{"id":631,"date":"2026-04-09T13:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=631"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:15:27","slug":"vice-dean-research-faculty-of-natural-sciences-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2026\/04\/09\/vice-dean-research-faculty-of-natural-sciences-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice-Dean (Research), Faculty of Natural Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW146531404 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/profiles.imperial.ac.uk\/r.sapienza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW146531404 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW146531404 BCX0\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Professor Riccardo Sapienza<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW146531404 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW146531404 BCX0\">\u00a0has accepted the appointment of Vice-Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Natural Sciences, for a term of five years, with effect from 1 May 2026.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP Selected SCXW146531404 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Riccardo Sapienza\u00a0has accepted the appointment of Vice-Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Natural Sciences, for a term of five years, with effect from 1 May 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-sciences"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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