Peter Kohl MD, PhD

Peter Kohl holds the Chair in Cardiac Biophysics and Systems Biology at NHLI, and is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He and his team joined Imperial College London in 2010, relocating from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford, where he was Reader in Cardiac Electrophysiology. Peter studied Medicine and Biophysics at the Moscow Pirogov Institute (1981-1987) and, after post-graduate training and research at the Berlin Charité (PhD 1990, Facharzt 1991), he joined the Cardiac Electrophysiology Chair of Professor Denis Noble at Oxford (1992). In 1998, Peter set up the Oxford Cardiac Mechano-Electric Feedback lab, initially as a Royal Society Research Fellow, and subsequently as a Senior Fellow of the British Heart Foundation. While at Oxford, he held a Research Fellowship at Keble College (2002-2004) and was the Tutorial Fellow in Biomedical Sciences at Balliol (2004-2010).