Committees & supplementary roles
Meeting regularly to discuss matters of importance on an array of topics, the Department of Bioengineering has a number of working committees including:
- The Department Management committee,
- The Health and Safety committee,
- The Teaching Committee,
- The Postgraduate Research Committee and
- The Equality and Departmental Culture Committee (EDCC)
These committees derive solutions and take actions to ensure that the Department is continuously improving, growing and providing a positive experience for staff and students alike. Below is a list of members belonging to each one.
In addition to their research and teaching remit, academics have supplementary roles and these are detailed in the table below alongside committee responsibilities and Department Leadership.
Committees & supplementary roles
Department Management Committee (DMC)
| Academic | Role |
|---|---|
| Professor Anthony Bull | Head of Department |
| Professor Manos Drakakis | Deputy Head of Department and Director of Teaching |
| Professor Dario Farina | Director of Research |
| Professor Rylie Green | Academic Staff Line Manager |
| Dr Angela Kedgley | Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) |
| Professor Holger Krapp | Academic Staff Line Manager |
| Dr Nick Linton | Chair of Equality and Departmental Culture Committee |
| Mr Sam McKenney | Department Operations Manager |
| Professor James Moore Jr | Director of Translation |
| Professor Simon Schultz | Academic Staff Line Manager |
| Dr Reiko Tanaka | Academic Representative |
| Professor Mengxing Tang | Academic Load Director |
| Professor Peter Weinberg | Academic Staff Line Manager |
Department Research Committee (DRC)
- Professor Darryl Overby: Director of Research
- Dr Periklis Pantazis: Fellowship Coordinator
- Professor Dario Farina: Industry Translation Coordinator
- Dr Kalypso Charalambous: Network Coordinator
- Professor Tom Ellis: Domain Expert, Synthetic Biology
- Dr Ben Almquist: Domain Expert, Biomaterials/Tissue Engineering
- Dr Firat Güder: Domain Expert, Biotechnology
- Dr Angela Kedgley: Director of Postgraduate Studies, Research
- Dr Christopher Rowlands: Equipment Champion
- Mr Ken Keating: Laboratory Manager
-
Mr Chris Sanders: Secretariat
Safety Committee
• Professor Anthony Bull: Chair and Head of Department
• Dr Danny O'Hare: Chemical Safety
• Mr Guy Fairhurst: Buildings Manager
• Dr Ian Radcliffe: Mechanical Safety
• Mr Ken Keating: Department Safety Officer
• Mr Paschal Egan: Electrical Safety
• Mr Ian Hackford: College Safety Department Representative
• Dr Amanda Foust: Laser Safety
• Dr Claire Higgins: Tissue Use and Mechanical Safety
• Mr Jon Ryan: Fire Safety Advisor
Department Teaching Committee (DTC)
- Professor Manos Drakakis: Chair and Director of Courses
- Dr Claire Higgins: Senior Tutor
- Dr Warren Macdonald: Deputy Senior Tutor
- Mr Martin Holloway: Academic Tutor
- Dr Chiu Fan Lee: Director of Postgraduate Studies (Taught)
- Dr Sylvain Ladame: MEng Molecular Bioengineering lead
- Dr Danny O'Hare: Intercalated BSc lead
- Mr Abhishek Roy: Departmental Student Rep
- Dr Reiko Tanaka: Examinations Officer
- Ms Jayne Shaw: Admissions and Outreach Manager
- Miss Nicole Harbert: Secretary
Postgraduate Research Committee
Staff members:
- Dr Angela Kedgley: Chair and Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research)
- Dr Choon Hwai Yap: Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research)
- Dr Adam Celiz: Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies (MRes)
- Professor Tom Ellis: Senior Tutor for Postgraduate Research
- Dr Nicolas Newell: GTA Coordinator
- Krisztina Lackoi: Postgraduate Research Student Programmes Manager
- Jayne Stringer: Secretary and Student Administrator (Research)
Student members:
- Zack Bailey: MRes Bioengineering Student Representative
- Victoria Blazeby: MRes Cancer Technology Student Representative
- Dristi Lalwani Shahani: MRes Medical Device Design & Entrepreneurship Student Representative
- Ji Huang: MRes Neurotechnology Student Representative
- Krystyna Broda: PhD Student Representative
- Andra Topan: PhD Student Representative
- Maria Nikolaidi: PhD Student Representative
- Konstantinos Kalyviotis: PhD Student Representative
- Leah Xu: PhD Student Representative
Equality and Departmental Culture Committee (EDCC)
- Dr Nick Linton: Chair and Academic Representative
- Prof Claudia Clopath: Academic Representative
- Dr Parry Hashemi: Academic Representative
- Dr Julien Vermot: Academic Representative
