Judith Armitage

Professor Judith (Judy) Armitage received her BSc and PhD from UCL and after a Lister Fellowship moved to the Biochemistry Department at University of Oxford, where she has been ever since.

She is a bacterial physiologist with a particular interest in how bacteria move and sense their environment to direct that movement to an optimal environment for growth. She uses a wide range of methods from single molecule tracking of proteins in living cells through to computational modelling and believes strongly in collaboration across disciplines.

Judy has trained over 40 PhD students and over 40 postdocs. She is a member of EMBO, a Member and Governor of the Lister Institute, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the European Academy of Microbiology and the Royal Society, where she sits on the Council. She is currently President of the Microbiology Society. She is married with two children and two grandchildren.