Team members

  • Tushar Khoda

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    Tushar Khoda Head of Technical Operations and Safety

    Please contact regarding:

    • Management and Strategy of Departmental Technical Staff
    • Oversight, management and strategy of departmental core facilities
    • Departmental Safety Officer
    • Management of Bioengineering Estate, research and practical teaching spaces
    • User coordinator for management of all infrastructure projects
  • Miguel Hermida Ayala

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    Miguel Hermida Ayala Deputy Technical Operations Manager and Deputy Safety Officer

    +44 (0)7594 510 961

    Please contact regarding:

    • Oversight of all Departmental Biosciences and Imaging Core Facilities.
    • Supporting the Technical Operations Manager.
    • Departmental Biosafety Adviser

  • Beth Wallis

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    Beth Wallis Technical Operations Manager (Biosciences)

    Please contact regarding:

    • Biosciences technical operations at South Kensington and White City
    • Biosciences technical staff management
    • Core facilities, including cell culture, imaging, histology, genomics and microbiology
    • Biosciences safety, GM and HTA
    • Technical support for research and teaching
    • Laboratory infrastructure and refurbishment projects

  • Marta Garcia Bellmunt

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    Marta Garcia Bellmunt Bioengineering Core Facilities Manager

    +44 (0)7566 950 911

    Please contact regarding:

    • Oversight of all South Kensington Departmental Core Facilities
    • Management of South Kensington Core Genomics and Microbiology Facilities
    • Safety inspections
    • SALUS investigations
    • Health & Safety Committee secretary

  • Sharad Patel

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    Sharad Patel Biosciences Core Facilities Manager

    +44 (0)7592 587 443

    Please contact regarding:

    • Tissue and cell culture
    • Microscopy
    • Biological safety
    • Radiation safety
    • Laser safety
    • Cryostorage
    • Biological and GM waste

  • Morgan Edmonds

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    Morgan Edmonds Bioengineering Technician (Teaching)

    Please contact regarding:

    • RCS1 108, Molecular Bioengineering Laboratory support
    • Molecular Bioengineering undergraduate teaching support 

  • Olivier Dubois

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    Olivier Dubois Bioengineering Biological Services Technician

    +44 (0) 7729619227

    Please contact regarding:

    • Home Office designated work, labs and training
    • Uren Designated laboratories 
    • HTA work
    • Utilities and PPE stocks
    • Histology core

  • Florent Seichepine

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    Florent Seichepine Bionanofabrication Suite and Clean Room Technical Manager

    +44 (0) 7395 248 415

    Please contact regarding:

    • Bionanocharacterisation
    • Atomic Layer Deposition
    • Clean room
    • Microfluidics 
    • Labcup

  • Tariq Malik

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    Tariq Malik Electronics Engineer

    +44 (0)20 7594 6497

    Please contact regarding:

    Departmental electronics laboratories:

    • Undergraduate teaching laboratory
    • Undergraduate research projects
    • Postgraduate/research laboratory
    • Electronics design advice
    • Electronics safety testing and advice
    • Departmental PAT testing
    • Faulty equipment diagnosis
    • Tensile testing
    • 3D printing, including Ultimakers, Boplotter and Objet 30

  • Mr Kanabar

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    Mr Kanabar Senior Engineering Technician

    +44 (0)20 7594 5188

    Please contact regarding:

    Consultancy on engineering design:

    • Electronic (ELV), electrical (LV), and mechanical prototyping, safety and compliance.
    • Consultancy on design, rapid prototyping, 3D printing and machining.

