Dr. Claire Walsh is an Associated Professor at UCL Department of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Human Organ Atlas Hub (HOAHub), and Co-Director of the Multiscale X-ray Imaging (MXI) Lab. She also led the X-ray team on an NIH-funded project developing a multimodal imaging pipeline using Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography (HiP-CT) to update human connectome atlases. Her research integrates multiscale imaging and machine learning (ML) to bridge structural and molecular understanding across human organs and tissues.

Her expertise in multimodal imaging and ML was established through an MRC Skills Development Fellowship, where she developed a fluorescent imaging technique and ML segmentation frameworks for 3D datasets.

In 2020, she joined the team developing HiP-CT, publishing the method in Nature Methods , which was recognized with the ESRF Young Investigator Award (2021) and since focusing on quantitative ML and multimodal pipelines for HiP-CT. As Director of the HOAHub, she has led major contributions to open-access HiP-CT data dissemination, including the first validated 3D vascular training datasets for HiP-CT, as well as open-source publication of over 100 curated multiscale HiP-CT datasets on the Human Organ Atlas.