{"id":643,"date":"2026-05-22T11:58:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=643"},"modified":"2026-05-22T11:58:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:58:46","slug":"head-of-the-department-of-chemical-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2026\/05\/22\/head-of-the-department-of-chemical-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.imperial.ac.uk\/j.hallett\">Professor Jason Hallett<\/a>\u00a0has accepted the appointment as\u00a0Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering\u00a0for a fixed term of five years, with effect from\u00a01 October 2026.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This appointment replaces the current Head of the Department, Professor Omar Matar, who has been appointed as the new <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2026\/02\/19\/dean-of-the-faculty-of-engineering\/\">Dean of the Faculty of Engineering<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jason Hallett\u00a0has accepted the appointment as\u00a0Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering\u00a0for a fixed term of five years, with effect from\u00a01 October 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1722,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}