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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 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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Professor Gabriela Czanner

Professor in Digital Health

Research interests

  • Spatial statistical models for clinical images to help understand diseases
  • Longitudinal and spatio-temporal models for early detection, screening and monitoring of diseases
  • Uncertainty quantification for predictions from statistical and machine learning models

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Gareth Thomas

Professor of Experimental Pathology

Research interests

  • Fibroblast biology and immunology
  • Tumour microenvironment
  • Cancer Immunotherapy

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Gavin Foster

Professor of Isotope Geochemistry

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr George Williams

Senior Research Fellow

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Georges Limbert

Professor of Biophysical Engineering
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Emeritus Professor Giampaolo D'Alessandro

Research interests

  • Liquid crystals
  • Optics
  • Mathematical modelling
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Professor Giles Richardson

Professor

Research interests

  • Modelling renewable energy storage and generation
  • Modelling in biomedicine

Accepting applications from PhD students

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