Meeting regularly to discuss matters of importance on an array of topics, the Department of Bioengineering has a number of working committees.
- The Department Management committee,
- The Safety and Safety Process committees,
- The Teaching Committee,
- The Research Committee,
- The Postgraduate Research Committee and
- The Equality and Departmental Culture Committee (EDCC)
The Terms of Reference and reporting structure of these committees is detailed here.
These committees derive solutions and take actions to ensure that the Department is continuously improving, growing and providing a positive experience for staff and students alike. Below is a list of members belonging to each one.
In addition to their research and teaching remit, academics have supplementary roles and these are detailed in the table below alongside committee responsibilities and Department Leadership.
Committees & supplementary roles
- Department Management Committee (DMC)
- Department Research Committee (DRC)
- Department Teaching Committee (DTC)
- Postgraduate Research Committee
- Safety Process Committee
- Safety Committee
- Equality and Departmental Culture Committee (EDCC)
- Academic Supplementary Roles
Department Management Committee (DMC)
| Academic | Role |
|---|---|
| Professor Rylie Green | Head of Department |
| Professor Spyros Masouros | Director of Teaching |
| Professor Simon Schultz | Director of Research |
| Dr Parry Hashemi | Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) |
| Mrs Sneha Saunders | Department Operations Manager |
| Professor Claudia Clopath | Chair of Equality and Departmental Culture Committee |
| Professor Darryl Overby | Academic Staff Line Manager |
| Professor Tom Ellis | Academic Staff Line Manager |
| Professor Reiko Tanaka | Academic Staff Line Manager |
| Professor Peter Weinberg | Academic Staff Line Manager |
| Dr Angela Kedgley | Academic Load Director |
| Dr Ben Almquist | Elected Department Representative |
| Professor Firat Guder | Elected Department Representative |
Department Research Committee (DRC)
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Director of Research | Professor Simon Schultz |
| Director of Postgraduate Studies, Research | Dr Parry Hashemi |
| Domain Expert | Dr Amanda Foust |
| Domain Expert |
Dr Jun Ishihara |
| Equipment Champion | Professor Etienne Burdet |
| Fellowship Coordinator and Academic Representative | Dr Chiu Fan Lee |
| Laboratory Manager | Mr Ken Keating |
| Research Manager and Network Coordinator | Dr Kalypso Charalambous |
| Secretariat | Mr Hassan Patel |
Department Teaching Committee (DTC)
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Chair and Director of Teaching | Dr Spyros Masouros |
| Senior Tutor | Dr Faraz Janan |
| Deputy Senior Tutor | Dr Ian Radcliffe |
| Director of Postgraduate Studies (Taught) and Academic Staff Representative | Dr David Labonte |
| Examinations Officer | Dr Chris Rowlands |
| Deputy Examinations Officer and Mitigating Circumstances Chair | Dr Adam Celiz |
| Head of Student Programmes | Mrs Nicola Guirguis |
| Teaching Operations Manager | Miss Nicole Harbert |
| Admissions and Outreach Manager | Ms Jayne Shaw |
| Academic Tutor | Mr Martin Holloway |
| Student Liaison Officer | Dr Joseph van Batenburg-Sherwood |
| Departmental Student Representatives |
TBC |
| Student Wellbeing Representative | TBC |
| Undergraduate Programme Leads | Dr Ben Almquist Dr Nicolas Newell Dr Maria Parkes Dr Claire Stanley |
| MSc Programme Leads | Prof Etienne Burdet Dr David Labonte (until December 2025) Dr Periklis Pantazis (from January 2026) |
Postgraduate Research Committee
Staff members:
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Chair and Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) | Dr Parry Hashemi |
| Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) | Dr Amanda Foust |
