Robert Mahen is a senior research associate in the MRC Cancer Unit at the University of Cambridge and visiting researcher in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London. He trained at the University of Cambridge, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, and Imperial College London, as a Wellcome Trust Infection and Immunity PhD student, an EMBO postdoctoral fellow, a Henry Wellcome postdoctoral fellow and a CellNetworks fellow. His work focuses on understanding how subcellular organelle assembly mechanisms drive genome segregation and repair in health and disease.