Author: Andrew Youngson

Promotions

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 2025.

Academic promotions effective from 1 September 2025

Faculty of Engineering

Department Promoted title
Thulasi Mylvaganam

 

 Department of Aeronautics Associate Professor in Control Engineering
Choon Hwai Yap

 

 Department of Bioengineering Associate Professor in Cardiac Biomechanics
James Choi

 

 Department of Bioengineering Associate Professor in Noninvasive Surgery and Sensing
Francesca Ceroni

 

 Department of Chemical Engineering Associate Professor in Cell Engineering
Maria Papathanasiou

 

 Department of Chemical Engineering Associate Professor in Process Systems Engineering
Rupert Myers

 

 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor in Sustainable Materials
Henry Burridge

 

 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor in Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Aikaterini (Katerina) Tsiampousi

 

 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Reader in Geotechnical Infrastructure
Christian Malaga Chuquitaype

 

 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Reader in Structural Dynamics and Seismic Engineering
Adam Sadowski

 

 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Reader in Computational Structural Engineering
Céline Mougenot

 

 Dyson School of Design Engineering Associate Professor
Talya Porat

 

 Dyson School of Design Engineering Associate Professor in Human Factors Engineering
Nejra Van Zalk

 

 Dyson School of Design Engineering Associate Professor in Psychology and Human Factors
Giordano Scarciotti

 

 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Associate Professor in Control Theory
Fei Teng

 

 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Associate Professor in Intelligent Energy Systems
Oleksiy Sydoruk

 

 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Associate Professor
Rossella Arcucci

 

 Department of Earth Science and Engineering Associate Professor in Data Learning and AI for Good
Ian David Bastow

 

 Department of Earth Science and Engineering Associate Professor in Earthquake Seismology
Andrew Cairns

 

 Department of Materials Associate Professor in Materials Chemistry
Michelle (Shelly) Conroy

 

 Department of Materials Associate Professor
Minh-Son Pham

 

 Department of Materials Associate Professor in Engineering Alloys and Physical Metallurgy
Stefano Angioletti-Uberti

 

 Department of Materials Associate Professor in Computational Bionanotechnology
Florian Bouville

 

 Department of Materials Associate Professor in Processing and Mechanics of Ceramics
Jun Jiang

 

 Department of Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Richard van Arkel

 

 Department of Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Konstantinos (Kostas) Steiros

 

 Department of Aeronautics Associate Professor in Experimental Fluid Mechanics
Davide Amato

 

 Department of Aeronautics Associate Professor in Computational Astrodynamics
Urban Fasel

 

 Department of Aeronautics Associate Professor in Data-Driven Aerospace Engineering
Jun Ishihara

 

 Department of Bioengineering Associate Professor
Ioannis Karmpadakis

 

 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Associate Professor in Coastal Engineering
Calvin Tsay

 

 Department of Computing Associate Professor in Computing
Pedro Martinez Mediano

 

 Department of Computing Associate Professor in Neural Computation
Chen Qin

 

 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Associate Professor
Stefan Vlaski

 

 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Associate Professor
Yunjie Gu

 

 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Associate Professor in Power Systems
Yves Plancherel

 

 Department of Earth Science and Engineering Associate Professor in Climate Change and Environment
Rodrigo Ledesma Amaro

 

 Department of Bioengineering Professor and Academic Lead for Engineering Biology
Firat Guder

 

 Department of Bioengineering Professor of Intelligent Interfaces
Spyridon (Spyros) Masouros

 

 Department of Bioengineering Professor of Injury Biomechanics
Ivan Stoianov

 

 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor in Water Systems Engineering
Nicolas Wu

 

 Department of Computing Professor of Computer Science
Panos Parpas

 

 Department of Computing Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Antoine Cully

 

 Department of Computing Professor in Machine Learning and Robotics
Thomas Heinis

 

 Department of Computing Professor in Data Management
Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

 

 Department of Computing Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
Balarko Chaudhuri

 

 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Professor of Power Systems
Michael Bluck

 

 Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Amir Kadiric

 

 Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor of Tribology and Surface Mechanics
Christoph Schwingshackl

 

 Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor in Mechanical Engineering

Faculty of Medicine

Department Promoted title
Ryan Thwaites National Heart and Lung Institute Associate Professor in Respiratory Immunology
Prashant Srivastava

 

