Dr Robert Meertens

Rob is an Associate Professor in Medical Imaging and has been with the University of Exeter since March 2013. Rob is also the Director of Research and Business Engagement for our Department of Health and Care Professions, with the aim of fostering high impact research and facilitating new collaborations with industry within our healthcare fields of education and research. This involves identifiying and consolidating on opportunities for the department to work with industry partners in both education and research.

Rob currently teaches on undergraduate and post graduate modules covering clinical placements, medical imaging theory, and research methods. This also includes supervising both postgraduate and undergraduate research projects. Rob also has an interest in educational research including themes around inter professional working, involving service users in healthcare education, simulation education techniques, and peer assisted learning.

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.