ProfessorDoryen Bubeck

Doryen is Professor of Structural Immunology at Imperial College London and a satellite group leader at the Francis Crick Institute. She leads a team of 10 investigating molecular mechanisms underpinning host-pathogen interactions.



After a B.Sc. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Doryen was awarded a doctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation to pursue a PhD in Biophysics at Harvard University. She then moved to the University of Oxford to work with Prof. Yvonne Jones under an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship and a subsequent fellowship from Cancer Research Institute. She was also a Junior Research Fellow at St Johns College. During this time she developed a broad training in structural biology and a fascination with membrane biophysics which lay the foundation for her independent research career at Imperial College London.



In 2012 she was appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Life Sciences and was awarded a Career Establishment Award from CRUK to start her research group. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017, Reader in Structural Immunology in 2021 and Professor of Structural Immunology in 2023. She served as Director of the Centre for Structural Biology (2021-2024) and is currently the Director of Research for the Department of Life Science. Doryen serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards for several institutes and is a member of the MRC Nonclinical Training and Career Development Panel. The significance of her achievements has been recognised in her election to the Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. Professor Bubeck is the recipient of the GlaxoSmithKline Award (2026) which is given by the Biochemical Society in recognition of research leading to new advances in medical science.