 National Heart and Lung Institute Associate Professor in Bioinformatics and Medical Statistics
Sonia Nielles-Vallespin

 

 National Heart and Lung Institute Associate Professor in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Physics
Rasha Al-Lamee

 

 National Heart and Lung Institute Clinical Professor of Cardiology
Fu Siong Ng

 

 National Heart and Lung Institute Clinical Professor of Cardiology
Peter George

 

 National Heart and Lung Institute Professor of Practice (Respiratory Medicine)
Claudia Gore

 

 National Heart and Lung Institute Professor of Practice (Paediatric Allergy)
Sadia Khan

 

 National Heart and Lung Institute Professor of Practice (Cardiology)
David Green

 

 School of Public Health Principal Research Fellow in Aerosol Science
Leonid Chindelevitch School of Public Health Associate Professor in Antimicrobial Resistance
Thomas Hone

 

 School of Public Health Associate Professor in Global Health Systems Research
Monica Pirani

 

 School of Public Health Associate Professor in Biostatistics
Eszter Vamos

 

 School of Public Health Clinical Reader in Public Health
Daniela Fecht

 

 School of Public Health Associate Professor in Geospatial Health
Anthony Laverty

 

 School of Public Health Associate Professor in Public Health
Leon Barron

 

 School of Public Health Professor of Analytical and Environmental Sciences
Erik Volz

 

 School of Public Health Professor in Population Biology of Infectious Diseases
Mando Watson

 

 School of Public Health Professor of Practice (Integrated Child Health)
David Wingfield

 

 School of Public Health Professor of Practice (Primary Care)
Waseem Jerjes

 

 School of Public Health Professor of Practice (Primary Care)
Marco Brancaccio

 

 Department of Brain Science Associate Professor
Alexander Nott

 

 Department of Brain Science Associate Professor
Wenjia Bai

 

 Department of Brain Science Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Samuel Barnes

 

 Department of Brain Science Associate Professor in Neural Plasticity
Nir Grossman

 

 Department of Brain Science Associate Professor in Neuroscience
David Erritzoe

 

 Department of Brain Science Clinical Associate Professor in Psychopharmacology and Psychiatry
David Owen

 

 Department of Brain Science Clinical Professor of Pharmacology
Jesus Rodriguez Manzano

 

 Department of Infectious Disease Associate Professor in Diagnostic Technologies
Myrsini Kaforou

 

 Department of Infectious Disease Reader in Bioinformatics
Harry Low

 

 Department of Infectious Disease Professor of Structural Biology
Brian Robertson

 

 Department of Infectious Disease Professor of Microbiology
Burak Temelkuran

 

 Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Associate Professor in Biomedical Photonics
Beth Holder

 

 Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Reader in Maternal and Fetal Health
Tamas Korcsmaros

 

 Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Associate Professor in Intestinal Epithelial Systems
Egoda (Lala) Leelarathna

 

 Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Clinical Associate Professor in Diabetes
Victoria Male

 

 Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Associate Professor in Reproductive Immunology
Shivani Misra

 

 Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Clinical Associate Professor in Diabetes
Sheikh (Tamir) Rashid

 

 Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Clinical Professor of Regenerative Medicine and Hepatology
Alejandra Tomas

 

 Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Professor of Cell Biology
Channa Jayasena

 

 Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Clinical Professor in Reproductive Endocrinology and Andrology
Nicholas Crump

 

 Department of Immunology and Inflammation Associate Professor in Myeloma Research
Deepa Jayakody Arachchillage Department of Immunology and Inflammation Professor of Practice (Thrombosis and Haemostasis )
 Stephen McAdoo

 

 Department of Immunology and Inflammation Professor of Practice (Nephrology)
Brijesh Patel

 

 Department of Surgery and Cancer Clinical Associate Professor in Cardiothoracic Critical Care
Stamatia Giannarou

 

 Department of Surgery and Cancer Reader in Surgical Cancer Technology and Imaging
Geroge Mylonas

 

 Department of Surgery and Cancer Associate Professor in Robotics and Technology in Cancer
Laura Kenny

 

 Department of Surgery and Cancer Clinical Associate Professor in Medical Oncology
Christopher Peters

 

 Department of Surgery and Cancer Clinical Associate Professor in Upper GI
Mikael Sodergren

 

 Department of Surgery and Cancer Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Technological Innovation
David Pinato

 

 Department of Surgery and Cancer Clinical Professor of Experimental Cancer Therapeutics and Medical Oncology
Daniel Leff

