Professor Stefanos Zafeiriou has accepted the appointment as Head of the Department of Computing for a five year term, starting from 1 September 2025.
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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.
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.
Heather Haseley has been appointed Managing Director for the Institute of Extended Learning (IEL) and will join Imperial on Wednesday 23 April.
Reporting to the Associate Provost (Digital Lifelong Learning) and the Registrar and University Secretary, in this role Heather will have overall responsibility for the management of the IEL, working closely with colleagues across Imperial to shape and deliver our ambitious vision.
Professor Majid Ezzati has accepted appointment as Academic Director for Imperial Global Ghana, with effect from 1 November 2024 for a term of three years. This is a 0.2 FTE role.
Reporting to the Vice-President (Strategic Engagement), in this role Professor Ezzati will provide strategic vision, direction and leadership to the hub.
Professor Ezzati is Professor of Global Environmental Health in the School of Public Health. He is also the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on NCD Surveillance, Epidemiology and Modelling, and a research lead at the Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics. His research uses data and methods from environmental, health and quantitative sciences to answer key questions related to improving global health.
Professor Alison Holmes OBE FMedSci has accepted appointment as the inaugural Director of the Fleming Initiative, with effect from 1 October 2024.
A partnership between Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, the Fleming Initiative is focused on driving solutions to antimicrobial resistance that are co-designed with patients, the public, and policy makers and underpinned by a rich and diverse evidence base.
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.
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.
Professor Ann Muggeridge has been elected as Proconsul, for a term of three years, starting from 1 September 2024. This follows the completion of her term as Consul for the Faculty of Engineering and the Business School at the end of August 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 College organisations
Professor David Evans – Natural Sciences and cross College organisations
Proconsuls
Professor Dorian Haskard
Professor Richard Jardine
Professor Liz Lightstone
Professor Martin McCall
Professor Ann Muggeridge
Professor Peter Openshaw
The Julia Higgins Awards are awarded annually to recognise individuals, groups, and departments that have made a significant contribution to the support of academic women at the College.
The Julia Higgins Medal recognises outstanding contributions within this category and is awarded to one of the award winners.