[1] Cooper lectures undergraduate and masters programs on electronics and biomedical engineering at the University of Glasgow.
In 2012 he established University of Glasgow’s degree programme in Biomedical Engineering, which was the first of its kind in Scotland.
[2] He has supervised over 40 PhD students since 1996, and was the leader of the EPSRC-funded Doctoral Training Centre in Bioengineering from 2006 to 2017.
As of June 2021 Cooper’s research has been published over 265 times in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, PNAS, Lab on a Chip and Chemical Communications.
[3] He has developed techniques in a range of disciplines including Lab-on-a-Chip diagnostics, cell measurements and proteomics.