Past Group Members

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Postdoctoral Associates and Fellows

Harsh Poddar

Dr Yuqi Yu

Dr Shaowei Zhang (Manchester)

Dr Robin Hoeven (Manchester)

Current Position: Technical Specialist in Bioprocessing, University of Manchester

Dr Mauro Rinaldi (Manchester)

Dr Matthew Faulkner (Manchester)

Current Position: Research Fellow at  Future Biomanufacturing Research Hub

Dr Jonathan Wilkes (Manchester)

Dr Pallavi Tripathi (Manchester)

Dr Tobias Hedison (Manchester) 

Dr Aliah Hawari (Manchester)

Dr Gajendar Komatti Reddy (Manchester)

Dr Daniel Kracher (Manchester)

Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Food Technology Vienna, Austria

Dr Syed Ahmed (Manchester)

Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester, UK

Dr Aitor Henrandez-Ortega (Manchester)

Current position: Data Scientist, CGA, Manchester

Dr Ziga Zebec (Manchester)

Current position: University Assistant, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Dr Vijaykumar Karuppiah (Manchester)

Current Position: Senior Scientist, Immunocore

Dr Elizabeth Hunter (Manchester)

Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester, UK

Dr Stephan Gorlich (Manchester)

Current Position: Post-doctoral researcher, TU Dresden, Germany

Dr Aisling Ní Cheallaigh (Manchester)

Current position: Research Fellow, University of Manchester, UK

Dr Adrian Jervis (Manchester)

Current position: Senior Experimental Officer, SYNBIOCHEM, University of Manchester

Dr Tanja Knaus (Manchester)

Current position: Senior Researcher at HIMS-Biocat (University of Amsterdam)

Dr David Mansell (Manchester)

Current position: Patent Scientist, Murgitroyd, Newcastle upon Tyne

Dr Mani Maiti (Manchester)

Current Position: Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen

Dr Clare Levene (Manchester)

Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, The University of Manchester

Dr Binuraj Menon (Manchester)

Current Position: WISB Research Career Development Fellow, University of Warwick

Dr Christine Fernandez (Manchester)

Current Position: Director of Research Management Centre at Management and Science University, Malaysia

Dr Christopher Pudney (Manchester)

Current position: Lecturer, University of Bath, UK

Dr Sam Hay (Manchester)

Current position: Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK

Dr Rachel Dunn (Manchester)

Current position: Scientific writer, New Zealand

Dr Colin Levy (Manchester)

Current Position: Senior Experimental Officer, University of Manchester, UK

Dr Jiayun Pang (Manchester)

Current Position: Senior Lecturer in Computational Chemistry, University of Greenwich, UK

Dr Niek Heuts (Manchester)

Current position: Lecturer Biochemistry at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands

Dr Alex Jones (Manchester)

Current position: Principle Research Scientist, National Physical Laboratory, UK

Dr Adrian Dunford (Leicester)

Current position: Laboratory Manager at Elsoms Seeds Ltd.

Dr Jaswir Basran (Leicester)

Current position: Senior Experimental Officer, University of Leicester, UK

Dr Nicky Baxter (Sheffield/Manchester)

Dr Laura Masgrau (Leicester and Manchester)

Current position: Senior Researcher, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Dr Kirsten Wolthers (Leicester and Manchester)

Current position: Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada

Dr Anna Fryszkowska (Manchester)

Current position: Associate Principal Scientist at Merck Biocatalysis Group

Dr Stephan Mohr (Manchester)

Current position: Research Scientist, University of Manchester, UK

Dr Pierre Lafite (Manchester)

Current position: Assistant Professor, Institut de Chimie Organique et Analytique, Université d’Orléans, France

Dr Tewes Tralau (Manchester)

Current position: Head of Coordination and Overall Assessment, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Germany

Dr Corolla Tralau (Manchester)

Dr Jonathan Combe (Leicester and Manchester)

Current position: Senior Molecular Biologist at NeuTec Pharma

Dr Simon Bowden (Cambridge)

