Professor Thomas Okell is an Associate Professor based at the Podium Institute within the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and a Fellow of St Catherine’s College, with a joint appointment at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

His role focusses on the use of advanced neuroimaging methods to explore relationships between sports, injuries, mental health and cognition. He obtained his doctoral degree in Oxford developing novel non-invasive MRI-based methods for studying brain blood flow. He has since secured fellowships from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Wellcome Trust/Royal Society to develop advanced methods for non-invasive blood vessel (angiography), perfusion and structural imaging, including acquisition, image reconstruction and physiological modelling. He has applied these approaches in various cerebrovascular disease, basic neuroscience and population imaging studies.