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 380 academic members from across all the University’s faculties.

Professor Nikolay Zheludev

Professor of Physics & Astronomy
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Professor Nisreen A Alwan MBE, MBChB, MRCP, FFPH, MPH, MSc, PhD, FHEA, PGCAP

Professor of Public Health

Research interests

  • Public Health
  • Lifecourse Epidemiology
  • Long Covid

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Nuala Mcgrath

Prof of Epidemiology & Sexual Health

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Nullin Divecha

Professor of Cellular Signalling

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Ondrej Hovorka

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Nanorobotics for biomedicine
  • Computational nanomagnetism
  • Data science and machine learning
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Dr Orestis Katsamenis

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • 3D X-ray Histology (XRH)
  • Microfocus Computed Tomography (μCT) of biological and biogenic materials
  • μCT for clinical applications

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Otto Muskens

Professor of Physics

Research interests

  • Programmable photonic circuits using ultralow loss phase change materials.
  • Infrared metasurfaces for radiative cooling and defence applications.
  • Deep learning and AI enabled nanophotonic design.

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Owen Rackham MSc, PhD

Associate Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Patrick Doncaster

Professor of Ecology

Research interests

  • Population ecology 
  • Conservation management of forest and freshwater lake ecosystems
  • Conservation technology and tools for data analysis
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Professor Paul Elkington

Director of Inst. for Medical Innovation

Research interests

  • tuberculosis
  • immunopathology
  • diagnosis

Accepting applications from PhD students

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