Our people

Professor Ben Davis
Science Director and Challenge Lead

Dr Michele Darrow
Challenge Lead

Professor Helen Cooper
Science Director and Challenge Lead

Professor Angus Kirkland
Science Director and Challenge Lead

Dr Mark Basham
Science Director and Challenge Lead

Professor Ray Owens
Challenge Lead

Professor Paul Matthews
Institute Director

Mark Driver
Chief Operating Officer
Professor Andrew Bourne
(observer)
Professor John Holloway
Member nominated
Professor Andy Mount
Member nominated

Professor Nigel Titchener-Hooker
Board Member, UCL

Dr Malcolm Skingle
Board member

Dr Barbara Ghinelli
Board Member - UKRI-STFC

Professor Mathias Gautel
Board Member, King’s College London

Dr David Rees
NomCo

Hilary Newiss
RemCo

Caroline Carter
RemCo

Dr Gillian Burgess
RemCo

Bruce Pritchard
Board member
Emeritus Fellow Ian Charles
Audit and Risk

Dr Vivienne Cox
Chair

Michael Penny
PhD Student

Aleyna Lumsden
PhD Student

Peter Hughes
PhD Student

Rebecca Hobbs
PhD Student

Haiyang He
PhD Student

Gloria Gao
PhD Student

Clara Dieterle
PhD Student
Minal Dayaram
PhD Student

Natasha Cooke
PhD Student

Ioanna Bezirtzoglou
PhD Student

Robin Kassam
IT Technician

Niaz Khan
Head of IT

Mohammad Azeem
Finance Assistant

Eva Gronbech
Finance Business Partner

Ian Franklin
Procurement Manager
Carol-Ann McGuinness
Finance Manager

Caroline Rudman
Financial Controller

Phil King
Training Coordinator

Reshma Roy
Early Careers Lead

Olivia Belcher
HR & Recruitment Coordinator

Aneta Kingston
Recruitment Specialist

Marina Haines
HR Advisor

Lydia Armes
Director of HR

Marta Jencekova
Health and Safety Assistant

Gordon Perry
Health and Safety Advisor
Heather Meek
Quality Assurance Assistant

Jamelah Owusu-Yianomah
Quality Manager

Vikky Oliver
Facilities Assistant

Stephen Cross
Senior Facilities Assistant

Jen Murray
Head of Facilities

Dr Alice Fraser
Communications Officer

Dr Caitlin Higgott
Communications and Engagement Manager

Dan McManus
Business Development and Stakeholder Engagement Officer

Dr Hazel Housden
Innovation and Translation Manager

Mohsin Khan
Data Entry Assistant

Lucy Matkin
Research Grants Manager

Dr Jane Wibley
Project Manager

Lorna Thomas
Project Delivery Manager

Dr Becky Nadal
Strategic Projects Manager

Laura Holland
Director of Strategic Marketing

Kellie Farmer
Operations Support Assistant

Georgia Mugglestone
Personal Assistant to Professor Ben Davis

Sarah Hollitzer
Executive Assistant to Professor Paul Matthews, Institute Director

Professor James Naismith
Visiting Professor

Ellie Tardo
PhD Student

William Bowles
DPhil Student, University of Oxford

Joe Thrush
PhD Student

Nadisha Gamage
PhD student

Becky Csöndör
PhD Student

Ellen Reed
PhD Student

Helena Watson
PhD student

Jake Smith
DPhil Student, University of Oxford

Olivia Garner
Laboratory Technician

Leah McCaffrey
Research Technician

Maria Sanita
Research Assistant

Hannah Campaigne
Research Technician

Kelly Parker
Research Assistant

Chelsea Norman
Senior Laboratory Support Technician

Dr Sheera Abdulla

Dr Charlie Lovatt
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Ravi Teja Ravi
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Victoria Garcia-Giner
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Miron Leanca
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr John Clarke
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Protein Science

Dr Casper Berger
Senior Application Expert

Dr Siva Ramadurai
Senior Staff Scientist

Eva Maria Soriano-Jerez
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr James Parkhurst
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Audrey Le Bas
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biological Sample Preparation

Dr Courtney Mycroft-West
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Glycosaminoglycan Biosynthesis

Dr Calina Glynn
Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Lauren Eyssen
Staff Scientist

Dr Jianguo Zhang
Senior Application Expert for in situ Structural Biology

Andy Stallwood
Mechanical Design Engineer

Dr Matthew Case
Electron Microscope Manager

Dr Tom Glen
Plasma FIB Manager

Dr Lucile Moynie
Associate Investigator

Dr Michael Grange
Tomography Group Leader

Dr Maud Dumoux
Deputy Challenge Lead, Quantitative Biology Across Scales

Dr Liang Wu
Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale fellow

Dr Gwyndaf Evans
Head of Technology
Dimitrios Mamalis
Visiting Researcher
Dr Adeline Poh
Visiting Associate Investigator

