Paul Sullivan

Engineer and veterinary surgeon working on challenges at the interface of medicine and technology.

Posts

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Building a data app drawing on public data to characterise the wildness, average land-use and habitat across Scotland.

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Education

University of Edinburgh

PhD with integrated study

Thesis: Developing active biomaterials for implantable devices: Platforms to investigate capacitive charge based control of biofouling.

Centre for doctoral training: Intelligent sensing and measurement

2015 - 2022

University of Glasgow

Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVMS)
2004 - 2010

Professional

Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (MRCVS)

2010 -

Experience

Post-Doctoral Research Assistant

Heriot-Watt University

AILap: Applying artifical intelligence to laparoscopic surgery training.

2023-

Post-Doctoral Research Assistant

Soft systems group, University of Edinburgh

Engineering modular robotics for extreme environments.

2021

Director

The Locum Marketplace LLP

Veterinary digital recruitment.

2017 - 2019

Director

Matthews and Sullivan LTD

Veterinary Locum Services.

2014 - 2019

Veterinary Surgeon

Buchan Veterinary clinics

Rural mixed practice, Practicing medicine and surgery for companion animal, farm and equine clients.

2010 - 2014

Research Assistant

Applied Neurobiology lab, University of Glasgow.

Working on RNA silencing techniques in mouse models of dysmyelinating disease.

2007

Interests

Apart from working on technology. I am often found running, preferably up a hill, but mostly these days after my toddler! Otherwise, I am often repairing some machine, car or piece of my house or building something, usually out of wood.