Nathalie joined the Generations Study research team in April 2025. She is an enthusiastic Staff Scientist with a primary interest in lifestyle research to enhance the understanding of the causes of lifestyle-related cancers and to identify pathways to cancer prevention. She is also interested in the design, management and analysis of large cancer-related epidemiological studies.
She received her PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health at the University College London (UCL). Upon completion of her PhD, in 2017, she was appointed to a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship position to work within the Nutritional Epidemiology Group at the International Agency for Research on Cancer/ World Health Organization (IARC/WHO). In 2020, she moved to Brazil and continue working for IARC/WHO as a consultant for the Sustainable Lifestyle and Cancer team. More recently, in 2023, she was appointed as a Research fellow in Epidemiology at the Cancer Hospital & Research Centre of Santa Catarina (CEPON), Brazil. She has also been the Principal Investigator of the LifeScreen intervention in Brazil, for which she was awarded a grant from IARC/WHO.
At the Generations study, Nathalie is overseeing data collection, coordinating study operations, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and best practices. She is also leading research efforts, managing external collaborations and contributing to publications and grant writing.
Dr Nathalie Kliemann
Staff Scientist:
Integrative Cancer Epidemiology
Nathalie joined the Generations Study research team in April 2025. She is an enthusiastic Staff Scientist with a primary interest in lifestyle research to enhance the understanding of the causes of lifestyle-related cancers and to identify pathways to cancer prevention. She is also interested in the design, management and analysis of large cancer-related epidemiological studies.
Victoria Cushing
PhD Student:
Structural Biology of DNA Repair Complexes
Victoria Cushing earned her Master's degree in biochemistry from the University of Oxford. She is investigating the structure and function of CAK and is currently pursuing high-resolution structures of inhibitor-bound complexes.
Lucy Dan
PhD Student:
Structural Biology of DNA Repair Complexes
Lucy Dan earned her Master's degree in biological sciences from Durham University. She is a ICR/Imperial Convergence Science Centre student and will investigate novel ways to target the activities of cyclin-dependent kinases for cancer therapy. Her interdisciplinary project is hosted jointly hosted in our lab and the laboratories of Dr. Anna Barnard and Dr. Alexis Barr.
Amy McGeoch
PhD Student:
Structural Biology of DNA Repair Complexes
Amy McGeoch earned her Bachelor's degree in biochemistry from the University of Leeds. She plans to investigate the involvement of cyclin-dependent kinase complexes in non-canonical pathways such as splicing.
Rose Young
Dr Reyhan Muhammad
Shaf Azad
PhD Student:
Structural Biology of Cell Signalling
I graduated from the University of Southampton, with an integrated Master’s in Biochemistry (MSc). For my bachelor’s project, I investigated the effects of reactive oxygen species and vitamin C on S100A9 aggregation in Alzheimer’s disease. For my Master’s project, I investigated the functional importance of Snap29 for mitosis in Drosophila. For my PhD, I study the molecular mechanisms of telomere maintenance.