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Damian Farnell  BSc, PhD FHEA, MInstP, MIPEM

Damian Farnell BSc, PhD FHEA, MInstP, MIPEM

Reader in Applied Mathematics

School of Dentistry

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Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

Overview

  • Reader of Applied Mathematics in Dentistry at the School of Dentistry at Cardiff University, UK.
  • Module leader for the postgraduate course entitled "Research Methods" (DET031).
  • Chair of the Dental Research Ethics Committee.

Research Interests

  • Data Science.
  • Medical and Dental imaging.
  • Quantum many-body theory, especially quantum magnetism.

Published Books

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Click on the images above for links to the these volumes on the publisher's website.      

Publication

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

Articles

Book sections

Conferences

Monographs

Research

Automated Retinal Image Analysis (ARIA) dataset

I was the principal researcher for the ARIA project at St. Paul's Eye Unit, RLUHT (2003-2006). This involved the recruitment of patients, retinal photography, and image analysis of resulting digital fundus photographs.

  • Please contact me by email to obtain the freely available ARIA dataset, which is a directory of images collected by myself and members of staff of St Paul's Eye Unit and the University of Liverpool as part of this project.

CCCM (crystallographic coupled cluster method)

CCCM is a high-order CCM (coupled cluster method) code for lattice spin systems at T=0 by Damian J. J. Farnell (DF).

  • Historically, this code is based on "foundations" laid by Ray Bishop and John Parkinson (amongst others), and Chen Zeng's work in the 90's on the high-order code.
  • This code has been exploited and pushed forward by Damian Farnell and Sven Krüger primarily.
  • Joerg Schulenburg (JS) improved this code greatly and he has set up this webpage for distribution of the most recent code.

COVID-19 bereavement 

A joint study between Bristol and Cardiff Universities (and beyond), which aims to understand the grief experiences and support needs of people who have been bereaved either due to COVID-19 or another cause of death during the pandemic. This study explores peoples' experiences at the end of life of loved ones (family or close friend) and of grieving, as well as any support that people felt needed during bereavement (and what support they actually received).

Teaching

  • Module leader for module entitled "Research Methods" for postgraduate students in the School of Dentistry.
  • Academic tutor for second-year undergraduate dental students
  • MSc and PhD supervision

Biography

Qualifications

  • PhD entitled “Integrable and Non-Integrable Quantum Arrays” (1994) University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology (UMIST), UK.
  • BSc (1st class) in Mathematical Physics (1991) University of Manchester Institute for Science and Technology (UMIST), UK.

Honours and awards

Awards

Recent Grants (Since 2014 Only)

  • £157,080.  EPSRC Strategic Equipment Bid for a DynaPro® Plate Reader III Dynamic & Static Light Scattering Instrument from Wyatt Technology Corporation. Lead Applicant: Dr. Elaine Fergusson. (Awarded in November 2022.)
  • £120K+ Combating Cancer with Data Science: Deep Learning of Histological Images for the Detection of Lymph Node Metastases (GW4 BioMed2 MRC Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship Grant. Lead Applicant: Damian J.J. Farnell. Co-Applicants: Adam Jones, Paul Rosin, David Marshall, and Amanda Pring (Bristol). (Awarded in August 2022; student to start on 1 October 2023.)
  • £1140. An Exploration of Functional Analysis of Dynamical Changes in Biological Shapes. Applicant: Damian J.J. Farnell. (Travel Grant from the London Mathematical Society. Awarded in June 2022.)
  • £9480. How Do People Read “Designed To Smile” Information Leaflets? An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Approach. Applicant: Damian J.J. Farnell. (Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) as an Innovation Grant. Awarded in December 2021).
  • £15,000 Follow on study to: optical analysis of the colour of denture materials after staining. Applicants: Paul Milward, David Williams, and Damian J.J. Farnell. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) PLC (Jan. 2020).     
  • £1000 Multivariate statistical methods of simulating three-dimensional facial shape and facial growth. Successful application for travel funding (etc.) by Damian J.J. Farnell to the Cardiff University / KU Leuven Research Collaboration Fund (Dec. 2018).
  • £40529 Evaluation of the cleaning performance of denture cleansers utilising an in vitro stain model with a diverse range of regionally relevant stains Applicants: Paul Milward, David Williams, and Damian J.J. Farnell.  GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) PLC (Dec. 2018).           
  • £100,382 A Review of evidence to inform NICE Public Health Guidance for adult nursing and residential care homes on promoting oral health, preventing dental health problems and ensuring access to dental treatment– 31/05/2016. NICE. Principal applicants: A Weightman, & I.G. Chestnutt. Co-applicant: Damian J.J. Farnell et al. 01/09/2014.

