Dr Mark Basham
Science Director, Artificial Intelligence and Informatics
Dr Mark Basham is Head of AI at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, and a Research Fellow at Diamond Light Source. […]
Dr Michele Darrow
Head of Data Strategy for Cryo Electron Imaging
Michele received her PhD from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX for her work using cryo electron tomography and […]
Dr Laura Shemilt
Head of Research Software Engineering
Laura is Head of Research Software Engineering here at the Franklin. Her main focus is to collate and curate the […]
Dr Alexandre Paschoal
Group Leader (Investigator)
Dr. Alexandre Paschoal is a Group Leader in Artificial Intelligence and Informatics at the Rosalind Franklin Institute and concurrently serves […]
Dr Alex Lubbock
Senior Research Software Engineer
Alex is a Senior Research Software Engineer specialising in computational biology. He holds degrees in computer science and physics (BSc […]
Dr Avery Pennington
Senior Research Software Engineer
Avery is a researcher specializing in image segmentation and bio-image analysis. She completed her PhD at the University of Dundee […]
Dr Elaine Ho
Research Software Engineer
Elaine is a Research Software Engineer for Imaging. She completed her PhD in biomedical imaging at the University of Southampton, […]
Dr Dimitrios Bellos
Research Software Engineer
Dimitrios is a researcher and software developer, specialised in the development of deep learning, AI and machine learning solutions for […]
Dr Neville Yee
Research Software Engineer
Neville is a Research Software Engineer for Imaging. He studied physics at the Hong Kong Baptist University, then completed his […]
Dr Dimitris Ladakis
Research Software Engineer
Dimitris has a mixed background in the biosciences and computer science. As a biochemistry PhD student and postdoc at the […]
Dr Luis Perdigao
Research Software Engineer
Luis is a researcher specialised in the field of Scanning Probe Microscopy. He has an undergraduate degree in Physics, a […]
Nick Crawford
Research Software Engineer
Nick is a research software engineer who specialises in data manipulation, storage and visualisation. Nick studied Ocean science at the […]
Laura Crawford
Research Software Associate
Laura is a junior research software engineer primarily specialising in cloud infrastructure and HPC. She studied Ecology at the University […]
Gabryel Mason-Williams
Research Software Associate
Gabryel is a research software associate focusing on novel approaches to HPC, cloud, compression and storage. They studied computer science […]
Chloe Cheng
PhD student
Thesis Title: Mapping the Emergence of Synapses in the Brain Primary theme: Artificial Intelligence and Informatics Franklin supervisors: Dr Mark […]
Nikolai Juraschko
PhD student
Thesis Title: Combining MD simulations with ML approaches to facilitate the morphological classification of Chlamydia from cryo-ET data Primary Theme: […]
Dr Patricia Smith
Community Manager (Science Scribbler projects)
Patricia is a community manager for the Science Scribbler projects. She studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, graduating […]
Professor Zoltan Takats
Science Co-Director, Biological Mass Spectrometry
Imperial College
Professor Takats has obtained his PhD from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He has worked as a post-doctoral research associate […]
Professor Josephine Bunch
Science Co-Director, Biological Mass Spectrometry
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 […]
Dr Bela Paizs
Head of Molecular Structure Elucidation
Bela is the Head of Molecular Structure Elucidation in the Biological Mass Spectrometry theme. He studied chemistry and completed his […]
Dr Felicia Green
Associate Investigator
Felicia is an Associate Investigator in Mass Spectrometric Instrumentation involved in the development of a stigmatic TOF-SIMS ion microscope for […]
Dr Logan Mackay
Biological Mass Spectrometry Facilities Manager
Logan’s embarked on his academic journey by pursuing a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, which he […]
Dr Anna Simmonds
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ion Mobility and Mass Spectrometric Instrumentation
Anna studied chemistry at the University of Sheffield before moving to the University of Birmingham to work on a PhD […]
Dr Saira Hameed
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Single Cell Imaging Mass Spectrometry
Saira obtained her PhD in Medical Sciences from Japan, and was recipient of the prestigious Monbukagakusho (MEXT), Japan student service […]
Dr Anthony Devlin
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Imaging Mass Spectrometry