 

 Department of Surgery and Cancer Clinical Professor of Surgical Performance & Precision Surgical Sciences
Kevin Monahan

 

 Department of Surgery and Cancer Professor of Practice (Gastroenterology)

Faculty of Natural Sciences

Department Promoted title
Oluwagbemisola Oluleye

 

 Centre for Environmental Policy Associate Professor in Sustainable Market Mechanisms
Audrey de Nazelle

 

 Centre for Environmental Policy Associate Professor in Urban Sustainability
Ioannis Kountouris

 

 Centre for Environmental Policy Associate Professor in Economics and the Environment
Friederike Otto

 

 Centre for Environmental Policy Professor of Climate Science
Alexander Ganose

 

 Department of Chemistry Associate Professor
Jarvist Frost

 

 Department of Chemistry Associate Professor
Louise Walport

 

 Department of Chemistry Associate Professor
Rebecca Greenaway

 

 Department of Chemistry Associate Professor
Nuria Tapia Ruiz

 

 Department of Chemistry Associate Professor in Energy Materials
Felice Torrisi

 

 Department of Chemistry Reader in Chemistry of Two-dimensional Materials
Nazila Kamaly

 

 Department of Chemistry Associate Professor in Synthetic Biomaterials and Nanomedicine
Maxie M Roessler

 

 Department of Chemistry Professor of Chemistry
Laura Barter

 

 Department of Chemistry Professor of Plant Chemical Biology
Alessia David

 

 Department of Life Sciences Associate Professor in Bioinformatics and Data Intensive Biology
Julia Schroeder

 

 Department of Life Sciences Associate Professor in Evolution, Behaviour and Biodiversity
Cristina Banks-Leite

 

 Department of Life Sciences Professor of Biodiversity Change
Osman (Tolga) Bozkurt

 

 Department of Life Sciences Professor in Host-Pathogen Interactions
Cristopher Salvi

 

 Department of Mathematics Associate Professor in Mathematics and Machine Learning
Francesco Sanna Passino

 

 Department of Mathematics Associate Professor in Statistics
Barbara Bravi

 

 Department of Mathematics Associate Professor in Biomathematics
Ciara Pike-Burke

 

 Department of Mathematics Associate Professor in Statistics
Soheyla Feyzbakhsh

 

 Department of Mathematics Royal Society University Research Fellow (Reader)
Kolyan Ray

 

 Department of Mathematics Reader in Statistics
Thibault Bertrand

 

 Department of Mathematics Associate Professor in Statistical Mechanics
Adam Sykulski

 

 Department of Mathematics Associate Professor in Statistics
Andrew Duncan

 

 Department of Mathematics Associate Professor in  Statistical Machine Learning
Anthea Monod

 

 Department of Mathematics Reader in Mathematics and Machine Learning
Sarah Filippi

 

 Department of Mathematics Professor of Statistical Machine Learning
Heather Battey

 

 Department of Mathematics Professor of Statistics
Ory Schnitzer

 

 Department of Mathematics Professor of Applied Mathematics
Edward Gryspeerdt

 

 Department of Physics Associate Professor in Atmospheric Physics
Frank Schindler

 

 Department of Physics Associate Professor in Condensed Matter Theory
Mary Matthews

 

 Department of Physics Associate Professor in Ultrafast Science
Nicholas Wardle

 

 Department of Physics Associate Professor in Energy Frontier Physics
Mark Scott

 

 Department of Physics Associate Professor in Neutrino Physics
Derek (Kwok Kay) Lee

 

 Department of Physics Associate Professor in Physics
Paulo Ceppi

 

 Department of Physics Associate Professor in Climate Science
Stefan Truppe

 

 Department of Physics Associate Professor

Imperial Business School

Department Promoted title
Fanyin Zheng

 

 Department of Analytics, Marketing & Operations Associate Professor of Analytics & Operations
Andre Filipe Raposo Osorio Veiga

 

 Department of Economics and Public Policy Associate Professor of Economics
Mushegh Harutyunyan

 

 Department Analytics, Marketing, and Operations Associate Professor of Marketing
Savitar Sundaresan

 

 Department of Finance Associate Professor of Finance
Esther Boler

 

 Department of Economics and Public Policy Associate Professor of Economics
Enrico Biffis

 

