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Institute for Life Sciences

Our people

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

Interested in joining us? Please see details about current academic recruitment opportunities here.

Dr Cecilia D'angelo

Associate Professor
Connect with Cecilia

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 8046

Dr Charles Burson-Thomas

Lecturer
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Email: [email protected]

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Professor Charles Keevil

Professor In Environmental Health Care
Connect with Charles

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 4726

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Dr Charlie Birts

Lecturer in Antibody Therapeutics

Research interests

  • Antibody Therapy
  • Metastic Breast Cancer
  • Obesity and Breast Cancer
Connect with Charlie

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 4423

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Dr Chengchen Zhang PhD

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Material-Bio Interactions Inspired Therapeutics
  • Material-Bio Interactions Enabled Biosensors
  • Biomimicry in Theranostics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Chengchen

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 7447741265

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Professor Cheryl Metcalf

Head of School
Connect with Cheryl

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 8927

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Dr Chieh-Hsi Wu

Lecturer in Statistics

Research interests

  • Statistical methods
  • Phylogenetics
  • Forensic science

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Chieh-Hsi

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 7092

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Dr Chris Franks

Lecturer in Life Sciences
Connect with Chris

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 7775

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Professor Chris Freeman PhD, BEng, BSc, CEng, FIET

Professor

Research interests

  • Iterative learning and repetitive control theory and their experimental application to industrial systems and biomedical engineering
  • Biomechanics 
  • Motor learning and control

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Chris

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3486

Professor Chris Hauton PhD, FRSB, FMBA

Head of School

Research interests

  • Hauton has worked extensively with colleagues in India and Bangladesh since 2015 and has developed an international profile in shrimp health research, including contributing to the development of a mobile phone app, the 'Chingri Shrimp App', to support shrimp farmer training in Bangladesh.
  • Research has also included quantifying the potential toxic risk of deep sea mining of mineral resources. He was part of the leading team of the EC FP7 MIDAS Project, exploring the ecological risk of deep-sea mining, outputs from which led to contributions to the Royal Society Foresight Future of the Sea report (2016/17), to presentations at the UN International Seabed Authority in Jamaica, and expert contributions to the UN ISA ISA Legal and Technical Commision ISBA/27/C/11 'Guidelines for the establishment of baseline environmental data.'
  • Other activity

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Chris

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 5784

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