Associate Provost (Digitally-Enhanced Learning & Teaching)
Dr Sophie Rutschmann has accepted the appointment of Associate Provost (Digitally-Enhanced Learning & Teaching), with effect from 1 August 2025, for a term of five years.
Reporting to the Vice-Provost (Education and Student Experience), Dr Rutschmann will lead Imperial’s strategic commitment to digitally-enhanced learning and teaching.
Professor Stefanos Zafeiriou has accepted the appointment as Head of the Department of Computing for a five year term, starting from 1 September 2025.
The following Professors have been elected as Proconsuls:
This follows the upcoming completion of their term of office as Consuls at the end of August 2025. Their term of office as Proconsuls will start on 1 September 2025.
Dr Elena Dieckmann and Professor Sanjeev Gupta have accepted the appointment of Academic Co-Director for Imperial Global India, with effect from 1 March 2025 for a term of three years. This is a 0.2 FTE role.
Reporting to the Vice-President (Strategic Engagement), the Academic Co-Directors will provide strategic vision, direction and leadership to the hub.
Professor Anna Korre has accepted the appointment of Associate Provost (Sustainability) with effect from 1 May 2025, for an initial term of five years. The role will be part-time at 0.5 FTE.
Reporting to the Provost, the Associate Provost (Sustainability) will act as a champion for sustainability across Imperial, engaging with senior leaders to drive cultural change. Together with the Director of Sustainability, Harriet Wallace, the Associate Provost (Sustainability) will co-lead the development of the current Sustainability Strategy and activities outlined in the Sustainable Imperial initiative, and the development of the next strategy.
Professor Rafael Palacios has accepted appointment as Head of the Department of Aeronautics with effect from 1 October 2025, for a term of five years.
Dr Ana Costa-Pereira has accepted a three-year extension to her term as Director of the Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication (CLCC) from 1 July 2025.
Reporting to the Vice-Provost (Education and Student Experience), in this role Dr Costa-Pereira is responsible for providing strategic leadership and direction for an exciting range of provision designed to broaden Imperial students’ perspectives, give new context to their disciplinary knowledge and allow them to share their expertise for the benefit of society. Focusing on humanities, languages, change makers, and science communication, some of these programmes are also open to staff and members of the public.
Imperial is pleased to announce the title of Regius Professor of Infectious Disease has been conferred on Professor Wendy Barclay with immediate effect. She has been appointed in succession to the first holder of the Regius Professorship, Emeritus Professor David Holden.
Professor Tim Green has accepted the appointment as Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, with effect from 1 January 2025, for a term of five years. Professor Green will succeed Professor Eric Yeatman, who is taking up the post of Vice-Principal and Head of College of Science and Engineering at the University of Glasgow.
Professor Green joined Imperial in 1994 as Lecturer in the department and was promoted to Professor of Electrical Power Engineering in 2005. Professor Green is currently the Academic Lead for Sustainability and is also the Deputy Head of the Department, both of which he will step down from once he takes up the Head of the Department role. He has held several other senior roles such as Director of the Undergraduate Studies and Co-Director of the Energy Futures Lab (EFL).
Professor Green’s research focuses on the analysis and technology to develop a zero carbon electricity supply system that is dominated by variable renewable sources and other inverter-based resources (IBR) such as battery energy storage. He was awarded Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2018.
Professor Mary Morrell has been appointed as Head of the Pears Cumbria School of Medicine, with effect from 1 November 2024.
Professor Morrell has been the Interim Head of the Pears Cumbria School of Medicine since the School was formed in August 2023.
Professor Morrell joined Imperial as a lecturer in 2000. Since then she has held many senior educational roles, including the Director of Phase 1 and its ‘early years’ predecessor within Imperial College School of Medicine (ICSM). Professor Morrell has also facilitated and supported programmes in NHLI, including the successful BSc pathway in Remote Medicine, the first of its kind in the UK, and the Cardiovascular and Respiratory Healthcare MSc.
Professor Morrell’s research has investigated and raised awareness of sleep-related health issues in the UK and her research continues to have impact on the clinical care of thousands of patients.
Professor Morrell would love to hear from anyone interested in the new School. Please do get in contact.