About US
Our multidisciplinary team of chemists, physicists, mathematicians, engineers, and biologists is dedicated to understanding the intricate dynamics of biological systems. Our mission is to translate this knowledge into design principles that enable the engineering of functional units from simple building blocks and their interactions. We define this innovative approach as Molecular Bionics.
Faculty
Giuseppe (Beppe) Battaglia
ICREA Professor and
Group leader
Lorena Ruiz Perez
Sierra Hunter Professor and
Deputy leader
Daniel Gonzalez Carter
Ramón y Cajal Fellow
Ramón y Cajal Fellow
Affiliated Faculty
Mohit Kumar
Ramon y Cajal Fellow (UB) and Visiting Scientist
Diana Matias
Caixa Junior Leader (GIMM) and Visiting Scientist
Iris Batalha
Senior Lecturer (UoBath) and Visiting Scientist
Xiaohe Tian
Full Professor and group leader (WCHSU)
Operations
Matilide Ghibaudi
Lab Manager (Biology) and Neurobiologist
Vanina Cosenza
Lab Manager (Chemistry) and Polymer Chemist
Peter Pfeiffer
Lab technician and
Polymer Chemist
Jiangqi Feng
Biology Lab Technician and Nanomedicine UCL student
Research Fellows
Subhadip Ghosh
Beatriu de Pinós Fellow
and Physical Chemist
Catia Lopes
Neurobiologist
Valentino Barbieri
Materials Scientist
Nisha Pawar Chauhan
Biological Physicist
Diana Kazaryan
Polymer Chemist
PhD students
Maryam Al Ghamdi
Nanomedicine
University College London
Junyang Chen
Nanomedicine
University College London
Melis Pisiren
Neuroscience
University College London
Joseph Buckley
Biological Physics
University College London
Jiangqi Feng
Nanomedicine
University College London
Lara Aiassa
Biomedicine
University of Barcelona
Bárbara Borges Fernandes
Physics
University of Barcelona
Víctor Mejías Pérez
Biomedicine
University of Barcelona
Akhil Venugopal
Biomedicine
University of Barcelona
Zhengdong Xie
Nanoscience
University of Barcelona
José María Muñoz López
Organic Chemistry University of Barcelona
Gian Marco Tuveri
Physics
University of Barcelona
Claudia Codano
Biomedicine
University of Barcelona
Marco Basile
Biomedicine
University of Barcelona
Alessandro Ronzoni
Biomedicine
University of Barcelona
Giulia Porro
Biomedicine
University of Barcelona
Valentina Schastlivaia
Applied Mathematics
Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Zahra (Kimia) Saeidikia
Biomedicine
University of Barcelona
Hu Lei
Organic Chemistry
University of Barcelona
Honglu Yin
Biomedicine
University of Barcelona
Affiliated PhD students
Federica Seidita
Chemical engineering
University of Palermo
Camilla Pozza
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of Milan
Elisa Mastrantuono
Immunology
(GIMM Univeristy of Lisboa)
Xiang Pan
Neuroscience
Sichuan University