Tom Robinson,
Lecturer in Chemical Engineering
Tom Robinson received an MSci in Physics (2005), an MRes in Chemical Biology (2007) and a PhD in Chemistry/Physics (2011) from Imperial College London. During his doctoral studies he was introduced to microfluidics under the guidance of Professor Andrew de Mello. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zurich with Professor Petra Dittrich from 2011 to 2014 where he developed microfluidic technologies dedicated to handling and analysing lipid vesicles. In 2014 he joined the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Germany as a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Rumiana Dimova and in 2016 he became an independent group leader within the MaxSynBio research network.In 2024 he started as aLecturer in Chemical Engineering at The University of Edinburgh. His current research interests are focussed on developing microfluidics for bottom-up synthetic biology applications. His work focusses on platforms designed to both create and analyse giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) and their subsequent use as artificial cells. These synthetic cells are created with multiple internal membrane-bound compartments mimicking eukaryotic cell organelles. The aim is to use these multi-compartment systems to setup enzyme-mediated cascade reactions and spatial organisation of the internal structures.
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