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Professional Services and Technical

Our Professional Services and Technical Team manages a wide range of areas including teaching administration, technical, finance, research, HR and communications.

Department | Student Support | Research, Finance & HR | Technical | PEARL | IFT

  Department

Kati Massey

Department Manager

Responsibilities

Kati works in partnership with the Head of the Department to ensure the practical and strategic needs of the department are met. On a day-to-day basis, this means making sure that everything within the PS team runs smoothly.

 

Fiona Rose-Clarke

DePUTY DEpartment Manager

Responsibilities

Fiona is responsible for the operational elements of the Department's EAST-based activities including UCL EAST and the laboratories at Dagenham. She has particular oversight of the activities of the IFT.

 

 

Susie Emmett

Executive Assistant (Head of Department)

Responsibilities

Susie is responsible for managing the diary of Jose Torero and is the main point of contact for meetings related to him. Contact Susie to:

  • Arrange meetings with Jose
  • Arrange meetings with Kati

 

Abbey Spencer

Facilities & Operations Manager

Responsibilities

Abbey is responsible for ensuring the building facilities operate smoothly and also supporting the wider estates function of the department. Contact Abbey for:

  • Facilities-related enquiries
  • Building maintenance requests 

 

Facilities and estates support

 

Enquiries

For all enquiries relating to ensuring the building and facilities operate smoothly and also supporting the wider estates function of the department. Contact us for:

  • Facilities-related enquiries
  • Building maintenance requests 
  • Arrange courier and mail deliveries
  • Discuss events support
  • Arranging visitor access to the building

 

Roelle Santa Maria

Engagement & Communications Manager

Responsibilities

Roelle is in charge of communications and marketing provision for the department, including social media and research dissemination, and provides GDPR, copyright, and CMA compliance advice as well as some website maintenance and development.

Simon Justin

IT TECHNICIAN

Responsibilities

Simon supports all departmental IT systems and resources (IT equipment and software procurement and customisation, local network and firewall administration, user desktop support, etc.) as well as backup support of centrally-provided IT resources (email, printers, teaching clusters, research computing, etc.).

Cerine Yudin

IT ADMINISTRATION

Responsibilities

Cerine supports all departmental IT systems and resources (IT equipment and software procurement and customisation, local network and firewall administration, user desktop support, etc.) as well as backup support of centrally-provided IT resources (email, printers, teaching clusters, research computing, etc.). 

 

Fiona Jamieson

Strategic Partnerships Director

Responsibilities

Fiona oversees the department’s relationships with industrial partners, seeking to embed them into our education and research activities whether via philanthropic or commercial routes. Fiona has particular responsibility for partnerships within the Controlled Active Ventilation Environment (CAVE) as well as leading the activities in Mechanical Engineering. 

Lucy Browning

Strategic Partnerships Manager

Responsibilities

Lucy leads on industrial partnerships at our East campuses (Marshgate and HereEast), the Institute of Finance and Technology (IFT) and the Integrated Design Programme (IDP) as well as supporting a wide-range of departmental partnerships, including with our alumni.

 Student Support

Mark Fairweather

Teaching & Learning manager

Responsibilities

Mark supports general teaching and learning in the department, with particular emphasis on MSc programmes.

Ewa Kedzierska

Senior Teaching & Learning Administrator (undergraduate)

Responsibilities

Ewa is responsible for all matters relating to undergraduates' teaching and learning activities. These include teaching and learning support for UG students' lifecycle, including timetabling, induction, coursework submission, engagement monitoring, student records and student communication. 

Pavlina Pyari

Senior Teaching & Learning Administrator (postgraduate)

Responsibilities

Pavlina deals with Extenuating Circumstances applications and acts as a secretary to the EC panel. She supports MSc Transport, MRes and deals with all PG new students’ queries.

Victoria Edleston

Teaching & Learning ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities

 

Lloyd Boman

Senior Teaching & Learning Administrator (postgraduate reseaRch and undergraduate)

Responsibilities

Lloyd supports the postgraduate research students including working with the Scholarship Committee. He also provides support to the wider teaching and learning team.

 

 

  Research, Finance & HR

Yannis Manolis

Senior Staffing Officer

Responsibilities

Yannis looks after all elements of HR for the department. This includes helping you recruit new or temporary staff, providing advice on general HR policies such as induction, probation and appraisal, and providing support around the HR systems (MyHR). He also works in partnership with the Director of Research on the Promotions Committee. Contact Yannis for:

  • All recruitment (including PGTAs)
  • All HR payments (including guest lecturers and non-PGTA temporary workers
  • All contract enquiries
  • Certificate of sponsorship
  • Right to work checks

Elmira Barysevich

Senior Research Officer

Responsibilities

Elmira is responsible for costing research proposals and seeking UCL approval on new research proposals. Liaising with UCL central teams including research services, research contracts and post-award finance to achieve the timely set up of successful awards and the approval of contracts for research funding. Monitoring research expenditure within the department and liaising with Principal Investigators to ensure funding and project resources are allocated effectively

 

Julija Melesko

Senior Finance and Resources Manager

Responsibilities

Julija supports staff with issues related to finance. This includes queries regarding financial policies & systems, purchasing, expense claims, invoicing, individual project balances, budgets and transactions.

