Alison E. Ashcroft

Alison E Ashcroft is a British chemist and Emeritus Professor of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry at the University of Leeds. Her work is focused on method development in mass spectrometry to study protein folding and protein aggregation in relation to diseases.

Career

Ashcroft obtained a BSc from the University of Liverpool in 1977 and then, following a year as a research chemist at Glaxo Group Research, a MSc (1979) and PhD (1981) from the University of Manchester. Next, Ashcroft worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Geneva, Switzerland (1981–1982) before joining Kratos Analytical (1983–1988) in Manchester. She then moved to ICI Pharmaceuticals (1988–1990) followed by Micromass UK Ltd (1991–1997) before joining the University of Leeds (1997–). She was promoted to Professor of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry in 2009 and became Emeritus Professor in 2019.