President's Address 2021

Universities at a crossroads Welcome to the President’s Address 2021.

In this extraordinary time after enduring such a profoundly sad and painful year, it is more important than ever to celebrate the great accomplishments that make us all proud of our community. Six years ago we started the tradition of using the President’s Address as an opportunity to gather to pay tribute to our staff, students and alumni who have received external awards over the past year. While we cannot gather in person, we can still be buoyed by the wonderful people and the accolades they have so greatly deserved.

Our colleagues inspire us with their devotion to excellence, Professor Alice P. Gast their dedication to helping others and their support of President of Imperial College London our community. Their efforts evoke pride by their families, their friends, their colleagues and to the College.

You will see brief descriptions of their achievements in this programme. As you read it, I think that you will be as impressed as I am by the many ways they have used their time and talents for the benefit of society.

Please join me in congratulating these brilliant colleagues. Their actions embody the excellence, values and societal impact Imperial College London is known for. We look forward to the opportunity to celebrate in person in the future.

I also thank all members of the Imperial community who contribute in numerous ways in their professional and personal lives to make the world a better place. Universities at a crossroads

Professor Alice P. Gast, President of Imperial College London 2 June 2021

The President’s Address Each year the President delivers her annual Address to the College community and invited guests, and we celebrate external accolades bestowed on Imperial staff, students and alumni. In light of the continuing COVID-19 restrictions, this year’s address was broadcast digitally.

Some years ago, in a crowded steamy hotpot restaurant in Shanghai, I watched the young people around us take pictures of their meal and receive gratifying pings as friends “liked” what they saw.

I reflected on the practice of giving thanks before a meal. Yet amidst the loss and sadness there are also things that Perhaps now, for some, God is in the Cloud awaiting our lifted our spirits and for which we are thankful. The incredible adoring photos of what we eat! efforts of people across the country and throughout the world I found myself amused by this idea until I realised that if inspire our gratitude. The response to the pandemic by the I went on a run without my phone to “log” my workout, I felt scientific community, including our own, alongside the tireless it didn’t count. Clearly my coach in the Cloud needed to see efforts by the NHS deserve repeated recognition. evidence of my movement for it to be real. Maybe I too was reliant on approbation from a phone. It has been an unprecedented year with tremendous innovation. So many of you helped others to find new ways to learn, new During the past year we have been blessed, and cursed, ways to teach, new ways to pursue research, new ways to care by spending vast amounts of time online, working, connecting, for our students, and new ways to keep the university running. documenting. Our screen time has increased dramatically. And it is running well. You have written more papers and more We know this from those unwelcome reports of the hours we proposals than in years past. You have gotten a lot done. have stared at our computers, phones and tablets. You’ve worked from home and at the front lines. We’ve connected with friends and colleagues far and wide. We can be proud of the accomplishments we made in the We’ve Zoomed, FaceTimed, and reached into homes of family face of daunting challenges. members we long to see, friends we have wanted to get back in touch with, colleagues who are hard to see in person at any Today, as is our tradition, we celebrate the external accolades time but are easy to find pinned to their computer. earned by our colleagues. There is much to celebrate despite Our reliance on technology has been growing for years, the many hardships of the past year. but it has accelerated during the pandemic. Things will never be the same again.

It has been a profoundly sad, exhausting and trying year. Our hearts go out to those who have suffered the tragic effects of the pandemic. Both physically and mentally, COVID-19 has taken its toll on all of us.

