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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 Nick Evans

Associate Dean Research

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Nick Francis

Head of School

Research interests

  • Infections in primary care
  • Antimicrobial stewardship
  • Respiratory infections
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Professor Nicola Englyst

Professorial Fellow-Education

Research interests

  • Educational projects
  • Patient-centred language in social media
  • Lab based research (collaborative) on platelets and microvesicles
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Dr Nicole Prior

Lecturer

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Nikolay Zheludev

Professor of Physics & Astronomy
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Professor Nisreen A Alwan MBE, MBChB, MRCP, FFPH, MPH, MSc, PhD, FHEA, PGCAP

Professor of Public Health

Research interests

  • Public Health
  • Lifecourse Epidemiology
  • Long Covid

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Nuala Mcgrath

Prof of Epidemiology & Sexual Health

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Professor Nullin Divecha

Professor of Cellular Signalling

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Ondrej Hovorka

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Nanorobotics for biomedicine
  • Computational nanomagnetism
  • Data science and machine learning
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Dr Orestis Katsamenis

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • 3D X-ray Histology (XRH)
  • Microfocus Computed Tomography (μCT) of biological and biogenic materials
  • μCT for clinical applications

Accepting applications from PhD students

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