Supporting research careers
Our research excellence is underpinned by our people, and we strive to create a research environment rich in innovation, scholarship and diversity. The School offers a vibrant and supportive environment for our early career researchers to establish their independent careers.
As the School continues to grow, we would like to introduce some of our newest Fellows and Academic Staff
If you are interested in joining SLS as an Independent Research Fellow, you can find out more on our Fellowships page
Dr Emily Hill
Race Against Dementia Fellow
My 5 year Fellowship will investigate the role of tau, a protein known to disrupt the function of neurons in the brain in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.
Dr Fabrizio Alberti
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
Taking an interdisciplinary "systems-based" approach and using plants as a system of study, I investigate how complex living systems are created and operate
Dr Byron Carpenter
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
My research aims to redesign natural cellular signalling pathways to create a powerful tool for regulating eukaryotic cell behaviour.
Dr Erin Connelly
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
My Fellowship is an international, interdisciplinary project exploring questions of ethnopharmacology and the antimicrobial efficacy of ingredients from historical and traditional medical sources.
Prof George Bassel
Professor
I take an interdisciplinary "systems-based" approach to investigate how complex living systems are created and operate. Using plants as a system of study and employing network and computational approaches, I am seeking to understand how cells come together to create organs which are greater than the sum of their parts.
Dr Erin Gorsich
Assistant Professor
I am a quantitative disease ecologist with broad interests in disease dynamics, wildlife health, and conservation. My work combines host ecology or community ecology to understand infection dynamics
Dr Bruno Martins
Assistant Professor
My interests are in the quantitative understanding of the design principles of genetic circuits and intracellular physiology. I use interdisciplinary approaches to study the dynamics of the circadian clock in cyanobacteria and ask fundamental questions about how clocks (and gene circuits in general) interact with other circuits and cellular processes in various physiological and environmental contexts.
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Dr Ryan Mushinski
Assistant Professor
I study the environmental processes that occur within the terrestrial biosphere, linking plants and microbes to the flow of carbon and nutrients in natural and managed ecosystems, to better understand how current environmental threats influence biogeochemical feedbacks such as trace gas fluxes and nutrient transformations.
Dr Richard Puxty
Assistant Professor
Microbes catalyse the majority of biogeochemical transformations of elements on Earth and also encompass the vast majority of our planet's genetic potential. I am interested in characterising this genetic potential in bacteria, including: how bacteria acquire the resources they need to grow; and do how they stave off predation by viruses?
Dr Christopher Rodrigues
Associate Professor
I am a Molecular Microbiologist interested in bacterial molecular biology and genetics. My work focuses on obtaining a deeper understanding of the molecular underpinnings of how bacteria develop into spores, with the goal of providing knowledge that can fuel the development of new strategies aimed at interfering with this process.
Dr Phill Stansfeld
Associate Professor
I am interested in the high-resolution visualisation of integral membrane proteins: biomolecular machines with fundamental roles in cell biology such as processing enzymes, ion channels, drug receptors, and solute transporters. I use molecular dynamics to understand these three-dimensional structures in the context of their lipid environment, to generate the physical details of potentially viable targets for killing drug-resistant, pathogenic bacteria.
Dr Xuming Zhang
Associate Professor
As a neuroscientist, I am interested in understanding how pain signals are generated and then transmitted to the brain, and how pain is maintained for a long period with a view to devising novel therapies for a better treatment of chronic pain.