Hi there, I'm Sydney Williams

I am lecturer in MRI physics at the Imaging Centre of Excellence of the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Previously, I was a post-doctoral researcher with David Porter. My main research focus is parallel transmission (pTx) RF pulse design for ultra-high field MRI. You can learn a bit more about how MRI works in my recent public engagement talk at the 2021 Glasgow Explorathon here.

Before moving to Glasgow in 2018, I was a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan. I worked in the fMRI Lab and was co-advised by Douglas Noll and Jeffrey Fessler. My thesis titled "Constrained and Spectral-Spatial RF Pulse Design for Magnetic Resonance Imaging can be found here.