Making sense of how the skin responds to our thermal environments
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Heat, cold, and humidity have a profound impact on our health and comfort. Better understanding how our body and skin detect and respond to thermal stress is key to drive innovation in thermal protection and comfort, skin care, and sensing technologies in health and disease.
At THERMOSENSELAB we investigate how humans sense temperature and wetness on their skin, how these signals contribute to regulating our body temperature and thermal behaviour, and how diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis impair our ability to respond to thermal stress. Being part of the Skin Sensing Research Group (SSRG) at the University of Southampton, with a long history in skin health and tissue viability research in relation to pressure ulcer development and medical device evaluation, THERMOSENSELAB specializes in basic and applied research in human thermosensing and thermoregulation in health and disease. |
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Research teamDavide Filingeri, PhD
Principal Investigator Ralph Gordon, PhD
Postdoctoral research fellow Hannah Blount, MSc
PhD researcher Jade Ward, MSc
PhD researcher Alessandro Valenza, MSc
PhD researcher Flavia Figlioli, MSc
Visiting PhD researcher |
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Spotlight on our research
A recent overview of our research in female thermal physiology |
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CONTACT USDr Davide Filingeri
THERMOSENSELAB Skin Sensing Research Group University of Southampton Clinical Academic Facility | South Academic Block Southampton General Hospital I SO16 6YD, Southampton, UK Email: d.filingeri@soton.ac.uk |
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