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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.

Dr Sarah Chellappa MD, MPH, PhD.

Associate Professor

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Professor Sarah Ennis

Professor of Genomics

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Dr Sasan Mahmoodi

Associate Professor
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Professor Saul Faust MBBS, FRCPCH, PhD, FHEA, OBE

Professor Paediatric Immunology & Infect
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Professor Selin Ahipasaoglu PhD

Professor

Research interests

  • Convex Optimisation
  • Robust Optimisation
  • Discrete Choice Theory and Applications

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Dr Seung Lee

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Chemical biology
  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Glycan processing enzymes
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Professor Shane Norris PhD, MASSAf, FAAS

Professor of Global Health
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Dr Shelly Vishwakarma PhD

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Designing and developing hardware and software frameworks for contextual sensing applications
  • Concurrent physical activity recognition and indoor localization
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Dr Shengjie Lai PhD

Principal Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Lai is interested in understanding the transmission dynamics and intervention effectiveness for infectious diseases; Quantifying seasonal human mobility, social connectivity and migration using novel data sources, e.g. mobile phone data; Investigating spatiotemporal interactions between human behaviour, environmental change and infectious disease dynamics.

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Dr Shiyang Tang PhD, BEng, FHEA, CEng, MRSC, MIET

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Liquid metal
  • Intelligent microfluidics
  • Biosensors

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