The Medical Physics Zone is funded by the Institute of Physics.

The Scientists

Jen Dennis | Clinical Scientist, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital

I work in a hospital and help find out what’s wrong with people by making patients radioactive and then taking pictures with a special camera to see where the radiation has gone in the body.

Christopher Mirfin | PhD Student, Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre

Designing MRI scanners of the future!

Mohan Kyle | Clinical Scientist, University Hospital of Hartlepool

I help put radioactive drugs inside people for diagnosis and treatment- no, they don’t glow!

Daniel Fovargue | Postdoctoral, King’s College London

I use pictures of sound moving through people to help find cancer.

Sarah De Vos | Trainee Medical Physicist, Clatterbridge Cancer Hospital

I am training to use X-rays to kill cancer cells.

The Schools

• Churnet View Middle School, Staffordshire
• Haverstock School, London
• Fowey River Academy, Cornwall
• Newland School for Girls, Hull
• Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy, West Midlands
• Parklands High School, Lancashire
• Prendergast Vale School, London
• Prince Henry’s High School, Worcestershire
• Reepham High School and College, Norfolk
• Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School, Buckinghamshire
• South Molton Community College, Devon
• St Paul’s Academy, London
• St Ursula’s Convent School, London
• Tapton School, South Yorkshire
• The Holy Cross School, Surrey
• Woodrush Community High School, Worcestershire