Aminata Sakho
Technical specialist in NMR
I have completed a five years Bachelor and Master degrees in France, University Grenoble-Alpes. I then moved to York, UK where I completed a PhD degree under the supervision of Pr Simon B. Duckett and Dr Meghan E. Halse. My project was harnessing p-H2 hyperpolarisation and heteronuclear couplings for Earth’s field NMR detection. I then joined the NMR team in Manchester in January 2023
Carlo Bawn
Technical specialist in NMR
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Daryl Bamber
NMR Technician
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Matthew Cliff
Senior technical specialist in NMR
I am the Senior Technical Specialist for the Magnetic Measurements technical platform in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. I have over 20 years experience of biomolecular NMR, using it to determine protein structures, dynamics and interactions.
I studied Biological Sciences (Biochemistry) at the University of Edinburgh in 1995. I then completed a PhD degree at the University of Bristol in the department of Biochemistry.
I then moved to the University College of London in 2001-2004 Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, as a researcher.
Between 2004-2012, I worked at the University of Sheffield in Mol. Biol. & Biotechnology.
I then moved to Manchester Institute of Biotechnology where I worked as Senior Experimental Officer since 2012. In 2021, I was appointed as Senior Technical Specialist in Magnetic Measurements.
Ralph Adams
Senior Research Fellow and Head of NMR
I am responsible for the NMR instrumentation, facility operation, research support, and service delivery in the Department of Chemistry. I also supervise graduate and undergraduate research projects in the NMR Methodology Group.
I studied Chemistry at the University of York, completing the 4 year MChem course in 2005 which included a final year working in Analytical Methods Development in the R&D division of GlaxoSmithKline (Stevenage).
I stayed in York to work towards a Ph.D in the research group of Prof. Simon Duckett in the Department of Chemistry and Prof. Gary Green at York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC). My research centred around applications of hyperpolarisation with magnetic resonance imaging.
I moved to Manchester at the end of 2010 to take up a post-doctoral research associate position working on Matrix Assisted Diffusion-ordered spectroscopy (MAD), then pure shift NMR methods.
At the start of 2015 I was appointed as Research Fellow and Head of NMR Spectroscopy, then promoted to Senior Research Fellow in 2021.