Dr Dawn Walker

School of Computer Science

Senior Lecturer

Member of the Complex Systems Modelling research group

School Student Recruitment Lead

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d.c.walker@sheffield.ac.uk
Regent Court (CS)

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Dr Dawn Walker
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (CS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
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Dr Dawn Walker is a senior lecturer in the Complex Systems Modelling Group in the School of Computer Science. Her research interests include the use of individual-based models to understand the function and structure of biological tissues, multi-scale and multi-paradigm models in biology and medicine and Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) for early epithelial cancer diagnosis. 

Research interests
  • Agent (individual) based Modelling in predicting emergent properties of biological tissues
  • Multiscale Modelling in biological and biomedical applications
  • Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) for the diagnosis of early cancerous changes in epithelial tissues
Publications

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Grants
  • Development of an application-specific hand-held oral probe for the EIS-based detection of early oral cancers, Yorkshire MedTech, 03/2026 - 08/2026, £17,918, as PI
  • Electric Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) and machine learning-based decision support system for early diagnosis of oral cancer, Yorkshire Cancer Research, 03/2024 - 02/2027, £496,656, as PI
  • SANO: Centre for New Methods in Computational Diagnostics and Personalised Therapy, EC H2020, 08/2019 - 07/2026, £2,497,386, as Co-PI
  • SBRI Phase 2: Prototype development, Industrial, 01/2020 - 05/2021, £178,944, as Co-PI
  • Using mechanistic computational simulation and machine learning to inform instrument design for EIS-guided surgery, Industrial, 10/2019 - 09/2023, £106,804, as PI
  • PRIMAGE: PRedictive In-silico Multiscale Analytics to support cancer personalized diaGnosis and prognosis, Empowered by imaging biomarkers, EC H2020, 12/2018 to 05/2023, £549,018, as PI
  • CHIC: Computational Horizons in Cancer, EC FP7, 04/2013 to 03/2017, £777,005, as Co-PI
  • A combined in vitro and in virtuo multi-scale approach to understanding individual and integrated cell behaviour during homeostasis and wound repair, The Wellcome Trust, 09/2010 to 09/2013, £140,547, as PI
  • MeDDiCA: Medical Devices Design in Cardiovascular Applications, University College London, 09/2009 to 08/2013, £340,386, as Co-PI
  • The Virtual Tendon - a multi-scale computational model of dnamical tissue remodelling, Arthritis Research Campaign, 09/2009 to 08/2012, £155,321, as PI
  • Engineering Virus-like Nanoparticles for Targeting the Central Nervous System, EPSRC, 05/2009 to 08/2012, £2,109,411, as Co-PI
Professional activities and memberships

Links

Complex Systems Modelling research group