Professor Rebecca Shipley OBE FREng 

Professor of Healthcare Engineering, University College London; Chief Research Officer and Academic Health Science Centre Director, UCLPartners 

Professor Rebecca Shipley is an internationally recognised research leader in computational modelling in healthcare. She has pioneered model-based techniques to better understand how diseased and damaged tissues function and repair, including in cancer and nerve injury, as well as data-driven models in physiology. She is a passionate advocate for healthcare engineering and the translation of scientific discoveries into practice. During the pandemic, Rebecca co-led the UCL-Ventura programme, which delivered non-invasive ventilators in the UK and globally. Rebecca led the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering during between 2018 and -2024 and now is Chief Research Officer at UCLPartners.