1 This has been an extraordinary period of rapid change for ability but lack the economic capacity, confidence, or support We already have wonderful examples of generous donors universities like ours and there are many competitive challenges systems they need to attend university. The Wohl Reach Out making a difference around the world. Scholarships from the ahead. Here are three: Lab, the Invention Rooms, maths homework clubs, edX Courses Amjad & Suha Bseisu Foundation provide pivotal support to for Maths and Further Maths A-levels and our new maths school students from the Levant and Malaysia, and the Lee family has 1. We have educated the next generation of scholars who will all help students succeed in their path to, and through, supported vital scholarships for students across the College. are able to teach in new or expanded universities in their university. Yet we need to do more within our university as well. We are also privileged to be among the universities home countries, in English if desired. hosting the Beacon Scholarship, a leadership development I am announcing a £10 million challenge fund to ignite support programme that nurtures ‘change-makers’ among young, 2. Technology can bring learning to where you are; the need for scholarships and fellowships over the next five years. gifted students with leadership potential from Kenya, Uganda, to spend the time in a residential university may become Tanzania and Zambia. less compelling than in the past. Half of this, £5 million, will support prestigious scholarships The government clearly has a role to play. Our newly and fellowships for talented underrepresented students. awarded British Council Scholarships for Women in STEM, 3. We are in a period of competing national interests that This will include black students, other underrepresented are bringing women from South America into some of our favours nationalism over globalism. students and students whose socioeconomic backgrounds MRes and MSc programmes, and we welcome many outstanding are barriers to university attendance. Chevening and Commonwealth scholars every year. We know that we cannot simply return to the way we were We know that by providing this support, supplemented by We are grateful for this support and we call upon the before. I firmly believe that there will still be a strong need philanthropic donations, we can improve our recruitment and government to expand such efforts to help us diversify for the very best education with the top scholars in the world. retention of students we historically have not attracted. our community. We can prevail if we can change. Universities are at a crossroads and only by remaining open Many of our friends and alumni are eager to help. I invite to new people, new technological innovations and new ideas them to use this moment to join with us to make a difference. 2. Technology has changed education; will we succeed. We have seen the power of their support. One example is the we need to change too. generous donation from the Olanrewaju brothers to support scholarships for black undergraduate students of exceptional I may have found my best French teacher ever. It’s a machine- What is our opportunity at Imperial? academic merit in Engineering and a gift to begin establishing learning algorithm that sees where my weaknesses and a new endowed scholarship. strengths are and dishes up new lessons every day. I loved We have a lot going for us at Imperial and we can build The other £5 million of the challenge fund will provide my French teachers at Princeton, but now I’m learning a lot upon our strengths: matching funds to support scholarships and fellowships for from a machine. international students. We have many generous alumni and While we have reaped some of the benefits of the data We have top talent in science, engineering, medicine friends around the world who wish to help students from their revolution in our research, we are just beginning to realise and business home country to attend Imperial. Often, they can support its effects on our teaching. The pandemic, and our rapid move Professor Sanjeev Gupta is among the Imperial academics assisting the NASA Perseverance mission on Mars. Professor Gupta is helping oversee mission We know how to work together across these disciplines part of the cost of an international fellowship or scholarship. to remote, online and “multi-mode” education have given us operations from a science and engineering point of view, helping decide where This matching funding will allow us to accept these donations a taste of our ability to enrich the educational experience for the rover will go and what it will sample. We pursue world leading discovery research and support talented students from around the world. our students. We collaborate better than most Universities are at a crossroads We have exercised our use of technology in education The history of universities is long and rich. Most were founded We have people in our community eager to think broadly to “create a community of scholars” who could share their insights and discoveries, and to “create an educated workforce We have opportunities in our estate and our spaces or society”. to do things differently In recent times these founding principles have been influenced by two accelerating driving forces: enhanced We must build upon these strengths by having audacious goals technological capability and vastly easier international mobility. and facing the realities of our strengths and weaknesses – what New technologies affect just about everything we do today, the organizational guru Jim Collins calls ‘facing the brutal facts’. and they have enhanced scientific discovery. Just a few decades ago, we could not have imagined our ability to sequence Here are four brutal facts and audacious goals and investments mutations in a virus with such speed, to see the Higgs-Boson, to help us face them: to visualise single molecules, or to drive around on the surface of Mars. Science has been hugely accelerated by new computing, imaging and sequencing abilities. And the 1. Our talented community lacks diversity acceleration continues with the further expansion of data storage and computational power. Like other universities, we are missing contributions from large The dramatic increase in international mobility has been segments of the population. We must diversify our community, the other dominant driving force influencing universities. at all levels, from students to Council members. We must be The marketplace of ideas and learning creates opportunities more ethnically diverse, gender balanced, and internationally for people from around the world. The value-added of English diverse. Increasing diversity will strengthen and enrich our language education has propelled the US and the UK to the community. It will make us more competitive. forefront of global higher education. Students from around We must start with our students. I am proud of our work to The Olanrewaju brothers, founders of the Lara & Biodun Olanrewaju Scholarship, join Imperial to celebrate the achievements of black students the world aspire to study here. improve opportunities for students who have the intellectual and professionals as part of Black History Month 2019.

2 3 enable us, over five years, to enhance our estate for the benefit of student and staff collaboration. Little did we know how much our needs would change! As we find new ways of working, we focus on how to make the most of our precious time together while using technology to enable us to be efficient and effective. We will use spaces differently. I think that we have a lot to bring to this dialogue across sectors. After all, we have experience with the “flipped classroom” where lectures and other materials are available online and the valuable face-to-face time is used for discussion, practical learning and delving deeply into topics best imparted person-to-person. As we adopt new modes of working post- pandemic, I think we should address the “flipped workplace”. Which things do we do best together, in person, and how can we use our spaces to help us do those? Which things we can do remotely, saving commuting time, energy, and stress? And which things should no longer be done? These are important questions we need the entire community to consider and help answer. These require collaborative discussion within and across departments, optimisation of scheduling, and sharing and effective use of space. I hope that the Community Fund will help, in a small way, make some spaces on campus conducive to changes we will need to make.

