Author: Sara West

Extension to term of Associate Provost (Academic Promotions)

Professor Peter Lindstedt has accepted an extension to his term as Associate Provost (Academic Promotions) until 30 September 2026.

Reporting to the Provost, Professor Lindstedt is responsible for oversight of the academic promotions policy and its implementation for Imperial, working in conjunction with the Consuls, Deans, and HR colleagues.

Professor Lindstedt received his PhD from Imperial’s Department of Chemical Engineering, where he went on to work as a Research Associate in 1984. He then joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering as a Lecturer and was promoted to Professor of Thermofluids in 1999. He has served as Head of the Thermofluids Division, Director of Research and Deputy Head of Department. He was elected Consul for the Faculty of Engineering and Business School for the period 2013 to 2016 and Senior Consul from 2017 to 2019.

Professor Lindstedt’s current research interests include reduced environmental impact from propulsion devices, methods for the prediction of particle size distributions of particulate matter from aero-engines, heterogeneous surface-fluid interactions leading to material degradation in fuel cells, catalytically active materials, highly reactive fuels for advanced propulsion applications and turbulence-chemistry interactions occurring during the use of ammonia and other hydrogen-rich fuels.

Acting Head of the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction

Professor Phillip Bennett has accepted the role of Acting Head of the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction in the Faculty of Medicine, with effect from 1 October 2024. Professor Bennett will continue in this role until a new postholder is identified and appointed. This is to replace our current Head of the Department, Professor Mark Thursz who has been appointed as Director of the Academic Health Science Centre.  

Professor Bennett has been Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology since 1995, after joining RPMS (Royal Postgraduate Medical School) in 1988 as a Senior Clinical Research Fellow, which later became Imperial. He was formerly the Director of the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology. He also directs (together with David MacIntyre and Lynne Sykes) the March of Dimes European Preterm Birth Research Centre at Imperial and (together with Tom Bourne) the Tommy’s National Miscarriage Research Centre at Imperial. 

Professor Bennett’s principal research interests are the microbiology, biochemistry and endocrinology of pregnancy, human term and preterm labour, and the stratification, prediction and prevention of miscarriage and preterm birth.  

Professor Bennett was elected Fellow of Academy of Medical Sciences in 2017; Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London, UK, in 2000; Honorary Fellow Maltese College Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2006; Honorary Fellow American Gynecologic and Obstetrical Society in 2018. 

Consuls and Proconsuls

Professor Anne Dell CBE FRS FMedSci FAA has been elected Consul for the Faculty of Natural Sciences and cross University organisations for a term of office starting from 1 November 2024 until 31 August 2026. Professor Dell will be replacing one of the two Consuls for this constituency, Professor Stephen Curry, who will serve as Consul until 31 October 2024.

The full list of Consuls and Proconsuls for 2024-2025 is set out below.

Consuls
Professor Jonathan Mestel – Senior Consul
Professor Renata Kosova – Faculty of Engineering and Business School
Professor Alessandro Astolfi – Faculty of Engineering and Business School
Professor Miriam Moffatt – Faculty of Medicine
Professor Wisia Wedzicha – Faculty of Medicine (Clinical)
Professor Stephen Curry – Natural Sciences and cross University organisations – until 31 October 2024
Professor David Evans – Natural Sciences and cross University organisations
Professor Anne Dell – Natural Sciences and cross University organisations – from 1 November 2024

Proconsuls
Professor Dorian Haskard
Professor Richard Jardine
Professor Liz Lightstone
Professor Martin McCall
Professor Ann Muggeridge
Professor Peter Openshaw

Extension of term as Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences

Professor Richard Craster has accepted an extension to his term as Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences until 31 August 2027.

Reporting to the Provost, Professor Craster is responsible for providing strategic leadership, planning and coordination for the Faculty of Natural Sciences, and for driving continuing excellence in research and education. As Dean, Professor Craster is a member of Imperial’s Council and its University Management Board (UMB).

