Pandemics and Alertness member WG1 (Understanding the virus) and WG3 (Complementary and enabling techniques), LINXS Fellow

Professor of Molecular Biophysics, Section for Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Dept. of Chemistry, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Prof. Logan has a D.Phil. in Molecular Biophysics from Oxford University, where he worked on the structures of picornaviruses, in particular foot-and-mouth disease virus. He did postdoctoral work in Strasbourg and Stockholm before moving to Lund University in 2001. He studies the structural basis for macromolecular function using a variety of experimental techniques: X-ray and neutron crystallography, small-angle X-ray scattering and cryo-electron microscopy. Two particular foci in recent years have been the mechanism and allosteric regulation of the radical enzyme ribonucleotide reductase and the details of ligand binding to the galectin family of carbohydrate recognition proteins. Prof. Logan is secretary of the European Synchrotron and XFEL Users Organisation and is a member of the advisory panel for the neutron macromolecular crystallography instrument at the ESS. He was recently appointed director of a new facility for cryo-EM at Lund University. He is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of the company SARomics Biostructures AB, which was founded in 2006.