Miguel Bonnin is a PhD student in the Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park, based jointly at CABI. In the Bell Lab, his research sits at the intersection of cryobiology and microbial ecology. His PhD investigates whether whole microbial communities can be cryopreserved with their taxonomic composition and function intact — specifically whether key taxa remain viable and community-level processes are retained post-storage. He is a member of the EU MICROBE consortium and the BBSRC Crop Microbiome Cryobank project. His PhD is funded by EU Horizon.

Before joining Imperial, Miguel earned his BSc in Biochemistry from Royal Holloway, University of London, graduating in 2019.