People

Dr. Matteo T. Degiacomi – Associate Professor

Matteo, holds a MSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Life Sciences from EPFL (Switzerland). Following a PDRA in the Chemistry Department of the University of Oxford, in 2017 he joined Durham University as EPSRC Early Career Fellow. More information here.
matteo.t.degiacomi[at]durham.ac.uk

Samuel Musson – PhD Student

Sam grew up in rural Lincolnshire and completed his Master of Chemistry (MChem) at Durham University (2019). After carrying out his Master’s Research Project with Matteo, he was accepted onto the SOFI2 CDT program. Sam re-join the group in 2020 to look at the applications of deep learning methods with respect to the analysis and exploration of a proteins conformation landscape. More information here.

Cameron McAllister – PhD Student

Cameron grew up in Ellesmere Port near Liverpool and completed his MSci in Physics at the University of Bristol (2020). Cameron is part of the SOFI2 CDT program, and is co-supervised by Dr. Beth Bromley and Prof. Kevin Weatherill. For his project Cameron is performing single protein spectroscopy using an Enhanced Acoustic Raman (EAR) spectroscopy experiment and will use molecular dynamics simulations to generate more accurate theoretical predictions of proteins’ EAR spectra.

Josh McKeown – PhD Student

Josh is part of the SOFI2 CDT program, and is co-supervised by Dr. Chris Prior in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Dr. Robert Rambo at the Diamond Light Source. For his project, Josh combines geometrical models and molecular dynamics simulations to interpret the folding of proteins as described by SAXS data.

Asal Azar – PhD Student

Asal completed her BSc in Mechanical Engineering in Iran and moved to London to study MSc in Data Science at Brunel University, where she was involved in a project to build a PyMOL plugin for clustering protein conformations. For her project, she works on applying deep learning techniques to study protein conformational spaces.

George Weston – PhD Student

George completed his Master of Chemistry (MChem) at Durham University (2023). George is part of the NLD DTP3 program, and is co-supervised by Prof. Martin Cann in the Department of Biosciences. For his project, George is working on machine learning models to identify carbon dioxide binding sites on proteins.

Mateusz Wiszniowki – L4 Student

Mateusz is a fourth year student in the department of Physics, working on testing the molearn deep learning model for protein conformational spaces.

Alumni

  • Hannah Lydon, L4 Student, 2022/23 [PhD student @ King’s College London]
  • Cameron Stewart, L4 Student, 2022/23 [Ocado]
  • Saabir Petker, L4 Student, 2021/22 [PhD student @ University of Edinburgh]
  • Louis Sayer, L4 Student, 2021/22
  • Charles Brown, Intern, 2021 [PhD student @ Imperial College London]
  • Lucy Vost, L4 Student, 2020/21 [PhD student @ University of Oxford]
  • Lucas Rudden, PhD student, 2017/21 [PDRA @ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)]
  • Dr. Venkata Krishnan Ramaswamy, PDRA, 2018/21 [researcher @ Cresset]
  • George Carsley, L4 Student, 2019/20
  • Samuel Musson, L4 Student, 2018/19 [PhD student @ Durham University]

Joining us

Prospective postgraduate students are encouraged to explore funding opportunities such as those detailed in Funding for Postgraduate Research.

Currently no funded PDRA position is available. Outstanding candidates with a strong background in Physics, Computer Science, Computational Chemistry/Biology are encouraged to contact Matteo providing their CV and a short statement of research interests.