Saffron Bryant is an associate professor of physics at RMIT University in Melbourne, where she develops advanced materials for cryopreservation, drug delivery and wound healing. She completed her PhD at the University of Sydney and worked as a researcher at the University of Bath before joining RMIT.

Her cryopreservation research looks for new, less toxic cryoprotectants, chemicals that protect cells from damage during freezing, with the long-term aim of storing tissues and organs for transplant. She has worked with Lifeblood on preserving blood products such as platelets, and has said that current science cannot preserve a whole human body or revive someone after death.