Academic Promotions 2002 at Imperial College London
For Immediate Use
1 October 2002
Imperial College London today announces the conferment of title on 30 new Professors and 48 new Readers, and promotion to 31 new Senior Lecturers and four new Research Assistants (Grade III) with effect from 1 October 2002.
The complete list of 113 promotions is the result of the Colleges annual Academic Promotions exercise.
In October 2001 Imperial began a programme of raising the minimum salaries for all academic staff. From 1 October 2002 basic minimum salaries for Professors, Readers, Senior Lecturers currently stand at:
- Professor £45,000
- Reader and Senior Lecturer - £35,249
A full list of staff promoted follows.
| Conferment of the title of Professor | ||
| Name | Title | Department/Division |
| Gad Frankel | Professor of Molecular Pathogenesis | Biological Sciences |
| Denis Dugwell | Professor of Chemical Engineering | Chemical Engineering |
| Christopher Lawrence | Professor of Fluid Mechanics | Chemical Engineering |
| David Klug | Professor of Chemical Biophysics | Chemistry |
| Robin Leatherbarrow | Professor of Chemical Biology | Chemistry |
| Andrew Miller | Professor of Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology | Chemistry |
| Yike Guo | Professor of Computing Science | Computing |
| Peter Cheung | Professor of Digital Systems | Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| John Mumford | Professor of Natural Resource Management | Environmental Science and Technology |
| Susan Parry | Professor of Radiochemistry | Environmental Science and Technology |
| Jane Apperley | Professor of Haemoto-Oncology | Investigative Science |
| Mohammad Ghatei | Professor of Peptide Endocrinology | Investigative Science |
| Dorothy Griffiths | Professor of Human Resource Managment | Management School |
| Stefan Szymanski | Professor of Economics | Management School |
| Robin Grimes | Professor of Materials Physics | Materials |
| Sebastian Reich | Professor in Computational and Mathematical Modelling | Maths |
| Andrew George | Professor of Molecular Immunology | Medicine |
| Michael Seckl | Professor of Molecular Cancer Medicine | Medicine |
| Eileen Joyce | Professor of Neuropsychiatry | Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine |
| Maria Belvisi | Professor of Respiratory Pharmacology | NHLI |
| David Firmin | Professor of Biomedical Imaging | NHLI |
| Sian Harding | Professor of Cardiac Pharmacology | NHLI |
| Jane Mitchell | Professor of Pharmacology in Critical Care | NHLI |
| Gudrun Moore | Professor of Molecular Genetics | Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
| Caroline Sewry | Professor of Muscle Pathology | Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
| Jonathan Halliwell | Professor of Theoretical Physics | Physics |
| Jonathan Marangos | Professor of Laser Physics | Physics |
| Christl Donnelly | Professor of Statistical Epidemiology | Primary Care and Population Health Sciences |
| Geoffrey Garnett | Professor of Microparasite Epidemiology | Primary Care and Population Health Sciences |
| David Silk | Professor of Clinical Nutrition | Surgery, Anaesthetics and Intensive Care |
| Conferment of the title of Reader | ||
| Name | Title | Department/Division |
| Georg Cadisch | Reader in Soil Science and Nutrient Cycling | Agricultural Science |
| Andrew Dorward | Reader in Agricultural Development Economics | Agricultural Science |
| Simon Leather | Reader in Applied Ecology | Biological Sciences |
| Armand Leroi | Reader in Evolutionary Developmental Biology | Biological Sciences |
| Stephen Matthews | Reader in Chemical and Structural Biology | Biological Sciences |
| Peter Nixon | Reader in Plant and Microbial Biochemistry | Biological Sciences |
| Donald Quicke | Reader in Systematics | Biological Sciences |
| Alfried Vogler | Reader in Molecular Systematics | Biological Sciences |
| Stephen Mitchell | Reader in Drug Metabolism | Biomedical Sciences |
| Robert IIiffe | Reader in History of Science | Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine |
| Holger Braunschweig | Reader in Inorganic Chemistry | Chemistry |
| Nicholas Long | Reader in Inorganic Chemistry | Chemistry |
| Thomas Welton | Reader in Catalysis | Chemistry |
