Dr Alex Brogan

Dr Alex Brogan is a Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, King's College London. Alex obtained both his MSci (2008) and PhD (2012) from the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol. After a short postdoc there, he moved to the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, where he was a Research Associate until 2019. During this time, he was also a Visiting Researcher, at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2017 – 2018). In 2019, Alex moved to the Department of Chemistry, King’s College London, to establish his group as a Lecturer in Chemistry. His research is broadly on the development of protein-based biomaterials with high stabilities against temperature, aggregation, and non-aqueous environments. Particularly, his research focusses on combining these biomaterials with ionic liquids to provide new opportunities for sustainable biocatalysis and soft-material design.

Research Interests

• Biocatalysis in ionic liquids
• Non-aqueous enzymes
• Protein stabilization
• Biophysics of proteins in unnatural environments
• Functional hybrid materials
• Ionogels
• Protein-based biomaterials
• Deep eutectic solvents for bio-applications

Teaching

Alex teaches Chemical Kinetics in Physical Chemistry 2 (5CCC0035) and Spectroscopy for the Interrogation of Biomolecules in Advanced Chemistry for the Life Sciences (5CCC2010).

Alex also supervises research students at the MSci, MRes, and PhD level.

More Information

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