Anthony is a postdoctoral research associate in imaging mass spectrometry, who focuses primarily on the applications of various mass spectrometry […]
Dr Kenneth Robinson
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Atmospheric Pressure Ionisation Mass Spectrometry
Kenneth obtained a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Glasgow, and after time spent working in industry, he joined […]
Dr Daniel McGill
Postdoctoral Research Associate in molecular structure elucidation
Dan studied chemistry at UCL until 2016 and graduated with a PhD in clinical medicine from Imperial College London in […]
Dr. Maria Elena Castellani
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
Elena is Postdoctoral Research Associate in Mass Spectrometric Instrument Development. Elena achieved her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry at the University […]
Daniel Simon
Research Assistant
Daniel obtained a BSc in Molecular Biotics from Pazmany Peter Catholic University and a MSc in Pharmaceutical engineering from Budapest […]
Professor Angus Kirkland
Science Director, Correlated Imaging
University of Oxford
Angus Kirkland completed his MA and PhD at the University of Cambridge using high resolution electron microscopy to study the […]
Dr Judy Kim
Deputy Science Director, Correlated Imaging
University of Oxford
Judy Kim is the Deputy Science Director of Correlated Imaging at the Rosalind Franklin Institute and Departmental Lecturer in the […]
Professor Marco Fritzsche
Rosalind Franklin Kennedy Trust Research Fellow
Professor Marco Fritzsche is the Scientific Director of the Oxford-ZEISS Centre of Excellence and Rosalind Franklin Kennedy Trust Research Fellow […]
Dr Marcus Gallagher-Jones
Associate Investigator
Marcus received his BSc in Biochemistry from Durham University and his PhD in Biophysics from the University of Liverpool. For […]
Dr Ivan Lobato
Associate Investigator
Ivan Lobato completed his PhD at the University of Antwerp, with a thesis on accurate modelling of high angle electron […]
Dr Tobias Starborg
Senior Staff Scientist
Toby completed a PhD at the University of Manchester examining collagen fibril deposition and organisation. He then worked as a […]
Dr Jonathan Barnard
Senior Staff Scientist
Jon is the Electron Microscopy Facilities Manager within Correlated Imaging. Having studied physics at the University of Bristol, Jon studied […]
Dr Emanuela Liberti
Staff Scientist
Emanuela’s role at the Franklin consists in designing innovative Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy imaging methods applied to the study of […]
Dr Chen Huang
Staff Scientist
At the Franklin, Chen leads the real-time cryo-electron ptychography project and is focusing on extending its application to large heterogeneous […]
Dr Mohammed Yusuf
Staff Scientist
Yusuf is a staff scientist for the Franklin. He has extensive experience in preparing and analysing samples for different modalities. […]
Dr Ali Mostaed
Staff Scientist
Ali has been working on the characterization of materials in the atomic and sub-atomic scale by advanced (scanning) transmission electron […]
Dr Abner Velazco
Staff Scientist
Abner received his MSc degree in physics from the Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima, Peru. In 2017, as a PhD […]
Dr Amirafshar Moshtaghpour
Postdoctoral Scientist
Amirafshar Moshtaghpour is the Postdoctoral research scientist in Compressive Sensing for Electron Microscopy at the Rosalind Franklin Institute. Amirafshar received […]
Adrián Pedrazo Tardajos
Postdoctoral Scientist
Adrián Pedrazo Tardajos is a postdoctoral researcher with experience in advanced electron microscopy techniques. In 2015, Adrián completed his MSc […]
Dr Jingjing Zhao
Postdoctoral Scientist
Jingjing’s main research interest is to develop and apply new electron microscopy methods for answering important biological questions. At the […]
Dr Anna Schepers
Postdoctoral Scientist
Anna received her MSc degree in Nanoscience at the University of Hamburg, Germany, in 2017. During her doctoral studies at […]
Dr Narain Karedla
Postdoctoral Scientist
Narain is a postdoctoral researcher and an advanced microscopy specialist. He will be building a lattice light sheet microscope coupled […]
Dr Brian Caffrey
Postdoctoral Scientist
Brian Caffrey is a postdoctoral researcher and specialist in correlated microscopy methods. His research focuses on the application of advanced […]
Emily Barot
PhD student
Thesis Title: Time-resolved imaging of biomolecules using liquid-cell TEM Primary theme: Correlated Imaging Franklin Supervisors: Dr Emanuela Liberti, Dr Judy […]
Ben Gaunt
