Academic staff
Our academic staff are engaged in research and teaching in the Department of Biological Sciences and are part of a broader scientific area through their membership of the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology (ISMB), that includes University College London (UCL). Recent academic appointments are jointly held with UCL.
Our academic and senior research staff are:
- Dr Glenn Baggott, Lecturer in Zoology
- Dr Ajit Basak, Senior Research Associate
- Professor Paul Barnes, Professor in Applied Crystallography
- Dr Tracey Barrett, Senior Lecturer in Structural Biology
- Dr Sanjib Bhakta, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology
- Dr Howard Carless, Senior Lecturer in Organic Chemistry
- Dr John Christodoulou, ISMB Lecturer
- Dr Bibekbrata Gooptu, Research Fellow
- Dr David C Havill, Lecturer in Biology
- Dr Richard Hayward, Royal Society University Research Fellow
- Dr Martin Ingrouille, Senior Lecturer in Biology
- Professor Nicholas Keep, Professor Of Biomolecular Science, Executive Dean
- Dr Paul King, Lecturer
- Dr Philip Lowden, Lecturer in Chemistry
- Professor Neil Q McDonald, Professor Of Structural Biology
- Dr Carolyn Moores, Research Fellow
- Professor David Moss, Senior Research Fellow
- Dr Jane Nicklin, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology
- Dr Irilenia Nobeli, Lecturer in Bioinformatics / Computational Biology
- Dr Marianne Odlyha, Senior Lecturer
- Professor Elena Orlova, Professor Macromolecular Systems
- Dr Andrew Osborne, ISMB Lecturer in Microbial Molecular Systems
- Dr Jim Pitts, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Richard C Rayne, Lecturer
- Professor Helen Saibil, Bernal Professor of Structural Biology
- Dr Clare Sansom, Senior Associate Lecturer
- Dr Renos Savva, Senior Research Fellow
- Dr Adrian Shepherd, Senior Lecturer in Computational Biology
- Dr Jonathan M Slater, Lecturer
- Professor Christine Slingsby, Professor Of Structural Biology
- Dr Alona Sosinsky, Lecturer in Bioinformatics
- Dr Konstantinos Thalassinos, ISMB Lectureship in Biophysical Mass Spectrometry
- Dr Katherine Thompson, Lecturer in Chemistry
- Dr Salvador Tomas, Academic Fellow in Chemical Biology
- Dr Maya Topf, MRC Career Development Fellow
- Dr Cara Vaughan, ISMB Lecturer in Structural Biology
- Professor Gabriel Waksman, Professor of Structural Molecular Biology; Head of Department
- Professor Bonnie Wallace, Professor of Molecular Biophysics
- Dr Mark Williams, Lecturer in Biophysics
In addition to research and teaching activities academic staff write papers for scientific journals and books, edit scientific papers, review other scientists' research work, organise conferences, and apply for research grant funding.
