Core team

The UK DRI Core team

"The Core team is an experienced and professional group who turn our vision and ideas into action and progress. They work across the entire UK DRI, providing our researchers with the infrastructure, funding and support they need to get the job done." UK DRI Director

1. Contacting the team

Please use email to contact staff in the first instance, who will be able to share phone numbers when appropriate.

If you are unsure who to contact directly, please get in touch with Emilia Danielewska (emilia.danielewska@ukdri.ac.uk).

2. Connecting, supporting and driving

With our centres hosted in leading universities nationally, it's important we work hard to connect and coordinate our hundreds of researchers. We want every person in the UK DRI to be equipped to share ideas and information, whilst being provided with direction and the best resources. That's where the central team comes in.

The team brings a range of expertise:

  • Administration keeps everything coordinated moving smoothly.
  • Business & Innovation guides our technology transfer activities and handles the procedures and partnerships.
  • Communications connects our researchers and provides platforms to share and celebrate their achievements with the wider world.
  • Finance makes the funding flow and enables us to launch new initiatives.
  • Human Resources ensures we keep growing and recruiting the brightest minds, and that the ones we have are nurtured.
  • Information Technology enables UK DRI data to be available across the institute.
  • Research Funding and Support provides our researchers with the resources they need.
  • Scientific affairs spots the gaps and opportunities to progress our research, including training programmes.
  • Tools and Technology gives our researchers access to the very best technology.

Please contact us at any time and keep us up to date with your plans and progress!

3. Scientific Advisory Board

4. Meet the team

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Abbey Bibi

  • UK DRI Core Team Coordinator
  • Core team
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Alex Collcutt

  • UK DRI Research Communications Manager
  • Core team
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Alex Phillips

Alexandra Phillips

  • UK DRI Translation Portfolio Manager
  • Core team
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Amonida Zadissa

Amonida Zadissa

  • UK DRI Associate Director of Informatics
  • Core team, UCL
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Ana Antunes Martins

Ana Antunes-Martins

  • UK DRI Science Manager
  • Core team
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Beverly Roberts

Beverly Roberts

  • Centre Manager and Executive Assistant to Centre Director, UK DRI at Edinburgh
  • Edinburgh, Core team
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Bradley Roberts

  • UK DRI Science Review Manager
  • Core team
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Caroline Hurley

Caroline Hurley

  • UK DRI Core Team Coordinator
  • Core team
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Danielle Wilson

Danielle Wilson

  • Centre and Research Commercialisation Manager, UK DRI Care Research & Technology
  • Care Research & Technology, Core team
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Emilia Danielewska

Emilia Danielewska

  • UK DRI Operations Manager
  • Core team
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Faisel Farooq

  • UK DRI Digital Transformation Manager
  • Core team
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Heather Gershater

Heather Gershater

  • UK DRI Senior Awards Officer
  • Core team
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Helen Brooks

  • UK DRI Research Themes Project Manager
  • Core team
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Hugh Perry

Hugh Perry

  • UK DRI Honorary Consultant
  • Core team
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Iraida Soria-Espinosa

  • UK DRI Senior Innovation and Business Manager
  • Core team
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Jennifer Podesta

  • Centre Manager, UK DRI at Imperial
  • Core team
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Jo Latimer

  • UK DRI Chief Scientific Officer
  • Core team
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Katharine Buckle

  • UK DRI Finance Manager
  • Core team
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Liz Chambers

  • UK DRI Operations Manager
  • Core team
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Lucy Wilson

  • Chief Communications & Engagement Officer
  • Core team
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Martin Carmack

Martin Carmack

  • UK DRI Chief Finance & Operations Officer
  • Core team
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Molly Andrews

  • UK DRI Senior Communications and Media Officer
  • Core team
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Natasha Allan

  • UK DRI Legal Services Manager
  • Core team
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Olivia Marshall

  • UK DRI Public Affairs Manager
  • Core team
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Sam Jackson

Sam Jackson

  • UK DRI Tools and Technology Platform Manager
  • Core team
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Sarmi Sri

  • UK DRI Research Themes Project Manager
  • Core team
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Sashika Selvackadunco

Sashika Selvackadunco

  • UK DRI Core Team Coordinator
  • Core team
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Siddharthan Chandran

Siddharthan Chandran

  • UK DRI Director
  • Dissecting macroglial-neuronal crosstalk in C9ORF72 FTD/ALS
  • Edinburgh, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) research at UK DRI, UCL, Core team
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Tanisha Lewis

Tanisha Lewis

  • Centre Manager, UK DRI at King's
  • King's College London, Core team
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Tina Cottrell

  • Centre Manager, UK DRI at Cardiff
  • Cardiff, Core team
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