Mark Poolman

Dr Mark Poolman is a Senior Research Fellow in Systems Biology at the School of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University. His research focuses on metabolic modeling, systems-wide analysis, and computational approaches to understanding biological processes in plants, microbes, and pathogens.

His funded projects include:

• BBSRC Institute Strategic Programme: Microbes and Food Safety (2023–2028).
• European Commission-funded work on antimicrobial targets (2021–2025).
• CCnet project for carbon recycling (2019–2025).

Dr Poolman’s work spans photosynthesis, photorespiration, nitrogen fixation, and metabolic engineering in organisms like Clostridium autoethanogenum, Phaeodactylum tricornutum, and Escherichia coli.

His recent publications highlight trends in

• algorithm development for elementary mode analysis,
• applications of flux balance analysis in plant and microbial systems,
• and industrial biotechnology for sustainable chemical production.