Dr Bugby completed her PhD in 2015 at the Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester. She then spent several years as a postdoctoral researcher, focusing on portable medical gamma imaging, detection of dual gamma-NIR tracers for cancer imaging and XRF imaging. In 2018, Sarah became an STFC Innovation fellow within the Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester with a remit to translate core STFC-funded research in detectors and imaging systems to interdisciplinary areas. Over this time, she has been able to take a new medical imaging device from bench testing to clinical pilot studies and now to commercial development.
She joined Loughborough University in September 2019 as a Lecturer in Physics and member of the Centre for Sensing and Imaging Science.
Research areas
- Intraoperative imaging
- Nuclear medicine
- X-ray and gamma detectors
- Scintillator and compound semiconductor detector performance
- Environmental monitoring
- Elected member of Institute of Physics Medical Physics Group Committee
- Impact Lead – STFC Cancer Diagnosis Network+
- STFC Public Engagement Early-Career (PEER) Forum member
- Midlands Medical Imaging Network Committee member