Professor Syma Khalid MChem PhD
Professor of Computational Biophysics, Head of Physical Chemistry Teaching

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Professor Syma Khalid is Professor of Computational Biophysics within Chemistry at the University of Southampton.
Uncovering the Secrets of Bacterial Cell Envelopes
Syma graduated with a first class degree in Chemistry from the University of Warwick in 2000. She remained at Warwick to read for a PhD under the supervision of Professor P Mark Rodger. After obtaining her PhD in 2003, she moved to the University of Oxford as a postdoc in Professor Mark Sansom's lab, to study the structure-function relationship of bacterial membrane proteins. In 2007, she was appointed as RCUK fellow in Chemistry at the University of Southampton, in 2010 was appointed to full lectureship. In 2016 she was promoted to full professor She has ~15 years of experience in the development and application of molecular dynamics simulations to the study of biological molecules. Starting her own group, she noticed the molecular models of bacterial membranes were usually missing key biochemical details (e.g. lipid type, macromolecular crowding) and has worked to address this ever since.
MChem, Warwick Univeristy, 2000
PhD, Warwick University, 2004