Dr Charles Nduka

Consultant at Queen Victoria Hospital, Sussex, and Founder & Chief Scientific Officer of Emteq Labs

Charles Nduka is a consultant facial reconstructive surgeon specialising in restoring facial expressions. He’s based at the Queen Victoria Hospital (QVH) in Sussex, and is also an honorary consultant at Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital, London. He has honorary academic posts at Imperial College and Sussex University, where he researches real-world assessment of facial expressions and behaviour. He co-founded the UK’s largest multi-disciplinary facial palsy service at QVH and the charity Facial Palsy UK to improve support, research, and patient information.  

Charles has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, and contributed chapters to six books. He maintains an active research interest particularly in surgical technology, assessment of facial expressions, and the management of facial movement disorders. He has won research awards from the Wellcome Trust, Innovate UK, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), and the EU’s Horizon 2020 scheme. He is passionate about the potential of technology to improve lives and co-founded a wearable facial sensing company, Emteq Labs, to facilitate research and development of new assessment tools and treatments.