Senior appointments

Professor Nigel Brandon has been appointed as Vice-President (Corporate Engagement).

He will take on this role in October 2026 after he stands down as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering in September 2026.

The Vice-President (Corporate Engagement) is a new role that will focus on developing Imperial’s relationships with executive leaders in key knowledge- and technology- intensive sectors to yield new educational, research, innovation and philanthropic opportunities.

Working in collaboration with senior leaders and teams across Imperial to deliver on their strategic plans, he will support the development of new partnerships and act as an ambassadorial role for their stewardship.

This new role will be focused on ensuring organisations have access to the best Imperial has to offer, from our world-leading research and education, innovation and enterprise and consultancy.

In addition to Nigel’s tenure as Dean, he is a Professor of Sustainable Development in Energy. Previously he was Vice Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Engineering as well as Founding Director of the Sustainable Gas Institute and the Energy Futures Lab.

The search for a new Dean of the Faculty of Engineering will commence in the coming months.

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Professor Peter Haynes has been appointed as Imperial’s new Provost and Deputy President.

Currently our Vice-Provost for Education and Student Experience, Peter’s new role will have responsibility for all of Imperial’s academic affairs, working with colleagues across our community to ensure excellence in education, research and translation activities, and furthering our reputation as a world-leading university.

Peter will take up his role on 1 October 2025, succeeding Professor Ian Walmsley who is leaving Imperial in September.

Peter is already well known to our community. Prior to becoming Vice-Provost in October 2022, he was Head of the Department of Materials for seven years. In 2012, he was appointed Professor of Theory and Simulation of Materials, a joint appointment between the Departments of Materials and Physics. He was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize for Computational Physics by the Institute of Physics in 2010 and was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2021.

His research interests focus on the development of new methods for performing first-principles quantum-mechanical simulations and their application to materials science, nanotechnology and biological systems. You can read his academic profile online.

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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.  

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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. 

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Lizzie Burrows has accepted appointment as the university’s Chief Marketing and Recruitment Officer. Lizzie will lead the Marketing, Outreach, Recruitment and Admissions (MORA) Division, with the Outreach team having joined with Marketing, Recruitment and Admissions from 1 December. 

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Professor Azra Ghani has accepted appointment as Academic Director for Imperial Global Singapore, with effect from 1 December 2024 for a term of three years. This is a 0.5 FTE role.

Reporting to the Vice-Provost (Research and Enterprise), in this role Professor Ghani will provide strategic vision, direction and leadership to the hub.

Professor Ghani is Chair in Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the School of Public Health. She is currently Director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis and she also holds a Visiting Professor appointment at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Professor Ghani’s research has covered a wide range of infectious diseases, including BSE and vCJD, sexually transmitted infections, SARS, COVID-19, influenza and malaria. She is currently a member of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness (CEPI) Scientific Advisory Committee and is a Trustee for the Science Media Centre.

Professor Ghani was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2017 and she was appointed a Member of the British Order (MBE) in 2021.

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Professor Maggie Dallman OBE has accepted appointment as Associate Provost (Societal Engagement) with effect from Monday 28 October.  

Reporting to the Provost, in this role Professor Dallman will be responsible for creating and driving the new Centre for Societal Engagement as its Founding Academic Director. The Centre is one of the key initiatives of the Imperial Inspires pillar of Imperial’s Strategy, Science for Humanity.  Professor Dallman will also lead Imperial’s work to ensure people from all walks of life and ages can engage with and participate in STEM as well as championing the inclusion of diverse public perspectives to enhance our research and wider work. She will continue to lead some of Imperial’s initiatives relevant to this portfolio, including the Imperial Maths School. 

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Amanda Wolthuizen has accepted appointment as Vice-President (Strategic Engagement), with effect from 28 October 2024.  

Reporting to the President, in this role Amanda will be responsible for the development and implementation of Imperial’s Strategy, Science for Humanity. This includes the development of our international strategy and operations, and the implementation of Imperial’s government relations and stakeholder engagement strategy.   

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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.

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