Senior academic and early career 2024-25 staff promotions

Each year, UCL recognises and rewards the outstanding achievements of academics across the university. This year the Faculty achieved the following: 22 new Professors, two Professorial Research Fellows, one Professor (Teaching), nine Associate Professors/ Principal Research Fellows, five Associate Professors (Teaching) and 30 early career staff promotions.

Promotions are effective from 1 October 2025.

Professors

Name	Department	Promoted to
Dr Georgina Krebs	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology	Professor of Young People’s Mental Health
Dr Talya Greene	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology	Professor of Trauma and Mental Health
Dr Fabiana Lorencatto Westcott	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology	Professor of Behavioural and Implementation Sciences
Dr Liam Mason	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology	Professor of Computational Clinical Psychology
Mr Robert Saunders	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology	Professor of Mental Health Data Science
Dr Jennifer Shand	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology	Professor of Applied Health Research
Dr Vanessa Putz	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology	Professor (Teaching)
Dr Andrea Cortese	Department of Neuromuscular Diseases	Professorial Research Fellow
Dr James Sleigh	Department of Neuromuscular Diseases	Professorial Research Fellow
Dr Ayelet Landau	Division of Psychology and Language Sciences	Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
Dr Gemma Lewis	Epidemiology and Applied Clinical Research	Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology
Dr Tessa Dekker	Experimental Psychology	Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Dr Eva Krumhuber	Experimental Psychology	Professor of Affective Science
Dr Pranjal Mehta	Experimental Psychology	Professor of Social Psychoneuroendocrinology
Dr Guido Orgs	Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience	Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
Dr Annegret Dahlmann-Noor	Institute of Ophthalmology	Professor of Paediatric Ophthalmology
Dr Catherine Egan	Institute of Ophthalmology	Professor of Ophthalmology
Dr Saloni Krishnan	Language and Cognition	Professor of Developmental Language Sciences
Dr Suzanne Beeke	Language and Cognition	Professor of Communication and Social Interaction
Dr Andrew Sommerlad	Mental Health of Older People	Professor of Old Age Psychiatry
Dr Peter-Christian Kloehn	MRC Prion Unit at UCL	Professor of Molecular Neuroscience
Dr Rachael Scahill	Neurodegenerative Diseases	Professorial Research Fellow
Dr Bronwen Evans	Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences	Professor of Sociophonetics
Dr Aneesha Singh	UCL Interaction Centre	Professor of Human Computer Interaction
Mr Hani Marcus	UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology	Professor of Neurosurgery

Associate Professors / Principal Research Fellows

Name	Department	Promoted to
Dr Jessie Baldwin	Clinical, Education and Health Psychology	Associate Professor
Dr Sarah Griffiths	Division of Psychology and Language Sciences	Associate Professor
Dr Miles Tufft	Division of Psychology and Language Sciences	Associate Professor (Teaching)
Dr Adam Parker	Experimental Psychology	Associate Professor
Ms Nadine Dijkstra	Imaging Neuroscience	Principal Research Fellow
Dr George Wimmer (known as Elliott)	Imaging Neuroscience	Principal Research Fellow
Mr Mahiul Muqit	Institute of Ophthalmology	Associate Professor
Dr Angelos Kalitzeos	Institute of Ophthalmology	Principal Research Fellow
Ms Tendai Gwenhure	Institute of Ophthalmology	Associate Professor (Teaching)
Dr Martina Bocchetta	ION Head Office	Associate Professor (Teaching)
Dr Fiona Kyle	Language and Cognition	Associate Professor
Dr Anna Volkmer	Language and Cognition	Associate Professor
Dr Nicola White	Marie Curie Palliative Care	Principal Research Fellow
Dr Thomas Cunningham	MRC Prion Unit at UCL	Associate Professor
Dr Charles Arber	Neurodegenerative Diseases	Principal Research Fellow
Dr Christopher Hardy	Neurodegenerative Diseases	Principal Research Fellow
Dr Christian Landles	Neurodegenerative Diseases	Principal Research Fellow
Dr Dervis Salih	Neurodegenerative Diseases	Principal Research Fellow
Dr Aitana Sogorb Esteve	Neurodegenerative Diseases	Principal Research Fellow
Dr Josef Schlittenlacher	Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences	Associate Professor
Dr Hannah Cooper	The Ear Institute	Associate Professor
Dr Lucy Handscomb	The Ear Institute	Associate Professor (Teaching)
Mr Paul Radomskij	The Ear Institute	Associate Professor (Teaching)

Early Career Research

Name	Promotion to	Institute/Division
Thomas Brown	Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Annabelle Coleman	Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Magdalena Dudziec	Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Nafiso Ahmed	Senior Research Fellow	Division of Psychiatry
Andrea Allegrini	Senior Research Fellow	Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Ceci Cai	Senior Research Fellow	Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Alexander Cammack	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Annalucia Darbey	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Stephanie Efthymiou	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Rosellina Guarascio	Senior Research Fellow	Institute of Ophthalmology
Jessica Jiang	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Rauan Kaiyrzhanov	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Jenny Lange	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Naomi Launders	Senior Research Fellow	Division of Psychiatry
Reza Maroofian	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Amanda Moore	Senior Research Fellow	Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Filipe Nascimento	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Coco Newton	Senior Research Fellow	Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Patrick Nyikavaranda	Senior Research Fellow	Division of Psychiatry
Benjamin O’Callaghan	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Thomas Osborne	Senior Research Fellow	Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Andrew Rider	Senior Research Fellow	Institute of Ophthalmology
Edward Smith	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Sunaina Surana	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Lisa Tedesco Triccas	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Olga Tiurikova	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Oscar Wilkins	Senior Research Fellow	Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Jae Won Suh	Senior Research Fellow	Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
Justin Yang	Senior Research Fellow	Division of Psychiatry
Yukun Zhou	Senior Research Fellow	Institute of Ophthalmology

Senior academic and early career 2024-25 staff promotions

Professors

Associate Professors / Principal Research Fellows

Early Career Research

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