People
Enterprise champions
Enterprise Champions play an important role in providing Cambridge Enterprise with an essential communication channel to and from the University's departments.
They meet regularly to discuss topics related to commercialising technology and to discuss Cambridge Enterprise activities and progress. They also share departmental research priorities, 'hot' technologies and critique Cambridge Enterprise's performance.
Enterprise Champions have a wide range of backgrounds, ranging from collaborative research with companies to commercialising new technology, starting companies, fundraising and balancing the demands of academic research and business.
Within their departments the Champions act as a first point of contact for researchers and academics who want advice on commercialisation routes and additionally help their colleagues to make the most of what Cambridge Enterprise has to offer.
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Arieh Iserles
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Michael Ramage
Michael H. Ramage is a University Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Cambridge University. His specialties include designing and building structural masonry spans using traditional techniques and new materials. Ramage collaborates in a building practice that includes the structural design, analysis, and construction of the tile-vaulted domes. Recent projects are the Pines Calyx in Dover, England, and at Mapungubwe National Park in South Africa. He recently held a fellowship in the engineering firm of Conzett Bronzini Gartmann AG, Chur, Switzerland. Mr. Ramage has led workshops on timbrel vault building techniques at MIT and the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. While at MIT, he was a research assistant with ArchNet.org and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture to catalogue important Islamic buildings in Anatolia. In addition to an MArch from MIT, Ramage has a B.A. in Geology from Carleton College. He held a Fulbright fellowship to Turkey in 1995-96, and was recently the recipient of MIT's Marvin E. Goody award and a Boston Society of Architects research grant. He is a member of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society.
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Dr Barry Dixon
Barry Dixon is a Research Facilitator for the Schools of Arts and Humanities and the Humanities and Social Sciences, with a focus on European and overseas funding bodies. Working alongside researchers from across both Schools, and in concert with the administrative bodies of the university, he offers procedural and strategic information on the various research funders and their schemes, as well as structural commentary on application drafts. He also works on a strategic level across the Schools on all issues related to European and overseas engagement.
Barry has worked previously for the European Science Foundation and Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and has taught at the National University of Ireland at Galway and University of Paris XIII.
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Dr Daniel Wunderlich
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Professor Peter Leadlay
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Dr Andrea Kells
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Dr Tennie Videler
Tennie Videler is the coordinator for the Cambridge Immunology Network which aims to bring together researchers from across Cambridge with an interest in all different aspects of immunology. She organises among other things a website, seminar series, the Immunology PhD and postdoc day and the annual Immunology Forum.
Tennie completed a doctorate and a dozen years of post-doctoral research in different fields of structural biology and was then a programme manager for Vitae, an organisation set up to support postgraduate researchers and research staff.
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Anna Davies
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Professor David Rubinsztein
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Jane Walsh
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Dr Oliver Hadeler
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Professor Arokia Nathan
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Professor Chris Lowe
Chris Lowe is Professor of Biotechnology in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
His principal research interests cover areas of healthcare biotechnology including biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics and sensors, ageing and medical microbiology. The work is characterised by not only being highly inter- and multi-disciplinary and encompassing aspects of biochemistry, microbiology, chemistry, electrochemistry, physics, electronics, medicine and chemical engineering, but also covering the entire range from pure science to strategic applied science, much of which has significant commercial applications. He has 345 publications, 8 books and monographs, >100 patents and has many collaborations worldwide, especially in Europe, the Middle and Far East, Australia, USA and South America. He is an editorial board member of a number of academic journals, a member of a number of grant awarding and government committees and is active in a number of legal and entrepreneurial roles.
He has supervised 85 PhD students and been awarded multiple national and international prizes and distinctions, including the Pierce Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Affinity Chromatography (1989), the David Curnow Prize in Clinical Chemistry (1991), Schlumberger Stichting Prize (1994), Queen’s Award for Technological Achievement (1996), Silver Jubilee Medal – Chromatographic Society (2002), Henry Dale Medal and Prize: The Royal Institution (London)(2003), Dade-Behring Award for Clinical Chemistry (2006), “Most Entrepreneurial Scientist of the UK” Award: UKSEC (2006), Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education: The Royal Anniversary Trust (2007), Officer of the British Empire (OBE): New Year Honours (2010) and BBSRC Commercial Innovator of the Year (2011). He holds visiting Professorships at the Universities of Bath (UK), Lund (Sweden) and the Australian National University (ANU)(2013).