4. We collaborate more freely in research than in teaching In my 2019 Address I said: “Collaboration is important not Imperial researchers created the Saturday Science Club to inspire children in the White City community and support further learning outside of school. Held at the Invention Rooms at White City Campus, the sessions are a mix of family-friendly workshops and interactive activities. only across disciplines, but also across cultures. It brings new insights, leads to new approaches and to new discoveries.” The pandemic has shown us how we can collaborate even more effectively than ever. This is very true of research and we We must seize the opportunity to build upon what we have to teach our students how to learn, and to instil in them a love only need look at some of the great accomplishments of the done by integrating the innovations we have made with the best of learning. past year. of our traditional modes of education. We must remain alert Now is the time to begin thinking clearly about our role The rapid pivot to COVID-19 research brought out the best to opportunities for further innovation. The best and brightest in the education of people at all ages, on our campuses and in local and international collaboration. A critically important students will not accept an education fashioned around dull throughout the world. This means defining our role in providing collaboration, ISARIC4C (Coronavirus Clinical Characterisation lectures in a crowded auditorium. educational opportunities to adults, young people and the Consortium) brought scientists from around the UK together to Education is a two-way street; students learn from scholars broader public. There is more to do. The increased complexity immediately link clinical data from across the NHS to answer and from one another while scholars learn from their students. of the societal issues we face makes an educated citizenry more urgent questions. We need to recapture this spirit while also seizing the important than ever. Similarly, a group of Imperial academics from Life Sciences, opportunities that technology brings. Universities easily get mired in pedagogical treacle unable to Medicine and Bioengineering are building upon years of I was struck by conversations I have had with colleagues agree to change any course, setting up committees, launching collaboration to develop the Digital Diagnostics for Africa teaching the “conversion masters” for AI and Machine Learning. reviews to ratify the status quo. Network. This network brings together diverse scientists They talk about how students come from all backgrounds – One thing that the pandemic taught us is that when we with diagnostic manufacturing companies and organisations chemists from pharma, finance wizards from the City, engineers, have to, we can change. We can and must seize the opportunity working in African countries. Collaborating with academics from even a barrister. They come in wanting to learn how to use AI to be different. the University of Ghana, the network is putting new disease and Machine Learning in their field. They have the problems control tools and strategies into practice. and want to learn how to solve them. The teachers and students The Department of Materials has recently begun a learn from one another. It is an exhilarating course because new 3. We will need to use space differently collaboration with the Max Planck Institute in Dusseldorf, ideas, and new areas of research and innovation emerge from with a £10 million grant to develop a world-first microscopy the classroom discussions. Technology is an increasingly important asset in education. suite aimed at unravelling questions about the atomic nature There is much that will be changing in who we teach and Does that mean that the residential education with top of materials. This project includes joint appointment of (Above) Professor Frank Kelly, Battcock Chair in Community Health and Policy, how we teach. Events on a virtual platform have broadened our scholars is outdated? I don’t think so. I believe that the time staff between our institutions, focused on materials for the heads Imperial’s Environmental Research Group, a leading provider of air quality audience. We can share inaugural lectures, invited speeches, and distance between our newest scientific discoveries and energy transition. information and research in the UK; (Below) Imperial’s COVID-19 testing lab on panels and everything with a wide variety of people. what we teach our students has shrunk. We are a community Such international collaboration can benefit education South Kensington Campus was established as part of Medcity’s London Testing Alliance. The Alliance serves to strengthen national testing capacity, covering It will no longer be enough to focus on educating young of scholars eager to share the latest ideas. Where and how as well. Universities often collaborate more freely in research swab tests from the public, key workers and care home residents. The expanded scholars aged 18–22. Learning should be a lifetime activity, we do that will matter. projects while rigidly guarding their pedagogy. If we open facility has created over thirty new positions, including the recruitment of and we have an important role in that. It is incumbent on us In 2019 I announced the £5 million Community Fund to our minds to it, we can collaborate just as fluidly in education graduates from Imperial’s MSc in Molecular Biology and Pathology of Viruses.

4 5 The Learning Studio in the Clinical Sciences Building at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. Image courtesy of NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.

as we do in research. This year we celebrated the tenth anniversary of our landmark collaboration with NTU to create LKCMedicine. We have built a world-leading modern technology-based medical education and talented doctors are coming from the programme. We are also working with international partners to find new and innovative ways to teach. In one example, a group of Dyson School of Design Engineering students and TU Munich students use Augmented Reality headsets and Gravity Sketch software to remotely collaborate on design engineering innovation projects. Our School of Public Health developed an online module with the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Cameroon, as part of their MSc in Mathematical Sciences. The partnership with AIMS attracts students with new ideas, who challenge assumptions and inject life into mathematics. Imperial academics collaborate with partners there on how to model challenges that African countries are facing. These collaborations, and many more, make it clear that our advocacy for international mobility is more important than ever. The free flow of people and ideas is critical to fulfilling our mission of research, education and innovation in the benefit of society. We must not let rising geopolitical challenges and seeds of separatism harm these important relationships.

In closing

We have just been through a shattering experience with unprecedented loss of life, deep psychological trauma and uncertainty looming ahead. We are all exhausted from work, worry, lack of rest and lack of human interaction. These are very challenging and stressful times.

They are also exciting times. Huge changes were thrust upon us and these experiences can serve as a catalyst for meaningful long-term change.

Universities are at a crossroads.

As we define our audacious goals and face our brutal facts, as we diversify our community, as we sustain our collaborations, as we continue to innovate our education, and as we explore new ways of working, I know that we will be leaders defining the way forward.