- Dr Adam Celiz: Academic Representative
- Dr Tom Ouldridge: Academic Representative
- Ms Ji Young Yoon: Professional Services Staff Representative
- Miss Kemi Aofolaju: Professional Services Staff Representative
- Dr Jennifer Frattolin: Postdoc Representative
- Mr Guillem Hurault: Postdoc Representative
- Dr Muhsincan Sesen: Postdoc Representative
- Miss Caryn Urbanczyk: PhD Representative
- Mr Julia Agramunt: PhD Representative
- Mr Roy Abhishek: Undergraduate Representative
- Mr Rob Bell: Athena SWAN Coordinator
Academic Supplementary Roles
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Head of Department | Professor Anthony Bull |
| ↳ Deputy Head of Department | Professor Manos Drakakis |
| Academic Load Director | Professor Mengxing Tang |
| Academic Staff Line manager | Professor Rylie Green Professor Holger Krapp Professor Simon Schultz Professor Peter Weinberg |
| BSc Degree Leader (Biomedical Technology Ventures) | Professor Anil Bharath |
| Campus Champion | Dr Adam Celiz Dr Tom Ouldridge |
| CBS management and strategy group and FoE CBS chair | Professor Simon Schultz |
| City and Guilds College Association Liaison Officer and Alumni Relations | Dr Ben Almquist |
| Chair of Equality and Departmental Culture Committee | Dr Nick Linton |
| Chair of Safety Systems working group | Professor Rylie Green |
| College Activity - Department 'appointment': Centre/CDT leadership | Professor Aldo Faisal Professor Guy-Bart Stan Professor Simon Schultz |
| College Activity - Department 'appointment': Strategic | Dr Periklis Pantazis |
| Department Laser Safety Officer | Dr Amanda Foust |
| Department Seminars Coordinator | Dr Jun Ishihara |
| Director of MRes Bioengineering | Dr Rodrigo Ledesma Amaro |
| Director of MRes Medical Device Design | Professor Danny O'Hare |
| Director of MRes Neurotechnology | Dr Andrei Kozlov |
| Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) | Dr Angela Kedgley |
| ↳ Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) | Dr Adam Celiz |
| ↳ Deputy Director Postgraduate Studies (PhD Research) | Dr Choon Hwai Yap |
| Director of Postgraduate Studies (Taught) | Dr Chiu Fan Lee |
| Director of Prototyping Core | Dr Sam Au |
| Director of Research | Professor Daria Farina |
| Director of Teaching (and Deputy Head of Department) | Professor Manos Drakakis |
| Disability Liaison Advisor | Dr Sandra Roscoe |
| DRC Domain Expert | Dr Ben Almquist Professor Tom Ellis Dr Firat Guder Dr Periklis Pantazis |
| Elected Department Representatives | Professor Rylie Green Dr Andrei Kozlov Dr Reiko Tanaka |
| Equipment Champion | Dr Chris Rowlands |
| Examinations Officer | Dr Parry Hashemi |
| ↳ Deputy Examinations Officer | Dr James Choi |
| Fellowship Lead | Dr Naomi Nakayama |
| Female Academic Network Coordinator | Dr Claire Stanley |
| Grant Writing Workshops | Professor Etienne Burdet |
| GTA Officer | Dr Nicolas Newell |
| Head of Post-Covid return-to-labs committee | Dr Ben Almquist |
| Industry/Translation Group Lead | Professor Dario Farina |
| Intercalated BSc Biomedical Engineering lead | Dr Firat Guder |
| IP champion and IP panel for Faculty of Engineering | Professor James Moore Jr |
| LEICA Microsystems Centre of Excellence: Council of Operations member | Dr Periklis Pantazis |
| MEng Biomedical Engineering lead | Dr Spyros Masouros |
| MEng Molecular Bioengineering lead | Dr Periklis Pantazis |
| MRes Cancer Director | Dr Sam Au |
| MRI Institutional Lead | Dr Neal Bangerter |
| MSc new programme lead: Engineering for Biomedicine | Dr Nick Linton |
| PhD Cohort Mentors | 2021-22 Dr Naomi Nakayama Dr Choon Hwai Yap Dr James Choi 2020-21 Professor Holger Krapp Dr Huai-Ti Lin Dr Chris Rowlands Dr Claire Stanley 2019-20 Dr Neal Bangerter Dr Adam Celiz Dr Tom Ouldridge 2018-19 Professor Dario Farina Dr Reiko Tanaka Professor Mengxing Tang |
| Postdoc Champion | Professor Richard Kitney |
| Postgraduate Tutor (MRes and PhD) | Professor Tom Ellis |
| Prizes, Honours and Awards committee | Professor Richard Kitney |
| Projects Officer (final year) | Dr Julien Vermot |
| Projects Officer (group projects) | Dr Ben Almquist Dr David Labonte |
| Senior Tutor (Taught Courses) | Dr Claire Higgins |
| ↳ Deputy Senior Tutor (Taught Courses) | Dr Warren Macdonald |
| Societal Engagement Champion | Dr Juan Alvaro Gallego |
| Student Liaison Officer | Dr David Labonte |
| Translation Group Member | Dr Ben Almquist Dr Firat Guder Professor James Moore Jr Dr Spyros Masouros |
| UG Exchange Programme Coordinator | Dr Amanda Foust |