{"id":367,"date":"2024-08-22T10:17:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T09:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=367"},"modified":"2024-08-28T08:58:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T07:58:43","slug":"extension-of-term-as-dean-of-the-faculty-of-natural-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2024\/08\/22\/extension-of-term-as-dean-of-the-faculty-of-natural-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Extension of term as Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementToProof\">\n<p>Professor Richard Craster has accepted an extension to his term as Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences until 31 August 2027.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s Council and its University Management Board (UMB).<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Craster\u2019s research interests lie at the intersection of applied mathematics, engineering and physics in particular in metamaterials, guided waves, fluid mechanics and elasticity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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