Dr Katy Knight

I am a Diagnostic Radiographer and Bioinformatician currently working as a lecturer in Medical Imaging. I am interested in how data science and bioinformatics can be utilised within the area of medical imaging to improve diagnostics and enable the development of more personalised medicine.

Career

After graduating with a BSc in Medical Imaging and an MSc in Bioinformatics I undertook a PhD investigating bioinformatic methods for the analysis of microbial communities. Following on from this I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in bioinformatics at Exeter university within the Exeter Microbial Biofuels Group (EMBG). I then spent two years as a senior data scientist for Senisca, a biotech spin-out from the university, where I developed bioinformatic pipelines for the analysis of long read transcriptomic data sets and investigated the genetics of cellular ageing. Prior to my appointment as a lecturer I spent two years with Professor Karen Knapp as a postdoctoral researcher in medical imaging.

Qualifications

2018: PhD Biological sciences 

2013: MSc Bioinformatics (Distinction with Dean's commendation)

2012: BSc Diagnostic Radiography (Medical Imaging)