PhD student
Thesis Title: Combining Ptychography and EDX to investigate cubosome internalisation Primary Theme: Correlated Imaging Franklin supervisors: Judy Kim, Chen Huang […]
Natalie Nord
PhD student
Thesis Title: Improving cryo-electron ptychography for bioimaging Primary Theme: Correlated Imaging Secondary Theme: Artificial Intelligence & Informatics and Structural Biology […]
Katie Beirns
PhD Student
Thesis title: Investigating mitochondrial dynamics using liquid phase electron microscopy methods. Primary Theme: Correlated imaging. Secondary themes: Structural biology and Biological Mass […]
Angharad Smith
PhD Student
Thesis title: Developing Tools to Study In Situ Crystallisation Primary Theme: Correlated Imaging and Structural Biology Franklin supervisors: Dr Marcus Gallagher-Jones and Dr Maud […]
Jess Stone
PhD Student
Thesis title: Correlative light and electron microscopy to investigate the cytotoxic T-cell mediated anti-tumour response. Franklin Themes: Correlated Imaging and Structural […]
Professor Ben Davis
Interim Director
University of Oxford
Ben Davis got his B.A. (1993) and D.Phil. (1996) from the University of Oxford. During this time he learnt the […]
Associate Professor Shabaz Mohammed
Deputy Science Director, Next Generation Chemistry
University of Manchester
Shabaz Mohammed is the Deputy Science Director for Next Generation Chemistry and Head of Mechanistic Proteomics, and also teaches at […]
Professor Andrew Baldwin
Head of Biomolecular NMR
Andrew is Head of Biomolecular NMR and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. He is interested in developing […]
Professor Adam Nelson
Head of High Throughput Discovery
University of Leeds
Professor Adam Nelson is Head of High Throughput Discovery at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, Professor of Chemical Biology at the […]
Mellisa Govender Kirkpatrick
Chemistry Laboratory Manager
Mellisa is the Laboratory Manager at the Rosalind Franklin Institute with the Next Generation Chemistry Group. Mellisa is South African, […]
Dr Timea Palmai-Pallag
High-Throughput Discovery Laboratory Manager
Timea joined the Rosalind Franklin Institute as Laboratory Manager for the High-Throughput Discovery Laboratory, having previously leading and designing high-throughput clinical […]
Dr Abigail Turner
NMR Facilities Manager
Abigail completed their BA and MSci in natural sciences at the University of Cambridge before moving to UCL to pursue […]
Dr Andrew Giltrap
Associate Investigator
Andrew is an Associate Investigator at the Rosalind Franklin Institute involved in developing novel methods for the site selective modification […]
Dr Ajay Jha
Associate Investigator
Ajay is using ultrafast spectroscopic methods to unravel mechanistic details of light induced post-translational installation of reactive protein side chains. […]
Dr Katarzyna Kowalczyk
Senior Postdoctoral Scientist
Kasia obtained her MSc in Medical Biotechnology at the Jagiellonian University, Poland and then moved to the UK to pursue […]
Dr Stefan Lohmann
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Stefan is a Postdoctoral Research Associate within the Next Generation Chemistry theme at the Rosalind Franklin Institute. He is working […]
Dr Yi Jiang
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Yi received his PhD degree from National University of Singapore supervised by Prof. Ming Joo Koh. During his PhD studies, […]
Dr Jack Maynard
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Having graduated from the University of Bristol in 2017, Jack moved to the University of Southampton for doctoral studies on […]
Dr Xuejian Yin
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford
Xuejian is a Postdoctoral Research Associate of the Department of Pharmacology at the university of Oxford and a visitor within […]
Dr Chao Guo
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Chao got his master’s degree in microbiology from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) in 2017. Then he […]
Dr Nikita Levin
Postdoctoral Research Associate
After obtaining his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Nikita joined the group of Professor […]
Dr Yongchen Wang
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Yongchen completed a PhD in 2022 under the supervision of Prof. Ed Anderson at the University of Oxford where she […]
Dr Bimod Thapa
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Bimod studied MSci Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Huddersfield and then went on to complete an MRes in Chemistry. […]
Dr Weibing Liu
