Sophie Jackson

I first studied Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and undertook a Part II project in electron transfer in metalloproteins. I started the year thinking my interest was in electron transfer and then ended it knowing I wanted to study proteins for my PhD. I started in Imperial College at the University of London and then moved, reluctantly, to Cambridge where my supervisor took a Chair in the Chemistry Department a year later.  I finished my PhD on protein folding and enzyme mechanisms in Cambridge and then became a Research Fellow in Peterhouse and continued the research I had begun in my graduate studies. I moved to the Chemistry Department in Harvard for two years where I was a postdoctoral scientist in the group of Stuart Schreiber, and then returned to the Chemistry Department here as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. This enabled me to establish an independent research group and led to me becoming a lecturer, senior lecturer, reader and professor.  I run a small research group that studies many different aspects of biological self assembly. I collaborate widely both within Cambridge, UK and with groups around the World.  In addition to the lecturing I do within the Department, I am a Fellow of Peterhouse where I am an Admissions Tutor.