Dean of Applied Sciences

I am delighted to announce that following interviews on Tuesday 5 March, Professor Michael Ginger has been appointed as the new Dean of the School of Applied Sciences.

Michael graduated from the University of Liverpool in 1993 with a first class Honours degree in Biochemistry. He remained in Liverpool to complete his PhD, using classical biochemistry and analytical chemistry approaches to study lipid biosynthesis in pathogenic Leishmania and Trypanosoma parasites.  Michael held successive post-doctoral positions in the Universities of Glasgow, Manchester, and Oxford to study the molecular and cellular biology of trypanosomes. Whilst in Oxford, Michael was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to study protist metabolism and cell biology and also held a non-stipendary lectureship with Brasenose College. He moved to Lancaster University in July 2007, and became  Head of Division for Biomedical and Life Sciences there in 2015. Michael joined the University of Huddersfield as Professor of Biochemistry and Head of Department for Biological Sciences in April 2016, and has been acting Dean since the New Year.

I am sure you will all join with me in offering Michael many congratulations on his appointment.

Professor Bob Cryan
Vice-Chancellor