| Senior Tutor for Postgraduate Research | Dr Claire Higgins |
| GTA Officer | Dr Pete Lally |
| Head of Student Programmes | Nicola Guirguis |
| Postgraduate Research Student Programmes Manager | Raleigh Mangsat |
| Senior Student Administrator (PhD and MRes programmes) | Kelly Condra |
Student members:
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| PhD Representative | Alba Martinez-Basalo |
| PhD Representative | Maria Nikolaidi |
| PhD Representative | Anna Rhodes |
| PhD Representative | Livia Soro |
| PhD Representative | Aliya Pachmann |
| MRes Medical Device and Entrepreneurship Representative | Chelsea Bunke |
| MRes Cancer Technology Representative | Shurui Lyu |
| MRes Bioengineering Representative | Victoria Medina |
| MRes Neurotechnology Representative | Yago Parrilla Santander |
| Departmental Academic Representative | Vanessa Drevenakova |
Safety Process Committee
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Chair and Academic representative | Dr Sam Au |
| Co-Chair and Departmental Deputy Safety Adviser (Technical) | Dr Miguel Hermida Ayala |
| Academic representative | Dr Sophie V Morse |
| Departmental Safety Adviser | Mr Kenneth Keating |
| Committee secretary | Marta Garcia Bellmunt |
| Systems and Development | Edit Toth |
| Technical representative | Greg Casson |
| Postgraduate student representative | Andra Topan-Rat |
| Postdoc representative | Dr Anastasiya Kishkevich |
| Faculty Safety Advisor |
Safety Committee
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Chair and Head of Department | Professor Rylie Green |
| Department Safety Officer | Mr Ken Keating |
| Deputy Safety Officer and BioSafety | Dr Miguel Hermida |
| Technical Safety Support and Secretary | Ms Marta Garcia Bellmunt |
| Buildings Managers | Mr Guy Fairhurst Mr Raymond Henry Mr Michael St Claire Lang |
| Biological Safety Officer | Mr Tim Budd |
| Chemical Safety | Professor Danny O'Hare |
| Electrical Safety | Mr Paschal Egan |
| Fire Safety | Mr Jonathan Ryan Mr Steve Walker Ms Lucy Cowell |
| HTA | Dr Nic Newell |
| In-Vivo Work | Mr Oliver Dubois |
| Radiation, including Laser, Safety | Mr Sharad Patel |
| Mechanical Safety | Mr John Waldock |
| Infrastructure | Mr Greg Casson |
| Office | Mr Joel Eustaquio |
| Faculty Safety Adviser | Alice Hunt |
| Stevens Group | Ms Lucy Chapman Mr Dennis Hartsink |
| Undergraduate students and projects | Dr Ian Radcliffe |
| Research Students representative | TBC |
| College Safety Department Representative(s) | Mr Eddie Hartrick Mr Tim Budd |
Equality and Departmental Culture Committee (EDCC)
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Chair (Academic representative) | Professor Claudia Clopath |
| Department Operations Manager | Mrs Sneha Saunders |
| Athena SWAN Coordinator | Mr Rob Bell |
| Academic representative | Dr Parry Hashemi |
| Academic representative | Dr Victoria Salem |
| Academic representative | Dr Julien Vermot |
| Professional Services Staff representative | Mr Greg Casson |
| Admissions and Outreach Manager | Ms Jayne Shaw |
| Campus Champion | Dr Claire Higgins |
| Campus Champion | Dr Huai-Ti Lin |
| BAME Representative | Debbie Adegoke |
| PhD representative | Leah Xu |
| PhD representative | Krystyna Broda |
| PostDoc & Fellows Development Advisor | Rachel Herries |
| Postdoc representative | Dr Anastasiya Kishkevich |
| Postdoc representative | Dr Roberto Portillo Lara |
| Undergraduate representative | TBC |
| James West Fellowship | Dr Joseph van Batenburg-Sherwood |
| Bioengineering Society President | Ioana Esanu |
| Visiting Member (Materials) | Dr Andrew Cairns |
Academic Supplementary Roles
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Head of Department | Professor Rylie Green |
| Academic Load Director | Dr Angela Kedgley |
