Deric Powell Jones

Deric Powell Jones received the degrees of BSc in physics and PhD in superconductivity from Imperial College, London, UK. He worked as a medical physicist at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and then as a lecturer at the Medical School. During more than twenty-five years spent at St. Bartholomew’s, he became a reader in the University of London and head of the Department of Medical Electronics and Physics in the Medical School. His research interests include the application of opto-electronic techniques in anesthesia and surgery and also the development of new techniques for physiological measurements in respiration and ophthalmology. He is a fellow of the UK Institute of Physics and the UK Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and a chartered engineer and a senior member of the U.S. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is currently a professor affiliated to the Biomedical Engineering Department in the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at City University, London, UK.