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Weibing received their Ph.D. in Chemical Biology at Peking University in July 2020 with Prof. Xing Chen. During their graduate […]
Dr Xiaping Fu
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Xiaping got his PhD. degree in Organic Chemistry from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) in 2019. During his […]
Dr Viliyana Lewis
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Viliyana completed her Undergraduate studies in Chemistry at Reading University, followed by MRes in Molecular Modelling and EngD at UCL. […]
Dr John Sidda
Postdoctoral Research Associate
John joined the Next Generation Chemistry theme to work on the signalling pathways underpinning primary sugar metabolism in plants. John […]
Dr Yana Demyanenko
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Yana is a Postdoctoral research associate within the Next Generation Chemistry (NGC) theme. After receiving her BSc in Biotechnology with […]
Dr Yizhi Yuan
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Yizhi is working in the Next Generation Chemistry Group as a postdoctoral research associate under the topic “Synthetic Biology and […]
Dr Sofia Piticari
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Sofia obtained her MSci degree in Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry from Imperial College London and pursued her PhD studies at […]
Dr Lan Na
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Lan’s research interest focuses on developing novel chemical biology tools to probe mechanistic questions in proteomics. As a team member […]
Dr Guoxuan Sun
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Guoxuan obtained his PhD from UCL School of Pharmacy in 2021, majoring anti-cancer drug design. His research interest is the […]
Dr Yibo Zeng
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Yibo obtained her PhD from Department of Chemistry, the University of Hong Kong. Prior joining the Rosalind Franklin Institute, she […]
Dr Eduardo Kitano
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Eduardo Kitano is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Proteomics – Separation Scientist at the Franklin. Eduardo has obtained his PhD […]
Dr Angus Weir
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Angus obtained his PhD in Chemistry at the University of Bristol in 2021 under the supervision of Professors Chris Willis […]
Dr Jiang Liu
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Jiang earned his Ph.D. in Molecular Chemistry from Sorbonne University. His research journey has been primarily focused on the synthesis […]
George Goad
Laboratory Assistant
George is a Laboratory Assistant within The Next Generation Chemistry group. Prior to working at the Franklin he attained a […]
Niamh Morris
PhD student
Thesis Title: Autonomous phenotype-directed discovery of chemical probes Primary Theme: Next Generation Chemistry Franklin supervisors: Prof Adam Nelson and Dr […]
Alice Eddershaw
DPhil Student, University of Oxford
Alice is a DPhil student working under the supervision of Prof. Davis here at the Franklin and Dr Dong at […]
Lara Fragapane
PhD Student
Thesis title: Solving the mysteries of human protein N-glycosylation: The Early Lipid-Linked Oligosaccharide Synthesis Pathway Primary Themes: Structural Biology and Next Generation […]
Jack Bercovici
PhD Student
Thesis title: Photodroplets: A Light-Controllable Method Of Unpicking Phase Separation Biology Primary Theme: Next Generation Chemistry Secondary theme: Structural Biology […]
Tia É Hawkins
PhD Student
Thesis title: Understanding the GAG reflex: how glycosaminoglycans interact with Nipah virus to differently perturb its infectivity Primary Theme: Next […]
Jack Ren
DPhil Student, University of Oxford
Jack is a DPhil student working under the supervision of Prof Ben Davis. His project focuses on stereoselective enzyme catalysed […]
Dimitrios Mamalis
DPhil Student, University of Oxford
Dimitrios is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford, working under the supervision of Prof Ben Davis. His project […]
Efterpi Nikitopoulou
DPhil Student, University of Oxford
Efterpi completed her undergrad in biochemistry and biotechnology in Greece before reading a master’s in molecular genetics and diagnostics at […]
Professor James Naismith
Science Director, Structural Biology
Professor Naismith grew up in Hamilton, in the west of Scotland attending local state schools. He graduated from Edinburgh in […]
Professor Ray Owens
Head of Protein Production UK
Ray Owens obtained his PhD in biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, UK. After postdoctoral work in London and Oxford, […]
Dr Gwyndaf Evans
