Pioneering BioNano Engineering for Peptide Therapeutics, Advanced Biomaterials and Bioinspired Solutions
Lucia has been invited to join the People and Talent Advisory Pool. In this role, she will provide feedback on consultations, surveys, and policy questions to help BBSRC support the research and innovation workforce.
Happy New Year to colleagues, collaborators, students, and friends. Thank you for your support and engagement over the past year. Wishing you a positive start to 2026, and we look forward to what we can achieve together.
Are you a postdoctoral researcher interested in the gut-brain axis? I am seeking to host a talented, motivated postdoctoral researcher who plans to apply for an independent fellowship in the gut–brain axis area. As the host lab, I will provide mentorship and work with the candidate to develop and write a competitive proposal. Applicants should…
Queen’s University/CSC PhD Scholarships 2026 are now open for applications. If you are looking for a PhD position, are a citizen of the People’s Republic of China at the time of application (PRC passport), and are either permanently resident in China or currently studying overseas, we would be pleased to hear from you about potential…
Lucia Lombardi is Academic Lead for EDI in the School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast. In this role, she will help shape the School’s programmes and support a culture where people can work and learn well. As part of this commitment, Lucia will soon establish a Biological Sciences EDI Committee dedicated to promoting…
Wonderful experience in Istanbul! Lucia had the chance to meet amazing new people who are also excellent scientists. She is really looking forward to working with Sabancı. She is sure they will achieve great things together. A big thank you to Imperial College London and Sabanci University for organising such a fantastic workshop on Emerging…
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Cutaneous melanoma, responsible for 80% of skin cancer mortality, presents urgent diagnostic challenges due to insufficient early detection methods. Current clinical methods rely on invasive biopsies, while noninvasive approaches primarily serve as adjunctive decision-support tools rather than definitive diagnostics. Here, a peptide-based fluorescent biosensing system was developed for the sensitive and rapid detection of S100B,…
A PhD position is available under the supervision of Lucia Lombardi and Paulina Quintanilla (UCL). This opportunity is open to both home and international candidates. We are looking for a highly motivated student interested in working at the interface of organic chemistry, chemical biology, bioengineering and artificial intelligence. The project aims to develop engineered peptides and biomimetic systems to enable safe,…
Excellent and thoughtful talks at the EDI Afternoon at Queen’s led by Lucia. Many thanks to all the speakers: Prof Peter Robertson on personal challenges associated with disability, Prof Wafa Al-Jamal on ethnicity and religion, Dr Agnes Purwidyantri on low socio-economic backgrounds and Dr Linda Oyama on “Crazy Mum, Crazy Scientist: To Balance or Not…
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The second day of our EDI series has wrapped up and it was AMAZING! 🎉 We played, had a lot of fun and learned so much about other cultures.A special thanks to the PhD students, Ada Sandoval, Cecilia Bertacini, Gama Dominic, Maryam Dehbasteh and Nicole Glendinning, who designed and ran this fantastic session, Erin Spence…