Life Sciences and Soft Materials Advisory Panel

The purpose of the Facility Advisory Panels is to provide a link between Science Board and the community, and represent the needs of the community to STFC. There are two advisory panels in the facilities area, the other being the Physical Sciences and Engineering Advisory Panel.

The remit of the panel is to:

• Maintain an overview of activities within their research area as relevant to STFC, in particular, but not exclusively, relating to facility provision, both UK and international
• Consult and interact with the community to ensure its views are canvassed and there is an appropriate and effective route for communication with STFC on strategic programmatic issues
• Provide advice to Science Board on specific questions as requested
• Liaise with other Advisory Panels when appropriate.

The remit of the panel includes technology development, theory, high performance computing and data curation issues within its area.

Panel members

• Chair: Prof Steve Meech – University of East Anglia
• Dr David Barlow – Kings College London
• Dr Nick Brooks, Imperial College London
• Prof Liz Carpenter - University of Oxford
• Dr Lorna Dougan, University of Leeds
• Dr Rachel Evans, University of Cambridge
• Professor Vilmos Fulop – University of Warwick
• Dr Oleksandr Mykhaylyk – University of Sheffield
• Professor Susan Quinn – University College Dublin
• Dr Victoria Garcia Sakai, STFC ISIS
• Dr Ann Terry – Lund University
• Prof Paul Verkade - University of Bristol
• Dr Graeme Whyte - Heriot-Watt University

Call for nominations

“The 2019 Call for Nominations Exercise has now closed.  Further information about future calls for nominations will be available in due course”. 

Terms of Reference

• Advisory Panels Terms of Reference 2016

Documents

• Life Sciences and Soft Materials Advisory Panel Meeting – Note of Meeting 21 February 2018 (PDF, 40 KB)
• Life Sciences and Soft Materials Advisory Panel Meeting – Note of Meeting: 27 January 2017
• Life Sciences and Soft Matter Advisory Panel Meeting: 15 January 2016
• 2013 Report of the Life Sciences & Soft Materials Advisory Panel: Submitted April 2013

STFC Strategies and Reviews

• UKRI Infrastructure Roadmap Initial Landscape Analysis
• Report from Skills Balance of Programmes Exercise
• Report from the Accelerator Strategic Review
• Strategic Context and Future Opportunities
• FEL Strategy
• Harwell Campus Strategy