UK Health Security Agency
CRTH Projects:
Theme 1 Project 4: Potential effects of sunlight on cardiometabolic health
Paul is an engineer/physicist specialising in the interactions of light and living matter. He is leading the Optical Radiation Effects Group at the UKHSA, continuing the work of uncovering the interactions between light and life, and how these might impact human health.
Alongside extensive work on light dosimetry and safety, he is involved in clinical work, including clinical trials, and working with patients on designing research, treatments and after-care. He has also worked in instrumentation development, designing and validating devices for use in research or clinical practice. Most notably I led a British Skin Foundation funded project to develop an LED-based device for clinical phototesting.
His research group at the UKHSA is concerned with studying the effects of optical radiation on human health. This includes the beneficial and detrimental effects of natural daylight and artificial light sources, from the ultraviolet (UV) through the visible light spectrum to near-infrared (N-IR).