Marios Politis: Gallery

Marios Politis holds a full GMC license to practice, with a specialism in Neurology. He has MBBS and MD degrees in Medicine from the University of Athens, and was awarded his PhD from Imperial College London in 2010.

He is currently the Director of Neurodegeneration Imaging Group and the Director of Mireille Gillings Neuroimaging Centre at the University of Exeter.

Marios is a former Research Investigator at the Hammersmith Cyclotron MRC PET Unit, and at Imperial College London he was a Clinical Lecturer, a Senior Clinical Research Fellow and an honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Neurology. In 2012 he conceived and designed the Neurodegeneration Imaging Group (NIG), and the following year the organisation received a donation from the Safra Foundation. This, along with the continuous support of the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, made the further development of NIG possible.

Between 2013 and 2019, NIG expanded to become one of the world’s most successful academic groups; during this period, it was hosted in the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, itself within the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London.

During his career to date, Marios has received a multitude of awards; these include the PET Investigator Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging in 2015 and the IMPETus Award for Innovative and Outstanding PET Molecular Imaging Research in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

He was elected Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology in 2016 for his outstanding contribution to the field of neurodegenerative research and was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2017.