Behzad Karkaria

Behzad studied Biomedical Sciences at King’s College London and worked as a technology consultant for a year before moving to UCL to do a PhD in computational biology focusing on synthetic microbial communities. Behzad went on to do a postdoc at the University of Cambridge, inferring metabolic interactions between different human gut microbes.

As part of the Computational Science team, Behzad will develop methods and software to maximise the information they get from each experiment, allowing them to draw conclusions faster and more efficiently. Behzad will also work on developing predictive models to help culture ‘unculturable’ microbes.