Dr Veronica Hollis MSci, PhD, FHEA
Senior Teaching Fellow
Dr Veronica Hollis is a Senior Teaching Fellow within Medicine at the University of Southampton
Dr Veronica Hollis completed her PhD at the Medical Physics and Bioengineering Department at University College London. Her doctoral research involved using near-infrared spectroscopy as a non-invasive method of measuring brain temperature in newborn infants undergoing mild hypothermic treatment for birth asphyxia.
Veronica continued her postdoctoral research at UCL in the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, where she investigated the effect of nitric oxide on mitochondrial bioenergetics in respiring cells using visible light spectroscopy. In 2009 Veronica came to Southampton to work with Professor Hywel Morgan in the Electronics and Computer Science Department, in collaboration with Dr Judith Holloway in the Faculty of Medicine, on the development of a miniaturised point-of-care device for evaluating blood cell counts, based on electrical impedance and optical fluorescence-based cytometric techniques. Veronica then joined a research project in Human Development and Health, led by Drs Judith Holloway and Nicola Englyst, to investigate the role of endothelial microparticles in cardiovascular disease, using fluorescence labelling of surface markers and flow cytometric techniques to measure microparticles in blood plasma.
In 2014 Veronica took up the role of Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine to work with Dr Judith Holloway, the Programme Leader for the MSc Allergy, for which Veronica is now the Assessment Lead and a module leader for the Foundations of Allergic Disease, Work Based Learning and Teaching the Teachers to Teach modules. During this time Veronica has completed Modules 1 and 2 towards her Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, gaining affiliation as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Qualifications
-MSci (Hons) Medical Physics, University College London, 1998
-PhD Biomedical Optics, University College London, 2002