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Academic

You can also find a list of our staff, by area of specialisation, on the Research page. Here, they are listed alphabetically (by role).

Academic permanent staff

• Dr Simona Aimar: Ancient Philosophy, Metaphysics, Semantics
• Dr Tim Button: Philosophy of Language, Logic, Mathematics, Metaphysics 
• Dr Nilanjan Das: Epistemology, Indian Philosophy
• Dr Luke Fenton-Glynn: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science
• Prof Sebastian Gardner: Aesthetics, German Idealism, 19th-century German Philosophy, Kant
• Dr Amanda Greene: Ethics, Legal Philosophy, Plato, Political Philosophy
• Dr Ulrike Heuer: Philosophy of Action, Ethics
• Dr Joe Horton: Ethics, Political Philosophy
• Prof John Hyman: Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Art, Epistemology, Ethics, Wittgenstein
• Prof Mark Eli Kalderon: Ancient philosophy (Aristotle & Epidocles), Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Colour
• Dr Douglas Lavin: Philosophy of Action, Ethics, History of Ethics
• Dr Fiona Leigh: Ancient Philosophy (particularly Plato's metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind)
• Dr Rory Madden: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind
• Prof Véronique Munoz-Dardé: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Rawls, Rousseau
• Prof Lucy O'Brien: Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Emotion, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind
• Dr Lavinia Picollo: Philosophy of Language, Logic, Mathematics, Metaphysics
• Dr Sarah Richmond: Ethics, Sartre
• Prof Daniel Rothschild: Philosophy of Language, Linguistic Semantics
• Dr Robert Simpson: Applied Ethics, Political Philosophy, Social Epistemology
• Dr Tom Stern: Aesthetics, 19th-century German Philosophy
• Dr Han van Wietmarschen: Epistemology, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy
• Prof James Wilson: Normative Ethics, Public Health Ethics, Philosophy of Public Policy
• Prof José Zalabardo: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophical Semantics, Wittgenstein

Research fellows

• Dr Merrick Anderson: Ancient Philosophy (particularly Plato's moral and political philosophy)
• Dr Claire Field: Epistemology, Ethics, Normativity
• Dr Alexander Greenberg: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Legal Philosophy
• Dr James Nguyen: Philosophy of Science

Teaching fellows

• Dr James Hutton: Kant, Moral Epistemology
• Kacper Kowalczyk: Decision Theory, Ethics, Metaphysics
• Rowan Mellor: Ethics, Political Philosophy
• Rory Phillips: German Idealism, Philosophy of Religion
• Dr Saloni de Souza: Ancient Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, Philosophy of Medicine, Metaphysics

Affiliated academic staff

• Dr Richard Breheny (Div of Psychology & Lang Sciences)
• Prof Robyn Carston (Div of Psychology & Lang Sciences)
• Prof Sarah Edwards (Dept of Science & Technology Studies)
• Dr Nathan Klinedinst (Div of Psychology & Lang Sciences)
• Prof George Letsas (Faculty of Laws)
• Dr Saladin D Meckled-Garcia (Dept of Political Science)
• Prof David J Pym (Dept of Computer Science and the Alan Turing Institute)
• Dr Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed (Institute of Advanced Studies)
• Prof Philip Schofield (Faculty of Laws)
• Dr Yasutada Sudo (Div of Psychology & Lang Sciences)

Honorary & Emeritus

• Prof Rachel Barney (Visiting Professor)
• Prof Sarah Broadie (Honorary Professor)
• Prof Timothy Clarke (Honorary Senior Lecturer)
• Prof Malcolm Budd (Emeritus Grote Professor)
• Prof Marcus Giaquinto (Honorary Emeritus)
• Prof Ted Honderich (Emeritus Professor)
• Dr Nils Kürbis (Honorary Research Fellow)
• Prof Michael Martin (Honorary Professor)
• Prof Paul Snowdon (Emeritus Professor)
• Dr Barry Stocker (Honorary Senior Research Associate)
• Prof Nick Zangwill (Honorary Research Fellow)
• Dr Arnold Zuboff (Honorary Senior Research Associate)

Administrative

Administrative staff

The Department Office is located in room 101 of 19 Gorden Square. The office is currently closed as our administrative staff are working remotely.

Department Manager
Sophie Grant
sophie.grant@ucl.ac.uk

Graduate Administrator
Richard Edwards
r.edwards@ucl.ac.uk

Undergraduate Programme Administrator
Ronan McCoy
ronan.mccoy@ucl.ac.uk

Academic staff by administrative role

• Head of Department: Prof James Wilson (interim head whilst Prof Daniel Rothschild is on leave)
• Departmental Tutor: Dr Robert Simpson
• Departmental Graduate Tutor (Taught students): Dr James Hutton
• Departmental Graduate Tutor (Research students): Dr Ulrike Heuer
• Admissions Tutor: Dr Sarah Richmond
• Outreach /Widening Participation Officer: Dr Lavinia Picollo
• Affiliate Tutor: TBC
• Careers Liaison Tutor: Dr Nilanjan Das
• Chair of Examiners: Dr Joe Horton
• Chair of Departmental Teaching Committee: Dr Joe Horton
• Chair of Departmental Staff Student Consultative Committee (department chair): Prof James Wilson
• E-Learning Champion: Richard Edwards
• NSS Liaison Officer: TBC
• Inclusion Lead: Sophie Grant 
• Green Champion: Sophie Grant

Students

PhD students

• Naomi Alderson
• Showkat Ali: Ethics, Political Philosophy
• Euan Allison
• Thomas Avery
• Sebastien Bishop-Bennett
• George Britten-Neish
• Niels Christensen
• Chandler Clark
• Nicholas Currie: Early Modern Philosophy, Kant, History of Logic, Philosophy of Logic, Representationalism
• Catherine Dale: Early Modern Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Feminist Philosophy, (Later) Wittgenstein
• Will Eckersley
• Sepehr Ehsani
• Taylor Enoch: Absurdism, Aesthetics, Existentialism, Metaphilosophy, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Psychology
• Jessica Fischer
• Josh Goh
• Lisa Grant
• Tasnim Ismail
• Charles Jansen
• Kim Leontiev
• Heejin Kwon
• Kirstine La Cour
• James Laing: Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind
• Chris Leak
• Michael Markunas: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Perception and Neuroscience
• Rowan Mellor
• Oushinar Nath
• Pat Nogoy
• Bárbara Núñez de Cáceres Gonzalez
• David Olbrich: Philosophy of Action, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Normativity
• Filippa Ronquist
• Rebecca Rowson
• Vittorio Sandri
• Kenta Sekine
• David Sommer
• Leora Sung
• Winnie Sung
• Shunichi Takagi: Early Analytic Philosophy (esp. the Tractatus), Wittgenstein's Nachlass.
• Nikhil Venkatesh
• Victor Weber
• Tom Williams

MPhil Students

• Lea Bourguignon
• Lisa Cernilogar
• Cristina-Diana Craciun
• Benjamin Davis
• Kate Fisk
• Alice Harberd
• Matthew Harris
• Lizzy Holt
• Jack Hume
• Tyler Leli
• Hongyi Li
• Joshua Mellor
• Alba Miriello
• Sjoerd Oppenheim
• Riccardo Pellegrini
• Elena Raimondi
• Achilleas Sarantaris
• Leonardo Serafini
• Erica Stanley
• Jean-Philippe Thomas
• Albin van Latum
• Anaïs White
• Fiona Whittingham
• Ying Xue