Head of Technology
Gwyndaf Evans was awarded his PhD in Physics from the University of Warwick in 1994 for his work performed at […]
Dr Liang Wu
Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale fellow
Liang is a Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale fellow. He is establishing a lab to study the processes involved in […]
Dr Maud Dumoux
Associate Investigator
Maud has a PhD in immunology from Paris 7 Diderot. Prior to working at the Franklin, she worked at the […]
Dr Michael Grange
Tomography Group Leader
Michael completed his D.Phil in structural biology at the University of Oxford, UK, where he applied FIB milling, electron cryo-tomography […]
Dr Lucile Moynie
Associate Investigator
After completing her PhD in Structural Biology, Lucile moved to St Andrews to join Jim Naismith’s laboratory as a research […]
Dr Calina Glynn
Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate
Calina (Callie) is a senior postdoctoral research associate in Dr. Michael Grange’s group focusing on utilizing cryo-focused ion beam milling […]
Dr Courtney Mycroft-West
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Glycosaminoglycan Biosynthesis
Courtney is a postdoctoral research associate in glycosaminoglycan biosynthesis based at the Rosalind Franklin Institute in the laboratory of Dr. […]
Dr Phil Ward
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biological Sample Preparation
Phil qualified as a microbiologist from University of Newcastle, obtaining a PhD and completing subsequent studies investigating molecular aspects of […]
Dr Lauren Eyssen
Postdoctoral Researcher in Nanobody Discovery
Lauren is a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Ray Owens’ group and she will be working on different aspects of nanobody […]
Dr Audrey Le Bas
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biological Sample Preparation
Audrey is a PDRA in Biological samples production. She completed her PhD at Paris 7 Diderot University, specialising in membrane […]
Kelly Parker
Research Assistant
Kelly studied at the University of York, graduating with an MBiol in 2020. She spent her Masters’ year researching embryonic […]
Dr Yun Yang
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biological Sample Production.
Yun Yang is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biological Sample Production within the Structural Biology theme. Yun Yang got her […]
Dr James Parkhurst
Postdoctoral Research Associate
James’ role at the Rosalind Franklin Institute focuses on the use of simulation, data processing and analysis to aid in […]
Dr Eva Maria Soriano-Jerez
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Eva Maria is working as a postdoctoral research scientist in Dr Michael Granges’ group, which focuses on developing neuronal cell […]
Dr Siva Ramadurai
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Cell and Molecular Biophysics
Siva is working as postdoctoral research scientist in the structural biology theme, focusing on cell-free protein expression system for protein […]
Dr Casper Berger
Postdoctoral Researcher in Cryo-electron Tomography
Casper Berger worked on his PhD at the M4I institute in Maastricht, The Netherlands. He is interested in using and […]
Dr John Clarke
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Protein Science
John is a postdoctoral researcher within the Structural Biology Nanobody Discovery team. John’s research looks to discover, optimise, and engineer […]
Dr Miron Leanca
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Miron is a research associate in cryo-electron tomography within the structural biology group. His background includes analytical chemistry and biochemical […]
Dr Tom Glen
Plasma FIB Manager
Tom studied Physics at Southampton, then completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge studying organic solar cells. He then […]
Dr Jiwei Liu
Associate Investigator
Jiwei is an Associate Investigator. After completing his PhD at Peking University, he moved to the UK and did two […]
Dr Matthew Case
Electron Microscope manager
Matthew Case graduated with a BSc in biological sciences from the University of Plymouth and an MSc in the study […]
Dr Sheera Abdulla
Laboratory manager
Sheera is the laboratory manager for the Rosalind Franklin Institute. Her focus around helping to make the science and research […]
Dr Chelsea Norman
Laboratory Support Technician
Chelsea Norman is a Laboratory Support Technician for the Rosalind Franklin Institute. She has an MBiolSci in Biomedical Sciences and […]
Erin Cowles
Laboratory Assistant
Erin studied biological sciences at the University of Southampton, graduating with a BSc in 2021. She then completed a Master’s […]
