Dr Hamied Haroon is a Research Fellow in Biomedical MR Imaging at The University of Manchester. Hamied loves MR imaging and the exquisite pictures it offers of the living brain and body without so much as a touch! MRI also allows us to measure how we are structured and function in health, as we mature and age and when we have various conditions – all based on beautiful physics and engineering. Hamied works as a research scientist at The University of Manchester, where he gained his PhD in 2005, developing novel MRI analysis techniques to detect subtle microstructural changes in the brain that might signal the earliest stages of dementia and other neurodegenerative conditions. He hopes this will lead to finding more effective treatments and help improve the quality of life for poeple living with these conditions. Hamied thoroughly enjoyed his research work and the way there’s a new challenge to solve everyday, and he feels lucky to be able to collaborate with amazing participants, medical doctors and other scientists all over the world! Additionally Hamied is a proud life-long Disabled person, Mancunian, husband and father of two. Apart from his “day job”, Hamied is Chair of the National Association of Disabled Staff Networks (NADSN), a super-network that connects and represents Disabled staff networks (DSNs) in universities and colleges, NHS Trusts, and other public sector organisations across the UK and beyond, building an active community of impassioned Disabled people.