Prof Carlos Penedo
Director
School of Physics and Astronomy / School of Biology
Dr Juan Varela
Dr Marcus Bischoff
School of Biology
Developmental Biology
Keywords: cell microscopy, super-resolution, drosophila, embryogenesis
Prof Malte Gather
School of Physics and Astronomy
Dr Samantha Pitt
School of Medicine
Metal Ions in Medicine
Dr Paul Reynolds
School of Medicine
Systems Pathology and Cancer
Dr Maarten Zwart
School of Pyschology
Neurosciences
STRATEGIC VALUES
INTERDISCIPLINARY CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH
CoB promotes an stimulating environment that fosters collaborations between tool-builders and tool-users to find innovative light-based solutions to the most challenging problems in life sciences.
We aim to be an international reference centre on the use and development of light-based technologies with potential transformative impact in life sciences, both at fundamental and applied research level.
SHARING FACILITIES AND KNOWLEDGE
By sharing facilities we provide a cost-effective and flexible use of state-of-the-art equipment to support innovation. By identifying common goals and maximizing resources, we also remove obstacles to research and accelerate discovery.
Any scientific advance can only have impact if other researchers can benefit from it. At the CoB we are committed to share our findings, tools, instrumentation and reagents.
TALENT RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING
Our workforce comprises scientists from all over the world and we encourage applications from scientists at all career stages.
We are committed to gender and equality and the participating schools have been awarded silver (Pyschology and Neuroscience, Physics, Biology) and Bronze status (Medicine) within the Athena SWAN scheme.
DISSEMINATION AND OUTREACH
At CoB we aim to connect science and society and we host public lectures regularly around specific research areas and their impact in everyday life. The ‘Light for Life’ public lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is limited so tickets are required for admission.
Many of our public lectures and other outreach events are tailored for primary and secondary school students.