Richard Cogdell

professor
Richard Cogdell
Hooker Professor of Botany, University of Glasgow
Assumed office
1993
Personal details
Born
Richard John Cogdell

(1949-02-04) 4 February 1949

Richard John Cogdell (born 4 February 1949) is a British plant molecular biologist who holds the Hooker Chair of Botany at the University of Glasgow. Cogdell is the director of Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, with a principal research interest in the structure and function of purple bacterial photosynthetic membrane proteins. Cogdell has authored over 250 peer-reviewed journal articles, and was a member of the Council of the BBSRC from 2014 to 2018.