Mads Bergholt

Dr. Mads Bergholt is a Reader in Biophotonics at the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, King's College London, with a focus on label-free bioimaging technologies. He leads the Bergholt Lab, a multidisciplinary team at the Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology, integrating advanced optical imaging, spectroscopy, and artificial intelligence to address challenges in cancer, osteoarthritis, and regenerative medicine.

Research Interests

• Biomedical Optics and Light-Tissue Interaction
• Label-free Bioimaging and Raman Spectroscopy
• Advanced Endoscopy and Multimodal Imaging
• Artificial Intelligence in Biophotonics
• Regenerative Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

Article Trends span label-free molecular imaging, AI-driven diagnostics, and clinical biophotonics, with applications in cancer diagnostics, osteoarthritis, and bioenergetic materials. Techniques include Raman spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging, and optical coherence tomography.

Scientific Awards & Funding

• H2020 ERC Starting Grant (2019-2024)
• NC3Rs Crack-it Challenge (2020-2023)
• NVIDIA GPU Academic Award (2019)
• King’s Together EPSRC Capital Equipment Award (2019)
• King’s Prize Fellowship (2018-2020)

Education includes an MSc in Engineering Physics from the University of Southern Denmark and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the National University of Singapore, followed by a Marie Curie Fellowship at Imperial College London.