Professor Mark Wallace is a Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, at King's College London. He studied Chemical Physics as an undergraduate at the University of Bristol, followed by a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor David Klenerman. He was awarded the 2002 Gregorio Weber International Prize in Biological Fluorescence for this work.

Mark then spent 2 years as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, working with Professor Richard Zare. He returned to the U.K. in 2002 to undertake a second postdoctoral position at the National Institute for Medical Research with Dr Justin Molloy, before moving to Oxford in 2005 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. He was subsequently appointed as a University lecturer and fellow of Wadham college in 2006. He joined King’s in 2016 as part of its expansion of Chemistry.

In 2009 Mark was appointed to the steering committee of the British Biophysical Society. Patents arising from his work have also been licensed in the U.K. Mark has also been active in raising awareness of his group’s research beyond the lab, including video podcasting and participation in the 2014 “I’m a scientist get me out of here” competition. He was awarded the RSC Norman Heatley Award in 2015 in recognition of his work. He was made a Fellow of the RSC in the same year.

Teaching

• UG Research Methods Literature Review
• MSci Chemistry Frontiers
• MSci Research Project & Dissertation
• MRes Research Project in Interdisciplinary Chemistry
• MRes Expanding the Frontiers of Chemistry

Research profile

For more information on Dr Wallace's research please see his Research Portal page

The Wallace Group

Research Associates:

• Neethu Puthumadathil
• Pantelitsa Dimitriou
• Yujie Guo

Postgraduate Researchers:

• Adelina Krusteva
• Guanzhong Zhai
• Henry Chippendale
• Kharina Fenton
• Lucian Heeler
• Siyuan Zhao
• Yimeng Zhu
• Yize Wu
• Zhongdao Li

The Wallace Group builds artificial mimics of cell membranes; both to improve our understanding of membrane biology, and to engineer new devices inspired by biology. The Group's approach is to dismantle the membrane into its component parts, and then rebuild it from scratch to understand what’s going on. They do this using a range of optical techniques capable of watching individual molecules.

Visit the Wallace Group website to find out more.