Louie Slocombe

I’m a postdoctoral researcher and group leader in the Scanlon Materials Theory Group (SMTG) at the University of Birmingham. I am interested in understanding how life utilises chemistry to function and interacts with its environment. I have a background in theoretical physics and chemistry, and I apply it to biochemical systems.

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I got my PhD in Quantum Biology from the University of Surrey in 2022, where I worked with Prof. Marco Sacchi and Prof. Jim Al-Khalili. My thesis focused on the role of nuclear quantum effects in biological systems, particularly proton transfer in DNA. After my PhD, I became a Research Fellow in Theoretical Quantum Biology at the University of Surrey, where I worked on open-quantum-systems models of proton transfer in DNA with explicit interactions of the replisome and quantum/classical contributions to ion selectivity in ion channels.

Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher and group leader in the SMTG (David Scanlon’s group), part of the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham. I was previously group leader at Arizona State University.