Professor Craster was both an undergraduate and PhD student of Imperial, and joined Imperial as a staff member in 1998 as a lecturer holding an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship, following a lectureship at the University of Nottingham and Junior Research Fellowship at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. He was promoted to Professor of Applied Mathematics in 2004 and was Head of the Department of Mathematics from 2011 to 2017. He was the Director of the CNRS-Imperial Abraham de Moivre International Joint Research Unit until 2023 and is Co-Director of the EPSRC-funded UK Acoustics Network. Professor Craster is also a member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering.

Professor Craster’s research interests lie at the intersection of applied mathematics, engineering and physics in particular in metamaterials, guided waves, fluid mechanics and elasticity.

Head of the National Heart and Lung Institute

Professor Barbara Casadei, MD DPhil FRCP FMedSci, has accepted the appointment of Head of the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) for a term of five years, and Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, with effect from 1 October 2024.

Professor Casadei holds the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford and is an Honorary Consultant in Cardiovascular Medicine at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Professor Casadei is a Steering Committee Member of the Oxford BHF Centre for Research Excellence and Lead of the Cardiovascular Theme of the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre. She has been in the Board of Trustees of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain & Ireland, since 2021.

Professor Casadei has served on several other senior roles within the University of Oxford such as Lead of the Myocardial Biology Theme of the Oxford BHF Centre of Research Excellence and Deputy Head of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine.

She was Elected President of the European Society of Cardiology in 2018 and served until 2020. She served as Board member of the World Heart Federation (2020-22).

Professor Casadei was elected Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedsci), in 2013. She was awarded the Honorary International Fellowship of the American Heart Association (FAHA), in 2018 and was awarded both The Gold Medal of the European Society of Cardiology, and The Mackenzie Medal of the British Cardiovascular Society, in 2020.  

Professor Casadei will take over from Professor Clare Lloyd who, as Interim Head of the NHLI, has been responsible for introducing many improvements and innovations, providing strategic vision, direction, and leadership to the Institute.

Chief Property Officer

Patrick Marsh has accepted the appointment of Chief Property Officer, leading the newly created Property Team with effect from 1 March 2024.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Property Officer will be responsible for the development, operation, repair and ongoing management of Imperial’s property and estates with the goal of having a world class infrastructure to support a world changing academic endeavour.

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Acting Head of the Department of Earth Science and Engineering

Professor Gareth Collins has accepted the role of Acting Head of Department of Earth Science and Engineering between the period of 1 November 2023 and 28 February 2024.  This is to provide cover for the current Head of the Department, Professor Tina van De Flierdt, while she will be away conducting fieldwork in the Antarctic.

Professor Collins joined Imperial in 2004 as a Research Fellow, after obtaining his PhD in Geology from Imperial in 2002. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer (2011), Reader (2014) and to Professor of Planetary Science in 2018.

Gareth’s research explores the many consequences of collisions in the solar system through the development and application of numerical impact models. Major research contributions include studies of the formation of the Chicxulub impact crater and its role in the K-Pg mass extinction, as well as the formation of many other craters on Earth, the Moon and the role of collisions in the early solar system. He was a co-investigator on the NASA-led InSight mission to Mars and on the Science Investigations Teams of NASA’s DART mission and ESA’s Hera mission.

Promotions

We are pleased to announce that the following staff were successful during the promotions rounds.

Academic promotions take place on an annual cycle, with promotions taking effect from 1 September 2023. Learning and Teaching promotions take place three times each year, and have taken effect on 1 October 2022, 1 January 2023 or 1 June 2023.

