From 2013, Joseph Newman has been a post-doctoral scientist at the University of Oxford, initially in the Structural Genomics Consortium and now the Centre for Medicines discovery. His current research interests are the structure and function of DNA repair enzymes including helicases and nucleases. After his PhD in structural biology in the lab of Prof David Rice at the University of Sheffield UK, Joseph joined the lab of Prof Rick Lewis at Newcastle University UK where he studied the structure and biophysics of protein complexes involved in central carbon metabolism and biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis.