In parallel to MD from Medical school at the University of Tübingen, Germany, he completed the Master of Sciences at the Max Planck research school of Neural and Behavioral Tübingen, Germany. He specialized in Radiology and diagnostic Neuroradiology at the University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland. Thereafter, he completed his Privatdozent (venia docendi, senior lecturer) in Neuroradiology at the University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland.

Currently, he is senior staff Neuroradiologist at the University Hospital Geneva, Switzerland, with a special interest in advanced neuroimaging techniques in particular in the domains of neurodegenerative and neurovascular diseases.

Major Awards

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

1987                PhD, University of Manchester

1984                Diploma “Advanced Studies in Science”, University of Manchester

1983                Bachelor of Science, University of Sheffield, UK

EMPLOYMENT

2011-2012      Executive Director, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Since 2010     Professor "Magnetic Resonance Physics", Maastricht University

Since 2008     Director at INM-4, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Since 2008     W3 Professor, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University

2004-2008      Professor of Experimental MI (C3), University of Dortmund

Since 1995     MR Group Leader (1999), Forschungszentrum Jülich

1992-1995      Clinical Scientist, Picker International GmbH, Hofheim, Germany, und Senior MR Phycisist, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Bad Oeynhausen

1990-1992      Research Associate, University of Cambridge, und Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridg

1987-1989      Research Fellow, Toshiba R and D Centre, Kawasaki, Japan

1987                Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester

AWARDS AND HonOURS

Since 2003     Fellow of the Institute of Physics

2010                Scholarship from the Japanese Association for the Advancement of Medical Equipment

2007                Scholarship from the Japanese Association for the Advancement of Medical Equipment

2003                Scholarship from the Japanese Association for the Advancement of Medical Equipment

2001                Scholarship from the Japanese Association for the Advancement of Medical Equipment

Since 1997     Honorary Research Associate, University of New Brunswick, Canada

1991-1998      Member of the Institute of Physics

1990-1992      Herschel Smith Scholarship at the University of Cambridge

1987-1989      Toshiba Fellowship

 

Roger Brownsword, who is a graduate of the London School of Economics, has been an academic lawyer for more than 40 years. Currently, he is Professor of Law at King's College London, where he was the founding director of TELOS (a research centre that focuses on technology, ethics, law and society), an honorary professor at the University of Sheffield, and a visiting professor at Singapore Management University.

He has published more than a dozen books, including (with Deryck Beyleveld) Human Dignity in Bioethics and Biolaw (OUP, 2001) and Consent in the Law (Hart, 2007); Contract Law: Themes for the Twenty-First Century (OUP, 2006), Rights, Regulation and the Technological Revolution (OUP, 2008), Regulating Technologies (Hart, 2008) (co-edited with Karen Yeung), and Law and the Technologies of the Twenty-First Century (co-authored with Morag Goodwin) (CUP, 2012); and he has more than 200 papers in edited collections and law reviews. He is currently co-editing the Cambridge Handbook on Human Dignity (which is in press) and just starting work on co-editing the Oxford Handbook on Law, Regulation and Technology.

He is the founding general editor of the leading European journal, Law, Innovation and Technology as well as being on the editorial board or committee of journals that include the Modern Law Review, the International Journal of Law and Information Technology, and the Journal of Law and the Biosciences.

Professor Brownsword has acted as a specialist adviser to parliamentary committees dealing with stems cells and hybrid embryos. From 2004-2010, he was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics; and, currently, he is Chair of the Ethics and Governance Council of UK Biobank.

Alun is Deputy Chief Executive of Hafal, Wales' leading charity for people with serious mental illness and their carers. Hafal is a membership-led organisation which supports over 1,300 people across Wales every day

Alun is a Registered Nurse and has worked in the NHS, developed a neurological rehabilitation service in the private healthcare sector, and is currently leading Hafal's development of a user-led in-patient facility run by the charity.

The focus of Alun's dissertation for his MA in the Ethics of Social Welfare was the importance of promoting autonomy and avoiding paternalistic relationships with people who have a serious mental illness in order that they can learn to make sustainable life choices when developing their recovery. This work and the ongoing empowerment ethos of the organisation has given Alun a passion for involvement in such work as the Braintrain IAB. Alun is also a member of the National Centre for Mental Health Advisory Committee and has held membership of the Nursing and Midwifery Council reference panel and the reference panel to the Chief Nursing Officer in Wales.

Alun recently achieved a first class LLB (Hons) degree with the Open University and is shortly commencing a PhD in law at Swansea University exploring how Welsh specific legislation might provide additional rights to patients. Alun previously gave evidence to both the both Welsh Affairs Select Committee in Westminster and the Welsh Government on the development of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure. He has represented Hafal at international meetings and conferences and has given numerous media interviews including on the BBC Politics Show and Good Morning Wales.