Roisin Owens

Biography

Róisín M. Owens received her BA in Natural Sciences (Mod. Biochemistry) at Trinity College Dublin, and her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Southampton University. She carried out two postdoc fellowships at Cornell University, on host-pathogen interactions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the dept. of Microbiology and Immunology with Prof. David Russell, and on rhinovirus therapeutics in the dept. of Biomedical Engineering with Prof. Moonsoo Jin. From 2009-2017 she was a group leader in the dept. of bioelectronics at Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne, on the microelectronics campus in Provence. She joined the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology in the University of Cambridge as a University Lecturer in 2019. She is also a Fellow of Newnham College. Her current research centers on application of organic electronic materials for monitoring biological systems in vitro. Her group focuses on two main topics; the integration of electronic materials with (1) cells and tissues for organ-on-chip applications, and (2) cell membranes for studying drug and pathogen interactions. She has received several awards including the European Research Council starting (2011), proof of concept grant (2014) and consolidator (2016) grants, a Marie Curie fellowship, and an EMBO fellowship. She is a 2019 laureate of the Suffrage Science award.

RSC affiliations

• Editorial board, Materials Horizons