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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.

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.

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine

Professor Graham Cooke has accepted appointment as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, with effect from 1 August 2024, for a term of five years. 

Professor Cooke will continue in his role as Vice-Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Medicine. Professor Cooke is also currently serving as Deputy Head of the Department of Infectious Disease, a role which he will step down once he takes on the role of Deputy Dean of the Faculty. 

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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.