Business school

Department Promoted title
Renata Kosova Economics and Public Policy Professor of Economics
Ralf Martin Economics and Public Policy Professor of Economics
Mirabelle Muuls Economics and Public Policy Associate Professor in Economics
Stephan Axel Seiler Analytics, Marketing and Operations Professor of Marketing
Michelle Rogan Amijee Management and Entrepreneurship Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Cristobal Juan Garcia Herrera Management and Entrepreneurship Senior Teaching Fellow
Anu Wadhwa Management and Entrepreneurship Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Pasquale Della Corte Finance Professor of Finance
Rajkamal Janakiraman Iyer Finance Professor of Finance

Faculty of Engineering

Department Promoted title
Robert William Hewson Aeronautics Professor of Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation
Luca Magri Aeronautics Professor of Scientific Machine Learning
Matthew Santer Aeronautics Professor of Aerospace Structures
Sita Rosminah Shamsuddin Aeronautics Principal Teaching Fellow
Rodrigo  Ledesma Amaro Bioengineering Reader in Synthetic Biology
Juan Alvaro Gallego Bioengineering Senior Lecturer
Parastoo Hashemi Bioengineering Reader in Brain Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Claire Elizabeth Stanley Bioengineering Senior Lecturer
Reiko Tanaka Bioengineering Professor of Computational Systems Biology & Medicine
Vijesh Jagdish Bhute Chemical Engineering Senior Teaching Fellow
James Campbell Chemical Engineering Senior Teaching Fellow
Antonio Del Rio Chanona Chemical Engineering Senior Lecturer
Maria Papathanasiou Chemical Engineering Senior Lecturer
Qilei Song Chemical Engineering Reader in Chemical Engineering
Lorenzo  Macorini Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor of Structural Engineering
Antoine Henri Roland Cully Computing Reader in Machine Learning and Robotics
Hamed Haddadi Computing Professor of Human-Centred Systems
Yingzhen Li Computing Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning
Dario Paccagnan Computing Senior Lecturer
Marek Rei Computing Senior Lecturer
Maria Valera-Espina Computing Principal Teaching Fellow
Lluis Vilanova Computing Senior Lecturer
Audrey Gaulard Dyson School of Design Engineering Senior Teaching Fellow
Mazdak Ghajari Dyson School of Design Engineering Reader
Leila Karen Sheldrick Dyson School of Design Engineering Senior Lecturer
Rebecca Stewart Dyson School of Design Engineering Senior Lecturer in Interactive Systems
Billy Wu Dyson School of Design Engineering Reader in Electrochemical Design Engineering
Zahid Ali Khan Durrani Electrical and Electronic Engineering Professor in Quantum Nanoelectronics
Adria Junyent-Ferre Electrical and Electronic Engineering Reader in Power Electronics
Christos Michael Papavassiliou Electrical and Electronic Engineering Reader in Instrumentation Electronics
Steven Wright Electrical and Electronic Engineering Senior Teaching Fellow
Rossella Arcucci Earth Science and Engineering Senior Lecturer in Data Science and Machine Learning
Rebecca Emma Bell Earth Science and Engineering Reader in Tectonics
Gerard John Gorman Earth Science and Engineering Professor of Computational Science and Engineering
Rhodri Nelson Earth Science and Engineering Senior Teaching Fellow in Computational Data Science
James Percival Earth Science and Engineering Senior Teaching Fellow
Emma Passmore Earth Science and Engineering Principal Teaching Fellow
Pablo Rafael Brito Parada Earth Science and Engineering Reader in Sustainable Minerals Processing
Adriana Paluszny Rodriguez Earth Science and Engineering Reader in Computational Geomechanics
Ifan Erfyl Lester Stephens Materials Professor in Electrochemistry
Mark Damien Sutton Earth Science and Engineering Reader in Palaeontology
Johannes Clemens Lischner Materials Professor of Theory and Simulation of Materials
Cecilia Mattevi Materials Professor of Materials Science
Ulrich N Hansen Mechanical Engineering Reader
Monica Marinescu Mechanical Engineering Reader
Ludovic Renson Mechanical Engineering Senior Lecturer
Janet Wong Mechanical Engineering Reader in Tribology and Mechanochemistry

