About
Adrian Podoleanu received his PhD in Electronics from the Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, Technical University of Bucharest, Romania in 1984. He began his career teaching at the Technical University Bucharest, Romania. As an associate professor, he taught physics, optics and optoelectronics and developed research on lasers and fast optoelectronics.
Since 2004 he has been Professor of Biomedical Optics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kent, where he heads the Applied Optics Group. His research interests focus on optical coherence tomography (OCT), imaging the eye, distance measurements using low coherence interferometry, sub-nanosecond dwell time multichannel digital correlation, sensing and secure optical communications. He contributed towards development of the en-face OCT imaging as a novel technology to complement the more conventional longitudinal OCT imaging, towards the dual imaging instrument for the eye, OCT/SLO and towards Fourier domain OCT with no mirror terms (using Talbot bands).
Professor Podoleanu is a Faculty Investigator, National Institute for Health Research, Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.
He is an Honorary Professor of University College London and former Visiting Professor of Ophthalmology, New York Medical College, School of Medicine, Touro College. He is the Associate Secretary of the International Commission of Optics (ICO), 2021-2024 after serving as one of their eight elected Vice-Presidents (2017-2020) (in this capacity he chaired the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics for 4 years).
Professor Podoleanu's publishing record includes 17 book chapters, over 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and over 800 communications at conferences and seminars. He is a member of the editorial boards of six journals, has chaired or co-chaired 18 international conferences and acted as a member in the organising committees of over 70 international conferences. He has been awarded 24 patents. He is also director of Optopod Ltd, a spin-out of the University of Kent involved in spectral domain OCT.
Research interests
Professor Podoleanu is a Highly Ranked Scholar 2022- Lifetime: #51 for Tomography.
His research interests include:
His published works may be accessed at:
He has a web of science h-index of 40; Google Scholar: 55 (includes patents).
Research grants
Professor Podoleanu currently has research grants as follows:
- A. Podoleanu, Phillip de Wilde “Quantitative OCT-Raman spectral imaging for intra-operative detection of positive margins in breast conserving surgery”, Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme (DPFS) MRC, University of Nottingham, 1/10/2023 – 30/04/2027;
- A. Podoleanu, M. Hughes, EPSRC, 26049, FoVEnOCT: “Compact Forward-Viewing Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography”, EP/X000125/1, 2023 - 2026.
- A. Podoleanu, A. Bradu, M. Marques, Jerome Korzelius (Biosciences), Cornelia Wilson, Discovery Park, “Optical Coherence Tomography for Organoids”, BBSRC IAAA, 2024 – 2025.
- C. Bergeles, King's College London, Lyndon da Cruz, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust , A. Podoleanu, M. Hughes University of Kent, S. Ourselin, King's College London, “Sensorised Micro-Surgical Robot for Safe Regenerative Retinal Therapy Delivery”, National Institute for Health Research, NIHR202879, i4i Call 21 , 2022-2025;
- Biomedical Research Centre, UCL, Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital, National Institute of Health Research (NIHR BRC4-05-RB413-302, BRC Theme: Imaging, Visual Assessment & Digital Innovation, 2022 – 2025;
- A. Podoleanu, M. Hughes from University of Kent and Xiangming Xu, National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Matevz Papp-Rupar (NIAB) BB/X003744/1 – BBSRC, “An optical detector for latent fungal infection in produce”, 2023-2025;
- A. Podoleanu, Next generation of Tuneable LaSers for optical coherence tomography, Innovative Training Networks (ITN) H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019, GA860807, EC, to educate 15 PhDs, 1/02/2020 – 30/11/2024, 14 other partners, including 4 universities: University of Luebeck, University of Darmstadt, University of Tampere and Technical University of Denmark, 6 companies: Innolume Germany, NKT Denmark, Superlum Ireland, OCTLight, (DTU spin-out), Optores Munich, Centervue Italy, 2 hospitals: Moorfield Eye Hospital – Institute of Ophthalmology at UCL and Northwick Park Hospital, and a research institute, Recendt, Linz, Austria.
Current equipment grants
- M. Skinner, T. Kivell, A. Podoleanu, M. Burchell, R. Green, £250K, Wolfson Foundation, No: 22600, for two industrial microCT scanners that use high-resolution x-rays to produce 3D images of objects, 25/06/2020.
- S. Ourselin, King’s College, Wellcome Trust, A multi-user mock interventional suite for in-human post-mortem evaluation of academic medical devices, 2020 – 2025, Multi-user equipment with 10 coinvestigators in UK, including A. Podoleanu.
