Senior academic and early career 2021-22 staff promotions

11 July 2022

32 academic staff from the Faculty of Brain Sciences have been awarded a senior promotion and 16 early career staff have been awarded a promotion in this year's UCL academic promotions round.

Each year, UCL recognises and rewards the outstanding achievements of academics across the university. This year the Faculty achieved the following: 16 new Professors, one Professorial Research Fellow, six Associate Professors, five Principal Research Fellows, four Associate Professors (Teaching) and 16 early career staff promotions.

Promotions are effective from 1 October 2022.

Professor Alan Thompson, Dean of the Faculty of Brain Sciences, said: “A huge congratulations to all of our colleagues who have been promoted this year. These highly deserved promotions reflect our exceptional expertise in brain sciences and it is wonderful to see everyone’s hard work recognised.”

Professors

Name	Department	Promoted to
Dr Manjit Matharu	Brain Repair and Rehabilitation	Professor of Neurology
Dr Sallie Baxendale	Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy	Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology
Dr James Jepson	Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy	Professor of Neurogenetics
Dr Pedro Machado	Department of Neuromuscular Diseases	Professor of Rheumatology and Neuromuscular Diseases
Dr Rebecca Gould	Division of Psychiatry	Professor of Psychological Therapies
Dr Brynmor Lloyd-Evans	Division of Psychiatry	Professor of Mental Health and Social Inclusion
Dr Adam Harris	Experimental Psychology	Professor of Cognitive and Decision Sciences
Dr Maarten Speekenbrink	Experimental Psychology	Professor of Mathematical Psychology
Dr Quentin Huys-Gavric	Imaging Neuroscience	Professor of Computational Psychiatry
Dr Sam Gilbert	Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience	Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
Dr Richard Lee	Institute of Ophthalmology	Professor of Translational Immunology
Dr Steven Bloch	Language and Cognition	Professor of Communication and Social Interaction
Mr Peter Andrews	The Ear Institute	Professor of Rhinology
Dr Enrico Costanza	UCL Interaction Centre	Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
Dr Jalesh Panicker	UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology	Professor of Neurology and Uro-Neurology
Dr John Thornton	UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology	Professor of Clinical Magnetic Resonance Physics

Professorial Research Fellows

Name	Department
Dr Aman Saleem	Experimental Psychology

Associate Professors

Name	Department
Dr Zane Jaunmuktane	Clinical and Movement Neurosciences
Dr James Bisby	Division of Psychiatry
Dr Gemma Lewis	Division of Psychiatry
Dr Liam Mason	Imaging Neuroscience
Dr Joanne Taylor	Language and Cognition
Dr Aneesha Singh	UCL Interaction Centre

Principal Research Fellows

Name	Department
Dr Leonid Savchenko	Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy
Dr Francesca Solmi	Division of Psychiatry
Dr Ross Paterson	Neurodegenerative Diseases
Dr Aida Suarez Gonzalez	Neurodegenerative Diseases
Dr Marios Yiannakas	Neuroinflammation

Associate Professors (Teaching)

Name	Department
Dr Dimitrios Tsivrikos	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology
Dr Katie Fisher	Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Mr Constantin Rezlescu	Experimental Psychology
Mrs Rosemary Monk	The Ear Institute

Early Career Research

Name	Promotion to	Institute/Division
William Coath	Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Paige Mumford	Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Yashica Parekh	Research Fellow	Institute of Ophthalmology
Lloyd Prosser	Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Hayley Woodgate	Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Jessie Baldwin	Senior Research Fellow	Psychology and Language Sciences
Nicol Birsa	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Annika Boldt	Senior Research Fellow	Psychology and Language Sciences
Anwen Bullen	Senior Research Fellow	Ear Institute
Giulia De Rossi	Senior Research Fellow	Institute of Ophthalmology
Ariana Gatt	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Alice Milne	Senior Research Fellow	Ear Institute
Ian Malone	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Maryam Shoai	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Konrad Wagstyl	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Nicola White	Senior Research Fellow	Division of Psychiatry