 Department of Finance Professor of Actuarial Finance
Simon Quinn

 

 Department of Economics and Public Policy Professor of Economics
Mark Kennedy

 

 Department of Management and Entrepreneurship Professor of Strategy and Organisational Behaviour

Teaching promotions effective from 1 September 2025 

Centre for Academic English

Department Promoted title
Sharon Smith

 

 Centre for Academic English Senior Teaching Fellow
Andrew Northern

 

 Centre for Academic English Senior Teaching Fellow
June Hammond

 

 Centre for Academic English Senior Teaching Fellow
Julie Hartill

 

 Centre for Academic English Principal Teaching Fellow
Hilary Glasman-Deal

 

 Centre for Academic English Principal Teaching Fellow
Julie King

 

 Centre for Academic English Principal Lecturer

Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication

Department Promoted title
Margaret Elizabeth Hoyt Pataki CLCC Senior Teaching Fellow
Michael Weatherburn

 

 CLCC Principal Teaching Fellow
Iria González-Becerra CLCC Principal Teaching Fellow

Early Career Researcher Institute

Department Promoted title
Jianliang (Liam) Gao ECRI Senior Teaching Fellow

Faculty of Engineering

Marijan Beg

 

 Department of Earth Science and Engineering Senior Teaching Fellow
Chiraag Lala

 

 Department of Computing Senior Teaching Fellow
Peter Johnson

 

 Department of Mechanical Engineering Principal Lecturer
Maria Parkes

 

 Department of Bioengineering Principal Teaching Fellow
Zohaib Akhtar

 

 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Principal Teaching Fellow
Sheraz Arif Dyson School of Design Engineering Senior Teaching Fellow
Kamyar Hazeri

 

 Dyson School of Design Engineering Senior Teaching Fellow
Shayan Sharifi

 

 Dyson School of Design Engineering Principal Lecturer
Maria Ribera Vicent

 

 Department of Aeronautics Principal Teaching Fellow
Errikos Levis

 

 Department of Aeronautics Principal Lecturer

Faculty of Medicine

Department Promoted title
Joana Salgado Soares Dos Santos Department of Surgery and Cancer Senior Teaching Fellow
Ibtehal Attaelmanan

 

 School of Public Health Senior Teaching Fellow
Arti Maini

 

 School of Public Health Professor of Teaching in Primary Care
Christopher – James Harvey

 

 School of Public Health Principal Teaching Fellow
Atsumi Hirose

 

 School of Public Health Senior Teaching Fellow
Laura Canevari

 

 Department of Brain Sciences Senior Teaching Fellow
Hatice Bahar Sahin

 

 Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Senior Teaching Fellow
Phillip Lawton

 

 Faculty Education Office Senior Teaching Fellow
Nitya Krishnan

 

 Faculty of Medicine Centre Senior Teaching Fellow
Martin Lupton

 

 Faculty of Medicine Centre Professor of Teaching
Sophie Rutschmann

 

 Department of Immunology & Inflammation Professor of Immunology Teaching

Faculty of Natural Sciences

Department Promoted title
Ahmadreza Faghih Imani

 

 Centre for Environmental Policy Senior Teaching Fellow
Nigel Forrest

 

 Centre for Environmental Policy Senior Teaching Fellow
Thomas Creedy

 

 Centre for Environmental Policy Senior Teaching Fellow
Ravi Singh

 

 Department of Chemistry Senior Teaching Fellow
Ioanna Papatsouma

 

 Department of Mathematics Principal Teaching Fellow
Charlotte Kestner

 

 Department of Mathematics Principal Lecturer

Imperial Business School

Department Promoted title
Maria Farkas

 

 Department of Management & Entrepreneurship Principal Teaching Fellow
Cloda Jenkins

 

 Department of Economics and Public Policy Professor of Teaching

 

Director of Sustainability

Harriet Wallace has accepted appointment as Imperial’s first Director of Sustainability. Harriet began transitioning into this role in June from her previous secondment to Imperial as an Imperial Policy Fellow from the Civil Service, working with colleagues on implementing our Sustainability Strategy. 

In this new role, Harriet will lead and coordinate delivery of the Sustainable Imperial initiative announced in our new Strategy, working collaboratively with colleagues across Imperial. As the Strategy set out, Imperial’s goal is to set a global benchmark for university sustainability, nurturing graduates who understand and advocate for climate science, supporting our researchers to investigate and respond to planetary challenges and leading by example in our activities and on our campuses. 

Harriet will report to the Chief of Staff to the President and continue to work closely with Professor Tim Green, Academic Lead for Sustainability. The Sustainability Programme will continue to be governed by the Sustainability Strategy Committee, chaired by Professor Nigel Brandon, and supported by the central Sustainability Hub team and Sustainability leads and champions across Faculties and Professional Services.  

Harriet is a scientist by training and a policy, strategy and change practitioner by profession. She has had a lifelong interest in how we can make the most of science’s potential: for understanding the world better; for solving real-world problems; and to inform and influence both policy-making and human behaviours.  

She previously worked in government for many years, most recently as Director International Research and Innovation at BEIS (negotiating the Horizon Europe deal and sponsoring several Research and Funding bodies) and before that in roles on environmental, health and science policy and spending. Before joining government, she worked at Unilever on social and environmental responsibility and their corporate brand.

Director of the Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC)

Professor Mark Thursz has accepted the appointment of Director of the Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC), with effect from 1 August 2024, for a term of five years. He succeeds Professor Jonathan Weber who had held this position since 2012. We express our thanks to Professor Weber for his long stint in office and for his unwavering commitment to the AHSC and its NHS partners and to Imperial College London.

Professor Thursz has been the Head of the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction (MDR) since 2019, a role he will step down from in due course once a new postholder is identified and takes up the post.

Professor Thursz joined Imperial in 1991 as a clinical research fellow and was appointed to a Senior Lectureship in 1997. He was promoted to Professor of Hepatology in 2006. He has held many senior roles within the Department and Faculty, including Head of the Division of Digestive Diseases within MDR, and St Mary’s Campus Director.

He is R&D Director at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, where he is a consultant hepatologist based at St Mary’s Hospital. He is also Director of the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, which in 2022 was awarded a five-year grant of over £95M from the NIHR to support research activity in collaboration with Imperial College London.

Professor Thursz is a former secretary of the British Association for Study of the Liver (BASL) and led the European Association for Study of the Liver, as Secretary-General (2011-13). Professor Thursz’s research interests are focussed on viral hepatitis and alcohol-related liver disease. He established the Prevention of Liver Fibrosis and Cancer in Africa (PROLIFCA) programme to address barriers that prevent the control and elimination of viral hepatitis in countries with limited resources. He also runs a translational research programme in alcohol-related liver disease funded by the MRC and NIHR.

Julia Higgins Medal and Awards

The Julia Higgins Medal and Awards recognise individuals, groups, and departments that have made a significant contribution to the support of academic women at the university.

Award winners

  • Anne Barratt, Division of the University Secretary
  • Samuel Cooper, Dyson School of Design Engineering
  • Lucia Lombardi, Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Shiranee Sriskandan, Department of Infectious Disease
  • Teresa Thurston, Department of Infectious Disease
  • Anique Varleigh, Imperial College Business School
  • Christopher Peters, Department of Surgery and Cancer

You can read more about the awards in our news story.

Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Health and Safety

The Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Health and Safety recognise individuals and teams whose efforts have resulted in significant improvements to health and safety in the university over the past year.

Individual award winners:

  • Charlotte Sutherell, Department of Chemistry
  • Yatish Patel, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Team award winner: Life Sciences Health and Safety Task Force

  • Sasha Angell and Emma Ransome – Department of Life Sciences

Highly commended:

  • Richard Brown, Outreach Division

You can read more about the awards in our news story.

Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Animal Research

The Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Animal Research celebrate good practice by research and CBS staff at Imperial.

Individual award winners:

  • Maike Haensel – National Heart and Lung Institute, Vascular Science Section
  • Cheryll Brown – Central Biomedical Services

Team winners:

  • Instagram takeover for the Understanding Animal Research’s #MiceInResearch event
    • Stephanie Natario and Anna Napolitano – Central Biomedical Services
    • Chiara Pojani and Elaine Irvine – Institute of Clinical Sciences, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS)
  • Reduction and refinement initiatives when developing a rat model of bleeding injury
    • Chengxing Lian and Jun Cai – Department of Bioengineering
    • Justyna Glegola and Ginny Fisher – Central Biomedical Services
    • Mike Emerson – National Heart and Lung Institute, Vascular Science Section

You can read more about the awards in our news story.