Dr Al Walid Mohsen (Leicester)

Current position: Research Assistant Professor and Lab Supervisor, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Dr Gergely Katona (Leicester)

Current position: Researcher of the Swedish Research Council, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Dr Xi Wang (Manchester)

Dr Anna Roujeinikova (Leicester and Manchester)

Current position: Associate Professor, ARC Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia

Dr Phillip Monaghan (Manchester)

Current position: National Health Service · Clinical Biochemistry

Dr Parvinder Hothi (Leicester and Manchester)

Current position: Swedish Medical Center Seattle, Ivy Center for Advanced Brain Tumor Treatment, USA

Dr Raj Neeli (Leicester and Manchester)

Dr Terez Barna (Leicester)

Current position: University Professor or Researcher, University of Debrecen, Hungary

Dr Olivier Roitel (Leicester)

Dr Francois Talfournier (Leicester)

Current position: Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS-Université de Lorraine

Dr Hannan Fersi (Manchester)


Visitors

Duangthip Trisrivirat (Mahidol University, Thailand)

Dr Roger Kutta

Dr Niek Heuts (Rotterdam University)

Current position: Lecturer Biochemistry at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands

Dr Zhi-gang Chen (Nanjing Agricultural University)

Dr. Changyoul Lee (RWTH Aachen University)

Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, NUi Galway, Ireland

Miss Marta Magalhaes Mota do Amaral (Lisbon)

Current position: Laboratory Head, Sanofi

Masters Students

Claire Costello (Leicester)

Shila Patel (Leicester)

PhD students

Nidar Treesukkasem

Rhys Barker  (Manchester)

Lan Jiang 

Clara Anhel Ferraz  (Manchester)

Aoife Taylor (Manchester)

Balaji Lakavath (Manchester)

Emmanuel Wolde-Michael (Manchester)

Current Position: Analytical Scientist (Upstream processing) at UCB

Lewis Kearsey (Manchester)

Current position: Senior Scientist at Better Dairy

Emilia Wojcik (Manchester)

Current position: Enzyme Engineer at GSK

Lucy Green (Manchester)

Current position: Senior Platform Scientist at LabGenius

Giovanni Lorenzon (Manchester)

Current position: Bioprocess Sales Specialist at the Eppendorf Group 

Nicole Prandi (Manchester)

Current position: Senior Laboratory Assistant, University of Cambridge

Shaowei Zhang (Manchester)

Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester, UK

Uzma Choudry (Manchester)

Current position: Early Stage VC Investor - Octopus Ventures

Andreea Iorgu (Manchester - MAGIC)

Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester, UK

Sylwia Czarnota (Manchester - MAGIC)

Current position:  Postdoctoral Researcher at Universite de Montreal, Canada

Emma Castiglioni (Manchester - MAGIC)

Current position: QC Analyst at FRAU PHARMA S.R.L., Italy

Guillem Brandariz de Pedro (Manchester - MAGIC)

Current position: Agilent Technologies Inside Instrument Sales Representative

Nataliya Archipowa (Manchester - MAGIC)

Andrew Stewart (Manchester - MAGIC)

Antonio Ascue Avalos (Manchester)

Current position: Research Scientist, Cepheid, Sweden

Joanna Hughes (Manchester - MAGIC)

Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, US.

Evaldas Klumbys (Manchester)

Current position: Scientist at A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research

Antony Lygidakis (Manchester)

Current position: ‎EU Regulatory Affairs at Allergan

Alex Geddes (Manchester)

Current position: Associate Consultant at IQVIA

Claudio Dos Santos (Manchester)

Current position: Team Leader Pharma Characterisation at Intertek Pharmaceutical Services Manchester

Kang-Cheng Liu (Manchester)

Current position: Kempe foundation Postdoc fellowship at Umeå University

Morgan Hibberd (Manchester)

Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester, UK

Marco Manca (Manchester)

