Biography

Graeme is a group leader and lecturer in single-molecule biophysics. Prior to establishing the lab in 2019, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he developed and applied novel single-molecule assays to study the role of mechanical stress on DNA structure and the mechanisms of DNA−protein interactions. This work was supported by a long-term fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organization. From 2016-2017, he was a visiting research fellow at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, where he studied the mechanisms of topoisomerase enzymes using magnetic tweezers. Graeme obtained a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Bristol in 2011. His PhD explored the role of 1πσ* excited states in the photochemistry of heteroaromatic molecules.