Thank you

Professor Alice P. Gast 2 June 2021

6 7 Dr Deesha Chadha, Senior Strategic Teaching Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering was awarded an OBE for services to faith communities

External awards and accolades

Amir Afshar Dr Francesco Aprile Dr David Ayuso Dr Heather Battey Dr Florian Bouville Professor Andrew Bush Visiting Researcher, Department of Chemistry Future Leaders Fellow, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Mathematics Lecturer in Ceramics, Department of Materials Professor of Paediatrics and Paediatric Joint winner of the 2020 Venture Catalyst Department of Chemistry Department of Physics Awarded an Early Career Fellowship from Awarded a European Research Council Respirology; Director, Imperial Centre Challenge for their initiative The Shellworks, Awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship Awarded a Royal Society University the Engineering and Physical Sciences Starting Grant for Paediatrics and Child Health, which turns waste crustacean shells into from UK Research and Innovation Research Fellowship Research Council National Heart and Lung Institute biodegradable, compostable products which Dr Jochen Brandt Received the European Respiratory Society can be used as an alternative to plastic Dr Martin Archer Professor Barbara Bain Kevin John Baughan Royal Society University Research Fellow, Congress Chair Award in recognition of his Stephen Hawking Fellow, Department of Physics Professor of Diagnostic Haematology, MBA 2005 Department of Chemistry contribution to research and training in Dr Azeem Alam Awarded the Stephen Hawking Fellowship Department of Immunology and Inflammation OBE for services to innovation and skills Awarded a Royal Society University respiratory medicine Medicine 2015 from UK Research and Innovation AM for significant services to medical education, development Research Fellowship BEM for services to medical education particularly haematology Professor James David Forbes Calder during COVID-19 Sheridan Ash Louise Olivia Beaton Richard Brooks Professor of Bioengineering, MBA 2002 Geoffrey Francis Maitland Ball Wye College 1978 Research Postgraduate, Department of Bioengineering Dr Xavier Alauze MBE for services to women and girls Aeronautics 1971 OBE for voluntary service to rural communities Department of Mechanical Engineering OBE for services to sport and exercise Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow, through technology MBE for services to the community in Ellesmere Part of the winning team on University Department of Physics Port, Cheshire during COVID-19 Dr Mario Berta Challenge 2020 Dr Ana Caraiani Awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Dr Elisabetta Aurino Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing Royal Society University Research Fellow (Reader), Individual Fellowship Research Fellow, Department of Economics and Dr Anna Barnard Awarded a European Research Council Dr Anna Victoria Brown Department of Mathematics Public Policy and Centre for Health Economics Research Fellow (Sir Henry Dale Fellowship), Starting Grant PhD Environmental Biology 2001 Winner of a European Mathematical Society Prize Dr Juan Alvaro Gallego and Policy Innovation Department of Chemistry MBE for services to forest pathology Lecturer, Department of Bioengineering Awarded a British Academy grant and a UK Awarded a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship Brandon Blackwell Dr Tanai Cardona Awarded a European Research Council Research and Innovation grant to explore Taught Masters Student, Dr Gillian Rosemary Tilden Bullock Future Leaders Fellow, Department of Life Sciences Starting Grant the long-term effects of investment in early Professor Peter Barnes Department of Computing Botany and Plant Technology 1978, MSc 1961, Awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship childhood education in Ghana Senior Research Investigator, Part of the winning team on University DIC 1964 from UK Research and Innovation to lead Professor Jane Apperley National Heart and Lung Institute Challenge 2020 BEM for services to families in rural Kenya the new Molecular Evolution Lab at Imperial Chair of the Centre of Haematology, Dr Daren James Austin Elected an honorary fellow of the British Department of Immunology and Inflammation PhD Physics 1992 Pharmacological Society and awarded Professor Patrick Bolton Dr Aaron Bundock Dr Deesha Chadha Awarded the 2020 International Chronic Myeloid OBE for services to emergency response the Trudeau Medal for respiratory health Professor in Finance and Economics, Academic Visitor, Department of Physics Senior Strategic Teaching Fellow, Leukemia Foundation Goldman Prize; delivered during COVID-19 Department of Finance Winner of the CMS Experiment Achievement Award Department of Chemical Engineering the 2021 Pierre Strijckmans Memorial Lecture Dr Jo Barstow Awarded a grant of €1.74 million by the OBE for services to faith communities for the Belgian Society of Hematology Awarded an Ernest Rutherford Fellowship European Research Council to investigate the and will be joining Imperial to study exoplanets social and environmental impact of business

