In office: 2020 – 2024

University of Westminster, London, UK

Daniel Brayson was awarded his undergraduate degree in Physiology from the University of Manchester in 2008. After a short break he embarked on a 4 year BHF funded MRes/PhD doctoral training programme at King’s College London which he completed in 2014. During this time he studied the importance of the heart muscle cell nucleus, and the molecules which safeguard its structure, in regulating heart physiology and pathology. Daniel continued this work into his early postdoctoral career before moving to UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health to study the role of the plasma membrane protein, dystrophin, in heart development and function. Daniel is now a Lecturer at the University of Westminster.

In addition to these core interests, Daniel is actively engaged in research aiming to understand how the human heart responds to heat stress, as well as research identifying mechanisms of ageing resilience in the Greenland Shark, the oldest vertebrate species known to science.

Daniel is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of many learned societies including the Royal Society of Biology, The British Society of Cardiovascular Research and The Physiological Society. In addition to being a full member he is also the early career trustee for The Physiological Society.

Daniel has a passion for science engagement with policy makers and the public. He has attended a number of parliamentary science events to advocate for science and has organised and delivered many successful public engagement initiatives including The Ultra Cycle Diaries and the UCL GOSICH Christmas Lecture Series in 2019 and 2022.