Administrative Staff
Please note that the majority of the administrative staff are currently a hybrid pattern of remote working and office based, the best way to contact members of the team is via email.
Lucy Belgrave
Assistant Teaching & Learning Administrator
- E: l.belgrave@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 705, 7th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
Providing support to students and staff in all areas of programme administration for both UG & PG programmes, including: Student records and enquiries, examinations and assessments.
Brioni Best-Wilde
Teaching & Learning administrator / PA to head of department
- E: b.best-wilde@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 705, 7th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Providing support to students and staff in all areas of programme administration for both UG & PG programmes, including: Student records and enquiries, examinations and assessments.
- PA to Head of Department
Vicky Coombes
deputy departmental manager
- T: +44 (0)20 7679 7307 (ext: 37307)
- E: v.coombes@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 703, 7th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Responsibility for HR activities (recruitment / appointments / special payments) in the Department
- Authorised signatory for purchasing and expense claims
- Departmental Wellbeing Champion
- Line Management of Departmental Officer and Communications & Marketing Manager.
- Event / Conference Management and Support
- Web content manager
POSITION VACANT
Senior Teaching & Learning Administrator (Undergraduate)
- T: tbc
- E: tbc
- Location: tbc
Responsibilities
- Manages the administration of the Departmental Undergraduate programmes
- Provides support for the Undergraduate application and induction process
- Coordinator for Undergraduate assessment and exam boards
Duncan Frost
assistant teaching & learning administrator
- T: tbc
- E: duncan.frost@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 705, 7th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
Teaching & learning support for Undergraduate & MSc programmes.
Lucy High - Maternity leave until Spring 2022
external funding officer
Joe Hird
departmental officer
- T: +44 (0)20 3108 1123 (ext: 51123)
- E: j.hird@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 705, 7th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Departmental Reception duties and first point of contact in the Departmental Office.
- Responsible for post and parcel distribution and sending of courier packages.
- Responsible for booking catering and rooms for Departmental events and meetings.
- Manages reported departmental defects.
- Responsible for arranging departmental printing, including Undergraduate lectures notes
- Maintaining the Readinglists @UCL list.
- Monitoring and replenishing stock levels of stationery, paper, tea, coffee etc.
- Inclusion Lead
Abiola Isiaka
Teaching & Learning administrator
- T: tbc
- E: a.isiaka@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 705, 7th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Providing support to students and staff in all areas of programme administration for both UG & PG programmes, including: Student records and enquiries, examinations and assessments.
- First point of contact for Student enquiries.
Vince Kearney
finance officer
- T: +44 (0)20 7679 3947 (ext: 33947)
- E: v.kearney@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 721, 7th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Raising Purchase Orders and Sales Invoices
- Banking arrangements
- Processing IDT/IDJ’s
- Checking Expenses prior to Departmental approval
- Customs clearance for Departmental imports
- Managing departmental purchasing card orders
- Processing PGTA and Peer Tutor timesheets
- General Procurement and finance related duties.
Rhiannon Lloyd
RESEARCH FINANCE MANAGER
- T: +44 (0)20 7679 7300 (ext: 37300)
- E: r.lloyd@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 703, 7th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Assistance with preparing bid submissions and costings for grant applications
- Research grants and contracts administration
- Management of portfolio of grants and funders
- Management of researcher contracts, appraisals and probationary reviews.
- Management of studentships and stipends including the department’s EPSRC DTP studentships allocation.
- Line management of the Finance Officer and Research Administrator
Lola Mason
Photonics doctoral training centre administrator / phd administrator
- T: +44 (0)20 7679 3574 (ext: 33574)
- E: lola.mason@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 721, 7th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Administrator for Postgraduate Research. Dealing with enquiries, processing applications, managing student records
- Administrator for CDT in Integrated Photonic and Electronic Systems (IPES) and the CDT in Connected Electronic and Photonics Systems (CEPS). Dealing with enquiries, processing applications, managing student records
- Processing payroll payments for students involving checking right to work documentation
POSITION VACANT
Communications Manager & Programme Administrator - TRANSNET
- T : tbc
- E: tbc
- Location: tbc
Responsibilities
- Day-to-day administration of the research programme, including the organisation of events, meetings and outreach activities.
- Communication and promotion of the scientific research results, achievements, and impact of the programme.
- Content Manager for the TRANSNET website and ONG webpages.
