Centre Management team
John Colbourne
Centre Director
As the Centre Director, John provides leadership and strategic direction for the centre, developing its mission and purpose to help remedy harm to human health and the environment caused by pollution. John founded CERJ in 2022, building upon the university's involvement in large EU research grants (PrecisionTox: €20m, PARC: €400m), identifying a unique opportunity to solidify the University of Birmingham as a global leader in precision toxicology.
John's scientific investigations encompass the fields of evolutionary ecology, high-throughput biology, environmental and functional genomics. From this blend of disciplines emerges a research program that centers on connecting gene expression and genome structure with individual fitness and population-level responses to environmental challenges.
j.k.colbourne@bham.ac.uk
David Epps
Centre Manager
David leads the centre in day-to-day management, providing leadership and strategic support for the administrative hub of the centre, which works across research, education, and facility activities. As the Centre Manager, David is involved throughout most administrative responsibilities of the centre.
David started in the university as a Research Support Administrator, developing an extensive background in the higher sector for business, finance and project management. He is a registered PRINCE2 practitioner.
d.epps@bham.ac.uk
Agata Ormanin-Lewandowska
Project Manager
Agata is responsible for the coordination and organisation of the contractual, administrative and financial aspects of the 20M EUR H2020 project PrecisionTox, bringing together 15 partners from Europe and the US. Working in close collaboration with academic researchers, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and industry, she is the main liaison between the project consortium and the European Commission, supporting the financial and technical reporting and providing guidance to project partners on EC funding rules.
An experienced public funding project manager with an MSc degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, her knowledge and expertise lie in providing ongoing and extensive support to consortia in a variety of multi-partner grant-funded projects across multiple fields of research.
a.ormanin@bham.ac.uk
Frankie Lloyd
Project Officer
Frankie is part of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice administrative team. She has worked at the University of Birmingham for two years, in which time she has managed and administrated a variety of projects within the Biosciences department, including the Environment Care Consortium, the Phenome Centre Birmingham, the Birmingham Metabolomics Training Centre, and the Daphnia Facility.
Frankie has a background in Bioscience, having completed an MSci in Biological Sciences at the University of Birmingham, and now she is working towards developing herself as a project manager.
f.lloyd@bham.ac.uk
