Jack Weaver

About

currently a G7 in DSIT. Policy officer (SEO): BEIS for two days then DSIT, for Engineering Biology & Industrial Biotech PhD in Synthetic Biology: University of Warwick, Alberti group, specialising in natural products and metabolic engineering (Second to fourth year of PhD), Linacre College, University of Oxford, (First year of SynBio CDT PhD). MSc in Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Bio-business (Winner of the 2018 AJ Porter Prize for Bio-business). BSc in Biotechnology from The University of Aberdeen.

Experience

• Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (Hybrid)
  • Horizon Europe – Programmes and Governance Team Leader
    Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    Horizon Europe Guarantee CSO - COST EURAXESS Pillar 1 team lead Associated Country engagement lead Finance Policy lead

  • Engineering Biology & Industrial Biotechnology policy officer
    Feb 2023 - Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Engineering Biology & Industrial Biotech policy officer
    Jan 2023 - Feb 2023 · 2 mos

    Crafting policy for maximum growth for the UK biotech sector

• PHD Researcher at University of Warwick
  Jun 2019 - Sep 2023 · 4 yrs 4 mos

  Synthetic Biology

• BSDB Gurdon Summer Studentship at Aberdeen University
  Mar 2016 - Sep 2016 · 7 mos

  Working in the department of developmental biology alongside Professor Erskine, particularly focussing on the formation of the optic chiasm.