Postdocs
Meet the postdoctoral researchers employed at the CML centre!
Billy Darling
Initially trained as a medicinal chemist, Billy worked on developing novel weight-loss and analgesic drugs during his undergraduate studies at Queen Mary University of London and his time at Nxera Pharma UK. After his time in industry, he returned to academia to pursue a PhD in peptide chemistry and NMR spectroscopy at University College London. Enthused by NMR spectroscopy, Billy then moved to Uppsala to conduct further research in method development and 3D structure determination under the guidance of Máté Erdélyi, with a particular interest in macrocyclic peptides.
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Candice Gautier
Candice was awarded her PhD from the Sapienza University of Rome in 2019. Throughout her career she has become a protein engineering expert with the purpose to better understand structure - function relationships. Her PhD focused on the understanding of folding mechanisms of protein domains within multidomains. Her latest works include evolving enzymes in better biocatalysts and developing a high-throughput screening method to select enzyme candidates based on their catalytic properties. Within the research center, she will work with proteins involved in the circadian clock.
Vivek Junghare
Vivek obtained his doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkee, India. His research is focused on computational biology. He has worked on method development for analyzing peptides/protein structure-function using in-silico approaches. He has expertise in Python and C programming languages and structural bioinformatics. RNAs, especially mRNA and miRNAs, are responsible for essential functions, including gene regulation and catalyzing chemical reactions vital for life. Hence, he will work on the sequence and structure-based analysis of RNAs to understand their functional role.
Connie Mae Petroeschevsky
Connie was awarded her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Queensland, Australia in 2022, where she mapped the functional evolution of an orphan cytochrome P450 subfamily using ancestral sequence reconstruction. Past projects include identifying protein modifications important for the activation of the non-canonical inflammasome and analysing lipid mediators in AAV9-treated human iPSC-derived brain organoids. Here, she will be working on development of mass spectrometry imaging techniques to investigate changes to the spatial distribution of lipids and other small molecule metabolites in biological specimens.
Wouter A. Remmerswaal
Wouter obtained his Ph.D. in 2024 from Leiden University, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jeroen D. C. Codée. He researched the reaction mechanisms of glycosylation reactions using a combinatory approach of computational and synthetic carbohydrate chemistry. Currently, he is working in the halogen bonding group led by Prof. Dr. Máté Erdélyi. Here, he is developing synthetic routes towards halonium ion complexes that can act as halogen transfer reagents in asymmetric halogenation reactions, and spectroscopically and computationally investigating the reaction mechanisms involved.
Previous CML postdocs
Gábor Tóth
Gábor was awarded his PhD in chemical sciences at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2022. During his doctoral program, he specialized in fundamental developments for separation sciences and their biomedical applications for identifying and quantitating (glyco)proteins and glycosaminoglycans interrelated with cancer development. During his postdoctoral work, he focused on technical developments for single-cell metabolomics along with mass spectrometry imaging of lipid mediators in biological specimens such as human multiple sclerosis brain tissue sections.