People
The ICOS group is led by Professors Krasnogor and Bacardit and includes 12 academics, 10 researchers, 1 software engineer and 30 PhD students.
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Alaa Alahmadi
alaa.alahmadi |
Room 6.036 School of Computing |
Lecturer |
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Jaume Bacardit
+44 (0)191 208 7784 |
Room 5.020 School of Computing |
Co-director of the Group Professor of Artificial Intelligence |
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Gizem Buldum
gizem.buldum |
Room 6.029 School of Computing |
Lecturer |
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Harold Fellermann
+44 (0)191 208 5036 |
Room 5.015 School of Computing |
Lecturer |
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Katherine James
+44 (0)191 208 8213 |
Room 5.018 School of Computing |
Lecturer |
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Natalio Krasnogor
+44 (0)191 208 5035 |
Room 5.021 School of Computing |
Co-director of the Group Professor of Computing Science and Synthetic Biology |
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Jichun Li
+44 (0)191 208 8064 |
Room 5.013 School of Computing |
Senior Lecturer |
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Peter Taylor
+44 (0)191 208 7975 |
Room 5.016 School of Computing |
Reader |
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Yujiang Wang
+44 (0)191 208 4141 |
Room 5.017 School of Computing |
Reader |
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Paweł Widera
+44 (0)191 208 3859 |
Room 5.014 School of Computing |
Lecturer |
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Anil Wipat
+44 (0)191 208 8213 |
Room 5.018 School of Computing |
Professor Emeritus Professor of Integrative Bioinformatics |
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Yonatan Yehezkeally
yonatan.yehezkeally |
Room 5.029 School of Computing |
Senior Lecturer |
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Yasir Akbar
yasir.akbar |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
Research Associate |
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Kai Armstrong
kai.armstrong |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
Research Asssistant |
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Sonja Fenske
sonja.fenske |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
Research Associate | ||
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Gerard Hall
gerard.hall |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
Research Associate |
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Diego Jimenez
diego.jimenez-jimenez |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
Research Associate | ||
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Alex Laverick
alex.laverick |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
Research Associate | ||
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Joshua Loh
joshua.loh |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
Research Associate | ||
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Silvia Navarro
silvia.navarro |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
Research Associate |
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Lenka Pelechova
lenka.pelechova |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
Research Assistant |
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Nadia Rostami
nadia.rostami1 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
Research Associate |
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Leanne Hobbs
leanne.hobbs2 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
Research Software Engineer |
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Nida Alyas
nida.alyas |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2023 with YW) |
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Matt Burridge
m.burridge1 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2022 with KJ) |
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Harry Clifford
h.j.clifford1 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2023 with PT) |
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Ethan Collinson
e.collinson |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2022 with HF) |
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Jinxuan Cui
j.cui14 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Nov 2024 with PW) |
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Alex Escasinas
a.escasinas2 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2023 with KJ) |
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Nathan Evans
n.evans5 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2022 with YW) |
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Qiwen Guan
q.guan2 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2024 with JL) |
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Jonny Horsley
j.horsley2 |
Room 4.052 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2020 with PT) |
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Vyte Janiukstyte
v.janiukstyte2 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2021 with PT) |
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Feng Jiang
f.jiang5 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in April 2025 with JL) |
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Hyeyun Jung
h.jung3 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2023 with HF) |
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Luiza Konkina
l.konkina2 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2023 with GB) |
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Csaba Kozma
c.a.kozma2 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2022 with PT) |
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Knectt Lendoye L'Eyebe
k.p.lendoye-l'eyebe2 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Feb 2023 with JB) |
