ProfessorStephenCurry

Summary

Professor Stephen Curry holds joint appointments at the College. In September 2023, he was appointed as a College Consul. From 2017-23, he served as Imperial's first Assistant Provost for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion to direct the College’s strategy in this important area for staff and students.

Prof. Curry is also a member of the Department of Life Sciences (DoLS), where he has worked as a structural biologist on a variety of problems related to protein-drug interactions and the replication of RNA viruses such as foot-and-mouth disease virus and human norovirus (the winter vomiting bug). His group has made major contributions to our understanding of drug interactions with human serum albumin and of a range of host-virus protein interactions that are crucial to initiate translation of viral RNA into new virus proteins in infected cells.

Though he has now wound down his research and teaching activities, Prof. Curry retains strong interests the wider role of science in society. He is active in public engagement, having made and presented a number of science videos. He has keen interests in science policy, particularly in R&D funding, in research evaluation (and the use and mis-use of metrics), and in scholarly publication. He is Chair of the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), and serves in an advisory capacity to a number of national and international organisations, including the Swiss National Science Foundation and the FWF (the national research funder in Austria). He has written extensively about science and the scientific life in the Guardian and on his Reciprocal Space blog, and can be found on Twitter as @Stephen_Curry.

 

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