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Graeme King graduated with an MSci in Chemistry from the University of Glasgow and obtained his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Bristol in 2011. His PhD research focused on the role of πσ* excited states in the photochemistry of heteroaromatic molecules. He is driven to apply his expertise in the field of physical chemistry to genome biology and subsequently undertook postdoctoral research in single-molecule biophysics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. During this time, he developed and applied a range of novel single-molecule assays based on optical tweezers and fluorescence microscopy to study the role of mechanical stress in DNA structure and mechanisms of DNA−protein interactions. This work was supported by a long-term fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organization. From 2016 to 2017, he served as a visiting research fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, studying the mechanisms of topoisomerase enzymes using magnetic tweezers. He returned to Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2017 as a senior postdoctoral fellow. In 2019, he took a lectureship in single-molecule biophysics at University College London and established an independent lab.
University College London • London
Lecturer in single-molecule biophysics, leading an independent research lab.