Vicki McGrath
CDT Administrator
- T: +44 (0)20 7679 0658 (ext: 30658)
- E: v.mcgrath@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 721, 7th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Executive administration for the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Integrated Photonic & Electronic Systems (IPES) and the EPSRC CDT in Connected Electronic and Photonics Systems (CEPS).
- Line management of the PhD Administrator.
Paul McKenna
departmental manager
- T: +44 (0)20 7679 3186 (ext: 33186)
- E: p.mckenna@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 717, 7th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Providing strategic support and advice to Head of Department.
- Management of departmental operations.
- Management of departmental finances and human resources operations.
- Management and leadership of the Administrative Team.
Dr Robert Thompson
strategic alliance director
- T: +44 (0)20 310 86258 (ext: 56258)
- E: robert.j.thompson@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 7.06, 7th floor MPEB
Responsibilities
Rob leads the development of EEE’s strategy in relation to Industry and Enterprise, this includes:
- Developing opportunities and structures for external partners to engage with the department.
- Raising the prominence and benefit of University-External Partner engagement both internally and within National, EU and International arenas.
- Supporting the development of Strategic Relationships.
- Working with academics to deliver industry focused activities, workshops and exploratory projects.
- Ensuring the department remains up-to-date with industries’ priorities that pertain to departmental activities across research and teaching.
Sarah Thomson
senior teaching & learning administrator (Postgraduate)
- E: s.m.thomson@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 705, 7th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Programme administration for the entire lifecycle of MSc students (including admissions, induction, module selection, teaching committees, exams and awards).
Navta Vij
communications & MArketing manager
Responsibilities
- Developing, delivering and reviewing the department's internal and external communications strategy.
- Leading on the development, deliverance and evaluation of a marketing programme for the department.
- Producing regular internal and external (e-) newsletters.
- Maintaining an effective social media presence
- Devising and coordinating both internal and external events.
Gary Welch
teaching & Learning manager
Responsibilities
Manages the the administration of the Department’s undergraduate, taught postgraduate, research postgraduate programmes and CPD short courses
Technical & IT staff
Ricky Adams
senior it systems administrator
- T: +44 (0)20 7679 3960 (ext: 33960)
- E: ricky.adams@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 604, 6th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- IT Support Helpdesk via support@ee.ucl.ac.uk
- Desktop PC installation and support
- AV support
- Network support
Firoz Alam
nanotechnology lab manager
- T: +44 (0)20 3108 1116
- E: firoz.alam@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 914, 9th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- To manage a range of instruments in the EEE department’s nanotechnology teaching laboratory.
- To provide technical and safety support to research projects requiring the nanotechnology facilities.
- To assist MSc project activities and the running of laboratory classes for MSc students.
- To implement and enforce an equipment training regime and safety induction process for all laboratory users
- Equipment planning and budgeting and raising infrastructure requirements
Simon Barnes
Technical Services manager
- T: +44 (0)20 7679 3898 (ext: 33898)
- E: simon.barnes@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 609, 6th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Management of the department’s Technical Support Team
- Departmental infrastructure manager & contact for operational issues
- Developing and implementing the department’s estate and equipment strategy
- Coordination of Health and Safety matters across the department’s activities and estate
- Department lead for business resilience/serious incident planning, mitigation and response
Mohammed Bulbulia
senior it systems administrator
- T: +44 (0)20 7679 3960 (ext: 33960)
- E: m.bulbulia@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 604, 6th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- IT Support Helpdesk via support@ee.ucl.ac.uk
- Desktop PC installation and support
- AV support
- Network support
Tom Hamer
workshop technician
- T: +44 (0)20 7679 3964 (ext: 33964)
- E: thomas.hamer@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 621, 6th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Assist with the design of precision parts using latest Cad modelling technology
- Manufacture of items using Latest CNC technology to a high precision in a variety of materials
- Assist with the design and manufacture of 3D printable items for students and academics for teaching and research (from late 2019)
- Assist the department with any minor issues with the Infrastructure of labs and offices
- Liaise with other departments that may require our assistance with design and manufacture of research equipment
Trevor Hamer
workshop technician
- T: +44 (0)20 7679 3964 (ext: 33964)
- E: t.hamer@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 621, 6th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Assists with the design and manufacture of precision parts in a variety of materials.
Lee Heagney
IT & Systems Manager
- T: +44 (0)20 7679 3960 (ext: 33960)
- E: l.heagney@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 604, 6th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Managing the IT Team (support@ee.ucl.ac.uk)
- Desktop and Server support (Windows/Linux/Solaris/OS X)
- Systems monitoring, security, analysis and development
- Web hosting/development
- Network administration
- IT purchasing
Steve Hudziak
research lab manager
- T: +44 (0)20 7679 3991(ext: 33991)
- E: s.hudziak@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 902, 9th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Leads a new team within the department’s technical group, working in our research laboratories and postgraduate teaching facilities.
