The people behind MS-PINPOINT

Arman leads the methodological developments and its clinical applications to solve impactful problems in multiple sclerosis (MS). Arman is an NIHR Advanced Fellow and UCL Principal Research Fellow (Associate Professor). He works across 12 hospitals in the MS-PINPOINT project in the UK, Netherlands, Germany and Canada.

Jon is responsible for data management and engineering for the PINPOINT project.

Philipp Goebl has been a Research Assistant within our group since 2023 and a PhD student from Oct 2024. He studied medicine at the Medical University of Vienna. He wrote his doctoral thesis on brain arteriovenous malformations and later pursued a neurosurgical residency in Switzerland. Philipp also studied medical informatics. His research focuses on real-world segmentation of medical images of the brain using privacy-conscious machine learning.

Barbara Brito Vega is a PhD student at UCL, working on AI-enabled image processing algorithms for MS clinical trials and patient care. She is developing AI models for processing routine care spinal cord MRI of those living with MS. She holds a BEng in Biomedical Engineering from UPM, Madrid, and an MSc in Neuroimaging from KCL, London. She has experience in the neuroimaging CRO industry. She is part of the EPSRC CDT i4Health in collaboration with IXICO.

Stef is a Senior Research Software Engineer in UCL’s Centre for Advanced Research Computing. He specialises in healthcare projects, enabling researchers timely access to data and developing environments that enable analysis and display of this data. Stef is leading software development for anonymising and preparing NHS data at UCLH for the MS-PINPOINT project.