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Dr Boyan Bonev is Professor of Biophysics at the School of Life Sciences, the University of Nottingham. His research is dedicated to understanding cellular structure and physiology in bacteria, the action of antimicrobial compounds and antimicrobial resistance, and to the devevelopiment of new antimicrobioal drugs. He was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1966.

Boyan Bonev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he attended the National Gymnasium of Natural Sciences and Mathematics from 1981 to 1984. He read Engineering Physics at the University of Sofia from 1984 to 1989 and achieved an MSc degree, after which he worked ar the Institute of Solid state Physics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences with Acad Alexander Petrov. From 1991 to 1996 he worked on NMR of biological membranes with Dr Mike Morrow at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, where he received his PhD degree in Physics. Form 1996 to 2002 he worked at a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, with Dr Anthony Watts on NMR of biological membranes. In 2002, Dr Bonev was appointed as Lecturer in Biochemistry at the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Nottingham. After the School of Life Sciecnes was established at Nottingham, he became an Associate Professor and is presently Full Professor holding a Personal Chair in Biophysics. Dr Bonev is Director of Research and Knowledge exchange at the School of Life Sciences at the University of Nottingham. Dr Bonev's current work is focused on understanding bacterial physiology, antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial drug design.