Diploma, University of Athens (Greece) 2009

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PhD/Postdoc, Astbury Centre for Structural and Molecular Biology , Leeds (UK) 2009-2014/2014-2016

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Postdoc, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, NIH (USA) 2018-2020

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Tenure-track University academic fellow, Astbury Centre 2020-2022

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Lecturer & Sir Henry Dale fellow, Imperial College since 2022

I joined the lab in December 2023. I have an undergraduate degree and Master’s in biochemistry and a PhD in structural biology from Oxford University. My doctoral work used a combination of NMR, biophysics and fluorescence microscopy to look at protein-protein interactions involved in proteostasis, working with human HSP70 and HSP40 chaperones and the sigma 1 receptor. I have since worn many hats; I have completed two brief post docs one with my PhD supervisor Prof. Schnell looking at DNAJB6 and another with Dr Abdul-Salam at Queen Mary University looking at the CLIC protein family. I have also worked as a teaching fellow and as an Editor for Nature Communications both roles which have focused on structural biology, biochemistry and biophysics. 

Sophie joined the lab in October 2025 to study excited protein states as part of the Master's in Structural Biology programme. Sophie was a final year project student with us prior to her Masters  

Noor joined the lab in October 2023 to study low complexity disordered regions in proteins by NMR and other biophysical methods as part of the Master's in Structural Biology programme. She then secured a prestigueos President's scholarship to continue her NMR studies in our starting on October 2024

Qianyi rejoined the lab in October 2025 after having done his final year and summer project with us. He will be working on RNA chaperones

Lea is jointly supervised by  Dr. Anna Barnard in Chemistry and Dr.  Sarah Rouse (Life Sciences).