As part of Women at Imperial week, we asked Professor Mary Matthews some questions around her proudest career achievement so far, her role models and what advice she wishes she’d received earlier in her career journey. 
Mary is an Associate Professor in Ultrafast Laser Science investigating attosecond science and chirality at the quantum level in the Department of Physics and a Royal Society University Research Fellow.
As part of Women at Imperial Week, we asked Dr Karen E Logan, Director of Programme Management at Target Malaria within the Department of Life Sciences, some questions around her proudest career achievement so far, her role models and how can we better support women in STEM and technical roles.
As part of Women at Imperial week, we asked Anne Parry, Director of Operations in the Centre for Environmental Policy, some questions around what has inspired her and her career to date, as well as what advice she wishes she’d received earlier in her career journey. 
Dr Simon Foster, Outreach Manager within the Faculty of Natural Sciences, talks about Imperial’s recent outreach activities through the India STEMathon and the passion and intelligence of young people that he witnessed on the trip.
Following the dramatic series finale of Celebrity Traitors, we speak to Dr Dante Kalise from the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London, as he unpicks the treacherous tactics used in the game. He explains how the Traitors used game theory to betray their way to the top, and how the Faithfuls tried to unmask them using strategic deduction – a mathematical deep-dive into the art of betrayal.
Spoilers for the final of Celebrity Traitors below.
Becky Middleton, Director of Education and Student Experience in the Faculty of Natural Sciences, outlines in this blog some of the activities that the Education Team have planned for this Autumn term.
PhD student José Giral Barajas explains how he is using queueing theory to understand how cells move and accumulate materials.
Imagine you need to deliver a package to someone in a crowded place, but you have no idea where they are. No matter how determined you are to take a specific path, the constant collisions with all the people around you will force you to change direction most of the time. The path you take in your search for the recipient becomes effectively random. This simple picture is a helpful way to think about how cells move materials.
Imperial is using its outreach programmes to get more young people excited about space. This blog post looks at the reach and impact of these initiatives.
The road to the stars, it turns out, begins with a postcard. But instead of the Eiffel Tower or Big Ben, the postcards depict ‘flight surgeons’ and ‘space lawyers’, and instead of inspiring wanderlust, these postcards inspire young people to imagine their futures beyond the Earth’s boundaries.
The road from PhD research to global policy can seem long and winding, but for early-career researchers from Imperial’s Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP), it often leads straight to some of the world’s most high-stakes negotiation rooms.
The final of the 2024/2025 Faculty of Natural Sciences Make-A-Difference competition takes place on Wednesday 22 October 2025. Ahead of this, we hear from the finalists about their projects.
“We knew it would happen again.” That was the certainty Arda Kancal and his teammates brought with them from Istanbul, Turkey. The 2023 earthquake that devastated their country was not the first, and, according to seismologists, almost certainly not the last. With a 60% chance of a similarly catastrophic quake hitting Istanbul by 2030, the team behind D-View entered Imperial College London’s Faculty of Natural Sciences Make-A-Difference (FoNS-MAD) competition determined to build something life-saving.
Their project, an autonomous drone system that uses low-cost geophone sensors to locate trapped earthquake survivors, was born not only out of a sense of academic curiosity but also necessity. “We watched as people in our hometowns waited for rescue that never came,” Arda said. “We knew we had to do something. Something cheap enough for governments to actually use, something deployable, not just theoretical.”