Diamond Light Source / Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Info
Deputy Director of Life Sciences at Diamond Light Source, deputy to Life Sciences Director David Stuart. Coordinates Diamond’s life science activities spanning macromolecular crystallography, small-angle X-ray scattering, circular dichroism, infrared microspectroscopy and soft X-ray imaging for biology. Also a Research Group Leader at the Research Complex at Harwell (RCaH). Over 30 years experience in macromolecular crystallography with more than 1,000 structures deposited in the PDB. Joined Diamond in January 2009 from the MRC France (Institut Laue-Langevin / EMBL Grenoble area).
wwPDB role
Advisory Committee member, PDBe representative.
Affiliations
- Diamond Light Source — Deputy Director, Life Sciences
- Research Complex at Harwell (RCaH) — Research Group Leader
- University of Oxford — supervisor, Medical Sciences Division graduate school
Career
- Prior to 2009: MRC / EMBL Grenoble (France)
- January 2009-: joined Diamond Light Source
- 30+ years in macromolecular crystallography; 1,000+ PDB depositions
Committees & service
- wwPDB Advisory Committee — PDBe representative
Key Relationships
- Deputy to David Stuart (University of Oxford / Diamond Life Sciences)
- Co-located at Harwell with the CCP4 core team and Diamond Light Source MX group (Gwyndaf Evans, DIALS development)
Sources
- Diamond staff page: https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Mx/Research/Walsh-group/Staff/Martin-Walsh.html
- Oxford supervisor profile: https://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/graduateschool/supervisors/martin-walsh
- wwPDB 2025 Advisory Committee report: https://cdn.rcsb.org/wwpdb/docs/about/advisory/wwpdbac2025-report.pdf