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. His ...
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 scien...
Daniel Evans

Daniel Evans

Project Partner

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Daniel is part of the National Measurement Laboratory (NML) team supporting CYBER. He will be working on the applicat...
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. I 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 sci...
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 Un...
Natalio Krasnogor

Natalio Krasnogor

Co-Investigator

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

Alperen Dalkıran

Postdoctoral Researcher

My research focuses on the development of machine learning methods for diverse biological datasets, with applications...
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 stu...
Moubani Chakraborty

Moubani Chakraborty

Postdoctoral Researcher

During my PhD, I studied cyclic nucleotide-binding proteins in mycobacteria and developed a strong passion for unders...
Shylaja Mohandass

Shylaja Mohandass

Postdoctoral Researcher

My research journey has centred on the world of cyanobacteria, versatile photosynthetic prokaryotes that thrive in a ...
Muhammad Yasir Akbar

Muhammad Yasir Akbar

Research Associate

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

Diego Oyarzún

Co-Investigator

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Diego leads the Biomolecular Control Group at the University of Edinburgh, developing new technologies at the interfa...
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 University R...

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