8 9 Professor Peter Childs Professor Allister Ian Ferguson Dr Soranyel Gonzalez Carrero Professor Timothy Hallett Professor Andreas Eisingerich, Chair and Leader in Engineering Design, Head of Department Analytics, MSc Physics 1975 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Professor of Global Health, Dyson School of Design Engineering Marketing and Operations was CBE for services to science and to industry Department of Chemistry School of Public Health Winner of the 2020 Queen’s Award for Innovation named among the world’s top Awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Elected a Fellow of the Academy for the Q-Bot 40 business academics under Dr Soheyla Feyzbakhsh of Medical Sciences the age of 40 in Poets&Quants’ EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stephanie Greed Professor Fan Chung annual “Top 40 Under 40” Department of Mathematics Research Postgraduate, Department of Chemistry Dr Stephen Hansen Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from Awarded the Industry Prize at the Royal Society of Associate Professor of Economics, National Heart and Lung Institute the Engineering and Physical Sciences Chemistry’s Organic Division poster symposium Imperial College Business School Selected as Emeritus Senior Investigator Research Council Awarded a €1,648,551 European Research Council for the National Institute for Health Research Professor Emile S. Greenhalgh Consolidator Grant for a length of five years Dr Seth Flaxman Professor of Composite Materials, Dr Nicholas Keith Coni Senior Lecturer in Statistical Machine Learning, Department of Aeronautics Professor Martin Heeney Westminster Hospital Medical School 1961 Department of Mathematics Appointed as Chair in Emerging Technologies Professor of Organic Materials, OBE for services to education for older people Named a Samsung AI Researcher of the by the Royal Academy of Engineering Department of Chemistry Year; awarded an Early Career Fellowship Awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Dr Evelyn Jane Corner from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Professor Emeritus William Griffith Peter Day Award for pioneering contributions PhD Surgery and Cancer 2017 Research Council Distinguished Research Fellow, to solution processed organic semiconductors; MBE for services to Health Education during Department of Chemistry recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s UK COVID-19 Richard Forsyth Awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Award, Macro Medal Chemical Engineering & Chemical through its Historical Group, for Exceptional Professor Paul Anthony Cosford Technology 2002 Service for proactively and inclusively supporting Professor Dame Julia Higgins St Mary’s Hospital Medical School 1987 OBE for services to the distillation and oil and colleagues and the wider scientific community, Senior Research Investigator, Knighted for services to public health gas industries and the community in Speyside, advising on activities celebrating the history of Department of Chemical Engineering Scottish Highlands the chemical sciences Awarded the 2020 Sam Edwards Medal and Prize Daniel James Cowen for pioneering work in neutron scattering applied MEng Aeronauticsg 2013 Professor Matthew Fuchter Professor Sir Martin Hairer to the understanding of polymer structure and MBE for services to British foreign policy Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry Chair in Probability and Stochastic Analysis, dynamics; awarded the 2020 Sir Frank Whittle Finalist in the 2020 Blavatnik Awards for Young Department of Mathematics Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering for Professor Martin Cowie Scientists in the UK Winner of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize outstanding engineering achievement; awarded Chair in Cardiology (Health Services Research), Professor Jane Davies Dr Claire Edmondson in Mathematics an Honorary Doctor of Science for promoting National Heart and Lung Institute Professor of Paediatric Respirology and Clinical Research Fellow, Dr Emanuele Galiffi diversity and inclusion in science and technology Professor Geoffrey Hall Received the Roy Award for his outstanding Experimental Medicine, National Heart National Heart and Lung Institute Research Associate (EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow), by Concordia University, Montreal and Lung Institute Department of Physics Professor of Physics, Department of Physics contribution in the field of heart failure Winner of the North American Cystic Fibrosis Dr James Hindley Selected as Senior Investigator by the National Conference Junior Investigator’s Best Abstract Winner of the Student Paper Competition Awarded the