President’s Awards for Excellence in Societal Engagement

The President’s Awards for Excellence are annual awards to recognise staff members who have made outstanding contributions in Culture and Community, Education, Research, Societal Engagement or Sustainability.

The President’s Awards for Excellence in Societal Engagement recognise staff members who have demonstrated an outstanding contribution to deliver inspiring engagement activities or supported the development of a culture of societal engagement at Imperial.

  • Medal winner: Stephanie Powell, School of Public Health

Leadership Award

For individuals who have supported other staff and students in their own engagement endeavours.

Award winner:

  • Sabine van Elsland, School of Public Health

Achievement Award

For both individuals or teams who have delivered excellent engagement activities or programmes.

Individual award winners:

  • Liva Donina, Department of Chemical Engineering

Team winners: Young Producers Antimicrobial Resistance Research Team

  • Juliet Allibone, Emma Carter, Amrita Ghataure, Jennifer Lawrence, Rakhee Parmar, Ellen Stadler – Department of Infectious Disease
  • Ashleigh Green, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction

Highly commended:

  • Mohn Centre for Children’s Health & Wellbeing – Research Engagement Team Rachel B Smith, Dougal Hargreaves, Esta Orchard (School of Public Health)
  • Jack Cooper, Institute of Global Health Innovation

Partner Award

Recognises those who collaborate with us from outside our Imperial community to make engagement happen. This could include patients, residents, community members and partner organisations in the public, private and third sector.

Team winner: Wellhome Community Ambassadors

  • Nour-eddine Aboudihaj
  • Asha Ahmed
  • Susu Ali
  • Fatima Amin
  • Manon Chiari
  • Mounira Igheldane
  • Mutthu Karappan
  • Piia Lavila
  • Wendy Roudette
  • Della Rozycka

Highly commended:

  • Nourish Hub – Ffion Hayward
  • Westminster City Lions – Sisley Hamer, John Nolan

Student Award

Awarded to student teams or individuals who have delivered excellent engagement activities.

Award winners:

  • Alexandra Cardoso Pinto, School of Public Health
  • Vanessa Madu, Mathematics

Highly commended: Music of the Earth team

  • Mark Boyd, Elnaz Barati, Alex Smith – Department of Earth Science & Engineering
  • George Burton, Mahika Dixit, Tanith Hackney – Department of Life Sciences
  • Josh Lanham, Fangjun Peng – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Shawn Lee, Ruthie Parsons – School of Public Health
  • Neel Le Penru – Dyson School of Design Engineering

You can read more about the awards in our news story.

President’s Awards for Excellence in Research

The President’s Awards for Excellence are annual awards to recognise staff members who have made outstanding contributions in Culture and Community, Education, Research, Societal Engagement or Sustainability.

The President’s Awards for Excellence in Research recognise staff members who have made outstanding contributions in early career research, research support, as part of a research team, and in research innovation and external collaboration.

President’s Award for Excellence in Impact

For Excellence in Impact, which encompasses Policy, Enterprise, Engagement or Translation impact, aims to celebrate individuals or Teams whose research endeavours transcend academic boundaries, creating tangible, positive changes in society and the environment while exemplifying Imperial’s values in action.

Medal winners:

  • Ben Glocker, Department of Computing
  • Jonathan Jeffers, Department of Mechanical Engineering

The President’s Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher

To celebrate the academic excellence and development of Imperial’s early stage researchers.

Medal: Calvin Tsay, Department of Computing

Award winners:

  • Andrea Giusti, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • David Labonte, Department of Bioengineering

The President’s Award for Outstanding Research Team

To recognise outstanding research that delivers impact, a team’s international standing and their beneficial contribution to Imperial.

Medal winner: The Musculoskeletal Mechanics Group, led by Professor Anthony Bull

Award winners:

  • The Steel Structures Research Group, led by Professor Leroy Gardner

The President’s Award for Research Support Excellence

To recognise the contribution of Research Support staff at Imperial, including the beneficial effects their support has given to Imperial research and the innovative approaches/good practice they bring to a project.

Award winners:

  • Alberto Collauto, Department of Chemistry
  • Cherry Kingsley, Department of Infectious Disease
  • Christopher Roberts, Department of Chemistry
  • Rita Carvalho, Department of Surgery and Cancer

The President’s Awards for Excellence in Research Environment (Ethics, Culture, Sustainability)

To celebrate individuals or groups whose initiatives and actions significantly contribute to nurturing an inclusive, collaborative research environment and promoting sustainable research practices within the institution.