 

Timothy Yates

UKCRIC Communications Manager

Responsibilities

Tim is responsible for the Marketing, Communications and Events activities of the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC).

 

 

 

Rodrigo Martins

STaffing administrator
  • Visitor access and other HR queries: cege-hr@ucl.ac.uk
  • L: Chadwick, Front Office and 2.17

Responsibilities

 

 

Isa Yiu

Front office & hr assistant

 Responsibilities

 

Joanne Leach

UKCRIC executive manager

Responsibilities

 

 Technical

Les Irwin

DEPARTMENT INFRASTRUCTURE AND TECHNICAL MANAGER
  • E: l.irwin@ucl.ac.uk
  • T: 32706
  • L: Prototype, Development & Fabrication Facility (B07a), Chadwick Building

Responsibilities

Les is the technical services lead and is responsible for the management, development and strategic planning of all technical resources and technical service delivery within the department, across all sites - working in partnership with the Head of Department.

He also manages the technical infrastructure across the departments laboratories and Prototype, Development & Fabrication Facility.

 

Dr Melisa Canales

Research Technician

Responsibilities

Melisa is the lead technician for the Healthy Infrastructure Research Group (HIRG) laboratory within the Chadwick building and facilitates the effective and efficient day-to-day running of the laboratory.

Keith Harvey

Departmental Safety Officer

Responsibilities

As Departmental Safety Officer, Keith is responsible for the health and safety within the department.

Raman Mangabhai

Research & Teaching Support Technician – Advanced Materials Laboratory 

Responsibilities

Raman is a concrete technologist and supports academic research and teaching within the Advanced Materials Laboratory.

Tyler Metters

APPRENTICE mechanical workshop technician
  • E: t.metters@ucl.ac.uk
  • L: Prototype, Development & Fabrication Facility (B07), Chadwick Building

Responsibilities

Tyler is a mechanical engineering apprentice training in the Prototype, Development & Fabrication Facility.

Faiszarn Riaz

Research & Teaching Support Technician – Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
  • E: f.riaz@ucl.ac.uk
  • L: Prototype, Development & Fabrication Facility (B07), Chadwick Building

Responsibilities

Faiszarn works within the Prototype, Development & Fabrication Facility supporting research and teaching activity. He also supports the Fluids Laboratory. 

Dr Shi Shi

Technical Officer in Materials
  • E: shi.shi@ucl.ac.uk 
  • T: 52913
  • L: Advanced Materials Laboratory (B15), Chadwick Building

Responsibilities

Shi Shi is the lead technician in the Advanced Materials laboratory and supports academic research and teaching within the Materials Laboratory. She facilitates the effective and efficient day-to-day running of the laboratory.

Charlie Waller

Mechanical Workshop Technician

Responsibilities

Charlie works within the Prototype, Development & Fabrication Facility supporting research and teaching activity. Design and manufacturing bespoke novel scientific devices.

 

Matthew Wilkinson

Civil Engineering Workshop Manager and Research & Teaching Support Technician (Geotechnics)
  • E: matt.wilkinson@ucl.ac.uk
  • L: Prototype, Development & Fabrication Facility and the Geotechics Laboratory (B12), Chadwick Building

Responsibilities

Matt is the lead technician for the Geotechnics Laboratory and within the Prototype, Development & Fabrication Facility supporting research and teaching activity. Design and manufacturing bespoke novel scientific devices. Facilitates the effective and efficient day-to-day running of the laboratory.

 

Dr Derrick Boampong

LABORATORY MANAGER

Responsibilities

Dr Judith Zhou

Environmental Laboratories Manager/ Departmental Chemical Protection Officer

Responsibilities

Judith is the lead technician for the Environmental laboratory within the Chadwick building supporting academic research and teaching and facilitating the effective and efficient day-to-day running of the laboratory. Judith is the Department's chemical protection officer.

 

Dr Ena Canales 

MELISA RESEARCH TECHNICIAN
  • E: 

Responsibilities

 

Dr Tatsuto Suzuki

Technician

Responsibilities

 

Mr Charlie Laybourn Waller

MECHANICAL WORKSHOP Technician

Responsibilities

 

 Person Environment Activity Research Laboratory (PEARL)

  Technical

Beky Stoddart

PEARL Technical Services Manager

Responsibilities

Beky is a multi-skilled technician specializing in lighting, production and CAD. Beky has a background in theatre, opera, dance and theatre consultancy. Beky works closely with experiment leads to research, develop and mount experiments within the PEARL laboratory, as well as providing technical support for events and hires.

