Professional, Technical, and Operational staff

Operations and general enquiries

Photo Contact information Please contact regarding
Sneha Saunders
Department Operations Manager 
Email Sneha
  • Management of all aspects of the Department's administration, particularly including finance, HR, buildings and laboratories, research administration, and student support
Joel Eustaquio
Office Manager and IT Coordinator
Tel: +44 (0)75 9025 0640
✉ Email Joel
  • Desk allocations
  • Swipe card access approvals
  • Coordinating office moves
  • Phones, IT Software, managing printers and departmental computers
Kalypso Kalypso Charalambous
Research Development Manager
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 5183 
✉ Email Kalypso
  • Contact me regarding research development opportunities for the Department of Bioengineering
Qinglin Ke
Partnerships Development Manager
  • Contact me regarding partnership development opportunities

Kemi Aofolaju
Communications and Events Officer
✉ Email Kemi
  • Website management
  • Internal and external communications
  • Social media posts and enquiries
  • Departmental events management
Geoff Hemsley
Assistant Building Technician 
Tel: +44 (0)78953 039866
✉ Email Geoff
  • Office moves
  • Equipment installs
  • Minor adjustments in offices, meeting rooms, lecture theatres and communal spaces
Harjinder Singh
Assistant Office Coordinator 
Tel: +44 (0)75489 68389
✉ Email Harjinder
  • Office setups and keys
  • Office moves
  • Equipment installation
  • Meeting room bookings
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Student Support

 

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  Nicola Guirguis
Head of Student Programmes 
✉ Email Nicola
  • Management of student programmes
  • Teaching policies and procedures
  Raleigh Mangsat
Postgraduate Research Student Programmes Manager
✉ Email Raleigh
  • Management of MRes and PhD programmes 
 Nicole Harbert
Nicole Harbert
Teaching Operations Manager (Taught Programmes)
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 9296
✉ Email Nicole

  • Management of UG and MSc programmes and examinations
  Julie Hoang
Learning Technologist
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 9082 
✉ Email Julie
  • Professional learning technology support for staff and students in the Department
  • Promoting the use of e-learning across the Department
  • Assisting with the planning, design, and development of high-quality e-learning resources
  • Supporting the use of curriculum development tools for curriculum planning
  Kelly Condra
Senior Student Administrator - Postgraduate Research Programmes
✉ Email Kelly
  • PG student support and MRes and PhD programme administration
 Mary Ewumi Mary Ewumi
Senior Student Administrator (Admissions)
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 2259
✉ Email Mary
  • PG and visiting student admissions administration
  • PG scholarship shortlisting support
Flo Reeve
Senior Student Administrator (Admissions & Outreach)
Email Flo
  • UG admissions administration
  • Interview day organisation (on-campus and online)
  • UG bursary shortlisting support
  • Outreach events
Callum Ellison
Senior Student Administrator (Operations)
✉ Email Callum
  • UG and PG administration
  • Coursework and examinations
Robert Ferguson
Industrial Liaison Manager
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6371
✉ Email Robert
  • Liaising with industry, careers and placement opportunities 
 Holloway Martin Holloway
Principle Teaching Fellow
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 5176
✉ Email Martin
  • Administration of the UG and MSc courses
  • Pastoral care
  Jayne Shaw
Admissions and Outreach Manager
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 5146
✉ Email Jayne
  • Management of admissions
  • Outreach events
  • Schools liaison  
macdonald  Warren Macdonald
Senior Teaching Fellow
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6372
✉ Email Warren
  • Taught Courses
  • Admissions
Ian Radcliffe
Senior Teaching Fellow
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6498
✉ Email Ian
  • Admissions
  • Outreach
  • Design Engineering
  • Student projects
Maria Parkes Maria Parkes
Strategic Teaching Fellow
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 9568
✉ Email Maria
  • Curriculum review
  • Taught courses
  • Outreach
  • Admissions

Tweety Tang
Teaching Fellow in Biomedical Sciences
Email Tweety
  • Wet laboratory teaching development
  • Admissions
  • Taught courses
  • Outreach
Faraz Janan
Senior Tutor and Senior Teaching Fellow
✉ Email Faraz
  • Tutorials
  • Mitigation
  • Regulations
  • Taught courses
  • Pastoral care
Geethma Aponsu
Student Wellbeing Adviser
✉ Email Geethma
  • Wellbeing advice and support for all students
  • Departmental Disability Officer
Edit Toth
Student Data Officer and Systems Developer
 Email Edit
  • Management of student data and systems throughout the student journey for all Bioengineering taught and research courses students.
  • Support with analytical and technical challenges.
Dean Shipp
Senior Timetabling Officer
✉ Email Dean
  • Timetabling
  • Room bookings for teaching spaces
  • GTA allocations

