Thomas H. Julian

I am an Academic Ophthalmologist at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and the University of Manchester.

My work spans medical image analysis, deep learning, and multi-omics. As a clinician experienced in advanced computational workflows, I am uniquely positioned to identify critical clinical questions and address them with state-of-the-art analytical approaches.

Clinically, my research centres on ophthalmic and neurodegenerative diseases. My current work focuses on three major themes:

(1) Investigating relationships between ophthalmic imaging traits and systemic disease,

(2) Applying multi-omic pipelines to uncover determinants of human disease, and

(3) Conducting causal inference studies.

I am particularly interested in using deep learning to answer biological questions and develop risk-prediction models. I have previously used variational and adversarial autoencoders for these purposes, and I am now expanding this experience by exploring a range of generative AI architectures to address real-world clinical challenges.