Graduate School

Department Promoted title
Katerina Michalickova Graduate School Principal Teaching Fellow
Maria Magalena Jara Valdivia Graduate School Principal Teaching Fellow

Faculty of Medicine

Department Promoted title
Kambiz Nassirpour Alavian Brain Sciences Reader in Neuroscience
Christopher Rance Butler Brain Sciences Clinical Reader in Global Brain Health
Paul Edison Brain Sciences Professor of Neuroscience
Dasha  Nicholls Brain Sciences Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
David Ryan Jacoby Owen Brain Sciences Reader in Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Medicine
Nichola Cooper Immunology and Inflammation Professor of Immune Haematology
Alice Elizabeth Denton Immunology and Inflammation Senior Lecturer
Malgorzata Trela Immunology and Inflammation Senior Teaching Fellow
Mark Gilchrist Infectious Disease Professor of Practice
Heather Hanna Infectious Disease Senior Teaching Fellow (Postgraduate)
Pascale Kropf Infectious Disease Reader in Immunology
Alex James McCarthy Infectious Disease Senior Lecturer
Jesus  Rodriguez Manzano Infectious Disease Senior Lecturer in Diagnostics for Infectious Disease
Anna Katja Reed Infectious Disease Professor of Practice (Respiratory & Transplant Medicine)
James Alexander  Seddon Infectious Disease Professor of Global Child Health
Maria Vanesa Sancho Shimizu Infectious Disease Reader in Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases
John Tregoning Infectious Disease Professor in Vaccine Immunology
Naila Arebi Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Professor of Practice
Ines dos Santos Cebola Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Senior Lecturer in Regulatory Genomics
Alexander Nicholas Comninos Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Professor of Practice (Endocrinology)
Zoe Lauren Hall Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Mass Spectrometry
Aaron Mitchell Lett Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Senior Teaching Fellow
Yan Liu Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Senior Lecturer in Glycosciences
Aida  Martinez-Sanchez Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Senior Lecturer
Niamh Maria Martin Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Professor of Endocrinology
Bryn Myers Owen Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Senior Lecturer
Nicholas Powell Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Professor of Gastroenterology
Makrina Savvidou Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Professor of Practice (Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine)
Andriy Shevchuk Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Senior Lecturer
Rasha Kadem Al-Lamee National Heart and Lung Institute Clinical Reader in Cardiovascular Science
Vania Maria Martin Braga National Heart and Lung Institute Professor of Cellular Signalling
Robina Kate Coker National Heart and Lung Institute Professor of Practice (Respiratory Medicine)
Fu Siong Ng National Heart and Lung Institute Reader in Cardiac Electrophysiology
Philip Leslie Molyneaux National Heart and Lung Institute Professor of Interstitial Lung Disease
Elisabetta Renzoni National Heart and Lung Institute Professor of Practice (Respiratory Medicine)
Christopher James Rhodes National Heart and Lung Institute Reader in Pulmonary Vascular Disease
Coen Wiegman National Heart and Lung Institute Senor Teaching Fellow
Beata Wojciak-Stothard National Heart and Lung Institute Professor in Vascular Biology
Ahmed Rashid Ahmed Surgery and Cancer Clinical Reader in Metabolic Surgery
James Macalister Kinross Surgery and Cancer Reader in General Surgery
Olivier E Pardo Surgery and Cancer Reader in Cancer Cell Signalling
David James Pinato Surgery and Cancer Clinical Reader in Medical Oncology
Rohini Sharma Surgery and Cancer Professor Clinical Pharmacology and Medical Oncology
Justin Roe Surgery and Cancer Professor of Practice (Speech and Swallowing Rehabilitation)
Benjamin Barratt School of Public Health Professor in Environmental Exposures and Public Health
Abbas Dehghan School of Public Health Professor in Molecular Epidemiology
Nuno Miguel Faria School of Public Health Professor in Virus Genomic Epidemiology
Filippos Filippidis School of Public Health Reader in Public Health
Felix Edward Clovis Greaves School of Public Health Clinical Reader in Public Health
Silke Kerruth School of Public Health Senior Teaching Fellow
Robert Edward Klaber School of Public Health Professor of Practice (Population Health)
Zeinab Mulla School of Public Health Senior Teaching Fellow in Public Health
Sabita Nellamakada Uthaya School of Public Health Professor of Practice (Neonatal Medicine)
Verena Zuber School of Public Health Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics

