People
The Brookeslab includes interdisciplinary expertise in genetics, computer science, biotechnology, mathematics and statistics. The group’s core activities are focussed on Health Data Science, including bioinformatics, statistics, network modelling and machine learning with computer vision. This is supported by extensive experience in full stack web development, software development, implementation and security. Privacy technologies and information governance provide a robust underpinning to our work.
Professor Anthony Brookes
Bioinformatics Group Lead
Dr Colin Veal
Research Fellow
Qualifications
- BSc Biological Sciences (Genetics)
- BA Mathematics and Statistics
- PhD Human complex disease genetics
Interests
Combining biology, computer science and mathematics to produce novel solutions in health care.
Learn more about Dr Colin Veal
Mehdi Mehtarizadeh
Research Assistant
Qualifications
- BSc in Computer Software Engineering
- MSc in Advanced Software Engineering
Interests
- Information Retrieval Image Processing
- Inductive Transfer in Deep Learning
- Model-driven engineering
Learn more about Mehdi Mehtarizadeh
Farid Yavari Dizjikan
Research Software Support Officer
Qualifications
- MSc Cyber Security
- MSc Cloud Computing
- BSc Software Engineering
- LPIC-1
Interests
Cyber security and DevOps.
Learn more about Farid Yavari Dizjikan
Dr Spencer Gibson
Research Associate
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons.) Biotechnology (De Montfort)
- Ph.D (University of Nottingham)
Interests
Molecular biotechnology method development, information governance and ethics, multimedia communication of research.
Learn more about Dr Spencer Gibson
spencer.gibson@leicester.ac.uk
Umar Riaz
Research Software Support Officer
Qualification
- Master in Advanced Software Engineering (University of Leicester)
Interests
- Data discovery
- Full-stack development
- Designing reusable systems
Vatsalya Maddi
Research Software Support Officer
Qualifications
- B.Tech (GRIET Hyderabad)
- MSc (Leicester)
Interests
Full-stack software development, data analysis and discovery, UI/UX designing, semantic RESTful APIs.
Tom Shorter
Research Assistant
Qualifications
- BSc Biomedical Science
- MSc Bioinformatics
- MSc Medicinal chemistry
Interests
Animals and problem solving.
Dr Adam Webb
Research Associate
Qualifications
- BSc (Leicester)
- PhD (Leicester)
Interests
- Human molecular genetics
- DNA variation
- G2P data handling
Marc Wadsley
Research Associate
Qualifications
- BSc (York)
- MRes (York)
- MSc (Manchester)
Interests
Clinical bioinformatics, healthcare data and variant analysis.
Dr Alex Giavaras
Research Associate
Qualifications
- BSc (Piraeus Greece)
- MSc (Liverpool)
- PhD (Nottingham)
Interests
High performance computing, mathematical modelling, embedded systems and robotics.
Gregory Warren
PhD Student
Qualifications
- BSc (Keele)
- MSc (Leicester)
Interests
Graph databases and big data.
Thomas Rowlands
PhD Student
Qualifications
- BSc (Wolverhampton)
- MSc (Birmingham)
Interests
A.I, NLP and machine learning.
Collaborator: Dr Tim Beck
Lecturer
Qualifications
- BSc (Leeds)
- MRes (Leeds)
- PhD (Sussex)
Interests
Semantics to connect health-related research big data.