Future Technology Leaders

Exploring funded digital health technology projects addressing healthcare challenges across Belfast and Northern Ireland.

Future Technology Leaders

Our Future Research Leaders are early-career academics driving innovation across a wide range of digital health technology disciplines, from AI and computer vision to nano-sensors and community health monitoring.

  • Dr Richard Gault

    Computer Vision for Medical and Microscopy Imaging

  • Dr Joanna Ward

    Sensor Surfaces for Diagnostics

  • Conor McClure

    Belfast School of Arts — Graphic Medicine

  • Dr Zoe Bradley

    Novel Diagnostics Systems and Nano Sensors

  • Dr Amir Faroch Payam

    Quantum and Precision Sensing

  • Dr John O’Connor

    Modelling and Image Processing of Patients

  • Dr Rashid Kamal

    Secure AI in Healthcare

  • Dr Jonathan Acheson

    Patient Centric: Models and Materials

  • Dr Matthew Burns

    Community Based Activity Monitoring

  • Dr Min Jing

    Image Analysis in Healthcare

Sandpit Events

A series of twelve Future Technology Leader Sandpits, each led by an emerging research leader, exploring different facets of digital health technology.

  1. Led by Dr Richard Gault

    2025

  2. Led by Dr Richard Gault

    18 February 2026

  3. Led by Dr Matthew Burns

    29 May 2026

Network Collaborators