Dr Benattayallah is an experienced MRI physicist and clinical scientist. He graduated with an MSc in Medical Physics from Surrey University in 1998 and a PhD in MRI from the University of Nottingham in 2002. After two years at the Philips Hospital, in Marburg, Germany, he joined Exeter University, UK, in 2004 and managed the Exeter MR research centre.
In 2020, He start working at the University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust and he is currently involved with research activities at Brain Research & Imaging Centre (BRIC), Plymouth University. He has published many research papers in several leading academic peer-reviewed journals. He has also presented numerous papers at professional conferences worldwide.

• Member of The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).
• Member of the Institution of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM).
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
• Chartered Scientist (CSci MIPEM)[PEM/108/227495].
• Clinical Scientist (registered member of Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC))

Teach on three programmes (Undergraduate, Postgraduate):

• FRCR (Fellowship of Royal College of Radiologists)
• MSc Human Neuroscience 
• BSc Diagnostic Radiography

In the following Core modules

•  Diagnostic radiology for FRCR: Physics
•  PSYC778: The physics of neuroimaging 
•  RAD512: Medical Imaging Science 3
•  RAD413: Medical Imaging Science 2 
•  RAD412: Medical Imaging Science 1 
•  MRI Safety Training