Martin Bishop

Academic staff (previous member) · King's College London · until 2023

Following his undergraduate degree in Physics (University of Oxford, UK), Martin Bishop studied for a PhD in Computational Biology (University of Oxford, UK), specialising in Computational Cardiac Modelling, with a PhD project concerned with simulating the fluorescent signals obtained from optical mapping recordings of cardiac electrophysiology. In his first postdoc, Martin developed fine-scaled computational cardiac models directly from high-resolution MRI data, which were used in his later 4-year Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship to investigate the role of anatomical heterogeneity in the mechanisms of initiation and maintenance of arrhythmias.

Following his Fellowship, Martin took-up an academic position at King’s College London in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, where he is now a Reader in Computational Cardiac Electrophysiology. His core focus is to understand arrhythmia and electrotherapy mechanisms in different types of structural heart disease to directly improve clinical practice via enhanced arrhythmic risk stratification, and optimising implanted device therapy and catheter ablation. Martin’s work is facilitated by the use of clinical imaging data and electrophysiology recordings for both model construction and validation, including direct interaction with medical device and mapping companies, and basic science experimentalists. His current research interests involve the integration of computational models with advanced machine learning approaches to facilitate the integration of modelling into direct clinical practice.

Papers

First author 1

Martin Bishop, Ronak Rajani, Gernot Plank, Nicholas Gaddum, Gerry Carr-White, …, Steven Niederer
Three-dimensional atrial wall thickness maps to inform catheter ablation procedures for atrial fibrillation
EP Europace, 2015

Middle author 42

Shuang Qian, Devran Ugurlu, Elliot Fairweather, Richard E. Jones, Hassan Zaidi, Sanjay Prasad, Brian P. Halliday, …, Cristobal Rodero, Abdul Qayyum, …, Martin Bishop, Steven Niederer
In silico trials for sex-specific patient inclusion criteria in cardiac resynchronization therapy
npj Digital Medicine, 2026
Mohammad Kayyali, Ana Mincholé, Martin Bishop, Hassan Zaidi, Shuang Qian, Steven Niederer, Rachel Bastiaenen, Chris Miles, Pablo Lamata, …
Posterior Electrical Axis Deviation Is Associated With Future Development of Left Bundle Branch Block
JACC Advances, 2026
Holly Morgan, Amedeo Chiribiri, Marina Strocchi, Hassan Zaidi, Nathan C.K. Wong, Azizah Ardinal, Mark Elliott, Steven Niederer, …, Martin Bishop, …
Ischemia modulation via coronary revascularization and effects on the arrhythmic substrate
Heart Rhythm, 2026
Mohammad Kayyali, Ana Mincholé, Shuang Qian, Alistair Young, Devran Ugurlu, Elliot Fairweather, Steven Niederer, John Whitaker, Martin Bishop, …
Anatomical-electrical coupling of cardiac axes: Definitions and population variability for advancing personalised ECG interpretation
PLoS Computational Biology, 2025
Shuang Qian, Devran Ugurlu, Elliot Fairweather, Laura Dal Toso, Yu Deng, Marina Strocchi, Ludovica Cicci, Richard E. Jones, Hassan Zaidi, …, Martin Bishop, Steven Niederer
Developing cardiac digital twin populations powered by machine learning provides electrophysiological insights in conduction and repolarization
Nature Cardiovascular Research, 2025
Rosie K. Barrows, Christoph M. Augustin, Matthias A.F. Gsell, Caroline H. Roney, José A. Solís Lemus, Hao Xu, Alistair A. Young, …, Martin J. Bishop, …, Marina Strocchi, Steven A. Niederer
Rhythm control benefits left ventricular function compared with rate control in patients with atrial fibrillation: A computational study
Heart Rhythm O2, 2025
Ali Gharaviri, Vinush Vigneswaran, Keeran Vickneson, Caroline Roney, Cesare Corrado, Sam Coveney, Kestutis Maciunas, …, Martin Bishop, Steven Niederer, …
Performance of atrial conduction velocity algorithms with error-prone clinical measurements for the identification of atrial fibrosis
Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2025
Mohammad Kayyali, Ana Mincholé, Shuang Qian, Alistair Young, Devran Ugurlu, Elliot Fairweather, Steven Niederer, John Whitaker, Martin Bishop, …
Cardiac Anatomical and Electrical Axes: Proposed Definitions and Interplay
Computing in cardiology, 2024
Johanna Tonko, Angela Lee, N. Mannakkara, Steven E. Williams, Reza Razavi, Martin Bishop, Mark O'Neill, Steven Niederer, …
Structural phenotyping in atrial fibrillation with combined cardiac CT and atrial MRI: Identifying and differentiating individual structural remodelling types in AF
Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 2024
Felicity de Vere, Nadeev Wijesuriya, Mark K. Elliott, Vishal Mehta, Sandra Howell, Martin Bishop, Marina Strocchi, Steven A. Niederer, …
Managing arrhythmia in cardiac resynchronisation therapy
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023
Mark K. Elliott, Marina Strocchi, Benjamin J. Sieniewicz, Vishal Mehta, Nadeev Wijesuriya, Felicity deVere, …, Martin J. Bishop, Steven Niederer, …
Left bundle branch area pacing reduces epicardial dispersion of repolarization compared with biventricular cardiac resynchronization therapy
Heart Rhythm, 2023
S Qian, D Ugurlu, E Fairweather, M Strocchi, L Dal Toso, Y Deng, A Young, M Bishop, …, S Niederer
Cardiac digital twins of the adult population: linking electrophysiological functions to anatomy
EP Europace, 2023

