Biomedical Engineering

This Biomedical Engineering PhD course offered at the University of Surrey gives you the chance to employ cutting-edge science to make new discoveries that will contribute to solving medical problems with engineering tools.

University of Surrey University of Surrey graduates have gone on to clinical engineering positions in the NHS, design consultancies, medicine and prosthesis manufacturing; clinical scientist roles in biomedical engineering research and development companies; and research associate positions in academia, and other areas.

Career opportunities

Surrey’s Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering PhD will give you the knowledge, skills and expertise needed for a career in engineering, research or academia. You’ll be intellectually challenged, develop research and management skills, and become an expert in your chosen field of study. It normally takes around three years to complete a full-time PhD. You’ll be assigned a minimum of two supervisors, who’ll guide you through your studies. You’ll learn how to conduct literature reviews, develop your ideas and verify them with experiments, and collaborate and perform interdisciplinary research. Your skills will develop over time and you’ll become an independent researcher able to solve biomedical problems using engineering principles. Your final assessment will be based on the presentation of your research in a written thesis, which will be discussed in a viva examination with at least two examiners. You have the option of preparing your thesis as a monograph (one large volume in chapter form) or in publication format (including chapters written for publication), subject to the approval of your supervisors.

Research themes include:

• Bioinspired materials

• Biomechanics

• Biomedical signal processing, including the development of tools for early diagnosis

• Chronobiology

• Electrophysiology of disease

• Machine learning applications for healthcare.