The Institute is led by Professor Andrew Livingston and Professor Jim Naismith, as joint interim academic leads. Together, they are responsible for the formation of the Institute, engagement with the academic and industrial communities, and the design and delivery of the hub building.
Each of the five themes are led by experts from within the academic community, working with a theme advisory panel which brings together both academic and industrial community members.
To contact any of the team, including the theme leaders, please e-mail info@rfi.ac.uk and we will put you in touch.
Institute Team
Professor James Naismith
Director
Professor Naismith grew up in Hamilton, in the west of Scotland attending local state schools. He graduated from Edinburgh in 1989 with a BSc in Chemistry. As a Carnegie scholar, Professor Naismith obtained a PhD in Structural Biochemistry from Manchester […]
Dr Ellie Johnson-Searle
Interim Chief Operating Officer
Ellie is our interim Chief Operating Officer. After working as an Executive Director, Ellie has spent the last 12 years working as an interim and consultant. She has worked with a range of organisations in different sectors including Arts, Education, […]
Laura Holland
Director of Communications and Culture
Laura Holland is Director of Communications at the Rosalind Franklin Institute. She has been with the organisation since its conception. Prior to this, she was Engagement Manager at Diamond Light Source for eleven years, where she led public engagement and postgraduate engagement programmes. […]
Joanne Blowers
Office Operations Manager
Joanne is Office Operations Manager to the Rosalind Franklin Institute team, working with the Chief Operating Officer and Director of Communications to deliver the day-to-day running of the Institute. She has a background in administration and HR, and has run […]
Theme Leaders
Professor Zoltan Takats
Imperial College
Professor Takats has obtained his PhD from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He has worked as a post-doctoral research associate at Purdue University, Indiana, USA. After returning to Hungary, he served as Director of Cell Screen Research Centre and also […]
Professor Josephine Bunch
Imperial College and NPL
Professor Josephine Bunch is Co-Director of the National Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry Imaging (NiCE-MSI) at NPL and Chair of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry at Imperial College London. Josephine is an NPL Fellow and leads research and metrology in MALDI […]
Professor James Naismith
Professor James Naismith
Professor Naismith grew up in Hamilton, in the west of Scotland attending local state schools. He graduated from Edinburgh in 1989 with a BSc in Chemistry. As a Carnegie scholar, Professor Naismith obtained a PhD in Structural Biochemistry from Manchester […]
Professor Adam Nelson
University of Leeds
Professor Adam Nelson is Theme Lead for Next Generation Chemistry for Medicine at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Leeds, and Deputy Director of the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology. He obtained his PhD […]
Professor Angus Kirkland
University of Oxford
Angus Kirkland completed his MA and PhD at the University of Cambridge using high resolution electron microscopy to study the structures of colloidal metals. Following a post-doctoral Fellowship Angus was elected to the Ramsay Memorial Trust Research Fellowship and subsequently […]
Professor Ron Roy
University of Oxford
Professor Ron Roy is Theme Leader in Imaging with Sound and Light at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, and Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Head of Department (research) in the Dept. of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. He […]