Dr Daniel P Bray

Biography

Daniel Bray joined NRI in January 2016, moving from the Chemical Ecology Group at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Daniel graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2000 with a first class degree in Biological Science and worked for the Open University while still an undergraduate. He then went on to complete a PhD in 2004 on host-parasite interactions in shrews, supervised by Prof. Paula Stockley at the University of Liverpool. For almost ten years, he worked with Prof. Gordon Hamilton at Keele University and Prof. Reginaldo Brazil at FIOCRUZ on the chemical ecology of sand flies, conducting extensive field work in Brazil. He also worked briefly with Prof. Jenny Mordue at the University of Aberdeen on a projecting targeting sea lice parasites of salmon. During this period he also completed a Medici Business Fellowship.

Research Interest

Daniel's primary interest is to develop new ways to protect animals and people from blood-feeding insects which transmit serious diseases.