Tuomas Knowles

Tuomas Knowles
NationalityBritish, Finnish
Alma materETH Zurich, University of Cambridge, University of Geneva
Known forProtein biophysics
AwardsCorday–Morgan Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry, Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics, Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry, Rita and John Cornforth Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019
Scientific career
FieldsBiophysics, Chemistry, Physical Chemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Doctoral advisorSir Mark Welland
Other academic advisorsSir Chris Dobson

Tuomas Knowles is a British scientist and Professor of Physical Chemistry and Biophysics at the Department of Chemistry and at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. He is the co-director of the Cambridge Centre for Misfolding Diseases and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Prof. Knowles is a co-founder of four biotechnology companies: Fluidic Analytics, Wren Therapeutics, Xampla and Transition Bio. He was also the Cambridge Enterprise Academic Entrepreneur of the year in 2019.