Senior academic and early career 2023-24 staff promotions

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

Senior academic and early career 2023-24 staff promotions

Professors

Associate Professors / Principal Research Fellows

Early Career Research

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