Dr Dimitrios Megaritis

Assistant Professor

School: Sport Exercise and Rehabilitation

Dimitrios Megaritis is an Assistant Professor focusing on clinical and technological innovations in Digital Health, and Biomedical Engineering. He has extensive experience with wearable technologies and digital biomarkers, contributing to the development and validation of novel digital endpoints. Dimitrios has a record in securing competitive grants and has contributed to EU-, NIHR-, EFPIA- and MRC-funded research consortia. His research spans biomedical engineering, clinical trials, health data science, artificial intelligence, physiology, gait, and rehabilitation.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Wearable technologies for health monitoring
Digital biomarkers and novel digital endpoints
Health data science and artificial intelligence applications in physiology and healthcare
Biomedical engineering solutions for clinical research
Clinical trials design and methodology
Physiology and respiratory physiology
Gait analysis and human movement assessment
Rehabilitation and digital health interventions

Key Publications

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Real-World Wrist-Derived Digital Mobility Outcomes in People with Multiple Long-Term Conditions: A Comparison of Algorithms, Megaritis, D., Alcock, L., Scott, K., Hiden, H., Cereatti, A., Vogiatzis, I., Del Din, S. 15 Oct 2025, In: Bioengineering
How do people with COPD walk? A European study on digitally measured real-world gait, Delgado-Ortiz, L., Buekers, J., Chynkiamis, N., Demeyer, H., Frei, A., Gimeno-Santos, E., Hansen, C., Hausdorff, J., Hopkinson, N., Jansen, C., Kirsten, A., Koch, S., Maetzler, W., Megaritis, D., Puhan, M., Singleton, D., Vogiatzis, I., Watz, H., Del Din, S., Caulfield, B., Becker, C., Rochester, L., Troosters, T., Garcia-Aymerich, J. 24 Jul 2025, In: European Respiratory Journal
MobGap - The Mobilise-D algorithm toolbox, Küderle, A., Mücke, ., Hinchliffe, C., Megaritis, D., Tasca, P., Ali, Z., Kluge, F., Stihi, A. 22 Mar 2024
Mobilise-D insights to estimate real-world walking speed in multiple conditions with a wearable device, Kirk, C., Küderle, A., Micó-Amigo, M., Bonci, T., Paraschiv-Ionescu, A., Ullrich, M., Soltani, A., Gazit, E., Salis, F., Alcock, L., Aminian, K., Becker, C., Bertuletti, S., Brown, P., Buckley, E., Cantu, A., Carsin, A., Caruso, M., Caulfield, B., Cereatti, A., Chiari, L., D’Ascanio, I., Garcia-Aymerich, J., Hansen, C., Hausdorff, J., Hiden, H., Hume, E., Keogh, A., Kluge, F., Koch, S., Maetzler, W., Megaritis, D., Mueller, A., Niessen, M., Palmerini, L., Schwickert, L., Scott, K., Sharrack, B., Sillén, H., Singleton, D., Vereijken, B., Vogiatzis, I., Yarnall, A., Rochester, L., Mazzà, C., Eskofier, B., Del Din, S. 19 Jan 2024, In: Scientific Reports
Effects of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions on physical activity outcomes in chronic respiratory diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Megaritis, D., Hume, E., Chynkiamis, N., Buckley, C., Polhemus, A., Watz, H., Troosters, T., Vogiatzis, I. 4 Sep 2022, In: European Respiratory Journal
BioSigClass_NIRS, Megaritis, D. 3 Feb 2025

Professional Activity

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Membership of network: Biomedical Engineering Association (BioMedEng) (External organisation) 2026
Invited talk: The Construct Validity of Real-World Digital Mobility Outcomes in People with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Results and a Digital Biomarker Validation Framework 2026
Invited talk: Building Regulatory-Grade Evidence for Mobilise-D Digital Mobility Outcomes in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Other Chronic Conditions 2026
Invited talk: Diagnostic Learning Models for Classifying Muscle Oxygenation Responses Across Activity States in Healthy and Long COVID Survivors 2025
Invited talk: Mobility outcomes as biomarkers in COPD: are they sensitive enough? 2024
Invited talk: Physical activity as an outcome for COPD 2022
Membership of network: European Respiratory Society (External organisation) 2022
Membership of network: British Thoracic Society (External organisation) 2022