| Stephen Smith | Reader in Environmental Biochemistry | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Julian Bommer | Reader in Earthquake Hazard Assessment | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Matthew Coop | Reader in Experimental Soil Mechanics | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Sophia Drossopoulou | Reader in Programming Languages | Computing |
| Lidia Lonergan | Reader in Geotectonics | Earth Science and Engineering |
| Eleanor Milner-Gulland | Reader in Conservation Science | Environmental Science and Technology |
| Alessandro Astolfi | Reader in Nonlinear Control Theory | Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Daniel Altmann | Reader in Immunology | Investigative Science |
| Kathleen Bamford | Reader in Diagnostic Microbiology | Investigative Science |
| Stephen Dilworth | Reader in Tumour Cell Biology | Investigative Science |
| Ingrid Muller | Reader in Immunology | Investigative Science |
| Marjorie Walker | Reader in Gastrointestinal Pathology | Investigative Science |
| John Beasley | Reader in Operational Research | Business School |
| Aldo Boccaccini | Reader in Materials Science | Materials |
| Kevin Buzzard | Reader in Pure Mathematics | Mathematics |
| Andrew Mestel | Reader in Applied Mathematics | Mathematics |
| Xuesong Wu | Reader in Applied Mathematics | Mathematics |
| Esteban Busso | Reader in Mechanics of Materials | Mechanical Engineering |
| Peter Karayiannis | Reader in Molecular Virology | Medicine |
| Giovanna Lombardi | Reader in Cellular Immunology | Medicine |
| Quentin Sattentau | Reader in Infectious Diseases | Medicine |
| Simon Taylor-Robinson | Reader in Medicine | Medicine |
| Mark Thursz | Reader in Medicine | Medicine |
| Peter Bain | Reader in Clinical Neurological Medicine | Neuroscience< and Psychological Medicine/font> |
| Kenneth MacLeod | Reader in Cardiac Physiology | NHLI |
| Michael Polkey | Reader in Respiratory Medicine | NHLI |
| Douglas Robinson | Reader in Allergy and Repiratory Medicine | NHLI |
| Mitchell Blair | Reader in Paediatrics and Child Public Health | Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
| Philip Stanier | Reader in Molecular Biology | Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
| Paul Dauncey | Reader in High Energy Physics | Physics |
| Michele Dougherty | Reader in Space Physics | Physics |
| Karl Krushelnick | Reader in Plasma Physics | Physics |
| Joao Magueijo | Reader in Theoretical Physics | Physics |
| Martin McCall | Reader in Photonics | Physics |
| Roland Smith | Reader in Laser Physics | Physics |
| Promoted to Senior Lecturer: Name | Department/Division | |
| Joaquim Peiro | Aeronautics | |
| Kelvin Balcombe | Agricultural Sciences | |
| Lynne Clark | Agricultural Sciences | |
| Daniel Davis | Biological Sciences | |
| Mahendra Deonarain | Biological Sciences | |
| Tracy Hussell | Biological Sciences | |
| John Tippins | Biological Sciences | |
| Michael Tristem | Biological Sciences | |
| Michael Barrett | Biomedical Sciences | |
| Peter Clark | Biological Sciences | |
| Juliet Varley | Chemical Engineering | |
| Jennifer Collier | Earth Science and Engineering | |
| Jian Liu | Earth Science and Engineering | |
| Ann Muggeridge | Earth Science and Engineering | |
| William Pike | Electrical and Electronic Engineering | |
| Roy Colvile | Environmental Science and Technology | |
| Matthew Leach | Environmental Science and Technology | |
| Murdoch McAllister | Environmental Science and Technology | |
| Nesrina Imami | Investigative Science | |
| Michael Jones | Investigative Science | |
| Andrew Clark | Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology | |
| Turalay Kenc | Business School | |
| Ricardo Martinez-Botas | Mechanical Engineering | |
| Nick Davey | Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine | |
| Mark Hankins | Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine | |
| Douglas Corfield | NHLI | |
| David Britton | Physics | |
| Kim Christensen | Physics | |
| Pablo Etchegoin | Physics | |
| Robert Forsyth | Physics | |
| Mark Little | Primary Care and Population Health Sciences | |
| Promoted to RAIII | ||
| Yuri Ushkaryov | Biological Sciences | |
| Christopher Pain | Earth Science and Engineering | |
| Mehdi Vahdati | Mechanical Engineering | |
| David Agnew | Environmental Science and Technology | |
For further information please contact:
Abigail Smith
Imperial College London Press Office
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6701
Mob: +44 (0)7803 886248
Email: abigail.smith@imperial.ac.uk
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