He has been the driving force for the establishment of 10 Spin-out companies, including ProMetic BioSciences, Purely Proteins, Affinity Sensors, Cambridge Sensors, Smart Holograms, Psynova Neurotech, Rebha, Sparq Electrical, Quantz Medical and MonoJo. He is on the Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Boards of many companies.
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Dr Isabelle de Wouters
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Professor Stephen Elliott
Stephen Elliott is Professor of Chemical Physics at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has published over 270 papers on amorphous materials, and published three books. Prior to his current position, he was Professor of Physics at École Polytechnique in Paris, France, and has held visiting positions in Japan, France, Belgium and India.
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Professor David Klenerman
David Klenerman did his PhD under the supervision of Professor I.W.M. Smith FRS in the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University on infra-red chemiluminescence. He was then a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University, California doing post-doctoral research with Professor Richard. N. Zare on high overtone chemistry. He then came back to the UK and worked for seven years for BP Research in their Laser Spectroscopy Group before returning to Cambridge University, where he is currently a Professor in Biophysical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry. His research interests are the development and application of novel biophysical methods to biological and biomedical problems. This includes single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy of individual biomolecules, scanning ion conductance microscopy imaging of living cells and bionanotechnology. He is the author of over 100 papers and 10 patents. He also co-founded Solexa, a high speed DNA sequencing company.
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Dr Anthony Davenport
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Professor Ted Briscoe
Ted Briscoe has been a member of staff at the Computer Laboratory since 1989, a Reader since 2000 and Professor of Computational Linguistics since 2004. His broad research interests are computational and theoretical linguistics and automated speech and language processing. He directed and was heavily involved in the teaching of the MPhil in Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology, taught jointly with the Engineering Department.
From 1990 until 1996 he was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow undertaking research at Macquarie University in Sydney, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and Xerox European Research Centre in Grenoble, as well as at the Computer Laboratory.
His specific research interests include (nearly-)deterministic, statistical, and robust parsing techniques, acquiring lexical information from electronic textual corpora and dictionaries, defaults and constraint-based approaches to linguistic description, exploiting prosody and punctuation during parsing, models of human language learning and parsing, and evolutionary simulations of language variation and change.
He has published over 70 research articles, edited three books, and been Principal/Co-Investigator or Coordinator of fourteen EU and UK funded projects since 1985. He is joint editor of Computer Speech and Language and on the editorial board of Natural Language Engineering.
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Dr Lisa Saksida
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Dr Ian Farnan
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David Carter
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Chris Rider
Prior to joining Cambridge University as director of the CIKC in July 2009, he was Department Head for Printing and Patterning at Kodak European Research, Cambridge, developing a technology portfolio aimed at the growth of Kodak’s commercial businesses in continuous inkjet, electronic display, pre-press materials and electrophotography. He set up Kodak’s printed electronics programme in Europe combining the team’s expertise in inkjet and conventional printing with Kodak’s expertise in roll-to-roll manufacturing, to make multi-layer electronic devices such as solar cells, reflective displays and self-aligned organic transistors. During his Kodak career, he was an author or co-author on 51 patents.
Chris is Director Designate of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large-Area Electronics, which is due to start on October 2013. Chris is also director of Imbrys Limited, a microfluidics start-up. His current technical interests lie in energy harvesting, solar-powered desalination and in printed pressure sensors.
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Philip Guildford
Philip is the Director of Research in the Department of Engineering. He guides and supports the development and expression of research strategies, helps sponsors navigate through the University, and helps academics find sponsors. Another important aspect of Philip's role is looking after ~250 postdoc researchers in the Department. This includes personnel management, training and career development. He manages the marketing activities for the Department too. Information about the Department can be found at www.eng.cam.ac.uk
In addition to these duties, Philip gives courses on Scenario Planning for two Masters programmes (Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment and the Engineering for Sustainable Development), helps to design and facilitate research events involving academics and industrialists on request, and, for a few days each year, engages in some freelance business consulting in his spare time.
