The Next Generation Chemistry group
Professor Ben Davis
Science Director, Next Generation Chemistry
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 […]
Professor Shabaz Mohammed
Deputy Theme Director, Next Generation Chemistry
Shabaz Mohammed is the Deputy Theme Director and Head of Mechanistic Proteomics, and also teaches at the University of Oxford. […]
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 […]
Dr Chris Arter
High-Throughput Discovery Facility Manager
Chris is the High-Throughput Discovery Facility Manager at the Rosalind Franklin Institute. Chris is working as part of the Next […]
Dr Matthew Davy
NMR Facilities Manager
Matthew is the NMR Facilities Manager at the Rosalind Franklin Institute. Prior to his current position he completed a PhD […]
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 Andrew Giltrap
Senior Postdoctoral Scientist
Andrew is a Senior Postdoctoral Scientist at the Rosalind Franklin Institute involved in developing novel methods for the site selective […]
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 Leonardo Kleebauer
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford
Leo is a visiting researcher at the Franklin and a postdoctoral research associate from the University of Oxford involved in […]
Dr Chao Guo
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Chao got his master 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 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 Ajay Jha
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Ajay is a postdoctoral research associate working to unravel drug-protein interactions using ultrafast multidimensional infrared spectroscopy, EVV 2DIR for drug […]
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 Aziz Khan
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Aziz obtained his undergraduate degree from University College London and went on to complete his DPhil at the University of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]