LINXS Chemistry of Life Core Group member, LINXS Fellow

Derek Logan, Professor of Molecular Biophysics, Dept. of Biochemistry and Structural Biology Lund University, Sweden.

Prof. Logan has a D.Phil. in Molecular Biophysics from Oxford University and did postdoctoral work in Strasbourg and Stockholm before moving to Lund University in 2001. He studies the structural basis for macromolecular function using a variety of experimental techniques: X-ray and neutron crystallography, small-angle X-ray scattering and cryo-electron microscopy. Two particular foci in recent years have been the mechanism and allosteric regulation of the radical enzyme ribonucleotide reductase and the details of ligand binding to the galectin family of carbohydrate recognition proteins. Prof. Logan is secretary of the European Synchrotron and XFEL Users Organisation and is a member of the advisory panel for the neutron macromolecular crystallography instrument at the ESS. He was recently appointed director of a new facility for cryo-EM at Lund University.