Lucy Colwell is Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge and Research Scientist at Google. Her research combines theory and computation to elicit structural information about relationships between variables from data. One example is how all the information necessary to specify both the 3D structure and the function of a protein is encoded in its sequence, and how we can exploit the large numbers of protein sequences now available to crack this code. 

Colwell obtained her PhD in Applied Maths from Harvard and completed postdoc training at Harvard and Princeton.