Academic and research staff
Browse our research staff and discover more about their expertise.
Research theme:
Andrew Almond
Biophysics, macromolecular dynamics and simulation, computational biology
Sophia Ananiadou
Biomedical text mining
Perdita Barran
Ion mobility mass spectrometry, instrument technique development, protein structure and dynamics, disease diagnosis
Chris Blanford
Enzyme-enhanced materials, bioelectrochemistry, surface engineering
Rainer Breitling
Metabolomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, systems biology, modelling
Mike Buckley
Molecular ageing, skeletal biology, proteomics
Patrick Cai
Synthetic genomics, non-coding RNA engineering, yeast synthetic chromosomes
Duncan Cameron
Environmental microbiology, metabolomics, multiomics, plant-soil interactions
Robin Curtis
Biopharmaceuticals, biologicals, protein-protein interactions, protein self-assembly
Philip Day
Graphene-based wound dressings, quantitative and single-cell molecular biology, enzyme evaluation
Sam de Visser
Computational chemistry, inorganic reaction mechanisms, enzyme catalysis
Daniela Delneri
Yeast biotechnology and strain development, experimental evolution, biological systems, environmental genomics
Alan Dickson
Bioprocessing, biomanufacturing, cell and gene therapy
Neil Dixon
Biosensors and biocatalysts for the bioeconomy, host engineering for protein production, development of genetic regulation tools
Konstantina Drosou
Evolutionary biology, ancient DNA, bioinformatics
Rob Field - Director
Chemical biology, carbohydrates, infectious diseases
Sabine Flitsch
Chemical biology, biocatalysis, glycoscience
Stephen Fowler
Breath analysis, asthma, respiratory infection
John Gardiner
Synthetic carbohydrates, glycosaminoglycans, chemical biology, substrate synthesis
Peter Gardner
Vibrational spectroscopy, analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, microplastics
Matt Gibson
Biomaterials, cryopreservation, glycobiology, biosensing, diagnostics, polymers
Alexander Golovanov
Protein structure, biopharmaceutical formulations, NMR spectroscopy, biological molecules
Anthony Green
Enzyme Design, Directed Evolution, Genetic Code Expansion, Biocatalysis
Sam Hay
computation and experimental biophysics, reaction mechanism, catalysis, dynamics, biochemical kinetics
Yi Jin
Chemical biology, X-ray crystallography, enzyme catalysis, glycoscience
David Leys
Enzymology studies, protein engineering, structural biology/X-ray crystallography, redox cofactors
Sarah Lovelock
Therapeutic oligonucleotides, directed evolution, biocatalysis
Craig Markin
High-throughput biochemistry, microfluidics, mechanistic enzymology, protein-protein interactions
Clare Megarity
Electrochemistry, enzymology, enzyme engineering, bioelectrochemistry, cooperativity/allostery
Jason Micklefield
Biosynthesis, pathway engineering, antibiotics, enzyme discovery
Aline Miller
Self-assembling hydrogels, 3-D cell culture, 3-D bioprinting, drug discovery, drug delivery vehicles, therapeutics
Clare Mills
Allergies, disease severity, digestion, immune reaction to proteins, sustainable food proteins, climate change, nutrition
Sophie Nixon
Microbial ecology, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, microbial carbon cycling, biogeochemistry
Richard Obexer
Direct evolution, enzyme engineering, microfluidics, high-throughput screening
Andrew Pitt
Analytical measurement science, chemical biology, mass spectrometry
Christos Pliotas
Membrane proteins, EPR spectroscopy, structural biology, mechanosensitive ion channels
Argyris Politis
HDX-MS of membrane proteins, computational modelling of protein architectures, structural biology, protein dynamics
Paul Popelier
Machine learning, force field design, liquid water
Jack Rowbotham
Biocatalysis, applied catalysis, metals and enzymes
Alberto Saiani
Hydrogel design and characterisation, biomolecular self-assembly, biomedical applications
Nigel Scrutton
Enzyme and photoreceptor biophysics, synthetic biology, biomanufacturing, energy, chemicals
Eriko Takano
Secondary metabolite biosynthesis pathway assembly, regulatory circuit engineering, bioinformatics
Drupad Trivedi
Metabolomics, chemometrics, precision medicine
Nicholas Turner
Biocatalysis, directed evolution of enzymes, asymmetric synthesis
Jonathan Waltho
Protein structure, dynamics, enzymes, bioanalytical techniques
Jim Warwicker
Predictive algorithms, mechanistic models, cell biology, pH-dependence in biology and biotechnology
Simon Webb
Supramolecular chemistry, biomaterials, liposomes
Lu Shin Wong
Biocatalysis, biomaterials, nanomaterials