Pawel Swietach#
| Membership Number: | 6863 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Affiliated section(s): | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/team/pawel-swietach |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9945-9473 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - present Professor of Physiology, Oxford University
- 2016 - present Head of Proton Transport Group, DPAG, Oxford University
- 2011 - present Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Physiology, DPAG, Oxford University
- 2011 - present Handa Tutorial Fellow and Governing Body member, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- 2008 - 2016 Royal Society Research Fellow, between DPAG and WIMM; Mentor: Adrian Harris
- 2004 - 2008 British Heart Foundation research assistant, DPAG; Director: Richard Vaughan-Jones
- 2005, 2007 Visiting scientist, CVRTI, Salt Lake City, USA; Director: Prof Kenneth W Spitzer
Fields of Scholarship
- Cancer biology
- Cardiac
- Physiology
- pH regulation
- Hypoxia
- Acid/base
- Red blood cells
- Mathematical modelling
- Metabolism
Honours and Awards
- 2001 Physiological Society Prize for highest performing undergraduate
- 2001 Wellcome Trust Prize Studentship
- 2009 Medical Research Council New Investigator
- 2008 Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- 2017 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant Awardee
- 2018 Elected to Fellowship of the Physiological Society
- 2018 Inaugural CRUK-U. S. Fulbright Scholar (to Moffitt Cancer Center, USA).
- 2020 Recognition of Distinction: awarded title of Professor of Physiology
