Christian Bortolini

Christian is a Research Fellow in Bart’s group. He holds a PhD in Nanoscience from Aarhus University (Denmark) and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China). He is interested in applying biophysical tools to solve biological problems at the nanoscale. Christian was awarded an individual Postdoctoral fellowship from the Lundbeck Foundation to work on amyloid self-assembly; during this time, he discovered a new material capable of growing to mm scale in hundreds of seconds by assembling into highly ordered amyloid crystals. His current research focusses on the biophysics of bacterial killing by the immune system: he uses advanced microscopy techniques to decipher the mechanisms behind antibacterial attack, in particular how the membrane attack complex assembles on live bacteria and kills them.

• 2020-present, Research Fellow at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London.
• 2018-2020, Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London.
• 2016-2018, Lundbeck Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (Aarhus University, Bio-SPM group) and Department of Chemistry (University of Cambridge, Knowles’ lab).
• 2015-2016, Post-doctoral Researcher, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University.
• 2012-2015, PhD in Physical Chemistry, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• 2011-2014, PhD in Nanoscience, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University.

Interests

Baking and Board Games 

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Contact

c.bortolini@ucl.ac.uk
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