

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 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