Professor Martin Ulmschneider is a Professor of Computational Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at King's College London.

Martin studied Physics at Oxford University, followed by a DPhil at the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics working on membrane protein simulations. International fellowships from the Wellcome Trust, Human Frontiers (Short Term), and the EU (Marie Curie) allowed him to work on membrane protein folding and membrane active peptides at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, the University of Rome La Sapienza, Oxford University, Utrecht University, the University of California, Irvine, and Birkbeck College, London, before becoming an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University working on biomaterials.

He joined the Department of Chemistry at King’s in 2017 and is currently working on membrane active peptide design for diagnostic and therapeutic applications.

Teaching

• MSci Research Project & Dissertation
• MRes Research Project in Interdisciplinary Chemistry

The Ulmschneider Group

Research Associates:

• Dominique De Jong-Hoogland

Postgraduate Researchers:

• Ashfeen Khokhar
• Faraz Rahimi
• Favour Ajao
• Ke Wu
• Mahnoor Kadri
• Mehwish Sabha
• Oluebube Nwajiaku
• Zhiwen Zhong
• Suleyman Hussein

The Ulmschneider Group studies how peptides and proteins interact with cellular membranes and carry out their biological functions. Despite being essential for a wide range of critical cellular processes the functional mechanics of many membrane active peptides and proteins remain poorly understood. The group uses both computational and experimental techniques to reveal the molecular mechanisms and atomic detail interactions driving membrane active peptide and protein function in biological lipid bilayers, as well as to design and optimize synthetic membrane active peptides for biomedical applications.