Senior Academic, Research and Teaching Fellow promotions announced for 2018-19

8 July 2019

Congratulations to the 35 Faculty staff members on being selected for a promotion in this year's promotion round.

Every year, UCL recognises and rewards the outstanding achievements of non-professorial academic staff through an annual promotions cycle. Promotions are awarded to staff showing exceptional talent and commitment to UCL's mission.

We now have 20 new Professors, 9 new Associate {rofessors, five new Principal Research Fellows and 1 new Principal Teaching Fellow. The success of our staff represents the huge amount of talent they share and their commitment to furthering the field of brain sciences.

The Dean, Professor Alan Thompson commented:

“ "Huge congratulations to all our colleagues who have been promoted – a great achievement and thoroughly well deserved."

Professors

Name	Department	Promoted to
Dr Parashkev Nachev	Brain Repair and Rehabilitation	Professor of Neurology
Dr Rohan De Silva	Clinical and Movement NeuroSciences	Professor of Molecular Neuroscience
Dr Jessica Deighton	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology	Professor in Child Mental Health and Wellbeing
Dr Aikaterini Fotopoulou	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology	Professor of Psychodynamic Neuroscience
Dr Sunjeev Kamboj	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology	Professor of Translational Clinical Psychology
Dr Rickie Patani	Department of Neuromuscular Diseases	Professor of Human Stem Cells and Regenerative Neurology
Dr Rosaline Quinlivan	Department of Neuromuscular Diseases	Professor of Neuromuscular Disease
Dr Andrew Mcquillin	Division of Psychiatry	Professor of Molecular Psychiatry
Dr Joanna Moncrieff	Division of Psychiatry	Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry
Dr Elizabeth Sampson	Division of Psychiatry	Professor of Dementia and Palliative Care
Dr Zuzana Walker	Division of Psychiatry	Professor of Psychiatry of the Elderly
Dr Ana Guinote	Experimental Psychology	Professor of Social Cognition
Dr Samuel Solomon	Experimental Psychology	Professor of Visual Neuroscience
Dr Tamar Makin	Institute of Cognitive NeuroScienceence	Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
Dr Virginia Calder	Institute of Ophthalmology	Professor of Ocular Immunology
Dr Andrew Gazzard	Institute of Ophthalmology	Professor of Glaucoma Studies
Dr Krisztina Szendroi	Linguistics	Professor of Information Structure in Language
Dr Helene Plun-Favreau	Neurodegenerative Diseases	Professor of Cellular Neurodegeneration
Dr Duncan Brumby	UCL Interaction Centre	Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
Dr Michael Lunn	UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology	Professor of Clinical Neurology

Associate Professors

Name	Department
Dr Gorkan Ahmetoglu	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology
Dr Ravi Das	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology
Dr Miriam Fornells-Ambrojo	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology
Dr Pedro Machado	Department of Neuromuscular Diseases
Dr Joshua Stott	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology
Dr Sarah Rowe	Division of Psychiatry
Dr Eva Krumhuber	Experimental Psychology
Dr Anthony Vugler	Institute of Ophthalmology
Dr James White	Linguistics

Principal Research Fellows

Name	Department
Dr James Jepson	Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy
Dr Emma Matthews	Department of Neuromuscular Diseases
Dr Robert Pitceathly	Department of Neuromuscular Diseases
Dr Michael Bloomfield	Division of Psychiatry
Dr Kirsten Moore	Division of Psychiatry

Principal Teaching Fellows

Name	Department
Dr Rosalind Potts	Language and Cognition