Brandon Baker has accepted appointment as Vice-President (Advancement) and will join Imperial in autumn 2026.
Reporting to the President, Brandon will lead the Advancement Division, a dynamic professional team that raises funds for scholarships, academic positions, research centres and capital projects, secures philanthropic support for Imperial’s mission, and helps strengthen the university’s global reputation.
We are pleased to announce that the following staff were successful during the promotions rounds.
Academic promotions and Teaching promotions take place on an annual cycle, with promotions taking effect from 1 September 2026.
| Department | Promoted title | |
| Paul Bruce | Aeronautics | Professor of High-Speed Aerodynamics |
| Sebastian Eastham | Aeronautics | Associate Professor of Sustainable Aviation |
| Qianqian Li | Aeronautics | Associate Professor in Lightweight Materials and Composites |
| Hayriye Cagnan | Bioengineering | Associate Professor in Neuromodulation |
| Claire Higgins | Bioengineering | Professor of Regenerative Medicine |
| Nick Linton | Bioengineering | Clinical Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Bioengineering |
| Christopher Rowlands | Bioengineering | Associate Professor |
| Claire Stanley | Bioengineering | Associate Professor in Fungal Bioengineering |
| Guang Yang | Bioengineering | Associate Professor of AI in Biomedical Science |
| Antonio del Rio Chanona | Chemical Engineering | Associate Professor on Machine Learning and Process Systems Engineering |
| Yuval Elani | Chemical Engineering | Professor of Biochemical Technologies |
| Salvador Eslava | Chemical Engineering | Professor of Applied Energy Materials |
| Pinelopi Kyvelou | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Associate Professor in Structural Engineering |
| Po-Heng (Henry) Lee | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Associate Professor in Environmental Microbiology and Engineering |
| Andrew Phillips | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Professor of Structural Biomechanics |
| David Taborda | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Professor of Geotechnical Numerical Analysis |
| Tolga Birdal | Computing | Associate Professor in Computer Vision and Machine Learning |
| Edward David Johns | Computing | Professor of Robot Learning |
| Evangelos Marios Kogias | Computing | Associate Professor of Computer Science |
| Holger Pirk | Computing | Associate Professor in Data Processing Systems |
| Samuel Cooper | Dyson School of Design Engineering | Professor of Artificial Intelligence for Materials Design |
| Mazdak Ghajari | Dyson School of Design Engineering | Professor of Brain Biomechanics |
| Billy Wu | Dyson School of Design Engineering | Professor of Electrochemical Engineering |
| Joel Davis | Earth Science and Engineering | Associate Professor in Planetary Science |
| Fangxin Fang | Earth Science and Engineering | Principal Research Fellow |
| Philippa Mason | Earth Science and Engineering | Associate Professor in Planetary Remote Sensing |
| Adriana Paluszny Rodriguez | Earth Science and Engineering | Professor of Computational Geomechanics |
| Fredrick Richards | Earth Science and Engineering | Associate Professor in Earth Sciences |
| Gareth Roberts | Earth Science and Engineering | Associate Professor in Earth Sciences |
| Ranan Dasgupta | Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Professor of Practice (Endourology and Technology) |
| Adam Spiers | Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Associate Professor in Robotics and Machine Learning |
| Oriol Gavalda Diaz | Materials | Associate Professor in Ceramics |
| Chun Huang | Materials | Professor in Energy Storage Materials |
| Samuel Humphry-Baker | Materials | Associate Professor in Ceramics |
| Reshma Rao | Materials | Associate Professor of Catalysis and Interfaces |
| Paul Hooper | Mechanical Engineering | Associate Professor in Advanced Manufacturing |
| Marc Masen | Mechanical Engineering | Professor of Bio and Sustainable Tribology |
| Sina Stapelfeldt | Mechanical Engineering | Associate Professor |
| Department | Promoted title | |
| Anthony (Tony) Goldstone | Brain Sciences | Clinical Professor in PsychoNeuroEndocrinology |
| Nathan Skene | Brain Sciences | Associate Professor of Neurogenomics |
| Yen Foung Tai | Brain Sciences | Professor of Practice (Neurology) |
| Alastair Webb | Brain Sciences | Clinical Professor of Cerebrovascular Disease |
| Candice Roufosse | Immunology and Inflammation | Clinical Professor in Renal Pathology |
