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 […]
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 Karina Pombo-Garcia
Group Leader
Karina Pombo-Garcia is a group leader on “Molecular Organization of Cell Interfaces”. Her lab will investigate the molecular assembly of cell interfaces […]
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 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 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 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 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 […]
Dr Matous Kromer
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Matous comes from Czechia. He completed his BSc. and MSc. degrees in organic chemistry at Charles University in Prague, where […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dr Adeline Poh
Visiting Associate Investigator
Adeline is a Visiting Associate Investigator at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, where she will be developing novel protein editing technologies […]
Dimitrios Mamalis
Visiting Researcher
Dimitrios a visiting researcher here at the Franklin. Prior to this as a DPhil student at the University of Oxford, […]