Naomi E. Chayen is Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Imperial College London and the Head of the crystallization group in Computational and Systems Medicine. She specializes in the crystallization of proteins and other biological macromolecules, in particular, developing a fundamental understanding of the crystallization process and exploiting this to design practical methodology (including high-throughput methods) for producing high quality crystals of medical and industrial interest. Naomi has developed many unique methods adopted by crystal growth laboratories worldwide, several of which are patented and commercialised (e.g. ‘Naomi's Nucleant' and most recently Chayen Reddy MIP). She co-authored a book on Macromolecular Crystallization and Crystal Perfection published by Oxford University Press and edited a book on Protein Crystallization Strategies for Structural Genomics. Naomi organizes and chairs crystallization sessions at international conferences and courses and acts as a consultant to academia and industry.