Rate My Professor Gordon Waiter

Dr Gordon Waiter is a Reader at the University of Aberdeen in the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition. He graduated from the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, in 1989 with a BSc (Hons) in Physical Sciences majoring in Physics. He then worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Medical Physics at Dundee University developing MR imaging test objects. He returned to the University of Aberdeen in 1991 to undertake a PhD in Medical Physics. He joined the staff of the University of Aberdeen in 1996 as a research fellow collaborating with the Department of Biomedical Physics and the NHS Department of Cardiology on image analysis methods for the detection of hibernating myocardium. In 2001 he joined the School of Psychology to help initiate functional magnetic resonance imaging on a new 1.5T research scanner. In 2004 he joined the Department of Radiology, now part of the Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre, continuing the development of fMRI techniques including paradigm design, data analysis, acquisition, quality control and image analysis. He was appointed Reader in 2021.