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

Doctoral researchers

Ebony Shire

Functionally graded materials

  • MSc Biological and Bioprocess Engineering, University of Sheffield - UK
  • BSc Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield - UK

Ruiyan Gao

Sustainable biosensing platforms

  • MSc Biochemical Engineering, University College London - UK
  • MEng Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London - UK

Alexander Birrell

Biomineralised engineered living materials

  • MSc Biochemical Engineering, University College London - UK
  • BSc Biochemistry, University College London - UK

Abby Thompson

Protein-based coatings for vascular grafts

  • MEng and BA Engineering Tripos, University of Cambridge - UK

Eloise Lipscombe

Biomanufactured textile fibres (LIDO rotation, main supervisor: Prof. Yanlan Mao)

  • BSc Biochemistry, University of Manchester - UK

MSc/MRes students

Andrea Andersson Rodriguez

Synthetic biology for recombinant structural proteins

  • MRes Synthetic Biology, University College London - UK


Former members

2023/2024

  • Alex Chen - MSc Nature-Inspired Solutions
  • Eric Hauke - MSc Nature-Inspired Solutions