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Stephen Perkins obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry and a Doctor of Philosophy in Molecular Biophysics from the University of Oxford. He has held prestigious fellowships, including EMBO and EMBL Fellowships, and has worked at ETH-Zurich and EMBL-Grenoble. In his career, he was awarded the Lister Fellowship at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in Hammersmith, London, and has also served as a Wellcome Trust Lecturer at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine. In 1998, he received a Personal Chair and merged with University College London (UCL). He moved to the main campus of UCL in 2002 and has published over 250 papers primarily focused on the field of structural immunology, examining five classes of human antibodies and their relation to complement proteins and innate immunity. His work has garnered an h-index of 66, highlighting his impactful contributions to the field. Recently, he was awarded the Society Impact Award in 2024 for his research utilizing the UK's ISIS neutron facility to determine molecular structures of therapeutically important antibodies through a combination of neutron and X-ray scattering and computational modeling.