Department of Biology & Biochemistry academic staff
We oversee and deliver the Department's teaching and research activities.
Our duties include:
- teaching on our undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses
- research expertise across our internationally excellent portfolio
- supervision of PhD research students
Head of Department
- Professor David Tosh, Head of Department / Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Academic staff
- Professor Adele Murrell, Deputy Head of Department / Professor
- Professor K Ravi Acharya, Professor of Structural Biology
- Dr Stefan Bagby, Senior Lecturer
- Dr John Beeching, Reader and Admissions Tutor
- Professor David Brown, Professor of Biochemistry
- Dr Neil Brown, Lecturer
- Dr Zoe Burke, Teaching Fellow
- Dr Volkan Cevik, Lecturer
- Dr Andrew Chalmers, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Richard M Cooper, Reader
- Dr Hazel Corradi, Senior Teaching Fellow
- Dr Susan Crennell, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Stephanie Diezmann, Lecturer
- Dr James Doughty, Senior Lecturer
- Professor Jean van den Elsen, Professor
- Professor Ed Feil, Professor of Microbial Evolution
- Dr Daniel Field, Prize Fellow
- Dr Susanne Gebhard, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Momna Hejmadi, Senior Teaching Fellow/Director of Studies for MSc in Industrial Biotechnology & Enterprise
- Dr Daniel Henk, Lecturer
- Dr Richard Hooley, Reader
- Professor Laurence D Hurst, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics
- Dr Shobbir Hussain, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Alex Jeffries, Senior Teaching Fellow/ Admissions Tutor Biomedical Sciences
- Dr Brian Jones, Reader
- Professor Robert N Kelsh, Professor of Stem Cell and Developmental Genetics
- Dr Paula Kover, Reader
- Professor David Leak, Professor of Metabolic Engineering
- Dr Julien Licchesi, Lecturer in Cellular Biochemistry
- Dr Nick Longrich, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Jody Mason, Senior Lecturer/Director of Postgraduate Studies
- Dr Hans-Wilhelm Nützmann, Royal Society University Research Fellow
- Dr Mark O'Connell, Teaching Fellow in Biodiversity
- Professor Tony Perry, Reader
- Dr Nick Priest, Lecturer
- Dr Andrew Preston, Reader
- Dr Chris Pudney, Lecturer
- Dr Baoxiu Qi, Research and Teaching Fellow
- Professor Rod J Scott, Professor
- Professor Samuel Sheppard, Professor
- Dr Joanne Stewart-Cox, Teaching Fellow
- Dr Vasanta Subramanian, Reader
- Professor Tamás Székely, Professor of Biodiversity
- Dr Tiffany Taylor, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow
- Dr Christopher M Todd, Director of Undergraduate Teaching & Admissions Tutor
- Dr Leslie Turner, Lecturer
- Dr Araxi Urrutia Odabachian, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Keith Vance, Lecturer
- Dr Gernot Walko, Lecturer
- Professor Andrew Ward, Professor
- Dr Paul R Whitley, Senior Lecturer
- Dr Rob J Williams, Reader
- Professor Matthew A Wills, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology
- Professor Jason B Wolf, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics
- Professor Sue Wonnacott, Professor of Neuroscience
Emeritus professors
Visiting academic staff
- Dr Makoto Furutani-Seiki, Visiting Academic
- Dr Abhishek Upadhyay, Visiting Research Fellow
- Dr Guillaume Meric, Visiting Research Fellow
- Dr Heather Sanders, Visiting Researcher