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Institute for Life Sciences

Our people

Our strength lies in our interdisciplinary collaborative network which is made up of over 430 academic members from across all the University’s faculties.

Institute for Life Sciences core team

Professor Max Crispin (Director)

Professor Mary Barker (Deputy Director)

Professor Hywel Morgan (Deputy Director)

Doctor Alexandra Mant (Collaboration Manager)

Janette Thompson (Project Manager)

Snita Bansal - Institute Coordinator

 

 

Interested in joining us? Please see details about current academic recruitment opportunities here.

Dr Philip Basford MEng PhD MIET

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Sensor Networks
  • µCT scanning for Biomedical applications
  • Data processing and handling for µCT

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Professor Philip Calder

Professor In Nutritional Immunology

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Dr Philip Goodwin

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Philip has a number of research interests spanning climate and the carbon cycle:
  • (1) Earth’s coupled physical climate and biogeochemical system;
  • (2) The Anthropocene (including surface warming, sea level rise and ocean acidification);

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Dr Philip Greulich

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Mathematical modelling of stem cell fate choices
  • Universal features of cell lineages
  • Cell population dynamics

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Dr Phillip Fenberg

Associate Professor

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Professor Phyllis Lam

Professor

Research interests

  • Prof. Lam's research interest lies in the functional roles of microorganisms in biogeochemica…
  • Current research topics include:
  • Shortcuts in the nitrogen cycle – novel pathways and microbial players for nitrogen remineral…

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Professor Prof. Matt Mowlem

Professor

Research interests

  • fluorescence, Raman, particle and gas spectroscopy
  • particle analysis
  • analytical chemistry and molecular biological assays
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Mrs Rachel Dadswell

Principal Teaching Fellow
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Dr Rafael Mestre PhD, MSc, BSc

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Responsible Research and Innovation of emergent technologies
  • Multimodal machine learning and Natural Language Processing
  • Computational social science

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Dr Rahman Attar SMIEEE, MIET, FHEA, PhD, MPhil, BEng

Lecturer

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