Oscar is a Professor in Chemical Biology at the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College and the Hofmann Chair of Chemistry. For seven years he was Head of the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College and for over a decade was Director of the Institute of Chemical Biology, the Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Chemical Biology, Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Doctoral Training in Cellular Bionics and Deputy Director of the NexGenAgriChem EU Marie Curie ITN.

During and prior to his role as Head of Department he has played a pivotal role in establishing Imperial’s White City Campus. Within the Department of Chemistry, Professor Ces has acted as Director of Development, Theme Leader for Chemical Biology & Healthcare and co-Director of the Membrane Biophysics Platform. Through these roles as well as working with others in the Department, he co-developed and realised the vision for the £200M Molecular Sciences Research Hub in White City and helped found the £5M Imperial College Advanced Hackspace and the Invention Rooms. Most recently he co-founded fabriCELL, an Imperial College Network of Excellence in Synthetic Cell Science.

Oscar is a specialist in synthetic cell science, drug delivery systems, single cell analysis technologies, microfluidics, soft condensed matter, chemical biology, microfluidics, and biomembrane mechanics.