Professional memberships

Academic positions

  • From 2014-present: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader of Applied Mathematics in Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Cardiff University, UK.
  • 2011-2014: Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of South Wales, UK.
  • 2007-2011: Research Statistician, University of Manchester, UK.
  • 2003-2006: Lecturer in Ophthalmic Imaging, St. Paul’s Eye Unit + University of Liverpool, UK.
  • 1995-2003: Post-doctoral researcher (theoretical physics and medical research).
  • 1994-1995: Software engineer, Logica UK Ltd.

Speaking engagements

Oral and Poster Presentations (Since 2017 Only):

  • The Coupled Cluster Method Applied to Quantum Magnetism. Invited Oral Presentation by D.J.J. Farnell from Dr Ioannis Rousochatzakis, School of Physics, Loughborough University (Feb. 2023).
  • 3D Facial Surface Imaging in Dentistry and Beyond. Poster at Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA).  July 2022. (www.researchgate.net/publication/361764525_3D_Facial_Surface_Imaging_in_Dentistry_and_Beyond)
  • An Overview of the Dental Data Science Research Group. Presentation by D.J.J. Farnell at the R&D day for the school of dentistry at Cardiff University. May 2022.
  • Orthodontics and 3D Imaging & Multivariate Statistical Models of Shape. Oral “vlunch” presentation (online via MS Teams) presentation by D.J.J. Farnell to the visual computing research group, school of computer science and informatics, Cardiff University. January 2021)
  • Analysis of the Blue Book Records. Oral presentation (online via Zoom) at Burwalls: For Teachers of Medical Statistics. (Coorganiser of this meeting.) July 2020. 
  • Multilevel Models of Age-Related Changes in Facial Shape in Adolescents. Poster presentation by D.J.J. Farnell at the University Hospital Wales, R&D Conference. October 2019. Cardiff City Stadium.
  • Multilevel Models of Age-Related Changes in Facial Shape in Adolescents. Poster presentation by D.J.J. Farnell at the British Society for Oral and Dental Research (BSODR) annual meeting. September 2019. 
  • Multilevel Models of Age-Related Changes in Facial Shape in Adolescents. Oral presentation by D.J.J. Farnell at the Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) July 2019. 
  • The Use of Flipped Learning in Teaching a Postgraduate Research Methods Module: The Pros and Cons. Dr Damian Farnell. Burwalls: For Teachers of Medical Statistics. University of East Anglia (8th-10th, July 2019). Oral Presentation by D.J.J. Farnell.
  • Multilevel Principal Components Analysis (mPCA) of Facial Shape and Image Texture. Invited Oral Presentation by D.J.J. Farnell, KU Leuven, Belgium (Friday 3rd May 2019). 
  • Flipped learning – experiencing the pros and cons for inverted learning. Dr DJJ Farnell and Mrs R Jones. Association of Science Educators in Dentistry (ASEID), Cardiff University (April 2019).
  • What’s in a Smile? Initial Results of Multilevel Principal Components Analysis of Facial Shape and Image Texture. Oral presentation by D.J.J. Farnell at the Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) July 2018. 
  • What’s in a Smile? Multilevel Models of Facial Shape and Appearance. Dental School R&D day, Cardiff University (May 2017). Oral Presentation by D.J.J. Farnell.
  • Emergence of magnetic order in kagome antiferromagnets: The role of next-nearest-neighbor bonds Johannes Richter, Patrick Müller, Oliver Götze, Damian Farnell, Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, SCES (July 2017). Poster presentation.
  • Monte Carlo Methods and Teaching Biostatistics. Burwalls: For Teachers of Medical Statistics. (July 2017). http://burwalls.org.uk/wp/?page_id=456. Oral Presentation by D.J.J. Farnell.
  • A systematic review of information literacy programs in higher education: Effects of face-to-face, online and blended formats on student skills and views. Alison L. Weightman, Delyth Morris, Heather Strange, Gillian Hallam, and Damian J.J. Farnell. One-day meeting at Cardiff University “To Tech or Not to Tech” (CUSEIP, July 2017). Lightning presentation and poster by D.J.J. Farnell.
  • Initial Results of Multilevel Principal Components Analysis of Facial Shape, DJJ Farnell, J Galloway, A Zhurov, S Richmond, P Perttiniemi, and V Katic. Poster presentation at the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board R&D Day by D.J.J. Farnell, 13th June 2017. ibid. Poster presentation by D.J.J. Farnell at the Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) July 2017.
  • Oral Health Improves, But Inequalities Remain for Children in Wales. Oral presentation by D.J.J. Farnell at the International Association for Dental Research, General Meeting (San Francisco, March 2017).

Committees and reviewing

Dental Research Ethics Committee (chair)

 

Specialisms

  • Magnetism
  • Biomedical imaging
  • Image processing
  • Deep learning