Paula Booth

Paula Booth is currently the Daniell Chair of Chemistry at King’s College, London and also leads a Satellite Group at the Frances Crick Institute. Previously, as Head of the Department of Chemistry at King’s she re-started the department and led the renaissance of the discipline at the university. She is now inaugural Co-Director of a new interdisciplinary research centre at King’s for Physical Science of Life. Paula works at the interface of chemistry and biology and has pioneered approaches to probe the biosynthetic folding of integral membrane proteins, studying reaction mechanisms, regulation by membrane lipids and constructing biomembranes for synthetic biology applications. She has previously headed research groups and centres at the University of Bristol, Imperial College, London and the University of Oxford.