Dr Tom Burnley

Tom graduated with a Master's Degree in Biochemistry from University of Bath in 2003.  During this time he discovered a passion for structural biology whilst on a 6 month placement at the ESRF in Grenoble, France.  Following this, he gained a PhD in Biophysics from the University of Leeds centred on developing new tools for observing protein dynamics.  Wanting to focus on computational methods in 2008 he moved to Utrecht in the Netherlands to PostDoc in the group of Piet Gros and developed phenix.ensemble_refinement, combining X-ray structure refinement with molecular dynamics simulations to reveal protein dynamics from crystallography. 

In 2013, he took his current position as leader of CCP-EM's Core Team at STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council) at Research Complex.  Here he works with a team of internal and external software developers to make the CCP-EM software suite - a set of tools for processing biomolecular cryoEM data and producing high resolution maps of proteins used by both academic- and industry-based researchers.