Kostantina Karagianni
PhD Student

Dimitrios Ioannidis
PhD Student

Xuemeng Chen
PhD Student

Richon Blake
PhD Student

Efterpi Nikitopoulou
DPhil Student, University of Oxford

Jack Ren
DPhil Student, University of Oxford

Tia É Hawkins
PhD Student

Jack Bercovici
PhD Student

Lara Fragapane
PhD Student

Alice Eddershaw
DPhil Student, University of Oxford

Niamh Morris
PhD student

George Goad
Laboratory Assistant

Soumadipta Mazumdar
Research Assistant
Dr Zoe Giannioti
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Pratyush Mishra
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Ryan McNamee
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Angus Weir
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Eduardo Kitano
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Sofia Piticari
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Yana Demyanenko
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Xiaping Fu
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Weibing Liu
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Bimod Thapa
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Yongchen Wang
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Nikita Levin
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Chao Guo
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Xuejian Yin
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford

Dr Jack Maynard
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Yi Jiang
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Stefan Lohmann
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Amanda Acevedo-Jake
Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Mariia Lopatniuk
Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Ajay Jha
Associate Investigator

Dr Abigail Turner
NMR Facilities Manager

Dr Timea Palmai-Pallag
High-Throughput Discovery Laboratory Manager

Mellisa Govender Kirkpatrick
Chemistry Laboratory Manager

Dr Karina Pombo-Garcia
Group Leader

Professor Adam Nelson
Head of High Throughput Discovery

Professor Andrew Baldwin
Head of Biomolecular NMR

Associate Professor Shabaz Mohammed
Head of Mechanistic Proteomics

James Conway
PhD Student

Jack Bromley
PhD Student

Jess Stone
PhD Student

Angharad Smith
PhD Student

Katie Beirns
PhD Student

Natalie Nord
PhD student

Ben Gaunt
PhD student

Emily Barot
PhD student

Dr Brian Caffrey
Postdoctoral Scientist

Dr Jingjing Zhao
Postdoctoral Scientist

Adrián Pedrazo Tardajos
Postdoctoral Scientist

Dr Narain Karedla
Staff Scientist

Dr Amirafshar Moshtaghpour
Staff Scientist

Dr Abner Velazco
Staff Scientist

Dr Ali Mostaed
Staff Scientist

Dr Emanuela Liberti
Staff Scientist
Dr Mohammed Yusuf
Sample Preparation Scientist

Dr Tobias Starborg
Senior Support Scientist

Dr Jonathan Barnard
Senior Staff Scientist
Dr Ivan Lobato
Associate Investigator

Dr Marcus Gallagher-Jones
Associate Investigator

Professor Marco Fritzsche
Rosalind Franklin Kennedy Trust Research Fellow

Dr Judy Kim
Deputy Science Director

Professor Zoltan Takats
Visiting Professor

Dr Jiaqi Luo
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Siyu Liu
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Matija Lagator
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

Dr Daniel McGill
Postdoctoral Research Associate in molecular structure elucidation

Dr Anthony Devlin
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Imaging Mass Spectrometry

Dr Saira Hameed
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Single Cell Imaging Mass Spectrometry

Dr Logan Mackay
Biological Mass Spectrometry Facilities Manager

Dr Felicia Green
Associate Investigator

Dr Bela Paizs
Head of Molecular Structure Elucidation

Alexander Wilkes
PhD Student

Ana Katsini
PhD Student

Aparajita Karmakar
PhD Student

Dr Patricia Smith
Community Manager (Science Scribbler projects)

Nikolai Juraschko
PhD student

Chloe Cheng
PhD student
Sam Kersley
Research Software Associate

Dolapo Adebo
Research Software Associate
Tom Fish
Research Software Engineer

Gabryel Mason-Williams
Research Software Engineer

Laura Crawford
Research Software Engineer

Nick Crawford
Research Software Engineer
Dr Fabiana Rodrigues de Goes
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr Neville Yee
Research Software Engineer

Dr Dimitrios Bellos
Research Software Engineer

Dr Elaine Ho
Research Software Engineer
Dr Avery Pennington
Senior Research Software Engineer

Dr Alex Lubbock
Senior Research Software Engineer

Dr Alexandre Paschoal
Group Leader (Investigator)

Dr Laura Shemilt
Head of Research Software Engineering