Senior academic and early career 2022-23 staff promotions

29 June 2023

44 academic staff from the Faculty of Brain Sciences have been awarded a senior promotion and 24 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: 17 new Professors, two Professorial Research Fellows, on Professor (Teaching), eight Associate Professors, nine Principal Research Fellows, seven Associate Professors (Teaching) and 24 early career staff promotions.

Promotions are effective from 1 October 2023.

Professors

Name	Department	Promoted to
Dr Beate Diehl	Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy	Professor of Neurophysiology applied to Epilepsy
Dr Gabriele Lignani	Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy	Professor of Neurophysiology applied to Epilepsy
Dr Ravi Das	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology	Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology
Dr Rachel Hiller	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology	Professor of Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Dr Joshua Stott	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology	Professor of Ageing and Clinical Psychology
Dr Robert Piceathly	Department of Neuromuscular Diseases	Professor of Clinical Neurology and Mitochondrial Medicine
Dr Joanne Billings	Epidemiology and Applied Clinical Research	Professor of Psychological Trauma and Workplace Mental Health
Dr Vasiliki Totsika	Epidemiology and Applied Clinical Research	Professor of Neurodevelopmental Research
Dr Joseph Hayes	Epidemiology and Applied Clinical Research	Professor of Psychiatry
Dr Daniel Bendor	Experimental Psychology	Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience
Dr Benedetto De Martino	Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience	Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience
Dr Bruce Allan	Institute of Ophthalmology	Professor of Anterior Segment and Refractive Surgery
Dr Konstantinos Balaskas	Institute of Ophthalmology	Professor of Medical Artificial Intelligence and Applied Health Research
Dr Anthony Khawaja	Institute of Ophthalmology	Professor of Ophthalmology
Dr Michael Bloomfield	Mental Health Neuroscience	Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience
Dr Sergi Costafreda Gonzalez	Mental Health of Older People	Professor of Psychiatry of Ageing
Dr Rimona Weil	Neurodegenerative Diseases	Professor of Neurology

Professorial Research Fellows

Name	Department
Dr Dennis Chan	Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Dr Declan Chard	Neuroinflammation

Professor (Teaching)

Name	Department
Dr Tim Young	IoN Central Administration

Associate Professors

Name	Department
Dr Elizabeth Allison	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology
Dr Joshua Buckman	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology
Dr Christina Carlisi	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology
Dr Robert Saunders	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology
Dr Henrik Singmann	Experimental Psychology
Dr Emily Eden	Institute of Ophthalmology
Dr Ryan Macdonald	Institute of Ophthalmology
Dr Christopher Carignan	Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences

Principal Research Fellows

Name	Department
Dr Robert Wykes	Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy
Dr Ifigeneia Mavranezouli	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology
Dr Odette Megnin-Viggars	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology
Dr James Sleigh	Department of Neuromuscular Diseases
Dr Jennifer Dykxhoorn	Epidemiology and Applied Clinical Research
Dr Nikolas Pontikos	Institute of Ophthalmology
Dr Nuriye Kupeli	Marie Curie Palliative Care
Dr Keir Yong	Neurodegenerative Diseases
Dr Arman Eshaghi	Neuroinflammation

Associate Professors (Teaching)

Name	Department
Dr Daniella D'Lima	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology
Dr Alana Loewenberger	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology
Dr Ciaran O'Driscoll	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology
Dr Stephen Dewitt	Experimental Psychology
Dr Jennifer Mcgowan	Experimental Psychology
Dr Afm Islam	IoN Central Administration - UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Dr Timothy Pritchard	Linguistics

Early Career Research

Name	Promotion to	Institute/Division
Carly Anderson	Senior Research Fellow	Division of Psychology & Language Sciences
Emily Hird	Senior Research Fellow	Division of Psychology & Language Sciences
Celian Bimbard	Senior Research Fellow	Institute of Ophthlmology
Gary Chung	Senior Research Fellow	Institute of Ophthlmology
Victoria Tovell	Senior Research Fellow	Institute of Ophthlmology
Loriana Vitillo	Senior Research Fellow	Institute of Ophthlmology
Rebecca Appleton	Senior Research Fellow	Division of Psychiatry
Mary Birken	Senior Research Fellow	Division of Psychiatry
Alexander Billig	Senior Research Fellow	Ear Institute
Naomi Hannaway	Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Jemima Phillips	Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Rebecca Street	Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Claire Waddington	Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Olivia Wood	Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Stefano Benvegnu	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Jenna Carpenter	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Viorica Chelban	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Micol Falabella	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Emma Harding	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Samuel Harris	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Olga Kopach	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Suran Nethisinghe	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Aitana Sogorb Esteve	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Christina Toomey	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology