Meeting regularly to discuss matters of importance on an array of topics, the ‌Department of Bioengineering has a number of working committees.
- The Department Management committee,
- The Safety and Safety Process committees,
- The Teaching Committee,
- The Research Committee,
- The Postgraduate Research Committee and
- The Equality and Departmental Culture Committee (EDCC)
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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)
- Department Research Committee (DRC)
- Department Teaching Committee (DTC)
- Postgraduate Research Committee
- Safety Process Committee
- Safety Committee
- Equality and Departmental Culture Committee (EDCC)
- Academic Supplementary Roles
Department Management Committee (DMC)
| Academic | Role |
|---|---|
| Professor Rylie Green | Head of Department |
| Professor Spyros Masouros | Director of Teaching |
| Director of Research | |
| Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) | |
| Mrs Sneha Saunders | Department Operations Manager |
| Professor Claudia Clopath | Chair of Equality and Departmental Culture Committee |
| Professor Darryl Overby | Academic Staff Line Manager |
| Academic Staff Line Manager | |
| Professor Reiko Tanaka | Academic Staff Line Manager |
| Professor Peter Weinberg | Academic Staff Line Manager |
| Dr Angela Kedgley | Academic Load Director |
| Dr Ben Almquist | Elected Department Representative |
| Elected Department Representative |
Department Research Committee (DRC)
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Director of Research | |
| Director of Postgraduate Studies, Research | |
| Domain Expert | Dr Amanda Foust |
| Domain Expert |
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| Equipment Champion | Professor Etienne Burdet |
| Fellowship Coordinator and Academic Representative | |
| Laboratory Manager | Mr Ken Keating |
| Research Manager and Network Coordinator | Dr Kalypso Charalambous |
| Secretariat | Mr Hassan Patel |
Department Teaching Committee (DTC)
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Chair and Director of Teaching | Dr Spyros Masouros |
| Senior Tutor | Dr Faraz Janan |
| Deputy Senior Tutor | |
| Director of Postgraduate Studies (Taught) and Academic Staff Representative | Dr David Labonte |
| Examinations Officer | Dr Chris Rowlands |
| Deputy Examinations Officer and Mitigating Circumstances Chair | |
| Head of Student Programmes | Mrs Nicola Guirguis |
| Teaching Operations Manager | Miss Nicole Harbert |
| Admissions and Outreach Manager | Ms Jayne Shaw |
| Academic Tutor | Mr Martin Holloway |
| Student Liaison Officer | |
| Departmental Student Representatives |
TBC |
| Student Wellbeing Representative | TBC |
| Undergraduate Programme Leads | Dr Ben Almquist |
| MSc Programme Leads | Prof Etienne Burdet (until December 2025) (from January 2026) |
Postgraduate Research Committee
Staff members:
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Chair and Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) | |
| Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) | Dr Amanda Foust |
| Senior Tutor for Postgraduate Research | |
| GTA Officer | |
| Head of Student Programmes | Nicola Guirguis |
| Postgraduate Research Student Programmes Manager | Raleigh Mangsat |
| Senior Student Administrator (PhD and MRes programmes) | Kelly Condra |
Student members:
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| PhD Representative | Alba Martinez-Basalo |
| PhD Representative | Maria Nikolaidi |
| PhD Representative | Anna Rhodes |
| PhD Representative | Livia Soro |
| PhD Representative | Aliya Pachmann |
| MRes Medical Device and Entrepreneurship Representative | Chelsea Bunke |
| MRes Cancer Technology Representative | Shurui Lyu |
| MRes Bioengineering Representative | Victoria Medina |
| MRes Neurotechnology Representative | Yago Parrilla Santander |
| Departmental Academic Representative | Vanessa Drevenakova |
Safety Process Committee
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Chair and Academic representative | Dr Sam Au |
| Co-Chair and Departmental Deputy Safety Adviser (Technical) | Dr Miguel Hermida Ayala |
| Academic representative | Dr Sophie V Morse |
| Departmental Safety Adviser | Mr Kenneth Keating |
| Committee secretary | Marta Garcia Bellmunt |
| Systems and Development​ | Edit Toth |
| Technical representative​ | Greg Casson |
| Postgraduate student representative​ | Andra Topan-Rat |
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| Faculty Safety Advisor |
Safety Committee
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Chair and Head of Department | Professor Rylie Green |
| Department Safety Officer | Mr Ken Keating |
| Deputy Safety Officer and BioSafety | Dr Miguel Hermida |
| Technical Safety Support and Secretary | Ms Marta Garcia Bellmunt |
| Buildings Managers | Mr Guy Fairhurst Mr Raymond Henry Mr Michael St Claire Lang |
