Gavin Kirby
Senior Practitioner Clinical Physicist at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGavin Kirby is an HCPC-registered Senior Practitioner Clinical Physicist with nine years’ experience applying medical physics, bioinformatics and high-energy physics data analysis to radiotherapy and medical imaging. He combines a PhD in Physics with an MS in Health/Medical Physics, bringing strong software skills in C++, Python, R, Bash and Perl to automate workflows, analyse large datasets and develop clinical web tools. At NHS trusts across the UK he has delivered radiation dosimetry, treatment planning and safety-focused automation, with a particular interest in machine learning to improve patient outcomes and service reliability. Comfortable across GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows, he documents reproducible science using LaTeX and builds interactive analyses in R and JavaScript. Notably, his background in high-energy physics gives him a data-driven mindset and familiarity with rigorous experimental practice that he leverages in clinical QA and research. Based in Glasgow, he blends clinical registration and frontline NHS experience with research-grade programming and a drive to translate algorithms into safe, auditable clinical tools.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Health/Medical Physics, Merit, Master of Science - MS, Health/Medical Physics, Merit at Newcastle UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at University of Glasgow
French, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
datatables6
exceptions6
functional-programming6
indexing6
jackson6
jsf6
axes6
converter6
fcntl6
mod-manager1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
archon88/iondosecvtr
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
archon88/brachytime
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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