    • Electronic and mechanical ​engineering, embedded systems, measurement and testing.
    • Electrical safety testing, diagnostics, advice and repair.
    • Practical teaching sessions - electronics and mechanics.
    • For more information on how I can assist you, please visit   my Sympleptic page.
  • T Otten

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    T Otten Makerspace Technician

    Please contact regarding:

    Assisting Makerspace users with the Mechanical Engineering aspect of their research

  • Russell Stracey

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    Russell Stracey RSM Mechanical Workshop Supervisor

    +44 (0)20 7594 6773

    Please contact regarding:

    • RSM Mechanical workshop enquiries
    • Technical workshop staff
    • Enquiries regarding available machinery
    • Trade union representative

  • Greg Casson

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    Greg Casson Core Facilities Technician

    +44 (0)7752 971 322

    Please contact regarding:

    • Technical support for Bioengineering laboratories,  researchers and Technical Operations Manager
    • Supporting infrastructure (including planned preventative maintenance, service contracts, defects, and minor laboratory works or upgrades), laboratory management systems of work and safety provision, PPE stores throughout all Bioengineering laboratories and workshops
    • Management of the Infrastructure minor works projects and Chemical Waste disposal 
    • Unison and Unison H/S representative.

  • John Waldock

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    John Waldock Departmental Mechanical Engineer

    Please contact regarding:

    Support Teaching and Research: 

    • Mechanical engineering consultancy
    • Mechanical Workshop machining support
    • Advice on designing and building bespoke research equipment
    • Teaching and supporting BE2-HSDM Mechanics II Solids lab and Design and professional practice modules

    Departmental Mechanical Laboratories: 

    • Student supervision in the RSM Workshop (LG04)
    • Overall technical support and oversight of the Mechanical Testing Facility (B120)
    • Comprehensive technical support and oversight of Bio Mechanical Laboratory (B220)
    • Departmental Mechanical H&S

  • Nana A. Asamoah-Danso

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    Nana A. Asamoah-Danso Bioengineering Core Facility Technician

    +44 (0)7894 329 366

    Please contact regarding:

    • Synthetic Biology laboratories
    • Technical support for Bioengineering laboratories
    • Histology facility and departmental laboratory coat laundry services
    • PPMS booking systems
    • Autoclaving chemical solutions, laboratory equipment and biohazardous waste
    • Laboratory instrument servicing
    • Laboratory instrument and furniture transfers

  • Hamid Samivand

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    Hamid Samivand Multiskilled Engineering Technician

    Please contact regarding:

    • Technical support and supervision for Makerspace (B220) and the RSM Workshop (LG04).
    • 3D printing and laser cutting.
    • CAD modelling and prototyping.
    • Tensile testing
    • Departmental PAT testing.

  • Adriana Lobosco

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    Adriana Lobosco Laboratory Technician

    +44 (0) 7743188438

    Please contact regarding:

    • Bionanocharactierisation and imaging
    • Research laboratory support
    • Departmental core facility support

  • Jack Gehring

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    Jack Gehring Laboratory Technical apprentice

    Please contact regarding:

    • Laboratory core facilities and teaching support.
    • Part of our joint apprenticeship scheme with The Department of Chemistry 

  • Katie Giles

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    Katie Giles Core Facilities Support Technician

    Please contact regarding:

    • Tissue Culture technician
    • Providing support for Microscopy and Genomics

  • Mandy Mak

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    Mandy Mak Laboratory Teaching Technician

    +44(0) 7354165475

    Please contact regarding:

    • Facilitating Molecular Bioengineering Undergraduate Teaching
    • Managing and maintaining the Molecular Bioengineering Laboratory (Bess B615)
    • Supporting the Deputy Technical Operations Manager in lab operations
    • Providing technical assistance during lab teaching sessions

  • Fabio Tatti

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    Fabio Tatti Core Facility Manager

    +44 (0)7715 624 079

    Please contact regarding:

    • Robotics and virtual environments
    • Medical robotics and mechatronics
    • Motion capture and testing with human subjects
    • Software development

  • Sarah Grieve

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    Sarah Grieve Assistant Lab Support Technician

    Please contact regarding:

    • Working 0.5 FTE on the Technical Team in Uren Level 3 Labs
    • Supporting core facilities.

  • Kieran Smith

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    Kieran Smith Laboratory Technician Apprentice

    Please contact regarding:

    •   Laboratory core facilities and teaching support.
    •   Part of our joint apprenticeship scheme with The Department of Chemistry 

  • Ellie Wareham

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    Ellie Wareham Research Technician

    Please contact regarding:

    • Day-to-day management of Synthetic Biology labs
    • Health and safety
    • Lab orders
    • Sustainability for Synthetic Biology labs.