Research Students

Fraser Andrews
UoM Future BRH Sponsored PhD (SEPTEMBER 2020 START, C3 BIOTECH)
Research Project: ‘Engineering Cyanobacteria to improve ethanol production’

Sahara Bhanot
UoM Future BRH Sponsored PhD (SEPTEMBER 2021 START, Phytome Life Sciences)
Research Project: ‘A biosynthetic platform for plant-derived therapeutics: Enzymatic production of novel flavonoids as potential anti-inflammatory drug candidates’

Chris Field
UoM Future BRH Sponsored PhD (SEPTEMBER 2022 START, EnginZyme)
Research Project: ‘Novel Enzyme Immobilisation Scaffolds for Biomanufacturing’

Alistair Hanak
UoM Future BRH Sponsored PhD (APRIL 2020 START, BP)
Research Project: ‘Exploiting phenotypic diversity and robustness of de novo yeast hybrids to develop low pH production hosts’

Dan Healy
UoM Future BRH Sponsored PhD (SEPTEMBER 2022 START, C3 BIOTECH)
Research Project: ‘Engineering extremophiles for production of gaseous fuels’

Anna Kohn
UoM Future BRH Sponsored PhD (SEPTEMBER 2022 START, GSK)
Research Project: ‘Novel biocatalytic chemistries enabled by non-natural amino acids’

Bazilah Matussin
UCL Future BRH Sponsored PhD (September 2021 Start)
Research Project: ‘Sustainable production of value-added chemicals from renewable feedstocks via continuous Halomonas sp. fermentations’

Ellen Newman
University of Nottingham Future BRH Sponsored PhD (September 2021 Start, Unilever)
Research Project: ‘Advanced modelling and software development for technoeconomic analysis applied to emerging supply chains in the biobased society’

Steven Nowak
UCL Future BRH Sponsored PhD (September 2020 Start)
Research Project: ‘Readying miniaturized reactors for flow biocatalysis’

Fatima Ceballos Rodriguez-Conde
UCL Future BRH Sponsored PhD (September 2020 Start)
Research Project: ‘Modelling concerted microbial metabolic activities to mimic multicellular behaviour and its applications in biotechnology and biomanufacturing’

Will Royle
UoM Future BRH Sponsored PhD (September 2022 Start)
Research Project: ‘Optimisation of yeast strains and hybrids as chassis for sustainable bioproduction‘

Gabriela Velasquez Diaz
UCL Future BRH Sponsored PhD (September 2020 Start)
Research Project: ‘Towards biofilm reactors for flow biocatalysis: investigating the productivity of biofilms for commodity chemical production in a microfluidic scale-down model’

Lanqi Zhang
UCL Future BRH Sponsored PhD (September 2022 Start)
Research Project: ‘Monitoring and Control of Continuous Halomonas Fermentations for Sustainable Production of Commodity Chemicals from Renewable Feedstocks’