Jo Galloway

I am currently a post-doctoral research assisstant in Fiona Meldrum's group at Leeds, and have previously worked as a PDRA in Dek Woolfson's group at Bristol, and as a post-doctoral fellow with Kevin Critchley at Leeds.

I have a BSc in Geological Sciences and an MSc in Environmental Geochemistry (studying stable isotopic fractionation of sulfur in peats by bacteria) from the University of Leeds. I completed my Ph.D in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Leeds in September 2012 on, "Biotemplating Arrays of Nanomagnets Using the Biomineralisation Protein Mms6." I was able to secure an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship which I completed in October 2014, where I continued at Leeds working with peptide templated magnetic materials to develop biotemplated magnetic data storage. I moved to Bristol in January 2015 to design and make self-assembling protein and peptide structures, some of which I silicified.

I returned to Leeds in June 2018 where I am now working on crystallization of biologically relevant minerals with organic and inorganic templates.