James Chadwick Medal and Prize Geraldine Cox Institute for Health Research in clinical research award at the Metamaterials’ 2020 International for his pioneering work in developing silicon Research Associate, Department of Chemistry Academic Visitor, Department of Physics Conference; awarded a Doctoral Prize Fellowship detectors and front-end electronics for particle Awarded the Katharine Burr Blodgett PhD Award Winner of the American Professor Claudia de Rham Professor Andreas Eisingerich from the Engineering and Physical Sciences physics experiments, especially in crucial from the Society of Chemical Industry/Royal Gemant Award for work combining art Professor of Theoretical Physics, Head of Department Analytics, Marketing Research Council radiation-hard applications, critical for the Society of Chemistry Joint Colloids Group Department of Physics and Operations observation of the Higgs boson in 2012 and science Professor Leroy Gardner Winner in the 2020 Blavatnik Awards for Young Named among the world’s top 40 business Professor Richard Craster Scientists in the UK; awarded the Simons academics under the age of 40 in Poets&Quants’ Professor of Structural Engineering, Department Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences Foundation Investigator in Physics annual “Top 40 Under 40” of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Dame Julia Higgins, Elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society Elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Academy Professor Sir Professor Paul Elkington Senior Research Investigator, of Engineering Department of Chemical Dr Mark Crimmin Chair in Pure Mathematics, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Department of Dr Nicola Gasparini Engineering, was awarded the Reader in Organometallic Chemistry, Department of Mathematics Infectious Disease and Professor of Respiratory 2020 Sam Edwards Medal and Department of Chemistry Joint winner of the 2020 Wolf Prize Medicine, University of Southampton Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry Prize for pioneering work Winner of the Chemistry of Transition Metals in Mathematics MBE for services to medicine particularly Named a World Economic Forum Young Scientist in neutron scattering applied to the understanding of polymer Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry for the during COVID-19 Professor Toby Gee structure and dynamics, and discovery of an unprecedented transition metal Professor Charles Donovan also received the 2020 Sir Professor of Practice; Executive Director, Professor Carlton A. Evans Professor of Pure Mathematics, complex with a hexagonal planar geometry Frank Whittle Medal of the Department of Mathematics Centre for Climate Finance and Investment, Professor of Global Health, Royal Academy of Engineering Dr Cláudia Custódio Department of Finance Department of Infectious Disease Awarded a European Research Council for outstanding engineering Associate Professor of Finance, Winner in the 2019 Finance for the Future Awards MBE for services to global health Advanced Grant achievement; awarded an Department of Finance for the Centre for Climate Finance and Investment Honorary Doctor of Science for Ali Ghorbangholi Awarded a grant from the European Research and its MSc Climate Change, Management & Dr James Ewen promoting diversity and inclusion in science and technology by Council to measure the economic effects Finance programme RAEng Research Fellow, Electrical & Electronic Engineering 2012, Concordia University, Montreal of relaxing financial constraints Department of Mechanical Engineering MSc Computing 2013 Dr Nicholas Dover Awarded a Research Fellowship from OBE for services to volunteering during the Professor Adnan Custovic Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow, the Royal Academy of Engineering COVID-19 response Professor of Paediatric Allergy, Department of Physics National Heart and Lung Institute Awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Professor Dario Farina Professor Vernon Gibson Elected a Fellow of the Academy Individual Fellowship Chair in Neurorehabilitation Engineering, Visiting Professor, Department of Materials of Medical Sciences Department of Bioengineering Awarded the Lord Lewis Prize from the Royal Dr Patrick Dunne Awarded a £5.5 million grant from the UKRI/ Society of Chemistry for seminal contributions Future Leaders Fellow, Department of Physics EPSRC Transformative Healthcare Technologies to fundamental and applied inorganic Awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship from UK competition chemistry, and for critical work in policy Research and Innovation setting at the interface of academia with industry and government

