{"id":620,"date":"2026-01-26T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=620"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:00:03","slug":"head-of-the-department-of-chemistry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2026\/01\/26\/head-of-the-department-of-chemistry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of the Department of Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Head of the Department of Chemistry<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.imperial.ac.uk\/r.vilar\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Professor Ramon Vilar<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0has accepted the\u00a0appointment of\u00a0Head of the Department of Chemistry, with effect\u00a0from 1 April\u00a02026, for a term of\u00a0five years.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Vilar will be stepping down from his role as Vice-Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Natural Sciences.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of the Department of Chemistry\u00a0 \u00a0Professor Ramon Vilar\u00a0has accepted the\u00a0appointment of\u00a0Head of the Department of Chemistry, with effect\u00a0from 1 April\u00a02026, for a term of\u00a0five years.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Professor Vilar will be stepping down from his role as Vice-Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Natural Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1722,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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