 

Admissions Team

Photo Contact information Please contact regarding
  Jayne Shaw
Admissions and Outreach Manager
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 5146
✉ Email Jayne
  • Management of admissions
  • Outreach events
  • Schools liaison 
 Mary Ewumi Mary Ewumi
Senior Student Administrator (Admissions)
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 2259
✉ Email Mary
  • UG and PG admissions administration
  • Interview day organisation (on-campus and online)
  • Scholarship shortlisting support
Flo Reeve
Senior Student Administrator (Admissions & Outreach)
✉ Email Flo

  • UG admissions administration
  • Interview day organisation (on-campus and online)
  • UG bursary shortlisting support
  • Outreach events
macdonald Warren Macdonald
Senior Teaching Fellow
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6372
✉ Email Warren
  • Taught Courses
  • Admissions
Ian Radcliffe
Senior Teaching Fellow
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6498
✉ Email Ian
  • Admissions
  • Outreach
  • Design Engineering
  • Student projects
Maria Parkes Maria Parkes
Strategic Teaching Fellow
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 9568
✉ Email Maria
  • Curriculum review
  • Taught courses
  • Outreach
  • Admissions
Tweety Tang
Teaching Fellow in Biomedical Sciences
Email Tweety
  • Admissions
  • Taught courses
  • Outreach
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Technical Team

 

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  Ken Keating
Technical Operations Manager and Safety Officer
Tel: +44 (0)7590250478
✉ k.keating@imperial.ac.uk
  • Bioengineering research and practical teaching spaces
  • Departmental technical staff
  • Departmental health and safety including faculty representative at college for CBS, GMO, and Biological use
Miguel Hermida Ayala
Deputy Technical Operations Manager and
Deputy Safety Officer
Tel: +44 (0)7594 510 961
✉ Email Miguel
  • Oversight of all Departmental Biosciences and Imaging Core Facilities.
  • Supporting the Technical Operations Manager.
  • Departmental Biosafety Adviser
 Marta Garcia Bellmunt Marta Garcia Bellmunt
Biosciences Core Facility Technician
Tel: +44 (0)7566 950 911
✉ Email Marta
  • Management of Core Genomics and Microbiology Facilities
  • Safety inspections
Sharad Patel
Biosciences Core Facilities Manager
Tel: +44 (0)7592 587 443
✉ Email Sharad
  • Tissue and cell culture
  • Microscopy
  • Biological safety
  • Radiation safety
  • Laser safety
  • Cryostorage
  • Biological and GM waste
  Morgan Edmonds
Bioengineering Technician (Teaching)
✉ Email Morgan
  • RCS1 108, Molecular Bioengineering Laboratory support
  • Molecular Bioengineering undergraduate teaching support 
  Olivier Dubois
Bioengineering Biological Services Technician 
Tel: +44 (0) 7729619227
✉ Email Olivier
  • Home Office designated work, labs and training
  • Uren Designated laboratories 
  • HTA work
  • Utilities and PPE stocks
  • Histology core
  Florent Seichepine
Bionanofabrication Suite and
Clean Room Technical Manager
Tel: +44 (0) 7395 248 415
✉ Email Florent
  • Bionanocharacterisation
  • Atomic Layer Deposition
  • Clean room
  • microfluidics 
  • Labcup
 
  Shahrzad Forouzanfar
Assistant Microfabrication Facility Manager
Tel: +44 (0)7923242043
✉ Email Shahrzad
  • Microfluidics
  • prototyping SU-8 and PDMS micro-devices 
  • 'Clean lab'
  • Photolithography
  • Lab-on-a-chip
  • Characterisation and post-process

 Egan Paschal Egan
Electronics Engineer
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6497
✉ Email Paschal
Departmental electronics laboratories: 

  • Undergraduate teaching laboratory
  • Undergraduate research projects
  • Postgraduate/research laboratory
  • Electronics design advice, electronics safety testing and advice (departmental safety committee member)
  • Departmental PAT testing, 3D printing including, imaker makerbots and Objet 3D printer
Tariq Malik
Electronics Engineer
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6497
✉ Email Tariq
Departmental electronics laboratories: 

  • Undergraduate teaching laboratory
  • Undergraduate research projects
  • Postgraduate/research laboratory
  • Electronics design advice
  • Electronics safety testing and advice
  • Departmental PAT testing
  • Faulty equipment diagnosis
  • Tensile testing
  • 3D printing including Ultimakers, Boplotter and Objet 30 
  N Kanabar
Senior Engineering Technician
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 5188
✉ Email N Kanabar
Departmental White City core makerspace:

