Mark Williams

Dr. Mark Williams is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the ISMB BiophysX Centre at Birkbeck, University of London's School of Natural Sciences. His research focuses on biomolecular structure and thermodynamics, protein interactions, and bacterial cell division. He leads the MOSBRI initiative, a European infrastructure for molecular-scale biophysics, emphasizing method development and standardization. Awards include a Fellowship with the Higher Education Academy.

• Research: Integrates biophysical experiments, structural bioinformatics, and molecular simulations to study biomolecular complexes, including chromosome separation mechanisms and RubisCO evolution.
• Teaching: Programme Director for the MRes in Bioinformatics and teaches modules like 'Molecular Basis of Life.'

Recent work includes collaborations on RubisCO's evolutionary constraints, enthalpy-entropy compensation, and protein destruction receptors in cancer research. He supervises Rachel Alcraft's PhD on super-resolution imaging techniques.