Group members

All current group members are listed below.

Some photographs from conferences and activities outside the lab can be found here.

Dr Bela E Bode

Reader - PI

Bela is originally from Frankfurt am Main (Germany) where he studied chemistry as an undergraduate. For his postgraduate studies in Frankfurt he investigated quantitative aspects of pulsed dipolar EPR spectroscopy under the joint supervision of Olav Schiemann and Thomas Prisner. After a short postdoctoral stay with Thomas Prisner he moved to the Matysik group in Leiden (The Netherlands) to study optical methods in solid-state NMR spectroscopy before moving to his current position in St Andrews.

CV
ResearchGate; Google Scholar; Orcid; ResearcherID;

Dr Katrin Ackermann

Postdoc

Katrin studied biochemistry at the University of Bayreuth and at the Goethe University of Frankfurt (Germany), where she prepared her thesis on liquid-state protein NMR. For her postgraduate studies she worked on diurnal rhythms in human post-mortem tissues at the Anatomy in Frankfurt. She continued to work in the field of human chronobiology during two postdoctoral stays at the University of Surrey (UK) and at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (NL), before joining the University of St Andrews in 2012 and starting to work with EPR. Her projects in the Bode group are centred on EPR applications for structural biology and PELDOR quality control criteria.

ResearchGate; Google Scholar; Orcid

Yannik Limbach

Second year PhD student

Aisika Chakraborty

First year PhD student

Yichen Wei

First year PhD student

Kaitlyn Gillies

Project student 2024-2025

Liza Liashchenko

Project student 2024-2025

Jemima Price

Project student 2024-2025

Alumni


Hannah Weiss - Honours project student 2024
Max Bottomley - Summer student 2023
Summer Jameson - Summer student 2023
Kirsty Bentley - Honours project student 2023; summer student 2023
Valentina Vitali - Visiting PhD student 2023 - publication 61
Dr Laura Remmel - PhD 2023 - publication 63, 68
Spencer Regan-Smith - MSc (Res) joint with Dr Alan Stewart 2022
Dr Josh L. Wort - PhD 2021 - PDRA 2021 - publications 35, 43, 44, 45, 53, 54, 59 and 60
Benjamin Bonk - Honours project student 2022
Miki Fukushima - PGT project student 2021 - publication 54
Rachel Nixon - Royal Society of Chemistry Undergraduate Research Bursaries 2021 - publication 58
Dr Maria Oranges - PhD 2020 - publications 27, 31 and 54
Viktorija Stikonaite - Honours project student 2020
Roxane Baron - Erasmus placement 2019
Roman Bittl - work experience 2019
Adam Chapman - Honours project student 2019
Dr Sonia Chabbra - PhD 2018 - publications 33, 34, 37, 41 and 42
Renée Chan - Nuffield Research Placement 2018
Lewis McLean - Honours project student 2018
Ben Hoffmann - PGR placement 2018
Clémence Devallière - ERASMUS Placement 2017
Tobias Gartner - Nuffield Research Placement 2017
Chris Wong - Honours project student 2017
Jennifer Dobson - Honours project student 2017
Dr Angeliki Giannoulis - PhD 2016 - publications 12, 17, 27, 31, 32, 35, 52, 57 and 60
Toni Clenaghan - Nuffield Research Placement 2016
Dr Silvia Valera - PhD 2016 - publications 14, 16, 20, 25 and 28
Josh Ward - Honours project student 2016 - publication 57
James Moses - Honours project student 2016
Katrin Eckhardt - PGR placement 2016
Catherine Higgins - Honours project student 2015 - publications 32 and 57
William Naismith - Nuffield Research Placement and CREST Gold Award 2014
Ashleigh Lockett - Honours project student 2014