Chris Hickling (Manchester)

Current position: Research Associate, University of Bolton

John Waller (Manchester)

Current position: Associate Director - Observational Research at Adelphi Real World

Robin Hoeven (Manchester)

Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Manchester, UK

Mark White (Manchester)

Current position: ARC DECRA Fellow at University of Sydney, Australia

Navya Menon (Manchester)

Anna Hauck (Manchester)

Current position: Specialist Consultant at IDBS

James Longbotham (Manchester)

Current position: Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California, San Francisco, US

Anna Sobolewska-Stawiarz (Manchester)

Current position: Lead Research Scientist at Croda International

Henry Russell (Manchester)

Current position: Operations Manager at Envirosystems UK Ltd

Marta Amaral (Manchester)

Current position: Laboratory Head Engineered Antibodies and Protein Therapeutics at Sanofi

Martyn Peers (Manchester)

Current position: Post Doctoral Scientist at Nanoco Technologies Ltd, Manchester, UK

Bjorn Adalbjornsson (Manchester)

Current position: Assistant Professor at University of Iceland - Háskóli Íslands & Innovation Consultant at Matís, Food and Biotech Company

Victoria Hare (Manchester)

Current position: Research And Development Manager at Supernutrients and Naturya

Andrew Guerriero (Manchester)

Martyn Hulley (Manchester)

Current position: Principal Scientist at AstraZeneca

Xiaodong Lou (Manchester)

James Belcher (Manchester)

Current position: Scientist at QIAGEN

Sibylle Brenner (Manchester)

Current position: Science Teacher, Grace Church High School, US

Binuraj Menon (Manchester)

Current Position: WISB Research Career Development Fellow, University of Warwick

Alex Jones (Leicester and Manchester)

Current position: Senior Research Scientist at National Physical Laboratory, UK

Christopher Pudney (Manchester)

Current position: Lecturer, University of Bath, www.molecular-biophysics.co.uk

Anne Marie Quinn (Leicester and Manchester)

Current position: Consultant Histopathologist, Hon. Senior Lecturer, University Hospital South Manchester, UK

Min Gong (Leicester and Manchester)

Current position: Appointed Professor, Lancaster University, Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences.

Khalid Abu Khadra (Leicester and Manchester)

Phillip Monaghan (Manchester)

Current position: Consultant clinical scientist at The Christie Pathology Partnership, UK

Selena Burgess (Leicester)

Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Leicester

Hanan Messiha (Leicester)

Current position: Research Associate, University of Manchester

Huma Khan (Leicester)

Current position: IVD Technical Specialist & Scheme Manager at BSI

Parvinder Hothi (Leicester and Manchester)

Current position: Swedish Medical Center Seattle, Ivy Center for Advanced Brain Tumor Treatment, USA

Kirsty Knight (Leicester)

Winston Tambyrajah (Leicester)

Current position: Lecturer at Sussex Downs College, UK

Ashlee Perry (Leicester)

Current position: Director of Educational Development at VIDLEARN LTD

Matthew Jones (Leicester)

Current position: Partner at EIP

Richard Harris (Leicester)

Daniel Craig (Leicester)

Current position: Senior Scientist Downstream, AstraZeneca, UK

Peter Roberts (Leicester)

Current position: CEO and Founder at You Do Bio

Ho Joon Lee (Cambridge and Leicester)

Chien-Chi Yang (Cambridge and Leicester)

Current position: Professor, National Taiwan University

Orhan Ertughrul (Cambridge and Leicester)

Current position: Managing director G-SMATT Europe

Martin Mewies (Cambridge and Leicester)

Current position: Process Development Manager API at Ipsen

Emma Wilson (Cambridge and Leicester)

Current position: Publisher, Journals Development, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK



Experimental Officers/Lab Managers

Dr John Hughes (Manchester)

Dr Jaswir Basran (Leicester)

Current position: Senior Experimental Officer, University of Leicester



Technicians

Nina Bhanji (Leicester)