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- Vice-Provost (Research, Innovation and Global Engagement)
- Vice-Provost (Research, Innovation and Global Engagement)
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I am Vice Provost (Research, Innovation and Global Engagement). From 2014-2022 I was Dean of the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences. Before that, from 2009-2014 I was Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and from 2011-2014 Deputy Head of the Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL. I have strong strategic interests (and a track record of operational delivery) in enterprise and innovation (as a non-Executive Director of UCL Business, but also a personal track record of strategic consultancy with Google DeepMind and other collaborations) and in delivery of large-scale doctoral training programmes. I continue to be research-active working on the neural basis of human cognition using functional brain imaging, machine learning and other advanced analytic techniques.
My research interests are in the nature and neural basis of human cognition, particularly underlying consciousness and related phenomena; and in the application of high dimensional multivariate inference (“machine learning” and similar tools) to major challenges in the delivery of healthcare, the understanding of innovation and other areas. In my senior role at UCL I work collaboratively with colleagues, as co-investigator (with Professor Sarah Tabrizi as PI) on the neural basis of therapeutic interventions in Huntington’s disease, and as co-investigator (with Professor Parashkev Nachev) on high dimensional inference in neuroscience and medicine.
My major educational interest is in strategy and policy development for postgraduate clinical academic training, both locally and nationally. At UCL I set up and direct the UCL SLMS Academic Careers Office. This is part of the Office of the Vice Provost for Health and jointly operated with the UCL/H NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. The ACO actively manages UCL's large portfolio of MRC & NIHR clinical and scientific trainees, manages our large MRC Doctoral Training Centre award, and also coordinates talent management and leadership training such as our Future Leaders programme. I co-direct the UKRI CDT in AI-Enabled Healthcare Systems, co-direct the MRC Doctoral Training Programme. Previously I have co-directed (with Sebastian Ourselin & David Hawkes) the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Medical Imaging and co-directed (with David Lomas) the Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Programme at UCL. As well as this strategic activity I also teach on a number of Masters courses across UCL and provide lectures to several undergraduate programmes and pre-sessional courses.
MAY-2022 | Vice Provost (Research, Innovation & Global Engagement) | UCL, United Kingdom | |
2014 – 2022 | Dean Faculty of Life Sciences | Life Sciences | UCL, United Kingdom |
2009 – 2014 | Director | Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience | UCL, United Kingdom |
2007 – 2012 | Sub-Dean for Postgraduate Medical Education | UCL, United Kingdom | |
2007 | Education & Training Lead | Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre | UCL Hospitals, United Kingdom |
2006 | Deputy Co-Chair | Medical Academic Staff Committee | British Medical Association, United Kingdom |
2006 | Professor of Cognitive Neurology | UCL, United Kingdom | |
2004 | Honorary Consultant | National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery | UCL Hospitals, United Kingdom |
2003 – 2006 | Senior Clinical Fellow and Senior Lecturer | Institute of Neurology | UCL, United Kingdom |
2002 – 2003 | Clinical Lecturer | Institute of Neurology | UCL, United Kingdom |
1999 – 2002 | Wellcome Advanced Fellow | California Institute of Technology , United States | |
1999 – 2002 | Wellcome Advanced Fellow | Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience | UCL, United Kingdom |
1995 – 1995 | Clinical Research Fellow | Institute of Neurology | UCL, United Kingdom |
1994 – 1995 | Registrar in Medicine and Neurology | Queen Mary’s University Hospital, United Kingdom |
1999 | Doctor of Philosophy | University College London | |
1999 | Master of Arts | University of Cambridge | |
1994 | Member of the Royal College of Physicians | Royal College of Physicians | |
1991 | Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery | University of Oxford | |
1988 | Bachelor of Arts | University of Cambridge |