  • Mechanics support and provision
  • Tensile testing
  • Electronics design advice
  • Electronics safety testing and advice
  • Departmental PAT testing
  • Faulty equipment diagnosis
  • Tensile testing
  • 3D printing and laser cutting
Tony Otten
Makerspace Technician 
✉ Email Tony
  • Assisting Makerspace users with the Mechanical Engineering aspect of their research
  Russell Stracey
RSM Mechanical Workshop Supervisor
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6773
✉ Email Russell
  • RSM Mechanical workshop enquiries
  • Technical workshop staff
  • Enquiries regarding available machinery
  • Trade union representative
Greg Casson
Core Facilities Technician
Tel: +44 (0)7752 971 322
✉ Email Greg
  • Technical support for Bioengineering laboratories,  researchers and Technical Operations Manager
  • Supporting infrastructure (including planned preventative maintenance, service contracts, defects, and minor laboratory works or upgrades), laboratory management systems of work and safety provision, PPE stores throughout all Bioengineering laboratories and workshops
  • Management of the Infrastructure minor works projects and Chemical Waste disposal 
  • Unison and Unison H/S representative.
  John Waldock
Departmental Mechanical Engineer
✉ Email John

Support Teaching and Research: 
  • Mechanical engineering consultancy, 
  • Mechanical Workshop machining support
  • Advise on designing and building bespoke research equipment, outsourcing as required, machine prototypes and final equipment for use in research laboratories
  • Teaching and supporting BE2-HSDM Mechanics II Solids lab (MEng Biomedical Engineering module) and Design and professional practice (MEng Biomedical Engineering module)
Departmental Mechanical Laboratories: 
  • Student supervision in the RSM Workshop (LG04)
  • Overall technical support and oversight Mechanical Testing Facility (B120)
  • Comprehensive technical support and oversight of Bio Mechanical Laboratory (B220)
  • Departmental Mechanical H&S
Nana A. Asamoah-Danso 
Bioengineering Core Facility Technician
Tel: +44 (0)7894 329 366
✉ Email Nana
  • Synthetic Biology laboratories
  • Technical support for Bioengineering laboratories
  • Histology facility and departmental laboratory coat laundry services
  • PPMS booking systems
  • Autoclaving chemical solutions, laboratory equipment and biohazardous waste
  • Laboratory instrument servicing
  • Laboratory instrument and furniture transfers
Hamid Samivand
Multiskilled Engineering Technician 
✉ Email Hamid
  • Technical support and supervision for Makerspace (B220) and the RSM Workshop (LG04).
  • 3D printing and laser cutting.
  • CAD modelling and prototyping.
  • Tensile testing
  • Departmental PAT testing.
Adriana Lobosco
Laboratory Technician
Tel: +44 (0) 7743188438
✉ Email Adriana
  • Bionanocharactierisation and imaging
  • Research laboratory support
  • Departmental core facility support
  Faisal Mensah-Badoo
Laboratory Technical apprentice
 Email Faisal
  • Laboratory core facilities and teaching support
  • Part of our joint apprenticeship scheme with The Department of Chemistry
  Jack Gehring
Laboratory Technical apprentice
 Email Jack
  • Laboratory core facilities and teaching support.
  • Part of our joint apprenticeship scheme with The Department of Chemistry 
  Katie Giles
Laboratory Technical Apprentice
✉ Email Katie 
  • Synthetic Biology specialism
  • Laboratory core facilities
  • Teaching support
  Alisha Hunter
Laboratory Technical apprentice
 Email Alisha
  • Laboratory core facilities and teaching support
  • Part of our joint apprenticeship scheme with The Department of Chemistry
Gabrielle Owoh
Laboratory Technical apprentice
 Email Gabrielle 
  • Laboratory core facilities and teaching support
  • Part of our joint apprenticeship scheme with The Department of Chemistry 
Mandy Mak
Laboratory Teaching Technician
+44(0) 7354165475
Email Mandy
 
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Finance, recruitment, personnel and research administration

PhotoContact informationPlease contact regarding
Chris Sanders
Research and Finance Manager
✉ Email Chris
 
