Diagram represents a network of applications by Institute for Life Sciences Members for collaborative projects.
Institute for Life Sciences

Our people

Our strength lies in our interdisciplinary collaborative network which is made up of over 430 academic members from across all the University’s faculties.

Professor Lindy Holden-Dye BSc, MSc, PhD, FRSB, FBPhS

PROFESSOR OF NEUROSCIENCES

Research interests

  • Neuropharmacology
  • Invertebrate neuroscience
  • Nematode neurobiology

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Liudi Jiang BSc MSc PhD CEng CPhys FIET

Professor of Materials & Electromec Syst

Research interests

  • Healthcare technologies
  • Intelligent sensor systems
  • Digital health, devices and data

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Lorraine Williams

Associate Professor

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Dr Lucy Gates

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Global musculoskeletal health and disease; with particular interest in lower limb mobility
  • Epidemiology of vertebral fractures
  • Epidemiology of Knee and foot osteoarthritis
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Professor Lucy Green

Professorial Fellow-Enterprise

Research interests

  • Fetal physiology and nutrition
  • Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)
  • Equality and diversity in research, education and public engagement

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Luis Guerra

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Evolution of the nervous system
  • Pharmacology
  • GPCRs Non-bilaterian metazoansReceptor deorphanisations 

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Lyn Ellett

Professor of Psychology & Mental Health

Research interests

  • My research interests are mainly in the area of psychosis.
  • My current work focuses on:
  • 1.    Paranoia in the general population

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr M. Julius Hossain PhD

Head of Image and Data Analysis Group

Research interests

  • Modeling cellular and sub-cellular structures and processes
  • Computational cancer biology 
  • Computational systems biology of cell division

Accepting applications from PhD students

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