Dr Robert Meertens

Rob has worked as a Medical Imaging Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter since March 2013. Rob currently has a role as Director of Business Engagement and Innovation for the Department of Health and Care Professions. This involves identifiying and consolidating on opportunities for the department to work with industry partners in both education and research.

Rob currently also is Programme Lead for the MSci Medical Imaging integrated pathway, which focuses on computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and principles of advanced clinical practice. His role also includes academic tutoring and supervising both postgraduate and undergraduate projects.

Rob has wide ranging research interests around medical imaging, artificial intelligence, and bone health. His PhD investigated the use of near infrared spectroscopy for the investigation of heamodynamic markers in bone in vivo. He continues to collaborate on research involving diagnostics of bone health based on projection radiographs, near infrared spectroscopy, DXA, MRI and quantitative ultrasound based techniques. 

Previously Rob has accumulated over nine years’ clinical experience as a diagnostic radiographer in both Australia and the UK, including expertise in computed tomography, coronary angiography, neurological angiography and bone mineral densitometry.