Hi there, I'm Sydney Williams

As of January 2025 I am an assistant professor in the Medical Image Analysis and Biometry Lab (PROMISE) of the Department of Applied Mathematics, Materials Science and Engineering, and Electornic Technology at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Móstoles, Madrid, Spain. I also maintain a posistion as an honorary lecturer in MRI physics at the Imaging Centre of Excellence of the University of Glasgow in Scotland. My research focuses on MRI physics methodology, with a primary emphasis on parallel transmission (pTx) RF pulse design for ultra-high field MRI. You can learn a bit more about how MRI works in my 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.