Principal investigator
Diego López Barreiro
- 2022-present Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, UCL - UK
- 2020-2022 Marie Curie Fellow, DSM - The Netherlands
- 2016-2020 Postdoctoral associate, MIT - USA
- 2015 PhD Applied Biological Sciences: Chemistry and Bioprocess Technology, Ghent University - Belgium
- 2011 MSc Chemical Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela - Spain
Research fellows
Hamish Mitchell
Crystallisation of GLP-1 analogue peptides
Post-doctoral research associates
Soham Sarkar
Computational simulations of protein-based materials
Doctoral researchers
Ebony Shire
Functionally graded materials
Ruiyan Gao
Sustainable biosensing platforms
Alexander Birrell
Biomineralised engineered living materials
Abby Thompson
Protein-based coatings for vascular grafts
MSc/MRes students
- Andrea Andersson Rodriguez - Synthetic biology for recombinant structural proteins (MRes Synthetic Biology)
- Shams Elnawawi - Biomass-derived carbons for sodium battery electrodes (MSc Nature-Inspired Solutions)
- Yuan Wang - Biomineralised protein-based materials (MSc Nature-Inspired Solutions)
Former members
2023/2024
- Alex Chen - MSc Nature-Inspired Solutions
- Eric Hauke - MSc Nature-Inspired Solutions