Recognition of Distinction 2019

Justin Benesch, Tutorial Fellow in Physical Chemistry
Professor Justin Benesch, Tutorial Fellow in Physical Chemistry, and Professor Jake Rowbottom, Stowell Tutorial Fellow in Law, were awarded the title of Professor in the University鈥檚 Recognition of Distinction exercise for 2019.
Professor Benesch leads the Benesch Research Group, which is examining聽鈥渕olecular chaperones鈥, and how they interact with destabilised target proteins to prevent their aggregation and deposition that might otherwise lead to a variety of maladies. He has won the聽2019聽 by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Alfred Tissi猫res Award.

Professor Jake Rowbottom,聽Stowell Tutorial Fellow in Law
Professor Rowbottom is a qualified barrister, who previously worked on the staff of an election campaign for the US Senate. He teaches Constitutional Law and Administrative Law at Univ. His research interests include freedom of expression, media law and the legal regulation of the democratic process. He has written for聽The Guardian, New Statesman, New Republic and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal and WIRED.
Published: 16 October 2019
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