Meet The Team

CYBER brings together a diverse team of academics, SMEs, start-ups and national institutes to push forward our ability to engineer biology for environmentally focused applications. Find out more below about the people making this a reality.

Chris Clements

Chris Clements

Co-Investigator

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Chris Clements is a Senior Lecturer based in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol, UK. H...

Carole Foy

Carole Foy

Project Partner

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Carole is Principal Scientist for Molecular Biology at LGC’s National Measurement Laboratory where she provides sc...

Denise O’Sullivan

Denise O’Sullivan

Project Partner

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I have 16 years experience as a molecular microbiologist with a focus on the medical microbiology field. Currently...

Thierry Le Goff

Thierry Le Goff

Project Partner

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Dedicated to bridging the gap between scientific discovery and real-world impact, I am a metrologist (measurement ...

Thomas Gorochowski

Thomas Gorochowski

Principal Investigator

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Thomas Gorochowski is a Royal Society University Research Fellow based in the School of Biological Sciences at the...

Natalio Krasnogor

Natalio Krasnogor

Co-Investigator

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Natalio Krasnogor is Professor of Computing Science and Synthetic Biology, directs Newcastle’s Interdisciplinary C...

Alperen Dalkıran

Alperen Dalkıran

Postdoctoral Researcher

My research focuses on the development of machine learning methods for diverse biological datasets, with applicati...

Joseph Pennycook

Joseph Pennycook

Postdoctoral Researcher

I am an experimental microbiologist, and my past research has focused on the use of laboratory models to directly ...

Moubani Chakraborty

Moubani Chakraborty

Postdoctoral Researcher

During my PhD I have studied cyclic nucleotide-binding proteins in mycobacteria and developed a strong passion for...

Shylaja Mohandass

Shylaja Mohandass

Postdoctoral Researcher

My research journey has centered on the world of cyanobacteria, a versatile photosynthetic prokaryote that thrive ...

Muhammad Yasir Akbar

Muhammad Yasir Akbar

Research Associate

My research journey spans the fields of bioinformatics, biosecurity, and synthetic biology, with a focus on comput...

Diego Oyarzún

Diego Oyarzún

Co-Investigator

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Diego leads the Biomolecular Control Group at the Universit...

Yulia Yuzenkova

Yulia Yuzenkova

Co-Investigator

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Yulia, a Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, has established her lab as a holder of a Royal Society Universit...

Institutions & Partners

University of Bristol, UK logo
University of Edinburgh, UK logo
Newcastle University, UK logo
National Measurements Laboratory, UK logo
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA logo
Bactobio, UK logo
Basecamp Research, UK logo
Cultivarium, USA logo
Gitlife Biotech, UK logo