Dr Martyn Winn

Martyn is Group Leader for the Computational Biology Group, which has interests in a wide range of research and software development, mostly in computational molecular biology. His group perform structural modelling of macromolecules and their environment, unbiased molecular dynamics simulations, enhanced sampling schemes, and free energy estimations. The group also coordinates the national CCP4 and CCP-EM projects in macromolecular crystallography and electron cryo-microscopy, and is involved in numerous bioinformatics and data analytical projects for ‘omics data. They also provide core support to the CCPi and CCPSyneRBI collaborations in tomography.

Martyn's background was in theoretical chemistry and condensed matter physics, before he joined CCP4 in 1995. He became group leader in 2007, and now has about 25 staff split between the Daresbury and Rutherford Appleton sites. He has received funding from MRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, STFC, EU and the Wellcome Trust.