The 2026 UCL Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering Alumni Summer Celebration
With UCL's 200th anniversary upon us, your Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering is hosting a special celebration for all of our alumni, staff and students on Friday 5th June.
The 2026 UCL Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering Alumni Summer Celebration
A time to reconnect
Whether you graduated in 2025 or 1975, you remain a member of the UCL Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering community. As UCL celebrates its bicentenary this year, we are delighted to invite past students back to the department for this student-alumni mixer event. We’ll come together for a talk which reflects on the story of the department, our historical milestones and recent achievements, and look forward to the future of our educational, research and industry innovation. The evening will continue with a reception, giving guests the opportunity to mix across MPBE generations and share their experiences and memories.
The department today
The department continues to thrive as a global centre for world-changing innovation. While much has changed, our people remain the beating heart of our success. We continue to expand our horizons, and courses now include an MRes and five taught MSc courses, with our brand-new Computational Cancer MSc launching in September 2026.
Our research continues to push boundaries. Remember functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) from your optics classes? First developed here in the 1980s, fNIRS is now a cornerstone of brain monitoring technology worldwide.
Your experience beyond UCL
As well as celebrating the department, hearing about what you’ve gone on to achieve after UCL will be a highlight of the evening. If you would like to be more involved with the event, perhaps having a spotlight on your own work, do get in touch with us at medphys.comms@ucl.ac.uk.
We’re so excited to see you again!
I’m very much looking forward to welcoming our alumni to reconnect with the Department and each other. I hope that many alumni are able to attend and update us on what they’re up to, to network and to tell us how we can continue to support them.
Reunite with your UCL MPBE community this summer
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