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Oliver Crook

Oliver Crook

Todd-Bird Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Oliver Crook completed an MMath degree at Warwick before joining the Wellcome Trust Mathematical Genomics CDT at Cambridge, culminating in a PhD in Biochemistry supervised by Kathryn Lilley, Laurent Gatto and Paul Kirk. He won the Peter Landshoff Prize for outstanding computational biology PhD, and was also awarded the Fisher Memorial Trust's Young Biometrician Award for one of his PhD papers. He was then a Research Associate in the Oxford Department of Statistics, working with Charlotte Deane, and subsequently a Florence Nightingale Fellow. He was briefly seconded to the UK Government, leading a protein design group at the AI Safety Institute, and was recently awarded an MRC Career Development Award to start his research group at the Kavli Institute. He continues as a Todd-Bird Junior Research Fellow at New College until 2027.

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