Guillaume Charras

Guillaume Charras graduated with a degree in Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Paris. After a Master’s degree in Bioengineering at Georgia Tech, he obtained his PhD in Biophysics from University College London.  

After post-doctoral studies in Harvard Medical School, he started his own research group at the London Centre for Nanotechnology at University College London in 2007. His lab focuses on understanding of how the cytoskeleton controls cell and tissue mechanics by combining techniques from physics and engineering with molecular cell biology and microscopy.