The 12 most recent of 42. All of them are under Every group paper.

Last author 8

Devran Ugurlu, Shuang Qian, Elliot Fairweather, Charlene Mauger, Bram Ruijsink, Laura Dal Toso, …, Marina Strocchi, …, Steven Niederer, Martin Bishop
Cardiac digital twins at scale from MRI: Open tools and representative models from ~ 55000 UK Biobank participants
PLoS ONE, 2025
Manisha Sahota, Fernando Campos, Steven E. Williams, Matthijs Cluitmans, Gernot Plank, Steven Niederer, Martin Bishop
Effect of Scar Interpolation Methods on Simulated Ventricular Tachycardia in Infarcted Heart Models
Computing in cardiology, 2024
Manisha Sahota, Fernando Campos, Shuang Qian, John Whitaker, Steven E. Williams, Matthijs Cluitmans, Steven Niederer, Martin Bishop
Investigating the Influence of Parameters on Electrogram Morphology Using Gaussian Process Emulators
Computing in cardiology, 2024
Fernando Campos, Cristobal Rodero, John Whitaker, Steven Niederer, Gernot Plank, Christopher Aldo Rinaldi, Martin Bishop
Unraveling the Influence of Right Ventricle Presence on Paced ECGs
Computing in cardiology, 2024
Fernando O. Campos, Aurel Neic, Caroline Mendonca Costa, John Whitaker, Mark O’Neill, Reza Razavi, …, Steven A. Niederer, …, Martin J. Bishop
An automated near-real time computational method for induction and treatment of scar-related ventricular tachycardias
Medical Image Analysis, 2022
F Campos, AN Neic, CMC Mendonca Costa, JW Whitaker, MON O’neill, RR Razavi, …, SAN Niederer, …, MJB Bishop
Virtual induction and treatment of arrhythmias (VITA): a fast automated computational tool to induce scar-related tachycardia and identify ablation targets
EP Europace, 2022
Anne-Marie Plancke, Adam Connolly, Philip M. Gemmell, Aurel Neic, Luke C. McSpadden, John Whitaker, …, Steven A. Niederer, …, Martin J. Bishop
Generation of a cohort of whole-torso cardiac models for assessing the utility of a novel computed shock vector efficiency metric for ICD optimisation
Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2019
Caroline Mendonca Costa, Gernot Plank, Christopher A. Rinaldi, Steven A. Niederer, Martin J. Bishop
Modeling the Electrophysiological Properties of the Infarct Border Zone
Frontiers in Physiology, 2018