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Senior academic and early career 2023-24 staff promotions
10 July 2024
41 academic staff from the Faculty of Brain Sciences have been awarded a senior promotion and 38 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: 21 new Professors, four Professorial Research Fellows, three Professors (Teaching), seven Associate Professors, four Principal Research Fellows, two Associate Professors (Teaching) and 38 early career staff promotions.
Promotions are effective from 1 October 2024.
Professors
| Name | Department | Promoted to |
| Dr Axel Petzold | Clinical and Movement Neurosciences | Professor of Neurology |
| Dr Vaughan Bell | Clinical, Education and Health Psychology | Professor of Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuropsychiatry |
| Dr Georgina Charlesworth | Clinical, Education and Health Psychology | Professor of Clinical Psychology of Ageing and Dementia |
| Dr Henry Clements | Clinical, Education and Health Psychology | Professor (Teaching) |
| Dr Clare Press | Division of Psychology and Language Sciences | Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Dr Nicola Morant | Epidemiology and Applied Clinical Research | Professor of Qualitative Mental Health Research |
| Dr Alexandra Pitman | Epidemiology and Applied Clinical Research | Professor of Psychiatry |
| Dr Francesca Solmi | Epidemiology and Applied Clinical Research | Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology |
| Dr John Greenwood | Experimental Psychology | Professor of Visual Perception |
| Dr Jeremy Skipper | Experimental Psychology | Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Dr Peter Kok | Imaging Neuroscience | Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Dr Peter Zeidman | Imaging Neuroscience | Professorial Research Fellow |
| Dr Sajjad Ahmad | Institute of Ophthalmology | Professor of Corneal Regeneration |
| Dr Roxanne Crosby-Nwaobi | Institute of Ophthalmology | Professor (Teaching) |
| Dr Alice Davidson | Institute of Ophthalmology | Professor of Molecular Genetics |
| Ms Rashmi Mathew | Institute of Ophthalmology | Professor (Teaching) |
| Dr Anthony Robson | Institute of Ophthalmology | Professor of Visual Electrophysiology |
| Dr Yasutada Sudo | Linguistics | Professor of Linguistics |
| Dr Richard Adams | Mental Health Neuroscience | Professor of Computational Psychiatry |
| Dr Naaheed Mukadam | Mental Health of Older People | Professor of Psychiatry |
| Dr Penny Rapaport | Mental Health of Older People | Professor of Psychological Interventions in Dementia |
| Dr Jan Bieschke | MRC Prion Unit at UCL | Professor for Biophysics of Neurodegenerative Disease |
| Dr Josephine Barnes | Neurodegenerative Diseases | Professor of Imaging Neuroscience |
| Dr David Cash | Neurodegenerative Diseases | Professorial Research Fellow |
| Dr Maria Felix Bettencourt | Neurodegenerative Diseases | Professorial Research Fellow |
| Dr Catherine Mummery | Neurodegenerative Diseases | Professor of Neurology |
| Dr Joanne Ng | Neurodegenerative Diseases | Professorial Research Fellow |
| Dr Michael Bowl | The Ear Institute | Professor of Otogenetics |
Associate Professors / Principal Research Fellows
| Name | Department | Promoted to |
| Dr Jarrod Cabourne | Clinical, Education and Health Psychology | Associate Professor (Teaching) |
| Dr Madiha Shaikh | Clinical, Education and Health Psychology | Associate Professor |
| Dr John Bryson | Department of Neuromuscular Diseases | Principal Research Fellow |
| Dr Andrea Cortese | Department of Neuromuscular Diseases | Principal Research Fellow |
| Dr Marco Wittmann | Experimental Psychology | Associate Professor |
| Dr Sarah White | Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience | Associate Professor |
| Dr Amanda-Jayne Carr | Institute of Ophthalmology | Associate Professor |
| Mr Praveen Patel | Institute of Ophthalmology | Associate Professor |
| Dr Jennifer Agustus | ION Head Office | Associate Professor (Teaching) |
| Dr Lauren Mary Byrne | Neurodegenerative Diseases | Principal Research Fellow |
| Dr Amanda Heslegrave | Neurodegenerative Diseases | Principal Research Fellow |
| Dr Emman Holmes | Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences | Associate Professor |
| Dr Marta Andres Miguel | The Ear Institute | Associate Professor |
Early Career Research
| Name | Promotion to | Institute/Division |
| Jimena Perez Lloret | Research Fellow | Ear Institute |
Joseph Willis | Research Fellow | Ear Institute |
Amanda Almacellas Barbanoj | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
Phoebe Barnett | Senior Research Fellow | Division of Psychology and Language Sciences |
| Marialivia Bernardi | Senior Research Fellow | Division of Psychology and Language Sciences |
Emilie Brotherhood | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
Andrea Castegnaro | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
Lucy Chisman-Russell | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
Sara Collorone | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
Julio Corral Serrano | Senior Research Fellow | Institute of Ophthalmology |
Hamish Crerar | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
Jasmine Donaldson | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
Barbara Dymerska | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
Martha Foiani | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
Sally-Anne Francis | Senior Research Fellow | Division of Psychiatry |
| Philipp Frank | Senior Research Fellow | Division of Psychiatry |
Nicola Hobbs | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
Annie Jeffrey | Senior Research Fellow | Division of Psychiatry |
Thomas Jensen | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
Matthew Keuss | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
Douglas de Medeiros Lopes | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
Kirsty Lu | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
Jeremy Opie | Senior Research Fellow | Division of Psychology and Language Sciences |
| M. Gorkem Ozyurt | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
| Rikesh Rajani | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
| Amy Richardson | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
| Tricia Seow | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
| Aikaterini Smaragdi Papadopoulou | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
| Enny (H) van Beest | Senior Research Fellow | Institute of Ophthalmology |
| Jose Vargas | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
| Angeliki Zarkali | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
| Oliver Ziff | Senior Research Fellow | Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
| Charlie Cole | Lecturer (Teaching) | Division of Psychology and Language Sciences |
| Katherine Ellis | Lecturer (Teaching) | Division of Psychology and Language Sciences |
| Angela Husband | Lecturer (Teaching) | Division of Psychology and Language Sciences |
| Dorota Jagielska Hall | Lecturer (Teaching) | Division of Psychology and Language Sciences |
| Freya Lygo-Frett | Lecturer (Teaching) | Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Leanna Ong | Lecturer (Teaching) | Division of Psychology and Language Sciences |