Rob elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

Rob has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences, in recognition of his group’s work on how chromatin and CpG islands control gene expression. He was one of twelve Oxford scientists elected in 2026. Read the University of Oxford announcement and the Department of Biochemistry news story.

Huge thanks to all the students, postdocs and collaborators, past and present, whose work made this possible.

Photos from the admission ceremony at the Royal Society in London.