| Paras Anand | Infectious Disease | Associate Professor of Innate Immunity |
| Thomas Clarke | Infectious Disease | Associate Professor in Microbiology and Immunology |
| Andrew Edwards | Infectious Disease | Professor of Molecular Microbiology |
| Caroline Foster | Infectious Disease | Professor of Practice (Adolescent Infectious Diseases) |
| Rachel (Pei-Jen) Lai | Infectious Disease | Associate Professor in Molecular Infection |
| Laura Martin-Sancho | Infectious Disease | Associate Professor in Systems Virology |
| Thomas (Tom) Parks | Infectious Disease | Clinical Associate Professor in Infectious Disease |
| David Riglar | Infectious Disease | Associate Professor of Engineering Biology |
| Aileen Rowan | Infectious Disease | Associate Professor in Virology |
| Maria Vanessa Sancho Shimizu | Infectious Disease | Professor in Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases |
| Jaimini Cegla | Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction | Professor of Practice (Metabolic Medicine) |
| Aida Martinez-Sanchez | Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction | Associate Professor RNA Biology and Gene Regulation |
| Evangelos Triantafyllou | Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction | Associate Professor of Liver Immunology |
| Jorge Bernardino de la Serna | National Heart and Lung Institute | Associate Professor in Inhalation Toxicology and Pharmacology |
| Sara Fontanella | National Heart and Lung Institute | Associate Professor in Biomedical Modelling |
| Michela Noseda | National Heart and Lung Institute | Professor of Cardiovascular Science |
| Amanda Varnava | National Heart and Lung Institute | Professor of Practice (Cardiology) |
| Cheryl Battersby | School of Public Health | Clinical Associate Professor in Neonatal Medicine |
| Sean David Beevers | School of Public Health | Professor in Environmental and Climate Modelling |
| Anne Cori | School of Public Health | Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology |
| Ilaria Dorigatti | School of Public Health | Professor of Infectious Disease Analysis and Modelling |
| Frédéric Piel | School of Public Health | Associate Professor in Spatial Epidemiology |
| Hugo Turner | School of Public Health | Associate Professor in Global Health and Economic Evaluation |
| Dragana Vuckovic | School of Public Health | Associate Professor in Computational Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
| Patrick Walker | School of Public Health | Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Dynamics |
| Oliver John Watson | School of Public Health | Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modelling and Health Emergencies |
| Lilith Whittles | School of Public Health | Associate Professor in Mathematical Epidemiology |
| David Benjamin Antcliffe | Surgery and Cancer | Clinical Associate Professor in Critical Care Medicine |
| Claire Fletcher | Surgery and Cancer | Associate Professor of Molecular Oncology |
| Vickie Lee | Surgery and Cancer | Professor of Practice (Ophthalmology) |
| Sayed Ali Salehi-Reyhani | Surgery and Cancer | Associate Professor in Cancer Convergence Science |
| Vasiliki Theodoreli-Riga | Surgery and Cancer | Professor of Practice (Surgery & Education) |
| Department | Promoted title | |
| Rocio Diaz-Chavez | Centre for Environmental Policy | Principal Research Fellow |
| Caroline Howe | Centre for Environmental Policy | Associate Professor in Biodiversity and Climate Ecology |
| Morena Mills | Centre for Environmental Policy | Professor in Environmental Policy and Practice |
| Francesco Antonio Aprile | Chemistry | Associate Professor in Biological Chemistry |
| Marco Di Antonio | Chemistry | Associate Professor in Chemical Biology |
| Nicola Gasparini | Chemistry | Associate Professor in Electronic Materials |
| Aleksandar Ivanov | Chemistry | Associate Professor of Nanotechnology |
| Andreas Kafizas | Chemistry | Associate Professor in Semiconductor Photocatalysis |
| Kirsty Bannister | Life Sciences | Associate Professor of Sensory Neurophysiology |
| Michalis Barkoulas | Life Sciences | Professor of Molecular Genetics |
| Morgan Douglas Beeby | Life Sciences | Professor of Microbiology and Structural Biology |
| Emma Cavan | Life Sciences | Associate Professor in Marine Biogeochemistry |
| Peter Graystock | Life Sciences | Associate Professor in Human and Animal Health |
| Sarah Rouse | Life Sciences | Senior Research Fellow in Integrative Structural Biology |
| Marco Trizzino | Life Sciences | Associate Professor in Developmental Genomics |