Philip graduated in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge (Jesus College). His career started in industrial R&D in the materials and aerospace sectors. He then progressed to R&D programme management in industrial energy efficiency and renewable energy. This led to him joining PA Consulting to work on technology strategy consulting and then Analysys where he became a Principal Consultant in the telecoms/media sector. In August 2003, Philip became the Department of Engineering's Director of Research; the first non-academic to be assigned to this role. A full CV is available at http://uk.linkedin.com/in/guildford
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Professor Brian Moore
Brian Moore received his B.A. in Natural Sciences in 1968 and his Ph.D. in Psychoacoustics in 1971, both from the University of Cambridge, England. He is currently Professor of Auditory Perception in the University of Cambridge. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York, and the University of California at Berkeley and was a van Houten Fellow at the Institute for Perception Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. His research interests are: the perception of sound; mechanisms of normal hearing and hearing impairments; relationship of auditory abilities to speech perception; design of signal processing hearing aids for sensorineural hearing loss; methods for fitting hearing aids to the individual; design and specification of high-fidelity sound-reproducing equipment; perception of music and of musical instruments. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and an Honorary Fellow of the Belgian Society of Audiology and the British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists. He is a member of the Experimental Psychology Society (U.K.), the British Society of Audiology, The American Speech-Language Hearing Association, The American Auditory Society, The Acoustical Society of Japan, the Audio Engineering Society, the Association for Research in Otolaryngology and the American Academy of Audiology. He is President of the Association of Independent Hearing Healthcare Professionals (UK). He has written or edited 15 books and over 500 scientific papers and book chapters. He has twice received the Littler Prize of the British Society of Audiology. In 2003 he was awarded the Acoustical Society of America Silver Medal in physiological and psychological acoustics. In 2004 he received the first "International Award in Hearing" from the American Academy of Audiology. In 2008 he received the “Award of Merit” from the Association for Research in Otolaryngology and the Hugh Knowles Prize for Distinguished Achievement from Northwestern University. In 2010 he gave the Distinguished Heyser memorial Lecture to the Audio Engineering Society. He is wine steward of Wolfson College, Cambridge.
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Dr David Summers
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Dr Eric Miska
Eric studied mathematics, physics and biology at Heidelberg, Berlin and Mainz, received a BA in Biochemistry from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland in 1996. He received his PhD in pathology from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK in 2000, working with Tony Kouzarides. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Bob Horvitz at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA from 2000 to 2004.
Eric is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Eric is a member of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme.
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Dr Tim Minshall
Tim Minshall joined the Centre for Technology Management in October 2002 as a University Lecturer in Technology Management. He is a member of the Board of St John's Innovation Centre.
Before joining the Centre, he was a Project Manager and Board Member at St John's Innovation Centre Ltd where he worked on a series of projects to support industry / academic collaboration focused around new technology ventures. Two of his main projects were support for the setting up and early management of the University of Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre (now Cambridge Enterprise and the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning) and the management of the 'Developing Entrepreneurs' project. This project led to the formation of the 'Enterprise Link' networking group for new technology ventures, the production of the 'Cambridge Technopole Report', the formation of the Cambridge Technopole Group, and the publication of the 'Funding Technology' report series.
Prior to working at St John's Innovation Centre, he worked as a teacher, consultant, plant engineer and freelance writer in the UK, Australia and Japan. He has B.Eng. from Aston University and a PhD from Cambridge University Engineering Department.
He is currently an External Examiner for MBA programmes at the Imperial College Business School, and a Visiting Fellow at Doshisha University Institute for Technology, Enterprise and Competitiveness in Japan.
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Dr Maria Adams
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Dr Shai Vyakarnam
Dr Vyakarnam worked in industry for several years before completing his MBA and PhD. He has combined his academic interest with those of small business and entrepreneurship. He has worked in entrepreneurship policy for the UK government, UN agencies and for the EU and World Economic Forum. He has advised government agencies in several countries on the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems, technology commercialisation and entrepreneurship education. He has mentored entrepreneurs and held non-executive directorships of small firms in addition to developing growth programmes for SMEs over several years. More recently he has been asked to develop educational approaches for generating an entrepreneurial culture and mindset shifts in larger "blue chip" organisations. His main contribution over the past 10 years has been to develop practitioner-led education for entrepreneurship.
Dr Vyakarnam is presently Co-Founder and Director of AcceleratorIndia. He is on the board of Enterprise Educators UK and the UK India Business Council. He is on the editorial board of the International Small Business Journal and the Journal of Strategic Change.
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Dr Rachel Hobson
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Dr Steve Charnock-Jones
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Dr Emily Clemente
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Dr Tai-Ping Fan
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Dr Dervila Glynn
My research is focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration and abnormal behaviour in Huntington's disease (HD). I am also interested in the role that changes in synaptic modulators play in neurological illness. The main portion of my research involves the study of motor, cognitive and social behaviour in mice (the R6/2 transgenic mouse model of HD in addition to Complexin knockout mice) in the context of HD. I am also interested in how the length of the CAG repeat affects the progression of the behavioural phenotype in the R6/2 mouse model of HD. Finally, my current work focuses on the cognitive enhancing properties of antidepressants in the context of HD.
