Diagram represents a network of applications by Institute for Life Sciences Members for collaborative projects.
Institute for Life Sciences

Our people

Our strength lies in our interdisciplinary collaborative network which is made up of over 430 academic members from across all the University’s faculties.

Professor Emma Tompkins PhD

Prof of Geog, Environment & Development

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Euan Sadler

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Social science approaches and ageing
  • Person centred care
  • Older people living with frailty, dementia, stroke and multimorbidity

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Eugen Stulz

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • DNA chemistry
  • Chemical Biology
  • Medicinal chemistry

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Fatima Pereira

Lecturer in Molecular and Cellular Biosc

Research interests

  • Gut microbiome
  • Host-microbiota crosstalk
  • Microbiome One Health model for a healthy ecosystem

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Felino Cagampang PhD

Associate Professor
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Professor Felix Eigenbrod

Professor of Applied Spatial Ecology

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Fiona Woollard

Professor of Philosophy

Research interests

  • Philosophy of Pregnancy, Birth and Motherhood/ Parenthood
  • Normative Ethics.
  • Applied Ethics.

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Francesco Shankar

Professor of Astrophysics

Research interests

  • Super-massive Black Hole Demography and Evolution
  • Galaxy Evolution: Spheroids and Bulges, Environment, High-redshift galaxies
  • Radio and Broad Absorption Line Active Galactic Nuclei
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Dr Franchesca Houghton

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Pluripotent stem cells
  • Regenerative medicine
  • Preimplantation embryo development

Accepting applications from PhD students

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