Walsh Research

Martin Walsh is Deputy to Diamond's Life Science Director Prof. David Stuart. As coordinator of Diamond's life science activities he oversees research which spans  macromolecular crystallography, small-angle X-ray scattering, circular dichroism, infrared microspectroscopy and soft X-ray imaging for biology. As well as exploiting opportunities on other Diamond beamlines, notable spectroscopy and hard x-ray imaging, life science activities are supported by work at the  Research Complex at Harwell for which Diamond is a stakeholder. Finally, these research activities are now complemented by electron microscopy through the establishment of a national cryo-electron microscopy facility at Diamond which has recently been approved for funding.

As a protein crystallographer his research is primarily aimed at exploiting the use of X-ray crystallography to understand the structure and function of bacterial proteins.