David Marples

Research Topic: Breaking the Wave - Predicting surges in unplanned hospital attendance before they happen

Supervisors: Nishant Ravikumar, Kieran Zucker, Andrew Webster, Stephen Bush

About David: My first degree was in medicine, graduating from Oxford in 1990, and going on to do my house jobs (equivalent of foundation years!). In the meantime I had also done a D.Phil. in renal physiology, and after my house jobs I returned to research in the same area, first in Oxford and then in Denmark. In 1996 I took up a research fellowship at Leeds, progressing to a lectureship and then senior lectureship in physiology and anatomy. In 2019 I changed career course, getting a degree apprenticeship with PwC to study computer science, from which I graduated with first class honours in 2023, before starting the CDT programme in October 2023.