Our People

Professor Naismith grew up in Hamilton, in the west of Scotland attending local state schools. He graduated from Edinburgh in […]

Paul has worked in the life science sector for over 20 years. During this time, he has held a number […]

Lydia brings a wealth of experience gained within diverse global and UK based organisations. Lydia has worked for a number […]

Laura Holland is Director of Strategic Marketing at the Rosalind Franklin Institute. She has been with the organisation since its […]

Hazel is the Innovation and Translation Manager. She was previously Head of Intellectual Property at an industrial microbiology company, Green […]

Isi is the legal counsel for the Franklin and responsible for managing the corporate commercial concerns of the institute. She […]

After leaving school, Niaz qualified as an Accountant with the Oxford Co-Operative but soon after joining Blackwells realised his career […]

Joanne is Facilities and Operations Support Supervisor, working with the Chief Operating Officer and Building and Safety Manager to deliver […]

Marina joined the Franklin as an HR Assistant and was responsible for coordinating recruitment and providing HR assistance to the […]

Lauren joined the Franklin as Finance Manager. She is responsible for the day to day management of the finance team, […]

Caitlin is the communications and engagement manager, which means she covers everything from schools to stakeholder engagement, and internal communications […]

Fay is the Executive Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer. She has been a Board level Executive Assistant for over […]

Melanie is the Executive Assistant to Professor James Naismith and Professor Ben Davies. She is here to support them throughout […]

Sinead is an accounts assistant within the finance team and has been working in finance for 5 years. She is […]

Stephen is the operations support technician at The Franklin. His role involves supporting the building team with the smooth running […]

Krystalenia is Recruitment Co-ordinator at the Franklin, focused on supporting the organisation’s recruitment needs and initiatives. Prior to this role, […]

Ian has worked in procurement for over 20 years and has held various positions in the private and public sector, […]

Dr Mark Basham is Head of AI at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, and a Research Fellow at Diamond Light Source. […]

Professor Josephine Bunch is Co-Director of the National Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry Imaging (NiCE-MSI) at NPL and Chair […]

Professor Takats has obtained his PhD from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He has worked as a post-doctoral research associate […]

Bela is the Head of Molecular Structure Elucidation in the Biological Mass Spectrometry theme. He studied chemistry and completed his […]

Angus Kirkland completed his MA and PhD at the University of Cambridge using high resolution electron microscopy to study the […]

Judy Kim is the Deputy Director of Correlative Imaging at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, Departmental Lecturer in the Department of […]

Ben Davis got his B.A. (1993) and D.Phil. (1996) from the University of Oxford. During this time he learnt the […]

Shabaz Mohammed is the Deputy Theme Director and Head of Mechanistic Proteomics, and also teaches at the University of Oxford. […]

Andrew is Head of Biomolecular NMR and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. He is interested in developing […]

Professor Adam Nelson is Head of High Throughput Discovery at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, Professor of Chemical Biology at the […]

Professor Naismith grew up in Hamilton, in the west of Scotland attending local state schools. He graduated from Edinburgh in […]

Ray Owens obtained his PhD in biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, UK. After postdoctoral work in London and Oxford, […]

Gwyndaf Evans was awarded his PhD in Physics from the University of Warwick in 1994 for his work performed at […]

Liang is a Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale fellow. He is establishing a lab to study the processes involved in […]

Maud has a PhD in immunology from Paris 7 Diderot. Prior to working at the Franklin, she worked at the […]

Michael completed his D.Phil in structural biology at the University of Oxford, UK, where he applied FIB milling, electron cryo-tomography […]

Emily studied Biochemistry with Genetics at Lancaster University before heading to Copenhagen University for an MSc in Bioinformatics, where she […]

Chloe (Zhiyuan) Cheng is a PhD student at the Franklin. She obtained a BEng and MS in nuclear engineering from Fudan University […]

Originally from Northern Ireland, Bronwen completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Sussex where she developed an interest in […]

Benjamin Gaunt is a PhD student on the Franklin studentship program.  He graduated (MSc, joint honours) from the University of […]

Jacob is a recent MSci graduate from the university of Nottingham. From there he developed an interest in cancer biology, specifically in the development […]

Nadisha graduated from the university of Birmingham with a BSc. in Medical Biochemistry. Thereafter, she worked as a research technician […]

Nikolai graduated from UCL with a Master’s in Mathematics. His interests at the Franklin are focused on machine learning and […]

Niamh is from Ireland and completed her undergraduate studies in Medicinal Chemistry at Trinity College Dublin. She is looking forward […]

Natalie is part of the Franklin’s first cohort of PhD candidates. She recently graduated with a masters in computer science […]

Helena has recently completed an integrated Master’s degree in Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. Her final year project focused […]