People
The Leverhulme Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre (QB-DTC) is a joint effort of several academics in diverse disciplines all contributing their expertise in the form of supervisory teams for our quantum biology postgraduate researchers; coming from the Advanced Technology Institute, the School of Biosciences and Medicine, the Nuclear Theory group and more to provide full support.
Our team
Supervisors - University of Surrey
Professor Jim Al-Khalili
Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Physics
Professor Jeremy Allam
Professor of Ultrafast Optoelectronics
Professor Marian Florescu
Professor of Physics
Professor Andre Gerber
Professor of RNA Biology
Dr Suzie Hingley-Wilson
Lecturer in Bacteriology
Professor Kamalan Jeevaratnam
Head of School of Veterinary Medicine, Professor in Clinical Physiology
Dr Youngchan Kim
Lecturer in Quantum Biology, Director of the Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre (QB-DTC)
Dr Rebecca Lewis
Senior Lecturer in Physiology
Professor Johnjoe McFadden
Professor of Molecular Genetics, Associate Dean (International)
Professor Benedict Murdin
Professor of Physics, Head of the Photonics and Quantum Sciences Group
Dr Andrea Rocco
Associate Professor (Reader) in Physics and Mathematical Biology
Dr Marco Sacchi
Associate Professor and Royal Society University Research Fellow in Physical and Computational Chemistry, Theme Leader in Sustainable Energy and Materials Research
Dr Maxim Shkunov
Senior Lecturer
Professor Ravi Silva
Director, Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) Interim Director, Pan University Institute for Sustainability and Head of NanoElectronics Centre
Dr Daniel Whelligan
Senior Lecturer in Organic/Medicinal Chemistry
Supervisors - external institutions
Dr Jose Jimenez Zarco
Senior Lecturer in Synthetic Biology, Imperial College London
Dr Alex Jones
Principal Research Scientist - National Physical Laboratory
Dr Daniel Kattnig
Senior Lecturer - University of Exeter
Professor Alexandra Olaya-Castro
Professor of Physics - University College London
Postgraduate researchers
Federico Bertagna
Research project: Investigation of quantum coherent transport and EM field sensitivity of ion channel transport of neuronal cells
Dr Adam Burgess
Research project: Non-Markovian dynamics in biomolecular complexes
Michael Clarke-Whittet
Research project: Exploring the role of noise on quantum decoherence in cellular systems
Anna Cusick
Research project: Developing bio-quantum technologies towards quantum enhanced biosensors
Ed D'Souza
Research project: Magnetosensing of the cryptochrome molecule
Nermin Ener
Research project: Measurement of proton position in DNA
George Ferguson
Research project: Vibrational coupling and non-adiabatic energy transfer in enzyme catalysis
Roisin Guthrie
Research project: Multiscale investigation on the quantum effects of photo-induced induced DNA repair
Yojana Rai
Postgraduate Research Student
Alejandro Sanchez-Pedreno Jimenez
Research project: Room temperature coherent interactions between fluorescent proteins
Aimee Sweeney
Research project: Highly efficient photon absorption in the retina
Virginia Tsiouri
Research project: Investigation of quantum coherence in bacterial photosynthetic systems
Charlotte Vale
Research project: Quantum and drugs: Spin dynamics in an antibiotic (theory)
Cedric Vallee
Research project: Exploration of ion selectivity in the Epithelial Sodium Channel
Max Winokan
Research project: Computational investigations of quantum tunnelling in enzyme-catalyzed transfer reaction through quantum mechanics and molecular modelling