Imogen Buckle
Research Assistant
Imogen graduated from the University of Birmingham in July 2022 with an undergraduate degree in Biomedical Science. She is now […]
Andrew Bridson
Research Technician
Andrew is a Research Technician at the Rosalind Franklin Institute. He holds an MSc in Molecular Biology with Biotechnology and […]
Maria Sanita
Research Assistant
Maria graduated with a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Surrey, during which she completed a professional training year […]
Kai Yee Eng
Laboratory Technician
Kai Yee studied Medical Biosciences at Imperial College London and graduated with a BSc in 2022. She then continued to […]
Bronwen Foster
PhD student
Thesis title: Electron cryo-tomography of human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived neurons to study structural changes in Alzheimer’s disease Primary […]
Jake Smith
DPhil Student, University of Oxford
Jake is a DPhil student on the Wellcome Trust Cellular Structural Biology programme at the University of Oxford. Here at […]
Helena Watson
PhD student
Thesis Title: The molecular basis of antiviral defence in bacteria Primary Theme: Structural Biology Franklin supervisor: Professor Jim Naismith University: […]
Ellen Reed
PhD Student
Thesis title: Investigating the contribution of glycan interactions in extracellular vesicle internalisation and propagation of pathological tau in human tauopathies […]
Lara Fragapane
PhD Student
Thesis title: Solving the mysteries of human protein N-glycosylation: The Early Lipid-Linked Oligosaccharide Synthesis Pathway Primary Themes: Structural Biology and Next Generation […]
Becky Csöndör
PhD Student
Thesis title: Probing the molecular impact of Tau pathology on synaptic integrity Primary Theme: Structural Biology Secondary Theme: Mass Spectrometry […]
Tia É Hawkins
PhD Student
Thesis title: Understanding the GAG reflex: how glycosaminoglycans interact with Nipah virus to differently perturb its infectivity Primary Theme: Next […]
Angharad Smith
PhD Student
Thesis title: Developing Tools to Study In Situ Crystallisation Primary Theme: Correlated Imaging and Structural Biology Franklin supervisors: Dr Marcus Gallagher-Jones and Dr Maud […]
Nadisha Gamage
PhD student
Thesis Title: Structural investigation of chromatin reprogramming and organisation in development Primary Theme: Structural Biology Franklin Supervisor: Professor James Naismith […]
Joe Thrush
PhD Student
Thesis title: Investigating the Membrane Fusion events of Nipah Virus using Advanced Light Microscopy and Cryo-Electron Microscopy. Primary theme: Structural […]
Jess Stone
PhD Student
Thesis title: Correlative light and electron microscopy to investigate the cytotoxic T-cell mediated anti-tumour response. Franklin Themes: Correlated Imaging and Structural […]
William Bowles
DPhil Student, University of Oxford
Will is a DPhil Student at Oxford University on the iCASE Interdisciplinary Bioscience BBSRC Doctoral Training Programme, partnered with Diamond […]
Chloe Cheng
PhD student
Thesis Title: Mapping the Emergence of Synapses in the Brain Primary theme: Artificial Intelligence and Informatics Franklin supervisors: Dr Mark […]
Niamh Morris
PhD student
Thesis Title: Autonomous phenotype-directed discovery of chemical probes Primary Theme: Next Generation Chemistry Franklin supervisors: Prof Adam Nelson and Dr […]
Emily Barot
PhD student
Thesis Title: Time-resolved imaging of biomolecules using liquid-cell TEM Primary theme: Correlated Imaging Franklin Supervisors: Dr Emanuela Liberti, Dr Judy […]
Ben Gaunt
PhD student
Thesis Title: Combining Ptychography and EDX to investigate cubosome internalisation Primary Theme: Correlated Imaging Franklin supervisors: Judy Kim, Chen Huang […]
Natalie Nord
PhD student
Thesis Title: Improving cryo-electron ptychography for bioimaging Primary Theme: Correlated Imaging Secondary Theme: Artificial Intelligence & Informatics and Structural Biology […]
Nikolai Juraschko
PhD student
Thesis Title: Combining MD simulations with ML approaches to facilitate the morphological classification of Chlamydia from cryo-ET data Primary Theme: […]
Bronwen Foster
PhD student
Thesis title: Electron cryo-tomography of human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived neurons to study structural changes in Alzheimer’s disease Primary […]
Helena Watson
PhD student
Thesis Title: The molecular basis of antiviral defence in bacteria Primary Theme: Structural Biology Franklin supervisor: Professor Jim Naismith University: […]
Nadisha Gamage
PhD student
