{"id":219,"date":"2023-07-11T12:12:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T11:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=219"},"modified":"2023-10-23T15:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T14:50:50","slug":"vice-dean-research-faculty-of-natural-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2023\/07\/11\/vice-dean-research-faculty-of-natural-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice-Dean (Research), Faculty of Natural Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Ramon Vilar has accepted appointment as Vice-Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Natural Sciences, with effect from 1 October 2023, for a term of five years.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:252}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Reporting to the Dean, in this role Professor Vilar will be a member of the faculty leadership team, and work closely with the Dean and the research strategy team. His responsibilities will include supporting the development of strategic research priorities, raising the quality and impact of the research undertaken across the faculty, and sustaining and diversifying research funding.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:252}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Vilar will be stepping down from his roles as Director of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Deputy Head of the Department of Chemistry to take up this position.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:252}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Vilar was promoted to Professor of Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry in 2011.\u00a0He has previously held other senior roles within the Department of Chemistry including <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Director of Research.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:252}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">His research spans several areas such as medicinal inorganic chemistry, chemical biology, molecular recognition and molecular imaging.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:252}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ramon Vilar has accepted appointment as Vice-Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Natural Sciences, with effect from 1 October 2023, for a term of five years.\u00a0\u00a0 Reporting to the Dean, in this role Professor Vilar will be a member of the faculty leadership team, and work closely with the Dean and the research strategy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1722,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,48173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-sciences","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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