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Name Samuel McDermott
Title Programme Manager, EPSRC Sensor CDT, University of Cambridge
Email sjm263@cam.ac.uk
Url https://mcdermott.science

Work

  • 2024.02 - Present

    Cambridge

    EPSRC Sensor CDT Programme Manager
    University of Cambridge
  • 2023.03 - Present
    Co-Founder
    autohaem
  • 2022.09 - Present

    Cambridge

    Supervisor
    Lucy Cavendish College
    Small group teaching to undergraduate students in Mathematical Biology.
  • 2022.07 - 2024.01

    Cambridge

    Senior Research Ethics and Governance Coordinator
    University of Cambridge
    Preparing ethics protocols and governance processes for large scale public health data studies in UK, EU, Africa and Asia.
  • 2019.04 - 2022.06

    Cambridge

    Postdoctoral Research Associate
    University of Cambridge
    Creating open source hardware and software for automating the diagnosis of malaria with microscopic images of blood smears.
  • 2014.06 - 2014.08

    London

    Summer Internship
    UBS
    Working on a global SaaS project within HR IT.
  • 2013.06 - 2013.08

    Cambridge

    Summer Internship
    Brady PLC
    Software Development and Testing in a commodities trading and risk management software company.

Education

  • 2015.09 - 2019.03
    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    The University of Sheffield
    Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    • Developing phase retrieval algorithms and applications, based around the family of techniques of Ptychography.
  • 2014.10 - 2015.09
    Master of Science (MSc)
    University of Warwick
    Computer Science and Applications
  • 2011.10 - 2014.07
    MA (Cantab)
    University of Cambridge
    Natural Sciences
    • Physics
    • Mathematics
    • Chemistry
    • Astrophysics
    • Computer Science