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Professor Mike Payne
Prof Mike Payne is currently Head of TCM, and has worked on first principles total energy calculations since 1985 and is the author of the first principles total energy pseudopotential code CASTEP. He was awarded the 1996 Maxwell Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics and gave the 1998 Mott Lecture. He is responsible for many of the technical developments that have led to the widespread adoption of the total energy pseudopotential technique and has pioneered the application of this technique to a wide range of scientific problems from physics, chemistry, materials science, earth sciences and, most recently, biology.
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Michael Simmons
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Professor Bill Colledge
Prof Colledge is Professor of Reproductive Physiology in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. He obtained his BSc and PhD from Imperial College, University of London. After a post-doctoral position in Ottawa, Canada, he joined the laboratory of the Nobel Laureate Prof Sir Martin Evans in Cambridge. Prof Colledge is an expert in the manipulation of mouse embryonic stem cells and the generation of transgenic mice. During his career, he has generated several important transgenic mouse models of human disease including cystic fibrosis and cardiac arrhythmias. His current research is focussed on understanding the neuroendocrine regulation of mammalian reproduction. His laboratory has played a significant part in the seminal discovery that kisspeptin/GPR54 are key regulators of the hypothalamic pituitary gonadal axis. He is currently serving as a member of Council for the Physiological Society and has acted as a scientific consultant for several biotechnology companies.
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Dr Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley
Beatrix' role in the Department is to facilitate interaction between industry and research carried out in the department. In her role as the Cambridge-based staff member of the InCrops Project, she supports companies in the East of England in taking up low-carbon solutions based on plant materials. She holds an LTN Business Fellowship, and raises the profile of departmental research among industry through the LTN network. As one of the University's Enterprise Champions, she represents the Department at Cambridge Enterprise, and provides a link to the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning. She also coordinates the Cambridge Bioenergy Initiative, a largely industry-funded consortium working on sustainable bioenergy solutions, and convenes the Cambridge Partnership for Plant Sciences, a forum that brings together plant-related companies and research institutes in the area to facilitate efficient knowledge transfer between academic research and industrial application.
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Dr Paula Frampton
Paula Frampton is the Coordinator of the PublicHealth@Cambridge strategic research network. The PublicHealth@Cambridge Network aims to generate fresh insight into the health and well-being of populations by establishing a multidisciplinary community of researchers; supporting development of new research and co-ordinated activities in areas of importance to the health of the public; and facilitating translation of research to benefit current and future populations. Amongst other things, Paula organises a website, searchable researcher directory, networking events, and strategic discussions focussing on all aspects of population and public health.
Prior to joining the University of Cambridge, Paula spent a number of years working in research and policy at the Medical Research Council and has also worked in the medical research charity sector.
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Professor Frank Kelly
Frank Kelly is Professor of the Mathematics of Systems in the University of Cambridge, and Master of Christ's College.
His main research interests are in random processes, networks and optimization. He is especially interested in applications to the design and control of networks and to the understanding of self-regulation in large-scale systems.
Frank Kelly has received several prizes for his work. In 1979 he won the Davidson Prize of the University of Cambridge. In 1989 he was awarded the Guy Medal in Silver of the Royal Statistical Society, and in the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was awarded the 1991 Lanchester Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and in 1997 the Naylor Prize of the London Mathematical Society. In 2005 he received the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, in 2008 the John von Neumann Theory Prize of INFORMS, and in 2009 the SIGMETRICS Achievement Award and the Gold Medal of the Association of European Operational Research Societies.
He served as Director of the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge from 1991 to 1993. He has served on the Scientific Board of HP's Basic Research Institute in Mathematical Sciences, the Scientific Council of EURANDOM, the Conseil Scientifique of France Telecom, and the Council of the Royal Society. He has chaired the Advisory Board of the Royal Institution/University of Cambridge Mathematics Enrichment Project, and the Management Committee of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
He spent the academic year 2001-2 as a visiting professor at Stanford University. From 2003 to 2006 he served as Chief Scientific Adviser to the United Kingdom's Department for Transport. He is a member of the RAND Europe Board of Trustees, a non-executive director of Autonomy, and chair of the Council for the Mathematical Sciences.
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Dr Paula Buttery
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Gordana Najdanovic
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Dr Raymond Bujdoso
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Dr David Aldridge
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Professor Derek Smith
