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Boyan Bonev

Professor of Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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Biography

Boyan Bonev studies Engineering Physics at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria. He obtained his PhD in Physics from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, under the supervision of Mike Morrow. At Memorial, he lectured in Physics and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in solid state NMR. Dr Bonev was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Biochemistry Department, Oxford, with Tony Watts. He also tutored at St Catherine's College, Oxford. He took a position as Lecturer in Biochemistry at the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Nottingham, and is presently a Professor of Biophysics at the School of Life Sciences. He is also Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange at the School of life Sciences.

Boyan Bonev has served on BBSRC committee D, EPSRC Peer Review College, MRC Panel on Antimicrobial Resistance, BSAC Drug Discovery and Development Committee. He was Chair of Diamond Review Panel and a member of the STFC Life Sciences and Soft Materials Panel.

Expertise Summary

nuclear magnetic resonance

membrane biophysics

computational biology

structural biology

antibiotic resistance

drug design

Teaching Summary

Biochemistry, Biophysics, Structural Biology, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Research Summary

Research in the Bonev lab is focused on the study of the organisation, composition and assembly of cell membranes, the interfaces of life. We seek to understand the role of compositional variation… read more

Selected Publications

Infections, Immunity and Microbes

School of Life Sciences
University of Nottingham
Medical School
Queen's Medical Centre
Nottingham NG7 2UH