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Get in touch with key teams and individuals in the Department using the details below. Alternatively, search for a specific member of staff via the College Directory (Imperial login required).

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Leadership
Name Role Contact Details
Professor Marina Botto Interim Head of Department

m.botto@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 3313 2316

Professor Steve Gentleman Head of the Division of Neuroscience, Lead for Education

s.gentleman@imperial.ac.uk 

+44 (0)20 7594 6586

Professor Anne Lingford-Hughes Head of the Division of Psychiatry

anne.lingford-hughes@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 7594 8682

Professor Paresh Malhotra Head of the Division of Neurology

p.malhotra@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 3313 5525

Professor David Sharp Head, UK Dementia Research Institute Care and Technology Centre

david.sharp@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 7594 7991

Professor Nicholas Mazarakis Lead for Health, Safety and Environment

n.mazarakis@imperial.ac.uk 

+44 (0)20 7594 7024

Dr Martina Di Simplicio Lead for Information Governance

m.di-simplicio@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 3313 4161

Professor Amin Hajitou Lead for Early Career Researcher Development

a.hajitou@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 7594 6546

Dr Johanna Jackson Lead for Athena SWAN

johanna.jackson@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 7594 2241

Dr Emma Watson Department Manager

e.watson@imperial.ac.uk 

+44 (0)20 7594 7601

Departmental administration
Name Role Contact Details
Dawn Tharpe Divisional Manager

d.tharpe@imperial.ac.uk 

+44 (0)20 7594 2759

Steven Wallace Divisional Manager

steven.wallace@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 7594 9717

Nicola Thompson
Divisional Operations Assistant

n.thompson@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 7594 2403

Divisional and Centre administration
Name Role Contact Details
Sean Richardson Section Manager

s.richardson@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 7594 9842

Shamara Lowe-Mbirimi Section Manager

s.lowe-mbirimi@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 7594 7337

Saidat Kyeyune Section Manager

s.kyeyune@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 7594 1072

Jennifer Podesta Head of Operations and Planning - UK DRI Centre

j.podesta@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 7594 1356

Danielle Wilson Centre and Research Commercialisation Manager for UK Dementia Research Centre, Care Research & Technology

d.wilson@imperial.ac.uk

Finance
Name Role Contact Details
Imran Ahmed Finance Officer i.ahmed@imperial.ac.uk
Human Resources

Please refer to the Faculty of Medicine's Human Resources page for a list of contacts and more information.

Education and teaching
Name Role Contact Details
Fiona Bibby Education Manager

f.bibby@imperial.ac.uk 

Hayley Kendall-Berry


Education Research Manager

h.kendall@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 3313 1961

Dr Stefano Sandrone  Principal Teaching Fellow (MSc Translational Neuroscience)

stefano.sandrone@imperial.ac.uk

Dr Laura Canevari Teaching Fellow (Year 3 BSc Medical Biosciences)

l.canevari@imperial.ac.uk

Stefanie Hoskins UG & PG Coordinator

s.hoskins@imperial.ac.uk

Khalil Afzal Research Degrees Administrator

k.afzal@imperial.ac.uk 

Casper Debieux Research Degrees Administrator

c.debieux@imperial.ac.uk

Claire Bennett Postgraduate Programme Administrator (MSc Translational Neuroscience and MRes Experimental Neuroscience)

claire.bennett@imperial.ac.uk

Olive Thomas  Course Administrator (BSc Neuroscience and Mental Health)

o.thomas@imperial.ac.uk

  MRC Addiction Research Clinical Training Team

marc@imperial.ac.uk

Research support
Name Role Contact Details
Chrystalla Orphanides Head of Research Development

c.orphanides@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 3313 4605

Celia Domingues Research Manager

c.domingues@imperial.ac.uk

Jaxom Champion Departmental Research Data Manager

j.champion@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 3313 4605

Communications and web
Name Role Contact Details
Meesha Patel                   Communications Manager (for website, newsletter and social media)                         

meesha.patel17@imperial.ac.uk

For newsletter content please send content to brainsci.comms@imperial.ac.uk.

Ryan O'Hare Media Manager (for Press and Media queries)

r.ohare@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 7594 2855

Samantha Rey Media Officer (for Press and Media queries)

s.rey@imperial.ac.uk

Safety, space and facilities
Name Role Contact Details
Neil Galloway-Phillipps Senior Laboratory Manager - Commonwealth Building (covers all but namely Psychiatry)

n.galloway-phillipps@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)7563 555 246

Colin Rantle Laboratory Manager - Burlington Danes (Neuroscience)

c.rantle@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 7594 7034

Megan Winterbotham Laboratory Manager - Michael Uren & CX (Neurology)

m.winterbotham@imperial.ac.uk

Albert Busza Clinical Imaging Facility Manager

a.busza@imperial.ac.uk

+44 (0)20 7594 0996