Professor Judy Hirst

Professor of Biological Chemistry at MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge

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Director of the Medical Research Council Mitochondrial Biology Unit (MRC-MBU) at the University of Cambridge

Judy is the Director of the MRC-MBU and Professor of Biological Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Her research combines structural, biochemical and chemical techniques to pioneer studies of energy conversion in complex redox enzymes: how they capture the energy released by a redox reaction to power proton translocation across a membrane, or catalyse the interconversion of chemical bond energy and electrical potential.

Judy recieved her DPhil from the University of Oxford and held a Wellcome Trust Prize International Fellowship at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, before joining the MRC-MBU in Cambridge. Judy was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018 and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2019.

Judy is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences Chemistry.

https://www.mrc-mbu.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/hirst-group

https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-judy-hirst