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SYNOPIS
- Provost's
Venture Research Fellow, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment,
UCL
- Founding
member of the UCL Consortium for Mitochondrial Research
- Convenor
and Chair of the UCL Origin of Life group
- Honorary
Reader, UCL Medical School
- Author
and editor of books and articles
- Regular
contributor to Nature and New Scientist
- Regular
guest lecturer in universities and plenary speaker at conferences
WRITING
AND LECTURING
- Author
of Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
(WW Norton/Profile, 2009), translated into Spanish, Portugese, Czech,
Korean, Turkish, Chinese and Japanese. WINNER of the Royal Society
Science Book Prize, 2010. A Book of the Year in The Times
and The Independent.
- Author
of Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
(OUP, 2005), translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Czech.
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize, 2006,
and the Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year Award,
2006. An Economist Book of the Year, 2005.
- Author
of Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World (OUP, 2002),
translated into Korean, Japanese Polish and Russian. A Sunday
Times Book of the Year, 2002
- Co-editor
of Life in the Frozen State, the first major multi-author
text on cryobiology in the genomic era (CRC Press, 2004)
- Articles
published in Nature, New Scientist, etc
- Regular
guest lecturer in universities, including Oxford and Cambridge
- Distinuished
Visiting Scholar at Rutgers University, 2009
- Brockington
Visitor, Queens University, Kingston, 2011
- Plenary
speaker at conferences, including Gordon and Harden conferences
- Speaker
at literary festivals, including Edinburgh and Hay Festivals
- Lecturer
on first- and third-year Life Sciences courses at UCL and in schools
around the country
- Radio
broadcasts and podcasts, including BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4,
National Public Radio, Nature and Guardian podcasts
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
PUBLICATIONS
RESEARCH
POSITIONS
- Provost's
Venture Research Fellow, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment,
UCL
- Steering
Committee, UCL Consortium for Mitochondrial Research (CfMR)
- Honorary
Reader, UCL Medical School, University College London, 2006 –
Date
- Honary
Senior Research Fellow, University College London, 2002-2006
- Honorary
Research Fellow, University College London, 1997-2002
- PhD
student, Royal Free Hospital Medical School 1991 – 1995
- Scientific
Officer, MRC Clinical Research Centre, Northwick Park Hospital 1988
– 1991
AWARDS
- 2011
- Brockington Visitor, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
- 2010
- Life Ascending WINNER of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books,
2010
- 2010
- Life Ascending nominated as one of the Books of the Year by the
Times and the Independent
- 2009
- First UCL
Provost's Venture Research Prize and Fellowship
- 2009
- Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Rutgers University
- 2006
- Power, Sex, Suicide short-listed for the Times Higher Young Academic
Author of the Year
- 2006
- Power, Sex, Suicide short-listed for the Royal Society Science Book
Prize
- 2005
- Power, Sex, Suicide nominated as one of The Economist Books of the
Year
- 2002
- Oxygen nominated as one of The Sunday Times Books of the Year
- 1994
- Prize winner in the New Scientist Millennial Science Essay Competition
- 1993
- Prize winner in the Daily Telegraph Young Science Writer of the
Year Award
- 1985
- Awarded the Sir Isaac Holden Scholarship
TALKS
and MEDIA APPEARANCES
PHARMACEUTICAL
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Strategic
Director, Adelphi Medi Cine, 1999 – 2002
- Chief
medical communications strategist in global pharmaceutical marketing
campaigns developing interactive multimedia health-economic programs
to guide health policy on diabetes, influenza, haemophilia, HRT and
infectious disease.
- Senior
Writer/Producer, Medi Cine International 1996 – 1999
- Developing
programmes in a variety of media, including, CD-ROM, DVD, video, slide,
web and print; CME program through Johns Hopkins University. Won several
prizes in international film festivals, including Gold and Silver
awards in the Prix Leonardo, and Silver ‘Hugo’ in the
Intercom Chicago International Film Festival.
Medical
Writer, Oxford Clinical Communications 1995 – 1996
EDUCATION
- PhD,
Royal Free Hospital Medical School, University of London 1991 –
1995: In vivo studies of ischaemia-reperfusion injury in hypothermically
stored rabbit renal autograft
- BSc
(Hons) Biochemistry, Imperial College, University of London 1985 –
1988.
PERSONAL
INTERESTS
- Raising
two small and energetic boys (temporarily eclipsing most of the following)
- Rock-climbing
and mountaineering: numerous foolish exploits on rock, ice and mountain
peaks across the UK, Europe and America; finding wild camp sites
- Fiddle
player in traditional Irish band, Probably Not, playing in London
pubs and folk venues
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