Penny Gowland
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Penny Gowland is a current Professor of Physics at the University of Nottingham who explores the possible uses of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in lots of different settings.
Penny studied for her undergraduate degree at the University of Central London before becoming a PhD student at the Institute of Cancer Research in 1986. She went on to work for the Institue for 2 years before joining the University of Nottingham’s School of Physics and Astronomy where she has remained.
Penny’s work is varied and far reaching. She acts as the Physics expert in her collaborative work giving her a wide range of impacts in many different areas of science.
She is the Physics lead on a unique interdisciplinary project which has developed MRI methods to study many aspects of gastro-intestinal function. This project has the potential to revolutionise the way we diagnose patients with gut and intestinal problems.
She also has a keen interest in applying modern imaging methods to study human development, particularly in the fetus.
Her work has recently expanded to cover the safety aspects of MRI, including classification of the amount of exposure that MRI workers are subjected to when they are working in epidemiological studies.
In addition, she contributes her knowledge on imaging to a variety of other health investigations, such as how the brain may change in Parkinson’s disease.