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Mingpei Li
m.li53 |
Floor 1 Devonshire Building |
PhD Student (started in Dec 2019 with AW) |
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Weixian Li
w.li82 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2025 with JL) |
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Quinne Lin
quinne.lin |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student / TA (started in Feb 2025 with JL) |
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Jiajie Luo
j.luo26 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2023 with JL) |
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Liangjun Miao
l.miao3 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2024 with JL) |
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Chi Ng
c.k.ng2 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Jan 2024 with JL) |
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Zhen Ou
z.ou3 |
Floor 1 Devonshire Building |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2021 with AW) |
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Theo Quinlan
t.quinlan3 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Oct 2025 with GB) |
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Sneha Sharma
s.r.sharma2 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2023 with JB) |
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Jingye Shi
j.shi39 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2025 with JL) |
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Callum Simpson
c.simpson5 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2021 with PT) |
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Billy Smith
b.smith16 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2023 with YW) |
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Sofía Sorbet Santiago
s.sorbet-santiago2 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2022 with PW) |
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José Verdú Díaz
jose.verdu-diaz2 |
Biosciences Institute |
PhD Student (started in Sep 2023 with JB) |
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Dahui Yu
d.yu10 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
PhD Student (started in Jan 2023 with JL) |
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Aurelie Guyet
aurelie.guyet |
Floor 1 Devonshire Building |
Visiting Researcher | ||
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Graham Smith
graham.smith3 |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
Visiting Researcher |
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Emanuela Torelli
emanuela.torelli |
Room 5.008 School of Computing |
Visiting Researcher |
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Former members
- Dr. Emanuela Torelli, ICOS Lecturer, working on DNA/RNA origami and nanostructures assembly
- Dr. Guillermo Besné, ICOS Research Associate, working on monitoring circadian rhythms in epilepsy with wearable sensors
- Dr. Beth Little, ICOS Research Associate and PhD Student, working on abnormality in brain morphology in bipolar and mood disorders
- Dr. Sarah Gascoigne, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on markers of seizure severity and localisation of onset zone
- Dr. Phoenix Gater, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on design of antiviral therapeutic antibodies with machine learning
- Dr. Aoesha Alsobhe, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on integration of graph neural networks and knowledge graphs for drug repurposing
- Dr. Guillermo Yạñez, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on synthetic self-organized spatio-temporal patterns in multicellular systems
- Dr. Daniel Todd, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on detection of nucleic acids for research and diagnostics
- Dr. Ayesha Sahar, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on improving immunotherapies through data integration
- Dr. Marco Lewis, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on automated verification techniques for quantum computers
- Dr. Alex Hawes, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on improved design of DNA biosensors using strand displacement
- Dr. David Markham, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on synthetic biology approach to metabolic burden and stress responses detection
- Dr. Matty Crowther, ICOS Research Associate and PhD Student (thesis, working on representation of synthetic biology designs
- Dr. Gonzalo Vidal, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on automated workflows for engineering genetic networks
- Dr. Tim Rudge, ICOS Lecturer, working on synthetic biology modelling and design automation
- Monica Toft Hannani, Visiting PhD student from Nordic Bioscience, Denmark
- Dr. Sara Friedl, Research Director in Portabolomics project
- Dr. Yiming Huang, ICOS PhD Student, defended thesis on machine learning for knowledge discovery in synthetic biology
- Dr. Neil Mackenzie, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on the development of a queue data structure with DNA molecules
- Dr. Christian Taylor, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on machine learning strategies for the forecasting of pig growth in industry
- Dr. Conor Turner, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on dermatologically inspired face analysis with deep learning
- Dr. Martin Sidaway, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on delta-complete linear programming
- Dr. Aisha Bflegh, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on document-centric workflow for development of ontologies
- Dr. Bradley Brown, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on engineering biosensors using multi-microbial systems
