Syma Khalid
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University of Oxford
Syma Khalid | |
|---|---|
 Khalid in 2020 | |
| Born | 25 December 1977 |
| Alma mater | University of Warwick |
| Awards | Suffrage Science award (2021) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Southampton University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Molecular simulation studies of the interaction between DNA and a novel macromolecular ligand (2004) |
Syma Khalid (born 25 December 1977) is a British Scientist who is a Professor of Computational Microbiology in at the University of Oxford. She was awarded the Suffrage Science award for engineering and physical sciences in 2021.[citation needed]
Khalid grew up in Wolverhampton, England.[1] Her parents are from Pakistan and were first-generation immigrants to the United Kingdom. Her father worked as a bus driver and her mother as a seamstress.[1] She eventually studied chemistry at the University of Warwick and graduated in 2000. She stayed at Warwick for her graduate studies, joining the research group of Mark Rodger. Her doctoral research considered molecular simulations DNA.[2] interacting with synthetic helicates. Khalid was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, where she worked in the group of Mark Sansom on structure-property relationships of bacterial membrane proteins.[1]
