Matthew Evans

Matthew Evans is a Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Surgery & Cancer at Imperial College London's Faculty of Medicine. He specializes in developing high-resolution MRI techniques (7 Tesla) for imaging biomarkers in peripheral neuropathies and neuromuscular diseases. His work focuses on conditions like diabetic neuropathy, HIV polyneuropathy, and motor neurone disease, with future plans to explore neuropathic pain mechanisms.

• Affiliations: Pain Research Group (Chelsea & Westminster Hospital), Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory (C3NL)
• Education: BSc Psychology (University of Nottingham), Research Assistantship (Dementia Research Institute, UCL), MSc Neuroscience (University of Oxford), DPhil in neuroinflammatory mechanisms in ALS

Research Interests: Neuroimaging innovation, neurovascular mechanisms, clinical translation of MRI biomarkers. His DPhil work under Profs Turner, Sibson, and Anthony investigated ALS preclinical models. Current projects aim to non-invasively assess peripheral nerves using 7T MRI, creating 'virtual biopsies' for disease progression tracking.

Grants & Training: NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Neurology, NIHR Academic Foundation Programme graduate. His training combines clinical practice with advanced research methodologies.

Labs: Active member of the Pain Research Group and C3NL, collaborating on computational neuroimaging and clinical translation initiatives.