Imperial College London (PhD in Genetics). Postdoctoral research completed with Prof. William Chia at the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London and with Dame Prof. Linda Partridge at the Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London. Lecturer in Biosciences at Aston University since 2016. Research interests include how nutrient signalling pathways influence animal ageing using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as a model system. Dr Leda Mirbahai (1985–). Executive committee member of the British Society for Research on Ageing (2016–). Born Tehran, Iran. Studied Microbiology at University of Azad, Karaj (BSc, Distinction, 2007), Toxicology at University of Birmingham, UK (MSc, Distinction, 2008) and PhD at University of Birmingham, School of Biosciences (PhD on Environmental Epigenetics with Professor Kevin Chipman and Dr Tim Williams 2012). Worked as post-doctoral research fellow with Professor Kevin Chipman and Professor Mark Viant (2012-2014) and Professor John Colbourne (2014-2015) at the University of Birmingham. Worked as an invited short-term visiting fellow with Professor Karl Fent at FHNW, Basel, Switzerland (2013), and Professor Peter Laird and Dr KwangHo Lee at Van Andel Research Institute, MI, USA (2016). Awarded Birmingham Fellow in Epigenetics (2015–present) at University of Birmingham. Research interests include understanding the role of epigenetic factors in regulating ageing rate using the model organism Daphnia. References Biology organisations based in the United Kingdom Gerontology organizations Learned societies of the United Kingdom