Thesis Title: Structural investigation of chromatin reprogramming and organisation in development Primary Theme: Structural Biology Franklin Supervisor: Professor James Naismith […]
Ellen Reed
PhD Student
Thesis title: Investigating the contribution of glycan interactions in extracellular vesicle internalisation and propagation of pathological tau in human tauopathies […]
Lara Fragapane
PhD Student
Thesis title: Solving the mysteries of human protein N-glycosylation: The Early Lipid-Linked Oligosaccharide Synthesis Pathway Primary Themes: Structural Biology and Next Generation […]
Jack Bercovici
PhD Student
Thesis title: Photodroplets: A Light-Controllable Method Of Unpicking Phase Separation Biology Primary Theme: Next Generation Chemistry Secondary theme: Structural Biology […]
Katie Beirns
PhD Student
Thesis title: Investigating mitochondrial dynamics using liquid phase electron microscopy methods. Primary Theme: Correlated imaging. Secondary themes: Structural biology and Biological Mass […]
Becky Csöndör
PhD Student
Thesis title: Probing the molecular impact of Tau pathology on synaptic integrity Primary Theme: Structural Biology Secondary Theme: Mass Spectrometry […]
Tia É Hawkins
PhD Student
Thesis title: Understanding the GAG reflex: how glycosaminoglycans interact with Nipah virus to differently perturb its infectivity Primary Theme: Next […]
Angharad Smith
PhD Student
Thesis title: Developing Tools to Study In Situ Crystallisation Primary Theme: Correlated Imaging and Structural Biology Franklin supervisors: Dr Marcus Gallagher-Jones and Dr Maud […]
Joe Thrush
PhD Student
Thesis title: Investigating the Membrane Fusion events of Nipah Virus using Advanced Light Microscopy and Cryo-Electron Microscopy. Primary theme: Structural […]
Jess Stone
PhD Student
Thesis title: Correlative light and electron microscopy to investigate the cytotoxic T-cell mediated anti-tumour response. Franklin Themes: Correlated Imaging and Structural […]
Richon Blake
PhD Student
Richon attended Imperial College London where he graduated with a bachelors in Biochemistry. During his final year, Richon embarked in […]
Jack Bromley
PhD Student
Jack did both his undergraduate BSc and postgraduate MSc(Res) degrees at the University of St Andrews. During his master’s project, […]
Xuemeng Chen
PhD Student
Xuemeng obtained her BSc degree in Biosciences from the University of Birmingham and completed her MRes in Structural and Molecular […]
James Conway
PhD Student
James graduated from the University of Warwick with an integrated master’s in Biomedical Science. For his master’s project, he investigated […]
Dimitrios Ioannidis
PhD Student
Dimitrios graduated with a MRes in Medical and Molecular Biosciences from Newcastle University where he also obtained his BSc in […]
Kostantina Karagianni
PhD Student
Kostantina graduated with a BSc in Biochemistry at University of Bath in 2023. She also completed a professional placement year […]
Aparajita Karmakar
PhD Student
Aparajita has completed her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Master’s degree in Data Science. Throughout her academic journey, she […]
Ana Katsini
PhD Student
Ana studied Applied Biological Sciences at the University of Stirling. Her final year project focused on investigating novel drugs for […]
Ellie Tardo
PhD Student
Ellie completed a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Essex, with a final year project focusing on structural bioinformatics. […]
Alexander Wilkes
PhD Student
Alex graduated from the University of Reading with a BSc in Biochemistry and MRes in Biomedicine. Before joining the Franklin, […]
Professor Ben Davis
Interim Director
University of Oxford
Ben Davis got his B.A. (1993) and D.Phil. (1996) from the University of Oxford. During this time he learnt the […]
Sarah Hollitzer
Executive Assistant to Institute Director
Sarah is the Executive Assistant to the Institute Director. She has over 14 years’ experience working as an Executive Assistant […]
Georgia Mugglestone
Personal Assistant to Professor Ben Davis
I have been working in administration for just over 6 years. My most recent role was working for a Logistics […]
Kellie Farmer
Operations Support Assistant
Kellie has worked in the legal, education and technology industries in both an Administration Assistant and Personal Assistant capacity. She […]
Laura Holland
Director of Strategic Marketing
Laura Holland is Director of Strategic Marketing at the Rosalind Franklin Institute. She has been with the organisation since its […]
Dr Becky Nadal
Strategic Projects Manager
Becky has 12+ years’ experience in the University sector providing professional support in the formation, design and delivery of strategic […]
Lucy Matkin
