Mark Thompson
Associate Professor in Engineering Science and Tutor in Engineering
Biography
Dr Mark Thompson is Associate Professor in Engineering Science and Tutor in Engineering at Wadham College.
Mark Thompson studied engineering at Magdalen, Oxford, and obtained his PhD in biomechanics from the University of London. He was an EC Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Lund, Sweden for two years, and an AO Research Fellow and leader of the mechanobiology group at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, Germany for three years, before returning in 2006 to take up his "dream job here in Oxford."
Mark leads the Oxford Mechanobiology Group, based at the Botnar Research Centre on the site of the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington. Their research concerns the application of mechanical analysis to clinically significant problems of tissue function and physiology. You can read more about this here.
At the undergraduate level Mark teaches various aspects of mechanics including lectures on Biomechanics as a third year option and Mechanobiology as a fourth year option. In tutorials he covers core courses on structures, mechanics and materials, as well as some mathematics.
Mark is a keen off-road runner and mountaineer, and, when time, allows enjoys singing and playing his bassoon. He enjoys learning languages, and especially keeping his German, Swedish and Russian from becoming too rusty.