Professor Athanasios (‘Thanasis’) Tsanas FRSE
Personal Chair of Digital Health and Data Science, University of Edinburgh
Thanasis studied Engineering and completed a PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of Oxford (2012). Since 2022 he holds the Chair of Digital Health and Data Science at the Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the development and application of signal processing and statistical machine learning algorithms, having made key contributions to digital health. Outputs have been used by the NHS and a range of industrial partners, and featured in the media such as Reuters.
He is co-founder of the NHS Digital Academy, the first national digital health informatics leadership programme. He was a Turing Fellow (2021-2024) and an Inaugural Bayes Innovation Fellow (2023-2024); he is a Founding Fellow of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
