Our academic team and research expertise

Tuck Seng Wong

PROFESSOR/DIRECTOR

TSW is a Professor of Biomanufacturing within the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield. He holds two adjunct positions in South East Asia, affiliating with the National Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC, Thailand) and the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB, Indonesia).

Kiat Ruxrungtham

PROFESSOR/DIRECTOR

KR holds the position of Professor of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Additionally, he serves as the Director of the School of Global Health within the Faculty of Medicine and is the Co-director of the Chula Vaccine Research Centre (Chula VRC).

Adam J Brown

Senior Lecturer

AJB is an Associate Professor of Biopharmaceutical Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield. His academic lab is focused on developing technologies that improve the manufacture and performance of protein, DNA, mRNA, cell and viral vector products.

Andrew CK Lee

Professor

ACKL is a Professor of Public Health with expertise in public health protection, communicable disease control, disaster management, primary care and global health. He is also the Regional Deputy Director for Health Protection.

Ashutosh Tiwari

Professor

AT is internationally renowned for research in digital manufacturing and works in partnership with industry to develop new techniques and solutions for digitalisation, instrumentation, in-process monitoring and real-time simulation of skill-intensive manufacturing processes, such as wing manufacture and engine assembly.

David James

Professor

DJ is Professor of Bioprocess Engineering within the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield. Additionally, he is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Synthetic Genetic Systems Ltd (www.syngensys.com).

Eleona Chao

Hub manager (UK)

EC holds a Master's Degree in Advanced Engineering and Management from Sheffield Hallam University. She brings over seven years of project management experience in both industrial and academic settings. In 2022, EC joined the University of Sheffield, assuming the role of Project Manager and Communication Officer in the Manufacture using Advanced Powder Processing (MAPP) EPSRC Future Manufacturing Hub.

Kang Lan Tee

Senior Lecturer/WP3 lead and EDI Champion

KLT is recognized for her work in protein engineering, adaptive laboratory evolution and sustainable biomanufacturing, expertise that underpins the manufacture of biomolecules. Examples of her work include the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, polyhydroxyalkanoate as biopolymer for personal care and heme proteins for food.

Mark Dickman

Professor

MD obtained a First Class Honours Degree in Biochemistry/Chemistry at the University of Sheffield. He continued at the Krebs Institute, where he obtained his PhD. Following his PhD, he joined a biotechnology company, Transgenomic LTD where he worked as a research scientist developing analytical techniques including DNA/RNA chromatography. He joined the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield in 2003.

Mark Smales

Professor/WP4 lead

MS is an academic at the University of Kent and a Principal Investigator at NIBRT in Dublin, Ireland under a joint appointment partnership with the University of Kent. He has been active in research in the wider bioprocessing area for >25 years.

Martin Nicholson

Dr/Consultant

MN is a vaccine and biopharmaceutical manufacturing expert. He is a consultant with the World Health Organization on the mRNA technology transfer hub programme, focusing on sustainability, policy, business models and related activities.

Pete Dodd

Professor

PD is a Professor of Mathematical Modelling and Epidemiology, originally trained in mathematics (Cambridge) and theoretical physics (Imperial College London). He held postdocs in infectious disease modelling at Imperial and LSHTM, before moving to Sheffield.

Solomon Brown

Professor/WP2 lead

SB is Professor of Process and Energy Systems in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at The University of Sheffield. He leads the Brown Group at Sheffield with ongoing projects on mathematical modelling, process analysis and optimisation with a particular focus on clean  processes, energy systems and supply chains with work funded by the … Continued

Sunee Sirivichayakul

Dr/Hub manager (SEA)

SS was a research fellow of the Fogarty Programme for HIV immunologic and virologic studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School in Boston, from September 1994 to October 1996.

Tobias von der Haar

Professor

TvdH is a Professor of Systems Biology at the University of Kent. His group studies molecular mechanisms that determine the efficiency with which gene transcripts are translated into proteins, using a combination of computational and experimental tools.

Zoltan Kis

Senior Lecturer/WP1 lead

ZK is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield, and an Honorary Lecturer at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London. He is leading a multidisciplinary team, innovating and digitalising RNA vaccine and therapeutics production platform technologies. His work is addressing the challenges of producing large volumes of RNA-based vaccines and therapeutics rapidly at high quality and low cost in a disease-agnostic manner.