Meet the Team

Core Management

PoLNET4 Chair: Mark Leake
University of York, School of Physics, Engineering and Technology
E-mail: [email protected]

PoLNET4 co-chair and Physics of Medicine Chair: Stephen Smye OBE
University of Leeds, School of Medicine
Email: [email protected]

PoLNET4 co-chair and Physics of Medicine Chair: Michelle Peckham
University of Leeds, School of Biology
Email: [email protected]

Physics of Life Network Manager: Karis Baker
University of York, School of Physics, Engineering and Technology
Email: [email protected]

Steering Group

Karis Baker
Physics of Life Network manager, University of York
Chris Bakal
Professor in Dynamical Cell Systems Group within the Division of Cancer Biology, ICR. 
Veronica Biga
Research Fellow, Division of Developmental Biology & Medicine, University of Manchester 
Olwyn Byron
Professor of Biophysics, University of Glasgow
Pietro Cicuta
Professor in Department of Physics, University of Cambridge
Lorna Dougan 
Professor of Physics, University of Leeds
Carina Dunlop
Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics, University College London
Sarah Harris 
Professor of Biological Physics, University of Sheffield
Jamie Hobbs
Professor of Physics, University of Sheffield
Rivka Isaacson
Reader in Chemical Biology, KCL
Mark Leake (also Chair)
Professor of Biological Physics, University of York
Alan Melcher 
Professor of Medicine, ICR
Tom Ouldridge 
Research Fellow, Bioengineering, Imperial
Michelle Peckham (also co-chair)
Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds
Alice Pyne
Professor of Biophysics, School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield
Stephen Smye (also co-chair)
Professor of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds
Mark Wallace 
Professor of Chemistry, KCL
Kirsty Wan 
Professor of Cellular and Biophysical Dynamics, University of Exeter
Peter Weightman
Professor of Physics, University of Liverpool
Tom Waigh 
Reader, Biological Physics, University of Manchester
Megan Wright 
Associate Professor in Chemical Biology, University of Leeds

External Advisory Board

Andrew Turberfield
Professor of Biological Physics, University of Oxford
Dame Athene Donald DBE, FRS
Professor Emerita, University of Cambridge
Paul Matthews 
Rosalind Franklin, Institute Director
Nigel Goldenfeld 
Chancellor's Distinguished Professorship in Physics, University of California, San Diego
Anthony Watts
President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics
Julia Yeomans
Professor of Physics, University of Oxford