Rate My Professor Nick Brooks

In addition to his research, Professor Brooks is Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Chemistry, where he leads the Year 1 'The Reaction Toolkit' module and the Year 4 'Membrane Biophysics' module. He serves as Deputy Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Chemical Biology: Innovation in Life Sciences and is a member of the Institute of Chemical Biology Executive Board. His excellence in research and education has earned recognition through the Faculty of Natural Sciences President's Award for Excellence in Research (2011), the President's and Rector's Awards for Excellence in Teaching (2013), and the Royal Society of Chemistry Higher Education Award (2022) as part of the Chemistry Lab-in-a-Box team. Notable publications include 'Engineering compartmentalized biomimetic micro-and nanocontainers' (2017), 'Sculpting and fusing biomimetic vesicle networks using optical tweezers' (2018), 'Electrostatic swelling of bicontinuous cubic lipid phases' (2015), 'Measurements of the effect of membrane asymmetry on the mechanical properties of lipid bilayers' (2015), 'Pressure effects on lipids and bio-membrane assemblies' (2014), and 'Measuring Intracellular Viscosity in Conditions of Hypergravity' (2019, Biophysical Journal). His work informs developments such as high-specificity pesticides and membrane reactivity studies.