Robbie Hammond

I am a DPhil student working between the Big Data Institute and the Modernising Medical Microbiology group, as well as a Ellison Scholar within the Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford.

My research is looking into how best to predict bloodstream infections, and to characterise culture-negative bloodstream infections, with a view to metagenomics as a potential future diagnostic. I am generally interested in the use of large healthcare datasets to better understand the spread of infection, metagenomics as a novel diagnostic method, and the intersection of these approaches.

I have previously held research roles at Great Ormond Street Hospital implementing respiratory metagenomics in paediatric intensive care, and at University College London Hospital developing data science pipelines for pandemic preparedness.

I am also a medical doctor, previously working as specialty registrar in infectious diseases and general medicine in the London Deanery, with my medical degree from the University of Cambridge.