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Frank von Delft

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Frank is the Principal Beamline Scientist responsible for MX beamline I04-1, and jointly also Principal Investigator of the Protein Crystallography group in the SGC at Oxford University.  (See...

Email: frank.von-delft@diamond.ac.uk
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Daren is the Senior Beamline Scientist responsible for the XChem facility and its academic user program.

Email: daren.fearon@diamond.ac.uk
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Jose Brandao-Neto

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Jose Brandao is the Senior Beamline Scientist with I04-1, responsible for its original design, construction and initial operations. He was in the Protein Structure Group at Astex Pharmaceuticals in...

Email: jose.brandao-neto@diamond.ac.uk
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Louise Dunnett

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Louise joined i04-1 in November 2018, after completing her PhD in the Prischi Group at Essex University. Currently Louise is working on ways to increase the throughput of samples on i04-1 and is al...

Email: louise.dunnett@diamond.ac.uk
 Tel: (01235) 77 8263

Rachael Skyner

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 Rachael started working for XChem in April 2017. Her expertise is in Computational Chemistry and she is focussing on building a platform for computer guided follow-up generation of X-Ray frag...

Email: rachael.skyner@diamond.ac.uk
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Alexandre Dias

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Senior Industrial Liaison Scientist - MX

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Industrial Liaison Scientist - X Chem

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