 

 

Ben Paveley 

PEARL TechnicIAN (SOUND)

Responsibilities

Ben works with the Sound and Acoustics team and providing technical support and assistance to all PEARL facility users.

 

 

Shane Gill

pearl TECHNICIAN (MAKING AND PRODUCTION)

Responsibilities

Responsible for providing technical support and assistance to all PEARL facility users as a member of the PEARL Making and Productions Teams. Assisting Specialists within the team; including sound, lighting, AV, and construction of sets for experiments. Specialising in programming Arduinos, Raspberry Pi’s and Python. Responsible for data acquisition in experiments. 

Steve Mayo

PEARL Technician - Specialist Lead (sound) 

Responsibilities

As the Specialist Lead for Sound at PEARL, Steve is responsible for the implementation, running and maintenance of the audio systems that are used for experiments within the Main Lab Space and Vibe sound preparation room. This comprises design (conceptual, scientific and/or artistic), field recording, rigging, programming and problem-solving experiments. 

 

Ralph Stokeld

PEARL technician – Specialist lead (Lighting/video)

Responsibilities

As the Specialist Lead for Lighting and Video at PEARL, Ralph is responsible for the implementation, running and maintenance of the visual elements and systems that will be used in experiments within the Main Lab Space. Across Lighting this comprises design, rigging, programming and problem-solving and within Video includes composition, capture and editing.

 

Ayako Suzuki

PEARL technician – Specialist lead (Instrumentation)

Responsibilities

As a Lead Technician at PEARL, Ayako is mainly responsible for some instrumentation management and data analysis including code writing (mainly in Matlab). Currently interested in eye trackers, fNIRS and OAE (otoacoustic emissions) devices.

Tatsuto Suzuki

PEARL technician (Programming)

Responsibilities

As a PEARL technician – Specialist lead (Programming), Tatsuto's work mainly focuses on research/experiment design, data collection from measurement systems, data analysis, and writing reports for PEARL research including UCL student projects.

Matthew Vile

pearl TECHNICIAN (MAKING AND PRODUCTION)

Responsibilities

Matthew is responsible for providing technical support and assistance to all PEARL facility users as a member of the PEARL Making and Productions Teams. Assisting Specialists within the team; including sound, lighting, AV, and construction of sets for experiments. Responsible for safety adherence and supervision of users.

 

  Partnerships and Operation (PEARL)

Fiona Rose-Clarke

DEPUTY DEPARTMENT MANAGER

Responsibilities

Fiona is responsible for the operational elements of the Department's EAST-based activities including UCL EAST and the laboratories at Dagenham. She has particular oversight of the activities of the IFT.

Barbara Pizzileo

PEARL Strategic Partnerships Manager

Responsibilities

Barbara is responsible fordeveloping partnerships with universities, charities and industry. 

Helen King

Community Partnerships Manager, PEARL

Responsibilities

Helen manages the PEARL Community Partnerships and Engagement Team to work with the local community, schools and various priority groups based on our experiments. Our main aim is to share our knowledge, resources, and opportunities with the wider community. We work as a team to develop community research, education, engagement and co-creation projects with individuals, external partners, and stakeholders.

Derrick Boampong

LABORATORY MANAGER

Responsibilities

Derrick collaborates with researchers from various backgrounds who want to use the PEARL experimental facilities, schedule research activities and enable the provision of a high-quality scientific environment for research work. He also manages the administration of ethics applications and data archives for research activities at PEARL and helps promote the laboratory as a unique world leader in human-environment interactions research. Derrick is also responsible for the purchasing of laboratory and workshop equipment and consumables.

David Kwakye

Community ENGAGEMENT ASSISTANT, PEARL

Responsibilities

As a Community Partnerships and Engagement Representative, David helps with linking PEARL to the community, particularly creating awareness of PEARL and what it does, especially with regard to experiments. David is also responsible for helping with administrative duties.

Nikolaos Papadosifos

DEPUTY SAFETY OFFICER AND BUILDING MANAGEMENT

Responsibilities

As CEGE deputy Safety Officer, Nikolaos is responsible for all of UCL's best Health & Safety practices are applied. Nikolaos looks after the maintenance operations of PEARL'S building infrastructure and takes care that UCL Security applications are active and in place for the facility. Lastly, Nikolaos ensures that all the GDPR practices are in place.

 

 Institute of Finance & Technology (IFT)

Fiona Rose-Clarke

DEPUTY DEPARTMENT MANAGER

Responsibilities

Fiona is responsible for the operational elements of the Department's EAST-based activities including UCL EAST and the laboratories at Dagenham. She has particular oversight of the activities of the IFT.

Akua Boakye

Senior Teaching & Learning Administrator

Responsibilities

Akua looks after all Teaching and Learning activities at IFT.