Technical Excellence

 

The Company's Lead Engineer is Dr Riyu Wei.  Magnetica also engages consultants from the University of Queensland.  Key consultants include one of the founding scientists of Magnetica's technology, Professor Stuart Crozier, and also Dr Feng Liu, both from the Biomedical Engineering Group at the University of Queensland.

Lead Engineer - Dr Riyu Wei (BEng, MEng, Phd)

Dr Wei trained as a software engineer with the Computing Centre of Guangxi in China and later became an Associate Professor with the Institute of Computer Aided Engineering, University of Guangxi. From 1997 to 2000, he was a visiting Research Fellow in the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Civil Engineering at the University of New South Wales’ Australian Defence Force Academy.  He worked with the University of Queensland as a Research Fellow with the Advanced Computational Modelling Centre from 2001 – 2005.  Dr Wei has a PhD in Computational Mechanics and is the author of numerous outstanding research papers and journals, as well as having contributed to several notable research projects.  He has received several significant scientific awards. Dr Wei’s particular expertise is in advanced computational modelling.  In addition, Dr Wei works closely with the Biomedical Engineering Group at UQ, led by Professor Stuart Crozier.

Professor Stuart Crozier (BSc, PhD, DEng)

Professor Crozier is Director of Biomedical Engineering at UQ, CTO of Magnetica, and the founding inventor of the Company’s key technologies. He has been awarded a Higher Doctorate in Engineering for work in improving the technology of imaging equipment and was elected fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) in 2004, and Fellow of ATSE in 2008. He has more than 20 years experience in medical engineering research.  Professor Crozier has designed, developed, prototyped and sold medical devices including RF coils to major distributors for human and animal imaging and has an extensive international experience with patents and publications/grants relating to medical imaging and medical devices. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering.
His work has had significant impact on the MRI field, including authoring a UK HSE report that delayed implementation of the EU directive on Electromagnetic safety, and is co-author on an MRI patent licensed by UQ to GE and Siemens for incorporation as hardware and software for all of their 1T, 1.5T and 3T MRI systems worldwide.

Dr Feng Liu, is a specialist in MRI superconductor magnet design based in the BioMedical Engineering Group (BME) along with Dr Hector Sanchez, a gradient coil expert also based at UQ with the BME group

The Company also seeks extensive advice, on a contractual basis, from a number of experts in manufacturing and technical fields, including an overseas specialist in superconducting MRI magnet manufacture, and from mechanical, manufacturing and product engineers,  and will continue to benefit from this expert support into the future.