Prof Keith Meek
Educational and Professional Qualifications:
2010 DSc (Medical and Human Sciences) Manchester University
2010 FARVO. Fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
2010 FInstP. Invited Fellow of the Institute of Physics
1980 FRMS Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society
1976 PhD (Biophysics) Manchester University
1974 Diploma for Advanced Studies in Science (Manchester University)
1973 BSc (Physics) Manchester University
Academic Positions:
1999 - Present Cardiff University, Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences
Professor of Biophysics
1999 - 2003 Open University
Visiting Professor of Physics
1996 - 2003 University of London, Honorary Research Fellow, St Thomas’ Hospital
1995 - 1999 Open University. Director, Oxford Research Unit
1994 - 1999 Open University, Senior Lecturer
1989 - 2005 University of Oxford, Honorary Research Fellow, Nuffield Dept of Ophthalmology
1988 - 1993 Open University, Wellcome Lecturer in Biophysics
1979 - 1988 Open University, Research Fellow
1976 - 1979 Manchester University, Research Fellow
School and University Roles and Committees:
Chair, Structural Biophysics Research Group
Senior School Mentor
School Equality and Diversity Committee
Operations Board
Research Committee
University Court
University Senate
External Committees:
Diamond Synchrotron Users panel (2009- present)
Fight for Sight grants allocation panel (2009- 2013)
ALBA grant allocation committee consultant (2012)
External examiner (London (Dentistry), Oxford (Extra-mural studies) and Open University(Biology))
Member of BBSRC Bionap panel (until 2002)
Member of EPSRC College
Innovation and Engagement:
2000 – present Cardiff ambassador
2009 – present STEMnet ambassador
Presentations:
2012
Invited speaker at Bowman’s Club Meeting, Newcastle
Invited speaker at Swedish Cornea Surgeons Meeting, Bristol
Invited speaker at Royal College of Ophthalmology Congress, Liverpool
Invited speaker at Heraeus-Seminar "Physics of the Extracellular Matrix" , Bad Honnef
Invited speaker and session chair. International congress of corneal crosslinking, Geneva
2011
Invited speaker at ARVO minisymposium – Small leucine-rich proteoglycans
Invited speaker at JSPS workshop, Cardiff
2010
Invited speaker at John Marshall Festschrift, London
Invited speaker at SAXS Workshop, Cardiff
2009
Invited speaker at American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Chicago
Invited speaker at ESCRS Meeting, Barcelona
Invited speaker at Prague Ophthalmology Meeting
9th Cardiff Corneal Conference
2008
Key-note speaker in the course "Refractive surgery and quality
of vision" part of the Joint interuniversity master on visual
science" ( Master interuniversitario en ciencias de la vision). Madrid
19th International Conference on Eye Research, Beijing, China
Invited speaker at Diamond/Wellcome symposium:Casting New Light on Medicine, London
Invited speaker at Eye Surgery Update Meeting, Cardiff
2007
Invited speaker at ARVO minisymposium – collagens in the eye, ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, USA (April)
Invited speaker at 9th International conference on Biology and Synchrotron Radiation, Manchester, UK (August)
Invited speaker at Eukeratoconus Congress, Toulouse, France (November)
2006
Invited speaker at Keratoconus Meeting, Bilbao, Spain (March)
Keynote speaker, Eye Surgery Update meeting, MDA Clinic, Cardiff, UK (March)
Keynote speaker at Keratocyte Klub meeting, ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, USA (May)
Invited speaker at Japan Partership Award Meeting, Kyoto, Japan (July)
Invited speaker at SR User Meeting, Diamond Light Source, Oxfordshire (September)
Invited speaker at MCLOSA meeting, London, UK (November)
2005
Speaker at Vth World Cornea Congress, Washington DC, USA (April)
Invited speaker at NKF Meeting, ARVO, Ft. Lauderdale, USAM (May)
Invited speaker at ESCRS Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal (September)
Speaker at EVER symposium, Vilamoura, Portugal (October)
2004
Organiser and speaker: 8th Cardiff Corneal Conference (July)
2003
Invited speaker at Institute of Physics meeting, London (June)
Invited speaker at CCP13 meeting, Cambridge (July)
Invited speaker at Professor A.J. Bron Retirement Meeting, Oxford (September)
2002
Invited speaker at symposium "Inherited Eye Diseases", Duke University, Durham, N.C.(August)
Invited speaker at Cambridge Ophthalmological Symposium, Cambridge, UK. (September)
Invited speaker at EVER meeting, Alicante, Spain (October)