
Luca Giannoni
Research Fellow in Biomedical Optics, UCL
Luca Giannoni completed his PhD in Medical Imaging at UCL in 2020 and has been working in the field of biomedical optics and imaging for about eight years. During his PhD, he developed a novel benchtop HSI system for simultaneous in vivo monitoring and quantification of cerebral tissue oxygenation, haemodynamics and cellular metabolism in animal models, the very first of its kind. The system was used to study cerebral responses to brain oxygenation challenges, such as hypoxia, hyperoxia and ischaemia. He also worked on developing Monte Carlo (MC) optical models of HSI and on validation of HSI approaches in both digital and tissue-mimicking phantoms. He was a postdoctoral researcher at UNIFI and CNR-INO, in Italy, from 2020 until 2024, focusing on developing cutting-edge multiphoton microscopy systems for neuroimaging, as well as on designing and validating cost-effective, compact HSI devices for clinical translation. Since Oct. 2024, he has re-joined Ilias Tachtsidis’ lab at UCL as Research Fellow in Biomedical Optics.