Maxie Roessler

Dr Maxie Roessler’s research interests focus on EPR spectroscopy, redox processes and enzyme mechanisms. She runs an interdisciplinary group in the Department of Chemistry with a focus on using EPR spectroscopy in combination with electrochemistry to understand redox-based mechanisms. The group has an internationally recognised expertise in advanced EPR spectroscopy, especially in its application to biological problems such as understanding the redox-based mechanism of complex enzymes in respiration. Besides EPR spectroscopy, the group also has an expertise and interest in film electrochemistry, which they are combining with EPR spectroscopy to gain new insights into redox-based processes.

Maxie recently led a successful bid to the EPSRC to build PEPR, a Centre of Pulse EPR Spectroscopy at Imperial College, that will enable detailed insight into the structure and dynamics of paramagnetic compounds. Besides encompassing state-of-the-art pulse EPR instrumentation at X- and Q-band frequencies with the possibility of photoexcitation, PEPR supports an instrument and method development program to push spin sensitivity and enable novel pulse EPR experiments, as well as the combination of EPR with film electrochemistry.

Education

• University of Oxford - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Inorganic Chemistry 2008 - 2012
• University of Oxford - Master in Chemistry 2002 - 2006

Selected Publications

Journals

Eisermann J, Wright JJ, Wilton-Ely JDET, et al., 2023, Using light scattering to assess how phospholipid-protein interactions affect complex I functionality in liposomes, Rsc Chemical Biology, ISSN:2633-0679, Pages:1-13

Pichler CM, Bhattacharjee S, Lam E, et al., 2022, Bio-electrocatalytic conversion of food waste to ethylene via succinic acid as the central intermediate, Acs Catalysis, Vol:12, ISSN:2155-5435, Pages:13360-13371

Ji Y, Wei L, Da A, et al., 2022, Radical-SAM dependent nucleotide dehydratase (SAND), rectification of the names of an ancient iron-sulfur enzyme using NC-IUBMB recommendations, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, Vol:9

Richardson K, Seif-Eddine M, Sills A, et al., 2022, Controlling and exploiting intrinsic unpaired electrons in metalloproteins, Methods in Enzymology, Vol:666, ISSN:0076-6879, Pages:233-296