{"id":732,"date":"2026-10-20T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=732"},"modified":"2026-10-20T09:43:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:43:39","slug":"director-of-the-early-career-researcher-institute-ecri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2026\/10\/20\/director-of-the-early-career-researcher-institute-ecri\/","title":{"rendered":"Director of the Early Career Researcher Institute (ECRI)\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.imperial.ac.uk\/j.quint\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Professor Jennifer Quint<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> has been appointed as Director of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-institute\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Early Career Researcher Institute (ECRI)<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">, effective from 1 November 2026, for a term of five years. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">In this role, Professor Quint will lead ECRI&#8217;s next phase of development, building on the strong foundations established by Professor George Constantinides and continuing to strengthen support for Imperial&#8217;s early career researcher community.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">ECRI\u2019s primary audiences are research degree students, postdocs, and research fellows. It also supports MRes students, research technical professionals and software engineers, research degree supervisors, line managers of research staff and principal investigators (PIs).\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Professor Quint currently serves as one of ECRI&#8217;s Directors of Academic Affairs and has played a key role in the Institute&#8217;s development since its establishment.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">An internationally recognised researcher and experienced academic leader, Professor Quint brings extensive experience in supporting the development of early career researchers and advancing research culture across Imperial.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jennifer Quint has been appointed as Director of the Early Career Researcher Institute (ECRI), effective from 1 November 2026, for a term of five years. \u00a0 In this role, Professor Quint will lead ECRI&#8217;s next phase of development, building on the strong foundations established by Professor George Constantinides and continuing to strengthen support for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1722,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319177,319054],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-institutes","category-senior-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}