Group Members

Group Leader:

Future BRH is a national biomanufacturing accelerator, coordinating UK academic, HVM catapult, and industrial capabilities to enable the complete biomanufacturing innovation pipeline. For further details click here

Future BRH Research Fellows:


Yong Chen

Tobias Hedison

Nicole Leferink

Aisling NĂ­ Cheallaigh

Aled Roberts

Matthew Russell

Chenhao Sun

Jonathan Wilkes

Matthew Faulkner

Mauro Rinaldi

Viranga Tilakaratna

Senior Research Technician

Helen Toogood

Senior Experimental Officer

Future BRH Management Team:

Ros Le Feuvre

Director of Operations

Kirk Malone

Director of Commercialisation

Louise Barnes

Project Manager

Lisa Beattie

Senior Project Administrator

Senior Experimental Officers:

Postdoctoral Researchers:

Hanan Messiha

Harsh Poddar

Mohamed Amer

Robin Hoeven

Shaowei Zhang

Yuqi Yu

Postgraduate Students:

Alec Banner

Aoife Taylor

Balaji Lakavath

Clara Anhel Ferraz

Emilia Wojcik

Emmanuel Wolde-Michael

Fraser Andrews

Helen Parks

Jing Chong Tan

Joe Windo

Joshua Whitehead

Lan Jiang

Lewis Kearsey

Rhys Barker

Sahara Bhanot

Research Technicians:

Michiyo Sakuma

The Centre is home to a team of Senior Experimental Officers that is delivering a number of projects in the Synthetic Biology of fine and speciality chemicals production. For further details click here

SYNBIOCHEM Experimental Team and Management Staff:

Adrian Jervis

Build - Pathway Engineering

Christopher Robinson

Build - Regulatory Toolkit and Chassis Engineering

Mark Dunstan

Build - High Throughput Robotic Platforms

Andrew Currin

Build - Directed Evolution of Bio-Parts

Sandra Taylor

Build - Technical Support

Cunyu Yan

Test - Targeted Analytics

Katherine Hollywood

Test - Untargeted Analytics

Reynard Spiess

Test - MS / Microfluidics

Rehana Sung

Test - LC GC HPLC

Ros Le Feuvre

Director of Operations

William Rowe

- Design

Alex Henderson

- Data

Claire Holland

- RRI

Andrew Watkins

- RRI