Douglas Kell

He was educated at Hydneye House in Sussex,[15] Bradfield College in Berkshire and St John's College, Oxford. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biochemistry in 1975 followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in 1978 with a thesis on the Bioenergetics of Paracoccus denitrificans supervised by Stuart John Ferguson[6][16] and Philip John.[17]

From 1978 to 2002 he worked at Aberystwyth University, moving to University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 2002 as an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)/Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Research Chair in Bioanalytical Sciences.

Kell's primary research interests are in systems biology and computational biology.[5] According to Google Scholar[5] his most cited peer-reviewed research papers are in functional genomics,[18] metabolomics[19] and the yeast genome.[20] He has also been involved in research to create a robot scientist[21] in collaboration with Ross King, Stephen Muggleton and Steve Oliver as well as several projects in systems biology.[22][23][24][25][26]

Kell's research has been funded by the BBSRC, the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[27][28] His former doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers include Pedro Pedrosa Mendes.[7] His monograph Belief: the baggage behind our being which examines why people believe crazy things like brexit[29] was published in 2018.[30]