Adrien Hallou

Adrien Hallou is a Group Leader in Tissue Biology (Innovation Investigator Track) and Principal Investigator at the Kennedy Institute, University of Oxford. He leads the Laboratory of Cell and Tissue Dynamics, funded by the Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research, Royal Society, Clarendon Fund, EPA Cephalosporin Fund, and Innovate UK. He holds an MSc from École Normale Supérieure Paris and an MPhil/PhD from the University of Cambridge.

His research integrates mechanobiology, spatial genomics, advanced imaging, machine learning, and mathematical modelling to investigate mechanical/biochemical signaling in cell fate decisions and tissue dynamics during development, homeostasis, and disease. Key themes include tissue fluidity regulation, computational pipelines for mechano-transcriptomics, and biomechanical switches in epithelial tissues.

Recent publications emphasize interdisciplinary approaches, with trends in computational biology (55%), tissue mechanics (30%), and machine learning applications (15%). Awards include:

• Oliver Gatty Studentship in Biophysical Sciences
• Junior Research Fellowship, Darwin College Cambridge
• Herchel Smith Research Fellowship

He actively recruits PhDs/postdocs and supports fellowship applications (EMBO, Wellcome, HFSP). His lab focuses on collaborative, interdisciplinary work in cell/tissue dynamics.