Dr James Smith is a Research Fellow in the School of Engineering and Sciences (SES). His current research includes the (time-dependent) modelling of enzyme reactions and networks. He explores self-organising (spatial and temporal) behaviour of intracellular metabolic and signalling pathways and their ligand-protein interactions.

He also teaches aspects of Computational Biology to Masters students on the MoLife Graduate course and co-supervises Masters and PhD students.

In 2001, he started his postdoctoral research career in Computational Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. In 2004, he moved to the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg here in Germany to develop a background in the theoretical chemistry of metabolic enzyme reactions and chemical biophysics of protein interactions. In 2007, James moved north and joined Jacobs University Bremen as the Volkswagen Foundation Research Fellow in Computational Systems Biology.

James joined Mercator College as the first wave of a refreshing new generation of Resident Associates starting in 2008/2009.

James is currently a member of Wolfson College Oxford and represents it throughout Germany. He is happy to advice and write references for final year undergraduates and Masters students at Jacobs University and especially those from Mercator College applying to  Masters or DPhil places at Oxford University.

If you want to contact him, do call x3580 (his office, Room 63, Research II) or x5486 (MC 302, Mercator College) or email him at j.smith at Jacobs University. He will be very delighted to hear from you. If he is in college, he may invite you in for a cup of tea and  biscuits .