This network is led by students at Imperial College London and supported by staff. Each faculty has a student research network manager representative, who is the main point of student contact for the faculty within the network. All students at Imperial College London are welcome to join the network, so if you are interested please feel free to contact your student network manager representative.

Current Student Research Network Managers

Petya Atanasova - Imperial Business School

My research focuses on the food environment and the prevention of non-communicable diseases. Specifically, I am working on the determinants of children nutritional choices and behavioural interventions for food behaviour change in low- and middle-income countries. My PhD is collaborative between the Faculty of Medicine and the Imperial College Business School.
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Costas Elezoglou - Faculty of Engineering

My PhD investigates the mechanical behaviour of chocolate. I am based in the Faculty of Engineering and more specifically in the Soft Solids Group (Mechanics of Materials Division). I deploy both experimental as well as numerical methods in my research to understand how this popular food responses to the application of various loading situations. The mechanical response of chocolate is linked to manufacturing, transportation as well as influencing texture in human perception.
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Cecilia Dunsterville – Faculty of Medicine

I am a first year PhD student in the Faculty of Medicine. My area of interest is the gut with a focus on food absorption, obesity, and gastrointestinal diseases. I am currently working with bioengineers to develop a contrast enhanced imaging technique to study inflammatory bowel disease.
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Tom Kitto - Faculty of Natural Sciences

I am a first year PhD student in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and a part of the EPSRC CDT in Chemical Biology. I am researching the development of synthetic biology plant cell constructs for agrochemical permeation studies as a member of the Elani group and co-sponsored by Syngenta.
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