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
Eloise Lipscombe
											 Protein-based textile fibres (primary supervisor: Prof. Yanlan Mao)
										 
Lillian Wang
											 Antimicrobial materials
Ainhoa Hermida Amado
											 Seaweed biorefinery (primary supervisor: Dr. Emily Kostas)
Former members
2024/2025
- Andrea Andersson Rodriguez - MRes Synthetic Biology
 - Shams Elnawawi - MSc Nature-Inspired Solutions
 - Yuan Wan - MSc Nature-Inspired Solutions
 
2023/2024
- Alex Chen - MSc Nature-Inspired Solutions
 - Eric Hauke - MSc Nature-Inspired Solutions