Lucy Collinson

Lucy Collinson is a microbiologist and electron microscopist at the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research centre in London. She was previously the head of electron microscopy at the London Research Institute.

Life and career In 1998, Collinson received a PhD in molecular microbiology from the Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry of the Queen Mary University of London, supervised by Mike Curtis. In her role as head of that effort she is involved in many collaborative projects,

In 2019, Collinson co-edited Correlative Imaging: Focusing on the Future with Paul Verkade, which was published by Wiley. She guest edited a volume of Journal of Cell Science with Guillaume Jacquemet.

In 2024, she received the Distinguished Scientist Award in biological sciences from the Microscopy Society of America.