the world’s largest ongoing study...

    COVID and RBC

      News

      Hospital of the Future completes three-year winning streak at New Scientist Live

      The School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences presented its 'Hospital of the Future' exhibit at New Scientist Live 2024 and was voted the most...

      nsl 2024 award

      Secretaries of State for Health and Science unveil new cutting-edge scanner at King's

      The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting MP and the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Peter Kyle MP met with...

      Secretary of State Peter Kyle visits St. Thomas’ Hospital to launch the NPIP Total Body Scanner.

      New software developed to support surgical robotics

      Researchers from the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences have successfully integrated KUKA's Fast Robot Interface (FRI) with ROS 2 and Python,...

      Man and woman standing near KUKA robot arm

      Celebrating 10 years of innovation: Siemens Healthineers joins King's at LIHE

      King’s College London celebrates the 10th anniversary of its partnership with Siemens Healthineers as the company takes residence at the newly opened London...

      Siemens 1

      The AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare partners with deepc to accelerate and transform NHS adoption of radiology AI

      The AI Centre for Value-Based Healthcare has partnered with Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and radiology AI platform developer deepc to accelerate...

      deepc ai centre

      EPSRC digital health policy day comes to LIHE

      The latest EPSRC policy day on the potential of digital health has been hosted by the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering.

      Charlotte Deane EPSRC

      MRI research funded to detect sickle cell brain injuries in children

      BMEIS researchers have received seed funding for a new project to advance MRI detection of Sickle Cell disease-related brain injury in children.

      image of a brain scan

      Twins MRI study celebrates 250 scans in first year

      The Department of Twin Research and BMEIS has marked their first year of research collaboration using multi-organ MR imaging in twins for ageing research.

      King's researchers from the Department of Twin Research and the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences

      UK's first MedTech Venture Builder backs 12 new companies

      The London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE) has launched its inaugural MedTech Venture Builder programme, funded by Research England.

      Venture builder launch

      £1.8m funding to extend London's healthcare AI technologies and capabilities

      The London Artificial Intelligence Centre for Value Based Healthcare (AI4VBH) has been allocated £1.8m by the London Secure Data Environment (SDE) from...

      AI Centre

      Events

      14Mar

      The MedTech scale-up journey: Opportunities for UK-Greece collaboration

      The Embassy of Greece in London and the the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE) are hosting a panel discussion on the MedTech scale-up journey:...

      Please note: this event has passed.

      16Jan

      Living well with technology: AI and the future

      Amidst the rapid changes affecting all industries, how do we navigate the AI revolution?

      Please note: this event has passed.

      18Nov

      AI Deployment Engine – Demonstration and Q&A

      Join the AI Centre for an overview of its work and a demo of the latest AI Deployment Engine (AIDE) Technology

      Please note: this event has passed.

      02Mar

      The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

      Join Professor Sebastien Ourselin in this online lecture on the topic of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

      Please note: this event has passed.

      18Nov

      The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

      Join Professor Sebastien Ourselin in this online lecture on the topic of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

      Please note: this event has passed.

      18Nov

      The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

      Join Professor Sebastien Ourselin in this online lecture on the topic of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

      Please note: this event has passed.

      Features

      Transforming cancer care at King's

      King’s is the site of future breakthroughs, transforming cancer care and therapies through innovative research. An injection of philanthropic donations...

      cancer-cells-blue

      King's contributes to pandemic response

      Staff and students from across the King’s community are supporting efforts to combat the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.

      Coronavirus CDC promo

      Spotlight

      ZOE COVID Study app: How King's researchers slowed the spread of COVID-19

      On March 24th 2020, the ZOE COVID Symptom Study App was launched. Since then, it has more than 4 million users and is now the world’s largest ongoing study...

      COVID and RBC