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