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UCL MAPS staff promotions - sixteen new professors!
9 July 2020
The 2019-20 round of academic promotions has been announced, with sixteen new professors in the MAPS faculty, among many other well-deserved promotions.
Staff in the faculty have been promoted in virtually all areas, with nine associate professors, six principal teaching fellows and a principal research fellow, alongside the professors mentioned above. In addition, Paul Bartlett has become one of our first Professorial Teaching Fellows.
The full list of MAPS promotions is as follows:
Professors
Name | Department | Promoted to |
| Dr Martinus Antonius Zwijnenburg | Department of Chemistry | Professor of Computational Materials Chemistry |
| Dr Thomas Mitchell | Department of Earth Sciences | Professor of Earthquake Geology and Rock Physics |
| Dr Pieter Vermeesch | Department of Earth Sciences | Professor of Geochronology |
| Dr Stephen Baigent | Department of Mathematics | Professor of Applied Mathematics |
| Dr Lauri Oksanen | Department of Mathematics | Professor of Applied Mathematics |
| Dr Nicholas Ovenden | Department of Mathematics | Professor of Applied Mathematics |
| Dr Jay Farihi | Department of Physics and Astronomy | Professor of Astrophysics |
| Dr Christopher Howard | Department of Physics and Astronomy | Professor of Materials Physics |
| Dr Amelie Saintonge | Department of Physics and Astronomy | Professor of Astrophysics |
| Dr Phyllis Kirstin Illari | Department of Science and Technology Studies | Professor of Philosophy of Science |
| Dr Emma Tobin | Department of Science and Technology Studies | Professor of Philosophy of Science |
| Dr Michael Emes | Department of Space and Climate Physics | Professor of Technology Management |
| Dr Jason Mcewen | Department of Space and Climate Physics | Professor of Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics |
| Dr I. Jonathan Rae | Department of Space and Climate Physics | Professor of Space Plasma Physics |
| Dr Giampiero Marra | Department of Statistical Science | Professor of Statistics |
| Dr Ricardo Silva | Department of Statistical Science | Professor of Statistical Machine Learning and Data Science |
Professorial Teaching Fellow
| Dr Paul Bartlett | Department of Physics and Astronomy |
Associate Professors
| Dr Alejandro Diaz De La O | Clinical Operational Research Unit |
| Dr Bob Schroeder | Department of Chemistry |
| Dr Giorgio Volpe | Department of Chemistry |
| Dr Ewelina Zatorska | Department of Mathematics |
| Dr Isabel Llorente Garcia | Department of Physics and Astronomy |
| Dr Ingo Waldmann | Department of Physics and Astronomy |
| Dr Tiago Mata | Department of Science and Technology Studies |
| Dr Melanie Smallman | Department of Science and Technology Studies |
| Dr Aidan O'Keeffe | Department of Statistical Science |
Principal Research Fellow
| Dr Abil Aliev | Department of Chemistry |
Principal Teaching Fellows
| Dr Daven Armoogum | Department of Physics and Astronomy |
| Dr Elinor Bailey | Department of Physics and Astronomy |
| Dr Nick Nicolaou | Department of Physics and Astronomy |
| Mr Ian Raper | Department of Space and Climate Physics |
| Dr Simon Harden | Department of Statistical Science |
| Dr Elinor Jones | Department of Statistical Science |
Promotions are effective 1 October 2020. For the full list of all UCL promotions, visit the UCL HR website.