Biography
Alexander Hammers, a Neurologist with a particular interest in epilepsy, is Professor (Honorary Consultant) of Imaging and Neuroscience and Head of the King’s College London & Guy’s and St Thomas’ PET Centre at St Thomas’ Hospital. Other roles include Deputy Director of the Centre for Medical Engineering. He obtained an MD from the RWTH Aachen, Germany, in MR imaging of the hippocampus and a PhD from the University of London in PET investigations in focal epilepsy.
His research area is medical imaging, in particular functional neuroimaging with quantified Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to understand mechanisms of neurological disease. Another area is structural neuroimaging using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and anatomical segmentation using a large manually annotated brain atlas database which his group has created over the past two decades. The main areas of application of his research are the epilepsies and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as methodological developments. The ultimate goal is to benefit individual patients through the clinical application of neuroscience. Examples include classification with machine-learning (artificial intelligence) techniques, and the combination of MRI and PET.
He is affiliated with several professional organisations, has won several distinctions, is a sought-after teacher, and reviews frequently for numerous journals and grant-giving bodies. He is an author on about 300 articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters (Google Scholar).
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Markiewicz, P. J., Matthews, J. C., Ashburner, J., Cash, D. M., Thomas, D. L., Vita, E. D., Barnes, A., Cardoso, M. J., Modat, M., Brown, R., Thielemans, K., da Costa-Luis, C., Alves, I. L., Lopez, J. D. G., Schmidt, M., Marsden, P., Hammers, A., Ourselin, S. & Barkhof, F., 12 Feb 2021, In: NeuroImage. p. 117821 Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117821
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McGinnity, C. J., Riaño Barros, D. A., Hinz, R., Myers, J. F., Yaakub, S. N., Thyssen, C., Heckemann, R. A., de Tisi, J., Duncan, J. S., Sander, J. W., Lingford-Hughes, A., Koepp, M. J. & Hammers, A., 7 Jan 2021, In: Brain Communications. 3, 1, p. fcaa190 Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaa190
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Sousa, J. M., Appel, L., Merida, I., Heckemann, R. A., Costes, N., Engström, M., Papadimitriou, S., Nyholm, D., Ahlström, H., Hammers, A. & Lubberink, M., 28 Dec 2020, In: EJNMMI Physics. 7, 1, p. 77 77. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40658-020-00347-2
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Egerton, A., Dunn, J., Singh, N., Yu, Z., O' Doherty, J., Koychev, I., Webb, J., Claridge, S., Turkheimer, F., Marsden, P., Hammers, A. & Gee, T., 6 Dec 2020, In: EJNMMI Research. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review
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Egerton, A., Dunn, J. T., Singh, N., Yu, Z., O'Doherty, J., Koychev, I., Webb, J., Claridge, S., Turkheimer, F. E., Marsden, P. K., Hammers, A. & Gee, A., 3 Dec 2020, In: EJNMMI Research. 10, 1, 146. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13550-020-00731-0
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Mackewn, J. E., Stirling, J., Jeljeli, S., Gould, S-M., Johnstone, R. I., Merida, I., Pike, L. C., McGinnity, C. J., Beck, K., Howes, O., Hammers, A. & Marsden, P. K., 1 Dec 2020, In: EJNMMI Physics. 7, 1, p. 47 47. Research output: Contribution to journal - Comment/debate - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40658-020-00312-z
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Mackewn, J. E., Stirling, J., Jeljeli, S., Gould, S. M., Johnstone, R. I., Merida, I., Pike, L. C., McGinnity, C. G., Beck, K., Howes, O., Hammers, A. & Marsden, P. K., 1 Dec 2020, In: EJNMMI Physics. 7, 1, p. 24 24. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40658-020-00295-x
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Mehranian, A., McGinnity, C. J., Neji, R., Prieto Vasquez, C., Hammers, A., De Vita, E. & Reader, A., 1 Sep 2020, In: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 84, 3, p. 1306-1320 15 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28205
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Carotenuto, A., Wilson, H., Giordano, B., Caminiti, S. P., Chappell, Z., Williams, S. C. R., Hammers, A., Silber, E., Brex, P. & Politis, M., 1 Jul 2020, In: Journal of Neurology. 267, 7, p. 2042-2053 12 p. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-020-09806-3
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Yaakub, S. N., Heckemann, R. A., Keller, S. S., McGinnity, C. J., Weber, B. & Hammers, A., 18 Feb 2020, In: Scientific Reports. 10, 1, 2837. Research output: Contribution to journal - Article - peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57951-6