Spiros Denaxas promoted to Professor

The UCL Institute of Health Informatics (IHI) is delighted to announce that Spiros Denaxas has been successful in his application for promotion and has now been awarded the title of Professor of Biomedical Informatics at UCL. Promotions at UCL go through a rigorous process which includes external peer reviewers. This promotion therefore, is no small achievement.

“I am particularly pleased for Spiros as he is one of the few people in the UK to lead the developments underpinning methodologies related to data science at scale. His career path I hope will serve as an important addition to the role models for early-career researchers.” Harry Hemingway, Director of the UCL IHI

Spiros studied Computer Science, Information Systems and Engineering at the University of Manchester and obtained a PhD in Informatics in 2008. He is a biomedical informatics researcher working at the intersection of clinical research and computer science. His research focuses on building methods for using large-scale electronic health records from for translational research. Spiros joined UCL in 2009 where he was part of the team that established the CALIBER EHR research resource. Since 2015 he leads the Denaxas Lab at the IHI which uses emerging resources such as EHR, genomics data and machine learning/artificial intelligence methods to improve human health and healthcare. Since 2018, he is Programme Director for the MSc in Health Data Science and in 2019 he became Deputy Director for Research of the Institute.

Congratulations to Spiros and to the other UCL researchers who were also successful in the promotion applications. A full list of all the UCL researchers successful in their promotion applications can be found on the UCL website.