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Diagram represents a network of applications by Institute for Life Sciences Members for collaborative projects.
Institute for Life Sciences

Our people

Our strength lies in our interdisciplinary collaborative network which is made up of over 380 academic members from across all the University’s faculties.

Dr Arezoo Pooresmaeili MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Cognitive Neuroscience, Sensory Perception, Higher Cognition, Attention, Reward Processing, Decision Making, Neuroimaging, Eye-tracking

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Arjuna Ratnayaka

Associate Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Aymen Al-Shamkhani

Professor in Immunology

Research interests

  • Cancer Immunotherapy
  • Immunobiology of costimulatory receptors
  • Immunostimulatory antibodies

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Bashir Lwaleed

Professor of Experimental Pathology

Dr Becky Morris

Associate Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Ben Ainsworth

Associate Professor

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Benjamin Macarthur

Personal Chair

Research interests

  • Mathematical modeling
  • Machine learning 
  • Networks

Accepting applications from PhD students

Professor Bharath Ganapathisubramani

Professor of Experimental Fluid Mechani

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Bill Brocklesby

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Novel imaging & microscopy techniques in the visible and XUV spectral regions;
  • Coherent diffractive imaging of nanoscale systems using XUV radiation generated by high-power ultrashort pulse lasers;
  • Large-scale beam combination;