| Nikolai Windbichler | Life Sciences | Professor of Genetic Engineering |
| Omer Deniz Akyildiz | Mathematics | Associate Professor in Statistics |
| George Boxer | Mathematics | Royal Society University Research Fellow (Associate Professor) |
| Edward Cohen | Mathematics | Professor of Statistics |
| Soheyla Feyzbakhsh | Mathematics | Professor of Pure Mathematics |
| Dante Kalise Balza | Mathematics | Professor of Computational Optimisation and Control |
| Omer Karin | Mathematics | Associate Professor in Biomathematics |
| Eric Edward Keaveny | Mathematics | Professor of Applied Mathematics |
| Riccardo Passeggeri | Mathematics | Associate Professor in Mathematics and Statistics |
| Robin Jeremy Ryder | Mathematics | Associate Professor in Statistics |
| Steven Sivek | Mathematics | Professor of Pure Mathematics |
| Yufei Zhang | Mathematics | Associate Professor in Mathematical Finance and Machine Learning |
| Niladri Banerjee | Physics | Associate Professor in Physics |
| Piers Barnes | Physics | Associate Professor of Solid State Physics |
| Shai Chester | Physics | Associate Professor in Theoretical Physics |
| Linda Cremonesi | Physics | Associate Professor in Particle Physics |
| Patrick Dunne | Physics | Associate Professor of Physics |
| Grigory Kagan | Physics | Associate Professor of Physics |
| James Edward Owen | Physics | Professor of Astrophysics |
| Frank Schindler | Physics | Associate Professor in Quantum Matter Theory |
| Department | Promoted title | |
| Zhe Liu | Analytics, Marketing and Operations | Associate Professor of Analytics and Operations |
| Stijn Maesen | Analytics, Marketing and Operations | Associate Professor of Marketing |
| Mirabelle Muûls | Economics and Public Policy | Professor of Economics |
| Michael Yeomans | Management and Entrepreneurship | Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour |
| Department | Promoted title | |
| Neil Taylor | Centre for Academic English | Senior Teaching Fellow |
| Department | Promoted title | |
| Elena Forasacco | Early Career Researcher Institute | Principal Teaching Fellow |
| Department | Promoted title | |
| Sze Wing Tang | Bioengineering | Senior Teaching Fellow |
| Deesha Chadha | Chemical Engineering | Principal Teaching Fellow |
| Robert Chatley | Computing | Professor of Teaching in Software Engineering |
| Thomas Davison | Earth Science and Engineering | Senior Teaching Fellow |
| Parastoo Salah | Earth Science and Engineering | Senior Teaching Fellow |
| Department | Promoted title | |
| Stefano Sandrone | Brain Sciences | Principal Lecturer |
| Giskin Day | Faculty Education Office | Principal Lecturer |
| Lydia Durant | Faculty Education Office | Senior Teaching Fellow |
| Alessia Galasso | Faculty Education Office | Senior Teaching Fellow |
| Sohag Saleh | Faculty Education Office | Principal Lecturer |
| Mahsa Samadi | Faculty Education Office | Senior Teaching Fellow |
| Jeffrey Vernon | Faculty Education Office | Principal Lecturer |
| Stephanie Hodeib | Immunology and Inflammation | Senior Teaching Fellow |
| Natasha Croome | School of Public Health | Principal Teaching Fellow |
| Celine Tabche | School of Public Health | Senior Teaching Fellow |
| Athina Belsi | Surgery and Cancer | Prinicpal Teaching Fellow |
| Christa Hansen | Surgery and Cancer | Senior Teaching Fellow |
| Department | Promoted title | |
| Mike Tennant | Centre for Environmental Policy | Principal Lecturer |
| Euan Doidge | Chemistry | Principal Lecturer |
| Benji Fenech Salerno | Chemistry | Senior Teaching Fellow |
| Rebecca Jones | Chemistry | Senior Teaching Fellow |
| Jakub Radzikowski | Chemistry | Principal Teaching Fellow |
| Michael Baker | Life Sciences | Senior Teaching Fellow |
| Josh Hodge | Life Sciences | Principal Teaching Fellow |
| Catherine Mansfield | Life Sciences | Principal Teaching Fellow |
| Atieme Joseph Ogbolosingha | Life Sciences | Senior Teaching Fellow |
| Phillip Ramsden | Mathematics | Professor of Mathematics Education |
| Prasun Ray | Mathematics | Principal Teaching Fellow |
| Jonathan Fenton | Physics | Principal Teaching Fellow |
| Michael Fox | Physics | Principal Teaching Fellow |
Professor Xiao Yun Xu has accepted the appointment of Proconsul from 1 October 2026 to 31 August 2029, to replace Professor Jonathan Mestel following his appointment as Associate Provost (Academic Promotions).
Professor Xu has served in the past as Consul (2016-2019) and Proconsul (2021-2023). (more…)
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