David Rueda

Professor, Imperial College London, UK

Professor at Imperial College London and Chair in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics at the MRC-Laboratory of Medical Sciences​

Professor David Rueda is a Spanish-born British-American Biophysical Chemist who received his D.Sc. from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland), where he investigated the vibrational overtone spectroscopy of jet-cooled methanol.

He then moved to the University of Michigan, where he developed novel fluorescence microscopy approaches to study the dynamics of small catalytic RNA enzymes at the single-molecule level. He received a Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2005, he joined the Department of Chemistry at Wayne State University (Michigan), where he expanded his Single Molecule Biophysics work to investigate large RNA enzymes, RNA helicases, DNA polymerases, and DNA deaminases. During this period, he obtained funding from the NIH and a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.

He also received numerous awards, including an Excellence in Teaching Award and the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. He was also an A. Paul Schaap Faculty Scholar. He moved to Imperial College London and the MRC-Laboratory of Medical Sciences in 2012, where he holds the Chair in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics and leads the Single Molecule Biophysics group. Prof. Rueda is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He continues to develop and apply single-molecule microscopy-based approaches to elucidate the fundamental molecular mechanism of several cellular processes involved in human diseases, such as cancer, and gene editing.


Prof David S. Rueda, DSc, FRSC