- Responsible for managing shared department research facilities and ensuring these are run effectively and efficiently.
- Acts as experimental officer for some our key shared research equipment.
- Offers support and advise to the technical services manager in standardising safety and lab management processes across all research areas in the department.
- To support commercial use of our facilities.
- Departmental Green Champion
POSITION VACANT
Teaching Laboratory Technician
- T: +44 (0)20 3987 2395 (ext: 02395)
- E: r.khattak@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 610, 6th Floor Malet Place Eng Building
Responsibilities
- Assists in the maintenance and development of the undergraduate laboratory.
- Laboratory teaching support - providing technical support and experimental demonstrations.
- Provides technical assistance for research projects using laboratory equipment
Provides advice, training and assistance to staff and students in the use and application of experimental equipment and techniques.
John Langdon
cad/cam technician
- T: +44 (0)20 7679 3965 (ext: 33965)
- E: j.langdon@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 620, 6th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Support EEE, LCN and Medical Physics with CAD/CAM programming
- Design, manufacture parts/rigs and assist/advise, customers with their designs
- Keep software and postprocessors up to date within the workshop.
- Assist other members of the workshop and other departments with CAD/CAM support/training
- Specialist welding (T.I.G Weld)
- Planning, costing and ordering materials and equipment.
Kevin Lee
MBE Lab Manager
- T: +44 (0)20 7679 3998 (ext: 33998)
- E: kevin.lee@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 902, 9th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Day to day running of the MBE Lab
- Maintain/service equipment in Lab
- Training of PhD students on MBE systems
- Provide cover for 10th Floor Clean room
Gerald McBrearty
teaching lab manager
- T: +44 (0)20 7679 3053 (ext: 33053)
- E: g.mcbrearty@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 610, 6th Floor, Malet Place Engineering Building
Responsibilities
- Main point of contact for UG laboratory activities with responsibility for timetabling of lab based activities.
- Planning and development of practical teaching experiments to support theoretical teaching.
- Line management of Teaching Laboratory technical staff.
- Specification and procurement of new equipment and hardware.
- Laboratory budget management and planning.
- Risk assessment of lab activities to provide a safe working environment for students and staff.
Andrew Moss
undergraduate teaching Lab Technician
- T: +44 (0)20 8138 7857 (ext: 07857)
- E: andrew.moss@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 610, 6th Floor, Malet Place Engineering Building
Responsibilities
- Support for FDM 3D Printing, PCB design/manufacture and circuit assembly.
- Provides support for development of teaching laboratory experiments.
- Provides support and demonstrations during teaching laboratory experiments.
- UG Project laboratory risk assessment advisor and assessor.
- Primary approver for teaching laboratory purchases.
- Provides support for teaching laboratory equipment maintenance and PAT testing.
- Senior fire marshal (Malt place Electronic Engineering) and First aider
- Deputy Safety officer.
Muhammad Omer
Teaching Laboratory Technician
- T: +44 (0)20 3987 2395 (ext: 02395)
- E: muhammad.omer@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 610, 6th Floor Malet Place Eng Building
Responsibilities
- Assists in the maintenance and development of the undergraduate laboratory.
- Laboratory teaching support - providing technical support and experimental demonstrations.
- Provides technical assistance for research projects using laboratory equipment
Provides advice, training and assistance to staff and students in the use and application of experimental equipment and techniques.
Martin Scott
mechatronic / electronic technician
- T: +44 (0)20 8138 7858 (ext: 07858)
- E: uceesco@ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 610A, 6th Floor Malet Place Eng Building
Responsibilities
- Provide assistance and advice for printed circuit board designs and layout.
- Manufacture of through hole plated Printed Circuited Boards, multi-layer PCBs (4-6 layers) and flexible circuits.
- Lasered RF-boards using our LPKF U3 laser (sub 100 micron features)
- Lasered solder paste masks for solder screen printing.
- Electronic component assembly techniques.
- Maintenance and support for all PCB equipment and chemical processes.
Jim Van Sickle
Workshop technician
- T: +44 (0)20 7679 3964 (ext: 33964)
- E: j.vansickle@ee.ucl.ac.uk
- Location: Room 620, 6th Floor Roberts Building
Responsibilities
- Assists with the design and manufacture of precision parts in a variety of materials.