10 Awarded the James Chadwick Medal and Prize for his pioneering work in developing silicon 11 detectors and front-end electronics for particle physics experiments Dr Timothy Boon Leong Ho Professor Sebastian Johnston Dr Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro Professor Stefan Maier PhD Investigative Science 2002 Asthma UK Clinical Chair, Lecturer, Department of Bioengineering Lee-Lucas Chair in Experimental Physics, MBE for services to the NHS during COVID-19 National Heart and Lung Institute Awarded a European Research Council Department of Physics Winner of the European Respiratory Society’s Starting Grant Awarded the American Chemical Society Professor Stephen Townley Holgate Gold Medal in Asthma; elected as a Fellow Nano Lectureship Charing Cross Hospital Medical School 1971 of European Academy of Allergy & Clinical Dr David Lefevre Knighted for services to Medical Research Immunology Director, EdTech Lab Dr Sarah Malik Winner of multiple team awards at the QS Academic Visitor, Department of Physics Mathew Holloway Edward Jones Reimagine Education Conference, which Awarded the Royal Society University MSc DIC Innovation Design Engineering 2008 Taught Postgraduate, recognised the EdTech Lab’s part in the FOME Research Fellowship (renewal) Winner of the 2020 Queen’s Award for Innovation Dyson School of Design Engineering Alliance, their hologram and Global Online MBA for the Q-Bot Joint winner of the 2020 Venture Catalyst Professor Omar Matar Challenge for their initiative The Shellworks, Professor Martin Liebeck Vice-Dean (Education), Faculty of Engineering, Professor Oliver Howes which turns waste crustacean shells into Head of the Pure Mathematics Section, Department of Chemical Engineering Visiting Professor, Institute of Clinical Sciences biodegradable, compostable products which Department of Mathematics Elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Academy Elected a Fellow of the Academy can be used as an alternative to plastic Awarded the London Mathematical Society’s of Engineering of Medical Sciences Pólya Prize Chris Kalogroulis Professor Iain McCulloch Professor George Jackson Undergraduate Student, Professor Nick Long Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry Professor of Chemical Physics, Dyson School of Design Engineering The Sir Edward Frankland BP Chair of Inorganic Awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Department of Chemical Engineering Winner of the 2020 GSK UK Young Engineer Chemistry, Department of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Prize for advances in the design, Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Year Awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s synthesis and innovative application of functional Frankland Award for outstanding synthetic materials in optics, electronics and energy; , Insiya Jafferjee Dr Matthew Jamie Knight inorganic and organometallic chemistry elected a Fellow of the Royal Society; awarded Richard Brooks, Brandon Blackwell Caleb Rich and Conor McMeel were the winning team of University Challenge 2020 Visiting Researcher, Department of Chemistry PG Cert Medicine 2014 and subsequent applications in catalysis, the 2020 Blaise Pascal Medal by the European Joint winner of the 2020 Venture Catalyst MBE for services to the NHS particularly functional materials and biomedical imaging Academy of Sciences during COVID-19 Challenge for their initiative The Shellworks, Professor Sandro Macchietto Professor Sally Margaret McGregor Professor Ramana Nanda Dr Camille Petit which turns waste crustacean shells into Professor Sir Peter Knight biodegradable, compostable products Professor of Process Systems Engineering, St Mary’s Hospital Medical School 1961 Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, Reader in Materials Engineering, which can be used as an alternative to plastic Senior Research Investigator, Department of Chemical Engineering OBE for services to early childhood development Department of Finance Department of Chemical Engineering Department of Physics Elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy in developing countries Awarded a European Research Council Awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Swapnil Jagtap Awarded the Institution of Engineering of Engineering Consolidator Grant worth €1.6 million to study Barrer Award for innovative work on porous Research Postgraduate, Department of Civil and Technology Fellowship Conor McMeel the financing frictions facing ‘high potential’ nanostructures for applications in the energy and Environmental Engineering Vanessa Madu Research Postgraduate, Department of Computing entrepreneurs and small and medium sized and sustainability sectors Thomas Komoly Named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Europe Undergraduate Student, Part of the winning team on University enterprises (SMEs) MSc Mechanical Engineering 1965 Department of Mathematics Challenge 2020 Professor Simon James Trent Pollard for his work on reducing the carbon impact Clare Joanna Threlfall Normand of aviation BEM for services to Holocaust education Winner of a Rare Rising Star award, which Chemistry 1987, PhD Civil Engineering 1990 and awareness recognises the UK’s top ten black students Professor Graham Medley MSc Environmental Technology 1994 OBE for services to environmental risk PhD Epidemiology 1987 OBE for services to brain tumour charities management OBE for his services to the COVID-19 response Professor Laura Professor Dame Carol Propper Professor Neena Modi Jimena Noval Chair in Economics, Department of Economics Swapnil Jagtap, Research Postgraduate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Neonatal Medicine, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, and Public Policy was named one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Europe for School of Public Health Department of Management and Entrepreneurship Awarded a damehood for her contribution his work on reducing the carbon impact of aviation Elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Named among Top 40 business academics under to economics and public health Sciences; elected to Council at the Academy the age of 40 in Poets&Quants’ annual “Top 40 of Medical Sciences Under 40” Sarabjit Singh Purewal Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1976 Dr Asher Mullokandov Professor Peter Openshaw OBE for services to health and safety and Research Associate, Department of Mathematics Senior Consul, Professor of Experimental to cyber security Granted the Crick-Turing Biomedical Data Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute Science Award Selected as Senior Investigator Dr Sofia Qvarfort by the National Institute for Health Research Academic Visitor, Department of Physics Professor Kevin Murphy Received a Doctoral Prize Fellowship from Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Dr James Owen the Engineering and Physical Sciences Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Lecturer in Exoplanet Physics (Royal Society Research Council Reproduction Fellow), Department of Physics Awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s Fowler Federica Raguseo the Royal College of Physicians Award for work on the atmospheres of small Research Postgraduate, Department of Chemistry exoplanets that orbit close to their star Awarded the Alfred Bader Prize Dr Mirabelle Muuls for Organic Chemistry Assistant Professor in Economics, Dr Asha Patel Department of Economics and Public Policy Lecturer in Cell and Gene Therapy, National Heart Professor Tarun Ramadorai Winner in the 2019 Finance for the Future Awards and Lung Institute Professor of Financial Economics, for the Centre for Climate Finance and Investment Awarded the Elsie Widdowson Fellowship Department of Finance and its MSc Climate Change, Management & to support research after maternity; Awarded a Winner of 2019 Wharton Research Data Services’ Finance programme Royal Society Research Grant to develop non-viral Best Paper award vectors for RNA delivery

