Our People

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 […]

Paul has worked in the life science sector for over 20 years. During this time, he has held a number of senior operational roles, been a corporate financier and a venture capitalist. As Chief Operating Officer at The Franklin, Paul […]

Lydia brings a wealth of experience gained within diverse global and UK based organisations. Lydia has worked for a number of high growth companies, including in the scientific instrument, specialist chemicals and high tech sectors. Lydia has broad multi-disciplined HR […]

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. […]

Róisín is Head of Partnerships at the Rosalind Franklin Institute. Prior to this she held roles as Head of Business Development within the UK’s Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s clinical data research centre (CPRD) and as Associate Director of […]

Hazel is the Innovation and Translation Manager. She was previously Head of Intellectual Property at an industrial microbiology company, Green Biologics, where she was involved in IP management, project management and scientific research, as the company progressed from a small […]

Joanne is Facilities and Operations Support Supervisor, 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 small businesses is the […]

Marina is a HR Assistant at the Franklin, co-ordinating recruitment and assisting with a variety of HR activities. Prior to joining the Rosalind Franklin Institute, Marina worked as a Training and Recruitment Administrator for a private Software Development company and […]

Stacey is Executive Assistant to the Director. Stacey’s experience includes supporting Board, Chief Executive and Executive Director positions, project management and event management. Prior to joining the Rosalind Franklin Institute, Stacey worked for the University of Oxford and The British Council. […]

Dona manages scientific training programmes at The Franklin, and works with colleagues to ensure that the new PhD programme and other training initiatives for scientists are world class. She is passionate about evolving the careers of early-career scientists beyond the […]

Caitlin is the communications and engagement officer, which means she covers everything from schools to stakeholder engagement, and internal communications too. Prior to joining the Franklin, she completed her PhD in behavioural ecology at the University of Sheffield. During her […]

Fay is the Executive Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer. She has been a Board level Executive Assistant for over 12 years, with experience in supporting C level Directors. As part of these roles, she has gained experience in project, […]

Jane is an assistant accountant working closely with the financial controller to support the finance function at the Franklin. Jane is a full member of AAT. Prior to joining the Franklin, she worked with several start-up companies based on the […]

Stephen is the operations support technician at The Franklin. His role involves supporting the building team with the smooth running of goods in, labs and countless tasks put his way. He has previously worked as a MLI technician for RAL […]

Krystalenia is Recruitment Co-ordinator at the Franklin, focused on supporting the organisation’s recruitment needs and initiatives. Prior to this role, she was part of the Early Careers team at the Science and Technologies Facilities Council, co-ordinating administration of the organisation’s […]

Ian has worked in procurement for over 20 years and has held various positions in the private and public sector, mainly in the healthcare sector. He is a member of the Charter Institute of Purchasing and supply (CIPS) and studied […]

Dr Mark Basham is Head of AI at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, and a Research Fellow at Diamond Light Source. Mark was awarded his Physics PhD in surface science simulation from the University of Reading, he then moved to data […]

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 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 […]

Bela is the Head of Molecular Structure Elucidation in the Biological Mass Spectrometry theme. He studied chemistry and completed his PhD in quantum chemistry in Budapest, then moved to the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg where he was first […]

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 […]

Judy Kim is the Deputy Director of Correlative Imaging at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, Departmental Lecturer in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, and a Principal Staff Scientist at the electron Physical Sciences Imaging Centre of Diamond […]

Ben Davis got his B.A. (1993) and D.Phil. (1996) from the University of Oxford. During this time he learnt the beauty of carbohydrate chemistry under the supervision of Professor George Fleet. He then spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow […]

Shabaz Mohammed is the Head of Mechanistic Proteomics, and also teaches at the University of Oxford. Shabaz completed his Masters and PhD at the University of Manchester. He started working in protein chemistry and then eventually proteomics – first during […]

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 […]

Ray Owens obtained his PhD in biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, UK. After postdoctoral work in London and Oxford, he joined Celltech, the UK’s first biotechnology company and became head of new target discovery. In 2002, Ray moved to […]

Gwyndaf Evans was awarded his PhD in Physics from the University of Warwick in 1994 for his work performed at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Hamburg on the application of anomalous scattering in macromolecular crystallography using synchrotron radiation. After […]

Liang is a Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale fellow. He is establishing a lab to study the processes involved in formation of heparan sulfate, one of the essential polysaccharide (sugar) molecules produced by the body. He studied Medicinal Chemistry at […]

Maud has a PhD in immunology from Paris 7 Diderot. Prior to working at the Franklin, she worked at the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology and Diamond light source. She is interested in the development of imaging modalities and […]

Michael completed his D.Phil in structural biology at the University of Oxford, UK, where he applied FIB milling, electron cryo-tomography (cryoET) and super-resolution microscopy to investigate the trafficking and egress of viral progeny within cells. After his doctoral studies, he […]