| Academic Staff Line manager | Professor Darryl Overby Professor Tom Ellis Professor Reiko Tanaka Professor Peter Weinberg |
| Accreditation | Professor Richard Kitney |
| BSc Degree Leader (Biomedical Technology Ventures) | Dr Ben Almquist |
| Campus Champion | Dr Claire Higgins (White City) Dr Huai-Ti Lin (South Ken) |
| Cancer Tech Network Lead | Dr James Choi |
| CBS Management and Strategy Group and FoE CBS Chair | Dr Andriy Kozlov |
| City and Guilds College Association Liaison Officer and Alumni Relations | Dr Andriy Kozlov |
| College CBS Strategic Committee role | Professor Rylie Green |
| CRUK Microfabrication Prototyping Facility Director | Dr Sam Au |
| Chair of Equality and Departmental Culture Committee | Professor Claudia Clopath |
| Chair of Safety Systems working group | Dr Sam Au |
| College Activity - Department 'appointment': Strategic | Dr Periklis Pantazis |
| Department Research Computing Services Representative | Dr Guang Yang |
| Department Seminars Coordinator | Dr Amy Howard |
| Director of Enterprise and Impact | Professor Anil Bharath |
| Director of MRes Bioengineering | Dr Firat Guder |
| Director of MRes Cancer Technology | Dr Jun Ishihara |
| Director of MRes Medical Device Design | Dr Sam Au |
| Director of MRes Neurotechnology | Dr Hayriye Cagnan |
| Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) | Dr Parry Hashemi |
| Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) | Dr Amanda Foust |
| Deputy Director Postgraduate Studies (PhD Research) | Dr Claire Higgins |
| Director of Postgraduate Studies (Taught) | Dr David Labonte |
| Director of Research | Professor Simon Schultz |
| Director of Teaching | Dr Spyros Masouros |
| DRC Domain Expert | Dr Amanda Foust Dr Jun Ishihara |
| Elected Department Representatives | |
| Equipment Champion | |
| Examinations Officer | Dr Christopher Rowlands |
| Deputy Examinations Officer and Mitigating Circumstances Panel Chair | Dr Adam Celiz |
| Fellowship Lead | Dr Chiu Fan Lee |
| Female Academic Network Coordinator | Dr Dandan Zhang |
| GTA Officer | Dr Pete Lally |
| Grant Writing Workshops | Professor Rodrigo Ledesma Amaro Professor Dario Farina |
| Impact (and impact case studies) | Professor Manos Drakakis |
| Industrial Liaison Lead | Professor Dario Farina |
| Intercalated BSc Biomedical Engineering lead | Dr Nicolas Newell |
| MEng Biomedical Engineering lead | Dr Maria Parkes |
| MEng Molecular Bioengineering lead | Dr Claire Stanley |
| MRes Alternative Proteins | Dr Sonja Billerbeck |
| MRes Bioengineering Director | Professor Firat Guder |
| MRes Cancer Director | Dr Jun Ishihara |
| MRes Medical Devices Director | Dr Sam Au |
| MRes Neurotechnology Director | Dr Hayriye Cagnan |
| MSc Programme Lead: Engineering for Biomedicine | Dr David Labonte (until December 2025) Dr Periklis Pantazis (from January 2026) |
| MSc Programme Lead: Human and Biological Robotics | Professor Etienne Burdet |
| PhD Mentors | Dr Hayriye Cagnan Professor Claudia Clopath Dr Andriy Kozlov Dr Chiu Fan Lee |
| Postdoc Champion | Dr Kaushik Jayaram |
| Postgraduate Tutor (MRes and PhD) | Dr Claire Higgins |
| Prizes, Honours and Awards Committee Chair | Dr Guang Yang |
| Prizes, Honours and Awards Committee Members | Dr Pete Lally Dr Sophie Morse |
| Projects Officer (final year) | Professor Julien Vermot |
| Projects Officer (group projects) | Dr Pedro Ballester |
| Projects Officer (industry liaison) | Dr James Choi |
| REF Champion | Dr Tom Ouldridge |
| Safety Committee | Dr Sam Au |
| Senior Tutor (Taught Courses) | Dr Faraz Janan |
| Deputy Senior Tutor (Taught Courses) | Dr Ian Radcliffe |
| Societal Engagement Champion | Dr Amy Howard |
| Student Liaison Officer | Dr Joseph van Batenburg-Sherwood |
| Sustainability Committee Chair | Dr Claire Stanley |
| UG Exchange Programme Coordinator | Dr Dandan Zhang |
| Widening Participation Scholarships Chair | Professor Danny O'Hare |