- Dr. Ben Shirt-Ediss, ICOS Research Associate, working on computational modelling of DNA/RNA nanostructures and nanodevices
- Dr. Mohammad Halawani, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on methods to support development of biomedical ontologies
- Dr. Jordan Connolly, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on optimisation of DNA origami experiments
- Dr. Mariella Panagiotopoulou, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on fluctuations in EEG band power and seizure evolution
- Dr. Tom Owen, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on epileptogenic structural abnormalities in brain white matter
- Dr. Phillip Lord, ICOS Lecturer, working on programmatic development of bio-ontologies and mechanisms for publishing science
- Dr. Dinika Paramalingam, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on modelling of immune interaction and epidermal homeostasis in psoriasis
- Dr. Jack Jennings, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on agent-based approach to modelling cryopreservation of biological tissues
- Dr. Paolo Zuliani, ICOS Reader, working on stochastic model checking and quantum computing
- Dana Wehner, Visiting Student from the Free University of Berlin, Germany
- Dr. Bowen Li, ICOS Research Associate, working on individual-based microbial communities
- Dr. Bill Yang, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on design, simulation, and evolution of synthetic genomes
- Dr. James Skelton, ICOS Research Associate and PhD Student (thesis), working on computational enzyme discovery for wastewater treatment
- Dr. Wendy Smith, ICOS Senior Research Associate, working on synthetic/molecular biology and bacterial communication systems
- Dr. Polly Moreland, ICOS Research Associate, working on engineering pressure sensing bacteria (Thinking-Soils project)
- Dr. Gabrielle Schroeder, ICOS Research Associate and PhD Student (thesis), working on variability in seizure network evolutions in focal epilepsy
- Dr. Rahele Kafieh, ICOS Research Associate, working on medical image analysis with deep learning
- Dr. Elisa Anastasi, ICOS Research Associate, working on integrative networks and drug repurposing
- Dr. María Camacho, Visiting Researcher from the University of A Coruña, Spain
- Dr. Matthew Pocock, ICOS Research Associate, working on SBOL, data integration, and knowledge management
- Dr. Konstantinos Georgopoulos, ICOS PhD Student, defended thesis on simulation and benchmarking of quantum computers
- Dr. Lewis Grozinger, ICOS PhD Student defended a thesis on design of synthetic electrogenetic circuits
- Dr. Lucy Eland, ICOS Research Associate, working on bacterial biofilms and synthetic biology for waste management
- Dr. Artur Sokolovsky, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on event detection in multidimensional time series
- Dr. Valeria Verrone, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on genetically engineered bacteria biofertilisers
- Dr. Nizal Alshammry, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on development of scalable ontologies
- Dr. Christian Atallah, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on generation of diverse enzyme panels
- Dr. Christoforos Papasavvas, ICOS Research Associate and PhD Student (thesis), working on modelling the neocortex dynamics leading to epilepsy
- Dr. Federico Angelini, ICOS Research Associate, working on discovery of osteoarthritis endotypes from biochemical markers
- Mohammad alKhawashki, ICOS PhD Student, working on non-invasive deep brain stimulation
- Dr. Nádia Moreira da Silva, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on brain network changes and recovery following acute brain injuries
- Leonard Waldmann, Visiting Student from the Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Dr. Nishant Sinha, ICOS PhD Student, defended a (thesis) on predicting surgical outcomes for epilepsy patients
- Prof. Marcus Kaiser, ICOS Professor of Neuroinformatics
- Dr. Fedor Shmarov, ICOS Research Associate and PhD Student (thesis), working on formal verification of stochastic systems
- Dr. Owen Gilfellon, ICOS PhD Student, working on design framework for genetic circuits based on Standard Virtual Parts
- Dr. Ramtin Mehraram
- Dr. Jake Cowton, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on the application of deep learning / computer vision to precision farming
- Dr. Jonathan Tellechea Luzardo, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on a version control system for cell line engineering
- Dr. Ruud Stoof, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on modelling gene regulation dynamics with spatial considerations
- Dr. Christopher Hayward, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on brain dynamics and network organisation in healthy and schizophrenic patients
- Dr. Denis Taniguchi, ICOS Research Associate, working on agent-based microbial community simulation (NUFEB project)
- Dr. James McLaughlin, ICOS PhD Student (thesis), working on the Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL)
- Dr. Roman Bauer, ICOS Research Fellow, working on modelling brain tissue dynamics and cryopreservation
- Dr. Mariia Vasileva, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on probabilistic reachability analysis of cyber-physical systems
- Dr. Angel Goñi Moreno, ICOS Lecturer in Synthetic Biology
- Dr. Ali Alameer, ICOS Research Associate, working on recognition of animal behaviour with deep learning
- Dr. Yuchun Ding, ICOS Research Associate, working on automated analysis of pathology slides
- Dr. Ossama Alshabrawy, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on deep learning-based speech detection for depression diagnosis
- Dr. Craig Sharp, ICOS Research Associate working on neuroimaging analysis
- Dr. Sriharsha Ramaraju, ICOS Research Associate, working on quantitative analysis of MEG/EEG recordings
