Dr. Michael Lay

Biography

Michael Lay serves in the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford, where he oversees strategic initiatives related to information governance and bioinformatics. He directs a team of programmers engaged in significant projects such as the UK Biobank and various large-scale clinical trials. His responsibilities include managing information security governance within the Oxford Population Health context, ensuring compliance with NHS Information Governance Toolkit and ISO 27000 standards. Before joining the Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit in 1996, Michael graduated with a double first-class degree in Physics from Brasenose College, Oxford, and subsequently earned his doctorate from the same institution, focusing on the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory project, which contributed towards a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2015. He also held a junior teaching fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and worked as a post-doctoral researcher, continuing his contributions to computer simulations related to the observatory.

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