Faculty of Natural Sciences

Department Promoted title
Jeremy Woods Centre for Environmental Policy Professor of Sustainable Development
Artem Bakulin Chemistry Reader in Physical Chemistry
Anna  Barnard Chemistry Senior Lecturer
Marco Di Antonio Chemistry Senior Lecturer
Rebecca Louise Greenaway Chemistry Senior Lecturer
Louise Jane Walport Chemistry Senior Lecturer
Doryen Althea Bubeck Life Sciences Professor in Structural Immunology
Abigail  Clements Life Sciences Senior Lecturer
Tiago Rafael Dias da Costa Life Sciences Senior Lecturer in Bacterial Pathogenesis
Dorian Guzu Life Sciences Learning Technologist
Gerald Jean-Paul Larrouy-Maumus Life Sciences Reader in Molecular Microbiology
Samraat Pawar Life Sciences Professor of Theoritical Ecology
William David Pearse Life Sciences Reader in Evolutionary Ecology
James Lloyd Rosindell Life Sciences Professor of Biodiversity Theory
Tony David Southall Life Sciences Reader in Molecular Genetics
Joseph Andrew Tobias Life Sciences Professor of Biodiversity & Ecosystems
Nikolai Windbichler Life Sciences Reader in Genetics
Jose Jimenez Zarco Life Sciences Reader in Synthetic Biology
Dante Kalise Balza Mathematics Reader in Computational Optimisation and Control
Ajay Chandra Mathematics Senior Lecturer
Davoud Cheraghi Mathematics Reader in Pure Mathematics
David Anthony Ham Mathematics Professor of Computational Mathematics
Nikolaos Kantas Mathematics Reader in Statistics
Yanki Lekili Mathematics Professsor of Geometry
Antoine Jacquier Mathematics Professor of Mathematics
Eyal Neumann Mathematics Reader in Mathematics
Ioanna Papatsouma Mathematics Senior Teaching Fellow in Statistics
Martin Rasmussen Mathematics Professor of Mathematics
Pierre-Francois Rodriguez Mathematics Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics
Travis Jeremy Schedler Mathematics Professor of Mathematics
Ewelina Turkedjiev (Zatorska) Mathematics Reader in Applied and Numerical Analysis
Simon Nicholas Bland Physics Professor of Plasma Physics
William Richard Branford Physics Professor of Solid State Physics
Paulo Andres Ceppi Physics Senior Lecturer in Climate Science
Jonathan Eastwood Physics Professor of Space Physics
Johannes Knolle Physics Reader in Quantum Simulation and Computation of Materials
Michael Andrew McCann Physics Senior Lecturer in Flavour Physics
Daniel John Mortlock Physics Professor of Astrophysics and Statistics
Mitesh Patel Physics Professor of Physics
Masoud Seifikar Physics Senior Strategic Teaching Fellow

Acting Chief Information Officer

Jenny Rae has taken up the role of Acting Chief Information Officer for an initial period of 6 months, contingent on the appointment of the substantive post holder. 

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, in this role Jenny will lead the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) division and be responsible for all aspects of Imperial’s Technology Strategy which will support the organisation to realise its digital ambitions. 

Jenny has been Director of Digital Products at Imperial since January 2022. She previously worked at Found Tech as Chief Operations Officer, leading the product, technology and business operations functions.  Prior to this, Jenny held several senior roles at both Vodafone and BT Group.