Research Grants Manager
Lucy has 4+ years experience managing scientific research projects. Most recently Lucy worked for the University of Oxford managing a […]
Dr Hazel Housden
Innovation and Translation Manager
Hazel is the Innovation and Translation Manager. She was previously Head of Intellectual Property at an industrial microbiology company, Green […]
Dan McManus
Business Development and Stakeholder Engagement Officer
After graduating from the University of Manchester with a degree in Biology, Dan spent 2 years working in a high-throughput […]
Dr Caitlin Higgott
Communications and Engagement Manager
Caitlin is the communications and engagement manager, which means she covers everything from schools to stakeholder engagement, and internal communications […]
Dr Alice Fraser
Communications Officer
Alice is a communications officer at the Franklin, she enjoys communicating and engaging others in science and has been involved […]
Jen Murray
Head of Facilities
I gained my first experience of labs at Aptuit on Milton Park where I held the role of Facilities and […]
Stephen Cross
Operations Support Technician
Stephen is the operations support technician at the Franklin. His role involves supporting the building team with the smooth running […]
Vikky Oliver
Facilities Assistant
For most of Vikky’s career has been laboratory based. This has included medical research companies and cleaning forensics labs. For […]
Nanda Rodrigues
Interim Head of Quality and Health and Safety
Nanda joins us from UKRI. Nanda has both scientific and business experience having done both. She worked at MRC Harwell […]
Jamelah Owusu-Yianomah
Quality Manager
Jamelah is responsible for the development and implementation if the quality management system. She has over 8 years’ experience in […]
Gordon Perry
Health and Safety Advisor
Gordon is responsible for ensuring that the management of safety, health and environment is structured and maintained for the Franklin […]
Marta Jencekova
Health and Safety Assistant
For almost 10 years, Marta was a member of Facilities and H&S department at Cellmark, a UKAS and ISO accredited […]
Lydia Armes
Director of HR
Lydia brings a wealth of experience gained within diverse global and UK based organisations. Lydia has worked for a number […]
Marina Haines
HR Advisor
Marina joined the Franklin as an HR Assistant and was responsible for coordinating recruitment and providing HR assistance to the […]
Aneta Kingston
Recruitment Specialist
Aneta works at the Franklin as a recruitment specialist having previously gained HR and recruitment experience in further education and […]
Olivia Belcher
HR & Recruitment Coordinator
For the past 8 years, I have worked within the care home industry within the Administration department, working on Recruitment […]
Reshma Roy
Early Careers Lead
Raised in Saudi Arabia, Reshma pursued her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in India and is currently on the brink of […]
Phil King
Training Coordinator
Phil has over 14 years experience in training and training delivery in the charity sector and the construction sector, and […]
Caroline Rudman
Financial Controller
Caroline is the financial controller of the Franklin.
Lauren Jordan
Finance Systems Project Manager
Lauren joined the Franklin as Finance Manager. She is responsible for the day to day management of the finance team, […]
Fi Collins
Assistant Finance Manager
Fi moved down to Oxfordshire 10 years ago from Edinburgh, having spent a number of years working as a legal […]
Ian Franklin
Procurement Manager
Ian has worked in procurement for over 20 years and has held various positions in the private and public sector, […]
Eva Gronbech
Finance Business Partner
Eva joined the Franklin as a finance business partner and is involved in various aspects of the finance function, including […]
Adam Atherton
Finance Assistant
Adam is a Finance Assistant working within the Finance Team here at the Rosalind Franklin Institute. He assists with the […]
Mohammad Azeem
Finance Assistant
Azeem works with the Finance team, aiding with the day-today tasks. He is currently studying his AAT (Association of Accounting […]
Niaz Khan
Head of IT
After leaving school, Niaz qualified as an Accountant with the Oxford Co-Operative but soon after joining Blackwells realised his career […]
Matthew Selby
IT Technician
Matthew Studied Computer Science, Maths and Further Maths at Didcot Sixth Form. During that time, he partook in additional Mathematics […]
Robin Kassam
IT Technician
Robin originally comes from a Motorsport background, studying Motorsport Engineering at the University of Bath and has recently changed directions […]