12 13 Dr Saravana Ramasamy Dr Philipp Thomas Professor Ansgar Walther Professor Esther Rodriguez-Villegas Team awards Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Professor in Low Power Electronics, Lecturer in Biomathematics, Assistant Professor of Finance, Institute of Clinical Sciences Department of Electrical and Electronic Department of Mathematics Department of Finance Imperial College Academic Health Accepted onto the EMBO Young Engineering, was elected to the Fellowship Awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship from UK Winner of a 2019 Wharton Research Data Science Centre Investigator Programme of the Royal Academy of Engineering Research and Innovation to develop the maths Services’ Best Paper award for new models of living cells Academic Health Science Centre Myrddin Rees Professor Robert Wilkinson Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre Consultant General and Hepatobiliary Surgeon, Professor Richard Thomas Professor in Infectious Disease, has secured its status for a further five years by Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Royal Society Research Professor (Pure Department of Infectious Disease demonstrating excellence in research, health OBE for services to liver cancer surgery Mathematics), Department of Mathematics Awarded The Union Scientific Prize for work education and patient care Awarded a Royal Society Research Professorship investigating Tuberculosis Caleb Rich Imperial College Business School MBA Programme Research Postgraduate, Department of Physics Professor Emma Thomson Professor Daryl Williams Business School Part of the winning team on University PhD Medicine 2010 Professor of Particle Science, Challenge 2020 OBE for services to the NHS during Department of Chemical Engineering The Global Online MBA has been named number the COVID-19 response Winner of the 2020 Chemistry World Entrepreneur one in the UK for online learning for the third Professor Esther Rodriguez-Villegas of the Year by the Royal Society of Chemistry for consecutive year Regius Professor Chris Toumazou Professor in Low Power Electronics, Department of the pioneering invention of the Dynamic Vapour Estates Operations Electrical and Electronic Engineering Winston Wong Chair, Biomedical Circuits, Sorption instrument Support Services Elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Academy Department of Electrical and Electronic of Engineering Engineering Professor Charlotte Williams Awarded a Partner Longevity Milestone Award Awarded a President’s Special Award for Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry from the Considerate Constructors Scheme, Dr Sarah Rouse Pandemic Service by the Royal Academy of OBE for services to chemistry to recognise five years of collaboration Future Leaders Fellow, Engineering for his lab-free COVID-19 tests and best practice Professor Mark Howard Wilson Department of Life Sciences that deliver results in under 90 minutes Early Years Education Centre Team Awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship from UK Consultant Neurosurgeon, Early Years Education Centre Research and Innovation to tackle new and Professor Roberto Trotta Department of Surgery and Cancer unexplored questions about mitochondrial lipid Professor of Astrostatistics, Department of Physics OBE for services to charity and the Achieved the grade of Outstanding from Ofsted signalling pathways that are critical in ageing Jeremy Lewis Simons Professor Richard Syms Awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s Annie COVID-19 response and age-related disorders Maunder Medal 2020 for his work promoting MSc Management Science 1980 Professor of Microsystems Technology, public understanding of cosmology and Fan Yan Department of Electrical and Electronic Dr Timothy Runcorn OBE for services to air quality astrophysics Research Postgraduate, Department of Physics Engineering RAEng Research Fellow, Department of Physics and to environmental conservation in London Recipient of a Chinese Government Award for Awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Faisal Tuddy Awarded a Research Fellowship from the Royal Anthony John Spiro Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, Academy of Engineering the Royal College of Physicians BSc Physics 1993 the highest accolade given to graduate students Metallurgy 1968, MSc 1970 Dr Jo Szram BEM for services to the pharmaceutical sector studying outside China Professor John Roy Sambles OBE for voluntary service to Holocaust during COVID-19 Physics 1967, PhD 1970 remembrance Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, National Heart and Lung Institute Dr Paul Turner Knighted for services to scientific research Dr Julia Stawarz and outreach Elected fellow of Royal College of Physicians Reader in Paediatric Allergy and Clinical Royal Society University Research Fellow, London Linacre Immunology, National Heart and Lung Institute Dr Gurjinder Singh Sandhu Department of Physics Martin John Griffin Tapp Awarded the 2020 European Academy of Allergy PG Dip Investigative Science 2009 Received the Winton Award from the Royal & Clinical Immunology PhARF Award Wye College 1961 MBE for services to the NHS during COVID-19 Astronomical Society for her work on space plasma physics; awarded the Royal Society BEM for services to flood risk management in Kent Dr Cynthia Vidal Dr Salvatore Santamaria University Research Fellowship Professor Ed Tate Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow, Research Fellow, Department of Immunology Department of Physics Professor Kellogg Stelle Professor of Chemical Biology, and Inflammation Awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Professor of Physics, Department of Physics Department of Chemistry Awarded the British Society for Matrix Biology’s Individual Fellowship 2019 Young Investigator Award Awarded the John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh Awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Corday- Medal and Prize for his seminal contributions Morgan Prize for contributions to the discovery Professor Sir Tejinder Dr Sandra Scott to fundamental physics of novel chemical probes and their application (Jim) Virdee Research Nurse, National Heart and Lung Institute in opening up new understanding of protein Professor of Physics, Department of Physics Professor Molly Stevens modification in living systems leading to the Awarded the Outstanding Individual Achievement Awarded the 2020 Blaise Pascal Medal for Professor of Biomedical Materials and validation of novel drug targets in cancer and Award by the Clinical Research Network Physics by the European Academy of Sciences Regenerative Medicine, Department of Materials infectious disease North West London (National Institute for Winner of the Federation of European Dr Abigail Waldron Health Research) Andy Tay Kah Ping Biochemical Societies/EMBO Women in Science Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow, Professor Nilay Shah Award in recognition of her outstanding scientific Research Fellow, Department of Bioengineering Department of Physics Head of Department, achievements; elected a Fellow of the Royal Named a World Economic Forum Young Scientist Awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Society Department of Chemical Engineering Professor Richard Templer Individual Fellowship OBE for services to the decarbonisation Professor Ileana Stigliani Director of Innovation at the Grantham Institute, of the UK economy Steve Walker Associate Professor of Design and Innovation, Department of Chemistry Fire Safety Adviser, Estates Operations Department of Management and Entrepreneurship Professor Raad Shakir Awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts Elected as Chairperson of the Universities Safety Winner of the 2018 Journal of Management Visiting Professor of Neurology, Winsome May Thomas & Health Association (USHA) Fire Safety Group, Department of Brain Sciences Studies Best Paper Award London Region Matron for Quality and BAME Nurses and CBE for services to global neurology Midwives Network Chair, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust BEM for services to nursing during COVID-19

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