Keynotes speakers
Professor Liam Grover
Prof. Grover is a biomaterials scientist whose research focuses on designing materials that enhance the tissue regeneration process. He studied for both his undergraduate degree (biomedical materials science) and his PhD on the development of a novel bioresponsive ceramic (under the supervision of Jake Barralet) at the University of Birmingham, UK. On completion of his PhD, Prof. Grover spent two years working in the labs of Jake Barralet and Marc McKee at McGill University, Montreal, where he was awarded a CIHR Skeletal Health Scholarship to study the role of a range of proteins and condensed phosphates in the formation of minerals. He returned to the University of Birmingham in 2006 to establish a research group in the School of Chemical Engineering. In the time since, Prof. Grover has held funding from a multitude of funding bodies, including: the EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC, NC3Rs, the Wellcome Trust, Orthopaedics Research UK, the MoD, the EU, the Drummond Foundation and the NIHR, as well as numerous industrial partners. Since 2006, he has been involved in raising more than £20m of research funding that has provided the University of Birmingham with an exceptional infrastructure for the development of medical technologies and Directs it nascent Healthcare Technology Research Institute. He has published in excess of 100 peer reviewed publications, 4 book chapters, has been an inventor on eight patent applications and has made more than 35 invited presentations. He was made a Fellow of the Institute of Materials at 30 and was made one of the youngest full Professors in the history of the University of Birmingham at 32. He is a visiting Professor at the University of Sao Paolo.
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Professor Mark C Bagley
Mark C Bagley is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex. Educated at the University of Oxford (BA 1991; DPhil 1994 with Prof L M Harwood), with post-doctoral studies at the Université de Genève (with Prof W Oppolzer), Loughborough and Exeter (with Prof C J Moody), he was appointed as a lecturer in Cardiff in 1999 where he stayed until 2011 before taking up his current position. He is a visiting professor at the University of Strasbourg. His research interests include heterocyclic chemistry, microwave-mediated synthetic methods and technology, flow reactors, the synthesis of heterocyclic natural products and the interface of chemistry and biology, in particular for the diagnosis of, and chemical intervention in, inflammatory diseases and rapid ageing.
Enrichment sessions speakers
Science communication and engagement session
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Jess is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Physics and Centre for Plastic Electronics at Imperial College London, creating circularly polarised organic light emitting diodes. During her MSci, Jess won the Tyndall Prize for Most Outstanding Final Year Project. Jess won the Institute of Physics (IOP) Early Career Communicator Prize (2015), “I’m a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here!” (2015) and the IOP Jocelyn Bell Burnell Award (2016). Throughout her career in research she has been involved in projects to support gender inclusion in science. At Imperial, she established the Imperial College London Women in Physics group, and nationally sits on the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) young women’s board. Amongst other projects, Jess works closely with the Institute for Research in Schools and IOP to try and support teachers and students across the country.
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Research Support: The Unsung Heroes of Academia
Dr Ryan Brown
Ryan Brown was a PSIBS CDT PhD student working in the School of Chemistry under the Supervision of Sam Butterworth. Ryan has moved into the world of IP and is now a Technology Transfer Officer embedded in the Medical School at the University of Birmingham. He is responsible for scoping early IP from researchers within MDS and also assists in project management of the MRC’s Confidence in Concept and Proximity to Discovery award. Ryan will be speaking about his experiences in getting that all important first position after a PhD and why a career in IP or research support is particularly suited to interdisciplinary researchers.