Huw Griffiths

Cardiff-born Huw Griffiths worked for most of his career as a physicist in the NHS and universities, providing NHS physics services, researching electrical bioimpedance and teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He was Director of Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering in the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board and is now Emeritus Professor of Medical Physics at Swansea University. Following his retirement in July 2014, Huw returned to university as an undergraduate student for three years and obtained a Bachelor of Music degree from the School of Music, Cardiff University. He was awarded the Elizabeth Griffiths Prize for performance. Huw is a former member of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and has been an active oboist throughout his career in science, playing with many orchestras and chamber groups in the UK and abroad, including Opera Barga (Italy), Orchestre de Lyon et Villeurbanne (France), the Woking Mozart Players, the City of Cardiff Symphony Orchestra, the Cardiff Bach Orchestra, the Spinosus Wind Quintet and, more recently, with the St Albans Symphony Orchestra, the St Woolos Sinfonia and the Gwent Chamber Orchestra.