Medal winner: Veronique Azuara, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction

Team winner:

  • Professor Henry Rzepa – Department of Chemistry (PI)
  • Professor Michael Bearpark, Department of Chemistry
  • Charles Romain, Department of Chemistry

You can read more about the awards in our news story.

President’s Awards for Excellence in Education

The President’s Awards for Excellence are annual awards to recognise staff members who have made outstanding contributions in Culture and Community, Education, Research, Societal Engagement or Sustainability.

The President’s Awards for Excellence in Education are annual awards to recognise staff members who have made outstanding contributions in teaching, research supervision and supporting the student experience.

President’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching

For outstanding teaching quality, organisation and presentation.

Medal winner: Chee Yeen Fung, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction

Award winners:

  • Wendy Kwok, School of Public Health
  • Julie Varley, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Catherine Mansfield, Department of Life Sciences

President’s Award for Supporting the Student Experience

For outstanding contributions to enhancing the student experience made by any members of staff at the College (academic, professional, or technical).

Medal winners:

  • Jackie Bell, Department of Computing
  • Graduate School team

Award winners:

  • Jenny Husbands, School of Public Health
  • Nousheen Tariq, Faculty of Medicine Centre
  • Paul Fennel, Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Sarah Willis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

President’s Award for Excellence in Research Supervision

For exceptional supervision, encouragement, and support of doctoral or postgraduate research students.

Award winner: Yiannis Demiris, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovation

For outstanding teaching practice that demonstrates innovation.

Medal winner: Jo Horsburgh, Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship

President’s Award for Outstanding Assistant Supervisor

To celebrate and recognise the valuable contribution that Postdocs make towards the supervision of the College’s PhD students.

Award winner: Grazia Antonacci, School of Public Health

You can read more about the awards in our news story.

President’s Awards for Excellence in Culture and Community

The President’s Awards for Excellence are annual awards to recognise staff members who have made outstanding contributions in Culture and Community, Education, Research, Societal Engagement or Sustainability.

The President’s Awards for Excellence in Culture and Community recognise staff who have made outstanding contributions over the last year in Leadership: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; Collaboration: and Sustainability.

President’s Medal for Excellence in Culture and Community

For individuals or teams who have made exceptional contributions to Culture and Community across the university.

Medal winner: Culture and Engagement Committee, Department of Surgery and Cancer

  • Gina Brown
  • Elsa Paul
  • Christopher Peters
  • Karen Pontifex

President’s Award for Excellence in Leadership

For staff who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and management at all levels within the university.

Winner: Julie King, Centre for Academic English

President’s Award for Excellence in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

For an individual or team who have delivered a specific project, initiative or demonstrated inclusive participation in their everyday behaviour that significantly contributes to the enhancement of equality, diversity and inclusion at the university.

Individual winner: Helen Johnson, National Heart and Lung Institute

Team winner: Imperial as One Media Academy

  • Hayley Dunning, Communications Division
  • Sarah Essilife-Quaye, National Heart and Lung Institute
  • Al McCartney, Faculty of Medicine Centre
  • Wayne Mitchell, Department of Immunology & Inflammation
  • Ellie Cawthera, Communications Division
  • Maxine Myers, Communications Division

President’s Award for Excellence in Collaboration

For an individual colleague or team who embodies our spirit of the Imperial community.

Individual winner: Toby Emmerson, Business School

Team winner: Producing Rational Evidence for Parasiticide Pollution (PREPP) Team

  • Leon Barron, School of Public Health
  • Tilly Collins, Centre for Environmental Policy
  • Neil Jennings, Grantham Institute
  • Andrew Prentis, Grantham Institute
  • Guy Woodward, Department of Life Sciences

President’s Award for Excellence in Sustainability

For an individual or team who have delivered a specific project or initiative or embedded everyday good practice that significantly contributes to the enhancement of sustainability at the university.

Individual winner: Sharron Stubbs, Faculty of Medicine Centre

Team winner: CID Green Team, Centre of Inflammatory Disease

  • Lyndon Costa
  • Alice Denton
  • Neil Galloway-Phillips
  • Christina Malaktou
  • Stacey McIntyre
  • Kerry Rostron-Barrett
  • Kassandra Vezyrgianni

You can read more about the awards in our news story.