- Dr. Joe Necus, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on the effect of treatment on brain morphology in bipolar disorder patients
- Dr. Chris Thornton, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on modelling in vitro electrical stimulation of brain tissue
- Xue Chen, Visiting PhD Student from the China University of Petroleum
- Dr. Alexander Wood, ICOS Research Associate, working on genetic circuit design and optimisation for synthetic biology
- Dr. Michael A. White, ICOS Research Associate, working on engineering bacteria for removal of waste hormones
- Dr. Keith Flanagan, ICOS Senior Research Associate, working on genetic data integration and distributed computing
- Dr. Alessandro Ceccarelli, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on synthetic DNA/RNA origami scaffolds
- Dr. Matthew Collison, ICOS Teaching Fellow and PhD Student (thesis), working on data integration for gut microbiome analysis
- Dr. Frances Hutchings, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on modelling effects of electrical stimulation on brain tissue
- Dr. Annunziata Lopiccolo, ICOS Research Associate and PhD Student (thesis), working on data storage using DNA/RNA devices
- Dr. Jeremy Revell, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on inference of parameters for stochastic chemical reaction networks
- Dr. Shouyong Jiang, ICOS Research Associate, working on improving microbial strain design with dynamic multiobjective optimisation
- Henrike Koehler, Visiting PhD Student from the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
- Simon Reichert, Visiting PhD Student from the University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, Germany
- Dr. Sungshic Park, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on design automation in synthetic biology
- Dr. Charles Winterhalter, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on bioengineering methods to study bacterial communication
- Dr. Stephen Matthews, ICOS Research Associate, working on object tracking for precision livestock farming
- Dr. Jonathan Naylor, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on 3D simulation and modelling of multicellular bacterial populations
- Dr. Jerzy Kozyra, ICOS Research Associate and PhD Student (thesis), working on design of nano structures/devices with synthetic DNA
- Dr. Thomas Ott, Visiting Researcher from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
- Dr. Samuel Danso, ICOS Research Associate, working on cross-population harmonisation of medical data
- Dr. Katherine James, ICOS Research Associate, working on analysis and integration of large scale -omics data
- Dr. Nicola Lazzarini, ICOS Research Associate and PhD Student (thesis), working on bio-medical data mining
- Dr. Beth Lawry, ICOS Research Associate and PhD Student (thesis), working on generation/recognition of microbial biomarkers
- James Knight, Visiting Researcher from Imperial College, UK
- Dr. Birgit Koch, ICOS Research Associate, working on hybrid bacteria DNA secretion system
- Antonio Diaz Parra, Visiting PhD Student from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
- Zach Zundel, Visiting Student from the Univeristy of Utah, USA
- Ien Li, Visiting Student from the Princeton University, USA
- Dr. Göksel Misirli, ICOS Research Associate, working on synthetic biology design automation
- Prof. Christopher Myers, Visiting Professor from the University of Utah, USA
- Dr. Joseph Mullen, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on integration strategies to find new use for existing drugs
- Dr. Martin Sim, ICOS Research Associate, working on engineering bacteria for estrogen degradation at wastewater treatment plants
- Linda Anticoli, Visiting PhD Student from the University of Udine, Italy
- Dr. Bart Craenen, ICOS Research Associate, working on detecting criminal activity in the cloud
- Jens Kristian Geyti, Visiting Researcher from the University College London, working on data mining social media for symptoms of influenza
- Dr. Omer Markovitch, ICOS Research Associate, working on modelling prebiotic evolution / origin of life
- Dr. Sol Lim, ICOS Research Associate, working on computational modelling of human brain development
- Dr. John Dawson, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on gesture interactions and immersion into virtual worlds
- Dr. Chien-Yi Chang, ICOS Senior Research Associate, working on synthetic biology
- Dr. Susanne Pohl, ICOS Research Associate, working on engineering bacterial systems for protein production
- Dr. Janetta Steyn, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on computational modelling of crab neurons
- Dr. Curtis Madsen, ICOS Research Associate, working on model checking and the SBOL stack
- Dr. Jennifer Warrender, ICOS Teaching Assistant and PhD Student, defended a thesis on ontological modelling of scientific knowledge
- Dr. Michael Bell, ICOS Teaching Assistant and PhD Student, defended a thesis on quality of biological data annotations
- Dr. Daven Sanassy, ICOS PhD Student, defended a thesis on meta-stochastic simulation for systems and synthetic biology
- Dr. Pablo Suau Perez, ICOS KTP Associate, working on optimisation of circuit boards manufacturing
- Dr. Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mamun, ICOS Research Assistant, working on computational modelling
- Dr. Jennifer Hallinan, ICOS Lecturer in Bioinformatics
- Ismael Rodríguez Fernández, Visiting PhD Student from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Dr. Peter Andras, ICOS Reader in Complex Systems
- Pablo Gutiérrez Pérez, Visiting PhD Student from the University of Granada, Spain
- Ally Vitali, ICOS PhD Student working on data integration and drug design
- Dr. Allyson Lister, ICOS Research Associate working on ontologies, data integration, data visualisation and systems biology