  • Research grant proposals and awards
  • Recruitment and personnel-related matters
  • Contracts
Duncan Walsh Duncan Walsh
Research Proposal Coordinator
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 1500
✉ Email Duncan
  • Pre-award research support to academic staff
  • Research costing for grant submission
  • Checking, reviewing and approval of research applications and funder advice on all aspects of pre-award
  Sevgi Thompson 
Research Grants Officer 
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6353
✉ Email Sevgi
  • HR enquiries
  • Supporting post-award grant administration
  • Grant enquiries  
  Saffron Corbyn
Research Compliance Officer
✉ Email Saffron
  • Research project matters
  • Timesheets
  • Audit submissions
Portrtait of Yusra Vallimohamed Yusra Vallimohamed
Recruitment Administrator
✉ Email Yusra
  • Recruiting staff
  • Interview arrangements
  • Day-one inductions
  • Contract amendments 
  Ana-Maria Safta
Finance Assistant
✉ Email Ana-Maria
  • Processing purchase order requests
  • Account and invoice enquiries
  • Processing student bursaries and tuition fee payments. 
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Outreach and public engagement

 


PhotoContact informationPlease contact regarding
  Jayne Shaw
Admissions and Outreach Manager
Email Jayne
  • Outreach events
  • Schools liaison  
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Research centre staff

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Emily Lumley 
Research Programmes Manager
 Email Emily
  • Information about the Centre for Blast Injury Studies
  • Enquiries about trauma-related projects in the department, including the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Post Conflict Trauma and PrOTeCT. 
Lucy Foss
Research Programmes Manager
✉ Email Lucy
  • Information about the Centre for Blast Injury Studies
  • Enquiries about trauma-related projects in the department, including the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Post Conflict Trauma and PrOTeCT. 
Hobson Kate Hobson
Neurotechnology Centre and Network Manager
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 5101  
 Email Kate
McKay Laura McKay
SynbiCITE Centre Administrator
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 9902
 Email Laura
  • Enquiries about SynbiCITE
  • Enquiries about the London BioFoundry, including Proof of Concept projects, Business training courses, SynbioVEN and SynbiTECH conferences 

Anne Roques

Anne Roques
Head of MedTech Accelerator
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6145
 Email Anne
  • Information or advice regarding research translation at the MSk MEC
  • Project support to inter-disciplinary research programmes in the biomedical engineering field. 
Immanuel Sebastine
Translation Project Manager, MedTechONE
✉ Email Immanuel
  • Information or advice regarding research translation
  • Prototyping partner identification
  • Project support to inter-disciplinary research programmes in the Medical Technology area
  • Information on suitable grants, entrepreneurship, and training programmes
  • Guidance on product and technology development
Florence Leong
QARA Manager, MedTechONE
Email Florence
  • Advice and support on regulatory affairs for medical device research translation
  • Quality management in compliance to the UK and international medical device regulatory standards (e.g. ISO13485, ISO14971, FDA)
Martina Tognini
Biomedical Engineering Clinical QARA Manager
Email Martina
  • Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs strategy for BRC Biomedical Engineering, utilising Imperial College's existing quality/QMS processes where required
  • Lead on establishing regulatory and clinical translation pathways for the BRC Biomedical Engineering Theme projects
  • Lead on the alignment of quality processes to facilitate submissions for the BRC Biomedical Engineering Theme
  • Review project documentation and support ethics applications
Najla Ahmed
Translation Project Officer, MedTechONE
✉ Email Najla
  • Coordinating communications and events for the MedTechOne Accelerator
  • Supporting the delivery of the Accelerator's activities and projects
Qinglin Ke
Partnerships Development Manager
✉ Email Qinglin
  • Research translation
  • Industry partnership development
  • Mapping commercial potential of technologies
Gifty Tetteh Gifty Tetteh 
Engagement and Research Projects Manager
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 2874
✉ Email Gifty

  • The Association of Biomedical Engineers, Medical Engineers, and Bioengineers (BioMedEng Association)
  • The UKRI Artificial Intelligence and Engineering Biology Consortium (AI-4-EB)
  • The LiSENUS NIHR multi-partner project and other translational project leadership.
Chuan Ching (CC) Foo
Imperial-Meta Centre Manager
Email CC
  • For all matters relating to the Imperial-Meta Centre.
Mulenga Duodu
EU Project Administrator
Email Mulenga
Bohwon Kim
Biomedical Engineering Theme Manager
✉ Email Bohwon
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Personal assistants

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 Angela Glyes Angela Glyes
PA to Head of Department
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 9794
Email Angela
 Briggs Tania Briggs
PA to Professor Dick Kitney
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6226
Email Tania
  Ellen Becker
PA and Research Group Administrator to Professor Anthony Bull 
Email Ellen
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Building technical support

For infrastructure issues, please contact the Estates Maintenance Customer Service Centre.

For internal minor amendments, both office and laboratory, including moves, equipment installs, and minor adjustments (such as new shelving, plug sockets, seating, benches and tables), please speak to: