Penny A. Gowland PhD

Penny Gowland is a physicist with 25 years’ experience of working on developing quantitative MR techniques for solving biomedical problems. She came to the University of Nottingham more than 25 years ago to work with Sir Peter Mansfield and was made a Professor 7 years ago. She is a Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, has authored and coauthored more than 150 papers, and has held grants and industrial funding worth over £15M. In the early 1990s she was the physicist responsible for performing some of the first studies of MRI in pregnancy in particular performing the first studies of placental function and development using MRI and later the first studies of fMRI of the fetus.