
Connor Bamford
Young Academy Ireland MemberVirologist QUB
Connor Bamford is a virologist based at Queen's University Belfast (QUB) in the School of Biological Sciences and Institute for Global Food Security where he is a Lecturer and runs his own lab researching defences against viruses. Connor has over a decade of experience in working with disease-causing viruses of humans and other animals and was integral to QUB and NI's response to the COVID19 pandemic where he led the establishment of high-containment facilities to work with the virus. Outside of the lab, Connor is passionate about communicating virology and public engagement with science and was awarded the 'Sir Paul Curran Award' in academic communication (2020) from 'The Conversation'.