Professor Marloes Peeters
Chair in Engineering Biology
Marloes Peeters graduated from Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands) with a degree in Chemistry & Chemical Engineering. For her PhD, she moved to the research institute IMO/IMOMEC in Belgium where she was part of the BIOSensors group of Prof Wagner. In 2014, she relocated to the UK for a postdoctoral research position at organic chemistry group of Prof Kilburn at Queen Mary University of London. Marloes started her independent research started at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2015 where she was promoted to senior lecturer in Chemical Biology in 2018. She then moved to the School of Engineering at Newcastle University, where she became in Chair in Bioinspired Materials in 2023 and was deputy director of the discipline. In December 2023, Marloes was appointed as Chair in Engineering Biology at the University of Manchester. She leads a flourishing research group that focuses on developing novel (portable) sensing platforms that can solve complex medical and environmental problems.