| Biological Safety Officer | Mr Tim Budd |
| Chemical Safety | Professor Danny O'Hare |
| Electrical Safety | Mr Paschal Egan |
| Fire Safety | Mr Jonathan Ryan Mr Steve Walker Ms Lucy Cowell |
| HTA | Dr Nic Newell |
| In-Vivo Work | Mr Oliver Dubois |
| Radiation, including Laser, Safety | Mr Sharad Patel |
| Mechanical Safety | Mr John Waldock |
| Infrastructure | Mr Greg Casson |
| Office | Mr Joel Eustaquio |
| Faculty Safety Adviser | Alice Hunt |
| Stevens Group | Ms Lucy Chapman Mr Dennis Hartsink |
| Undergraduate students and projects | Dr Ian Radcliffe |
| Research Students representative | TBC |
| College Safety Department Representative(s) | Mr Eddie Hartrick Mr Tim Budd |
Equality and Departmental Culture Committee (EDCC)
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Chair (Academic representative) | Professor Claudia Clopath |
| Department Operations Manager | Mrs Sneha Saunders |
| Athena SWAN Coordinator | Mr Rob Bell |
| Academic representative | Dr Parry Hashemi |
| Academic representative | Dr Victoria Salem |
| Academic representative | Dr Julien Vermot |
| Professional Services Staff representative | Mr Greg Casson |
| Admissions and Outreach Manager | Ms Jayne Shaw |
| Campus Champion | Dr Claire Higgins |
| Campus Champion | Dr Huai-Ti Lin |
| BAME Representative | Debbie Adegoke |
| PhD representative | Leah Xu |
| PhD representative | Krystyna Broda |
| PostDoc & Fellows Development Advisor | Rachel Herries |
| Postdoc representative | Dr Anastasiya Kishkevich |
| Postdoc representative | Dr Roberto Portillo Lara |
| Undergraduate representative | TBC |
| James West Fellowship | Dr Joseph van Batenburg-Sherwood |
| Bioengineering Society President | Ioana Esanu |
| Visiting Member (Materials) | Dr Andrew Cairns |
Academic Supplementary Roles
| Role | Name |
|---|---|
| Head of Department | Professor Rylie Green |
| Academic Load Director | Dr Angela Kedgley |
| Academic Staff Line manager | Professor Darryl Overby |
| Accreditation | |
| BSc Degree Leader (Biomedical Technology Ventures) | Dr Ben Almquist |
| Campus Champion | Dr Claire Higgins (White City) Dr Huai-Ti Lin (South Ken) |
| Cancer Tech Network Lead | |
| CBS Management and Strategy Group and FoE CBS Chair | Dr Andriy Kozlov |
| City and Guilds College Association Liaison Officer and Alumni Relations | Dr Andriy Kozlov |
| College CBS Strategic Committee role | Professor Rylie Green |
| CRUK Microfabrication Prototyping Facility Director | Dr Sam Au |
| Chair of Equality and Departmental Culture Committee | Professor Claudia Clopath |
| Chair of Safety Systems working group | Dr Sam Au |
| College Activity - Department 'appointment': Strategic | |
| Department Research Computing Services Representative | Dr Guang Yang |
| Department Seminars Coordinator | |
| Director of Enterprise and Impact | |
| Director of MRes Bioengineering | |
| Director of MRes Cancer Technology | Dr Jun Ishihara |
| Director of MRes Medical Device Design | |
| Director of MRes Neurotechnology | |
| Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) | |
| Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies (Research) | Dr Amanda Foust |
| Deputy Director Postgraduate Studies (PhD Research) | |
| Director of Postgraduate Studies (Taught) | Dr David Labonte |
| Director of Research | |
| Director of Teaching | Dr Spyros Masouros |
| DRC Domain Expert | Dr Amanda Foust |
| Elected Department Representatives |
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| Equipment Champion | |
| Examinations Officer | Dr Christopher Rowlands |
| Deputy Examinations Officer and Mitigating Circumstances Panel Chair | |
| Fellowship Lead | |
| Female Academic Network Coordinator | Dr Dandan Zhang |
| GTA Officer | |
| Grant Writing Workshops | |
| Impact (and impact case studies) | |
| Industrial Liaison Lead | |
| Intercalated BSc Biomedical Engineering lead | |
| MEng Biomedical Engineering lead | |
| MEng Molecular Bioengineering lead | |
| MRes Alternative Proteins | |
| MRes Bioengineering Director | |
| MRes Cancer Director | |
| MRes Medical Devices Director | |
| MRes Neurotechnology Director | |
| MSc Programme Lead: Engineering for Biomedicine | (until December 2025) (from January 2026) |
| MSc Programme Lead: Human and Biological Robotics | |
| PhD Mentors | |
| Postdoc Champion | Dr Kaushik Jayaram |
| Postgraduate Tutor (MRes and PhD) | |
| Prizes, Honours and Awards Committee Chair | |
| Prizes, Honours and Awards Committee Members | |
| Projects Officer (final year) | |
| Projects Officer (group projects) | Dr Pedro Ballester |
| Projects Officer (industry liaison) | |
| REF Champion | |
| Safety Committee | |
| Senior Tutor (Taught Courses) | Dr Faraz Janan |
| Deputy Senior Tutor (Taught Courses) | |
| Societal Engagement Champion | |
| Student Liaison Officer | |
| Sustainability Committee Chair | |
| UG Exchange Programme Coordinator | Dr Dandan Zhang |
| Widening Participation Scholarships Chair |