Dr Thomas Blumensath BSc, PhD

Associate Professor

Thomas Blumensath is an Associate Professor at the University of Southampton. He is co-founder of the National Research Facility for Lab X-ray CT and is the Academic Lead in Image Processing and Reconstruction at the University of Southampton’s μ-VIS X-ray Imaging Centre.

I develop advanced mathematical methods to improve the acquisition and analysis of signals and images. Applications of these techniques include the study of connections in the human brain and the visualization and measurement of defects in manufactured components using x-rays.

Thomas received a B.Sc. (Hons) in Music Technology and Audio System Design from the University in Derby in 2002 and, in 2006, a PhD in Electronic Engineering (Bayesian Signal Processing) from the University of London. Since 2005, he held various appointments as Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Fellow working at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary University of London, the Institute for Digital Communications at the University of Edinburgh, the Applied Mathematics Research Group at the University of Southampton and the University of Oxford's Centre for functional MRI of the brain.

In 2012 he joined the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, where he worked as a New Frontiers Fellow, a Lecturer (since 2015) and Associate Professor (since 2017).  As an engineer and mathematician, his work spans theoretical and applied aspects of Signal and Image processing, concentrating particularly on Industrial applications of computed tomography and related volumetric imaging problems.