Role
Dr Martin Bencsik is Module Leader for the following undergraduate modules:
- Forensic Databases and Biometrics
- MSci Final Year Project
He also conducts research in automated Beehive condition monitoring, and supervises postgraduate students.
Career overview
Dr Bencsik completed his PhD in M.R.I. at the University of Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé. Following this he held two post-doctoral positions in M.R.I. at the University of Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé. He started a lectureship at NTU in 2003 and became professor in 2023.
He gradually shifted his research interests, fifteen years ago , from MRI to beehive condition monitoring, a scientific field in which he pioneered the use of accelerometers in 2011.
Research areas
Dr Bencsik has published material on the following:
- M.R.I. of fluid flow in porous media
- M.R.I. of fluid pressure
- The physiological effects of M.R.I pulsed field gradients
- New application of unilateral NMR instruments
- The design and testing of various M.R.I. contrast agents
- The monitoring of reed beds with N.M.R.
- The condition monitoring of honey bee hives using the time course of pulsed vibrations produced by individual bees.
- The automated prediction of honeybee colony swarming
- The interpretation of queen bee 'tooting' and 'quacking'
- Quantitative assessments of the honeybee startle response
- Machine learning assisted gait analysis
- The identification of wolves from their howling
- The discrimination of human dried blood droplets
Opportunities to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil/PhD exist and further information may be obtained from the NTU Doctoral School.
External activity
Pr Bencsik is involved in outreach activities in primary and secondary schools and presents seminars and talks.
Pr Bencsik has contributed extensively to large scale artistic work designed by Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé artist with whom he still presently enjoys professional collaborations.
Sponsors and collaborators
Current and previous research is being conducted with the collaboration, funding and / or support of:
Publications
Numerical classification of curvilinear structures for the identification of pistol barrels. Bolton-King RS, Bencsik M, Evans P, Smith CL, Allsop DF, Painter JD and Cranton WM, Forensic Science Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé, 2012, 1-3, 197-209
Reducing peripheral nerve stimulation due to gradient switching using an additional uniform field coil. Hidalgo-Tobon SS, Bencsik M and Bowtell R, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2011, 66 (5), 1498-1509
. Bencsik M, Bencsik J, Baxter M, Lucian A, Romieu J and Millet M, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2011, 76 (1), 44-50
. Hall A, Mundell VJ, Blanco-Andujar C, Bencsik M, McHale G, Newton, MI and Cave GWJ, Chemical Communications, 2010, 46 (14), 2420-2422
. De la Pena H, Madrigal JA, Rusakiewicz S, Bencsik M, Cave GWV, Selman A, Rees RC, Travers PJ and Dodi IA, Journal of Immunological Methods, 2009, 344 (2), 121-132
. Bencsik M, Adriaensen H, Brewer S and McHale G, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2008, 193 (1), 32-36
. Bencsik M, Morris RH, Nestle N, Galvosas P, Fairhurst D, Vangala A, Perrie Y and McHale G, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2008, 193 (2), 159-16
. Bencsik M and Ramanathan C, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2001, 19, 379-383
Press expertise
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
- Data mining
- Spectral analysis
- Machine learning
- Signal processing
- Biometrics
- Honeybee
- Bee
- Non-invasive condition monitoring
- Accelerometers, vibrometry
- Science for art
- Beekeeping
- Varroa
- Nuclear waste
- Radiation in the environment