Cian Scannell studied Mathematical Sciences at University College Cork (Ireland) where he graduated with first-class honours in 2016. He then moved to King’s College London to undertake his master's and PhD degrees as part of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Medical Imaging. Here, he worked in close collaboration with St Thomas’ Hospital and the industrial partners, Philips Healthcare. In 2021, he received his PhD and then continued for a further year as a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Wellcome/EPRSC Centre for Medical Engineering at King’s College London with a project on the development of robust and generalisable models for clinical integration. In 2022, he was appointed assistant professor with the Medical Image Analysis group in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He has a particular interest in the analysis of cardiac MRI data and extensive experience in quantitative myocardial perfusion. Looking forward, he aims to bridge the gap between the development of auto