Mato Lagator
Member since 2023
I want to be a part of a cross-disciplinary community that develops novel and creative approaches to tackle key societal problems.
Bio
Mato Lagator is an Independent Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He was awarded an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a PhD at the University of Warwick, where he studied evolution of resistance in a microbial species called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. In 2013, Mato started a postdoc at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) with Calin Guet and Jon Bollback, slowly defining his major research interest – the relationship between molecular biology and evolution. He also attended a Master’s course at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he started developing some semblance of an artistic practice.
He moved to Manchester to start his own research group as a Presidential Fellow, and has since transitioned onto a Wellcome Trust-Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellowship. Mato runs a research group comprising two postdocs, four PhD students and several research-focused Master’s students who are working to understand the basic principles that underpin bacterial evolution and their ability to become resistant to antibiotics.
