Dr Thomas Monks

About me:

Thomas Monks is an Associate Professor of Health Data Science. He holds a joint position between University of Exeter Medical School and the Institute of Data Science and AI. Between 2019 and 2023, he was a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Clinical Operational Research Unit, Department of Mathematics, UCL.

Between 2014 and 2019, Thomas led the NIHR CLAHRC Wessex funded Data Science research group at University of Southampton. His early career was spent as software engineer and Operational Research modeller in industry and the public sector. He has worked for 10 years as a researcher with NIHR funded CLAHRC infrastructure.

Thomas is a methodologist with expertise is in applying computer simulation methods, optimisation and machine learning in health service delivery. His work aims to translate Data Science and Operational Research tools improve the quality and safety of health and social care. He has a strong interest in Open Science for health data science.