International Women’s Day at UCL Engineering

Ann is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Department of Computer Science at UCL, and a member of UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC, jointly supported by the Department of Computer Science and the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences). She was Director of UCLIC 2004-2011. In 2013, she was recognised as an academic role model in the School of Life and Medical Sciences.  In 2015, she was appointed as the first Director of the UCL Institute of Digital Health, and was a Suffrage Science award holder (2016-2018). She is also a parent and a grandparent. 

Emanuela is the Director of the Integrated Engineering Programme (IEP). She is an aerodynamic engineer with a mechanical and civil structural background. Before being appointed as Director, she led the design and delivery of the Engineering Challenges module, with the aim of introducing new students to a new way of learning – through projects, research and engineering design. Emanuela came from industry after working as a professional consulting engineer for 7 years.  Before coming to UCL she led multi-disciplinary engineering teams in the design and testing of the world’s most unique tall towers and city structures – like Abu Dhabi’s zero carbon Masdar City and London’s Leadenhall Tower (aka The Cheesegrater). Emanuela is a mother to a 3-year-old little girl and is expecting her second girl in May. 

Following her Master degree in Poland, Kasia worked as an opto-electronic engineer in Poland, South Korea, Spain and the Russian Federation. She then left industry to join UCL as a PhD student and Maria Sklodowska-Curie Fellow. She currently shares her time between UCL - where she works as a UKRI Research Fellow focussing on photonic systems and devices for space applications, Airbus Defence and Space - where she is involved in developing the next-generation satellites, and home - running after her four-year-old son who is a recent graduate from UCL Nursery. 

Dr Karin Shmueli is an Associate Professor leading the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Group in the UCL Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. Karin’s research focuses on MRI Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) techniques and applications. Before joining UCL, Karin pioneered MRI QSM techniques as a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the USA National Institutes of Health.  She has recently chaired the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Electromagnetic Tissue Properties (SWI) Study Group. She has successfully trained three PhD students and will soon be expanding her group thanks to a European Research Council Consolidator Grant and a Cancer Research UK Multidisciplinary Award. 

Nafiseh graduated from university of Southampton with Engineering degree in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence (MEng). She received her masters from Imperial college in Medical Robotics and Image Guided Intervention (Mres). Nafiseh joined UCL to perform her PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department where her research focuses on developing machine learning and image processing algorithms to solve the real world problems. Nafiseh is a winner of a number of awards such as Engineering Exchange award, public engagement award and was very recently awarded EPSRC Doctoral Fellowship Prize which gives her a great opportunity to carry on her independent research after finishing her PhD. Nafiseh is an active member of professional bodies, MIEEE and MIET.