Emma Beale is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Alvra group at SwissFEL at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI). She gained a First Class BSc (Hons) degree in Biochemistry at the University of Otago, New Zealand and then completed her DPhil in Structural Biology at the University of Oxford, U.K.. Her thesis 'Mechanisms of immunoglobulin deactivation by Streptococcus pyogenes' was carried out under the supervision of Prof. Nicole Zitzmann and Prof. Max Crispin.
Emma then continued into a post-doctoral research position at Diamond Light Source, U.K. on the new microfocus macromolecular crystallography beamline VMXm. She is now a post-doctoral researcher within the SwissFEL Alvra group at PSI with support from the PSI Career Return Program.