Christiane Timmel

Research and career After graduating, Timmel was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at St Hilda's College, Oxford. In 2005 she moved to New College, Oxford where she was promoted to Professor of Chemistry.

Alongside her own research, Timmel directs the Centre for Advanced Electron Spin Resonance (CAESR) at the University of Oxford, which she founded in 2007. There she develops low and zero-field equipment for electron-spin resonance, as well as pulsed and continuous-mode spectrometers.

In 2020 Timmel was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Prize for her contributions to electron-spin resonance.

Publications Timmel's publications include: Chemical Compass Model for Avian Magnetoreception as a Quantum Coherent Device Magnetically sensitive light-induced reactions in cryptochrome are consistent with its proposed role as a magnetoreceptor Chemical Magnetoreception: Bird Cryptochrome 1a Is Excited by Blue Light and Forms Long-Lived Radical-Pairs

Personal life Timmel serves as a school governor at New College School in Oxford, where she was formerly a parent.