Supervisors

Our supervisors have been selected by the HARP Faculty Board on the basis of their world-leading expertise, exemplary records of PhD supervision and enthusiasm to embrace an inclusive research culture. When you apply to HARP, you will need to apply together with a supervisor and a project outline, so we recommend you contact supervisors or the HARP Faculty early to start discussions. Please see below for the HARP supervisor list.
Name | Position | Organisation | Research Area |
Ackland, Gareth | Clinical Professor of Perioperative Medicine | QMUL | Outcomes for patients following major surgery |
Ahluwalia, Amrita | Professor of Vascular Pharmacology | QMUL | Effects of nitrite and nitrate on the cardiovascular system in health and disease |
Aitken, Leanne | Professor of Critical Care & Associate Dean – Research | City UoL | Critical Care and long-term disability |
Aksentijevic, Dunja | Reader in Physiology/Biochemistry | QMUL | Metabolic remodelling in heart failure |
Aksoy, Ezra | Lecturer in Mucosal Immunity and Signalling | QMUL | Innate immune mechanisms in inflammatory disorders and immunodeficiency |
Alazawi, William | Professor of Hepatology | QMUL | Metabolic Liver disease and its phenotypes in South Asian populations |
Ayers, Susan | Professor of Maternal and Child Health | City UoL | Mental health in pregnancy and postpartum; transition to parenthood; high risk pregnancies and birth complications; birth trauma |
Aziz, Qasim | Professor of Neurogastroenterology | QMUL | Brain gut axis, visceral pain, neuromodulation |
Balkwill, Frances | Professor of Cancer Biology | QMUL | Tumour microenvironment |
Barbur, John | Professor of Optics and Visual Science | City UoL | Analysis and understanding of human vision dysfunction to translate fundamental research findings to overcome occupational limitations |
Baysan, Aylin | Reader in Cariology in relation to Minimally Invasive Dentistry | QMUL | Optimum methods to manage root caries |
Bell, Christopher | Senior Lecturer in Functional Genomics | QMUL | Understanding the pathophysiology of common and chronic human diseases, by investigating and integrating large-scale epigenomic, genomic, and transcriptomic data |
Bernabe, Eduardo | Professor in Dental Public Health | QMUL | Oral health inequalities, ageing and oral health |
Bhide, Priya | Senior Clinical Lecturer | QMUL | Women’s Health: reproductive endocrinology, PCOS, subfertility and assisted conception |
Bird, Victoria | Professor of Mental Health Care | QMUL | Mental Health Care |
Bishop, Cleo | Professor of Senescence | QMUL | Senescence, ageing and cancer |
Bogosian, Angeliki | Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology | City UoL | Psychological adjustment of individuals and families affected by a long-term health condition, especially neurological disorders |
Botting, Nicola | Professor of Developmental Disorders | City UoL | Language and Communication difficulties |
Branco, Miguel | Reader in Genome Regulation | QMUL | Epigenetic regulation of transposable elements and its impact on genome function |
Brohi, Karim | Professor of Trauma Sciences | QMUL | Mechanisms and implication of immune dysfunction in major trauma in the immediate postraumatic period |
Brown, Morris | Clinical Professor of Endocrine Hypertension | QMUL | Cardiovascular medicine, Endocrinology |
Caley, Matthew | Lecturer in Cell Biology | QMUL | Skin basement membrane and investigating its role in healthy and damaged skin as well as in skin cancer |
Cartwright, Martin | Senior Lecturer in Health Services | City UoL | Developing and evaluating interventions to change patients’ or healthcare professionals’ behaviour |
Carvalho, Livia | Senior Lecturer in Psychoneuroimmunology | QMUL | Psychological stress, brain and behaviour, lifestyle medicine, depression in cardiometabolic illness, antidepressant resistance, pharmacoepidemiology, mental health, inflammation |
Caulfield, Mark | Professor of Clinical Pharmacology | QMUL | Cardiovascular Genomics |
Chambers, Emma | Lecturer in Immunology | QMUL | Ageing and immunity; influence of individual characteristics on immunosenescence |
Chan, Li | Reader in Molecular Endocrinology and Metabolism/ Paediatric Consultant | QMUL | Metabolism, Adrenal diseases, stress, Obesity, food intake, receptor signalling |
Chapple, Paul | Professor of Molecular Cell biology | Deputy Dean for Postgraduate Research | QMUL | Cell biology of rare diseases |
Chen, Jianmin | Lecturer in Inflammation and Cardiovascular Medicine | QMUL | Cellular/molecular dysregulation and cardiac metabolism alterations in heart failure induced by either acute or chronic cardiac inflammation; Therapeutic innovation against heart failure |
Connelly, John | Reader in Bioengineering | QMUL | Wound healing, tissue engineering, scarring |
Cooper, Dianne | Senior Lecturer in Inflammation Sciences | QMUL | Inflammation in diastolic dysfunction |
Cooper, Jessie | Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Health | City UoL | Sociologist with expertise in ethnographic and narrative approaches to studies of medical practice, technoscience, and health inequalities |
Crabb, David | Professor of Statistics and Vision Research | City UoL | Measurement in vision: visual fields, imaging, visual function and quality of life, and medical statistics |
Cruice, Madeline | Reader/ Associate Professor | City UoL | Working with adults with communication impairments who cannot talk or advocate for themselves to improve outcomes |
Dalli, Jesmond | Professor of Molecular Pharmacology | QMUL | Inflammation, phagocytes, lipid mediators, vascular disease, arthritis, bacterial infections |
Dell’Accio, Francesco | Professor of Musculoskeletal Regenerative Medicine and Rheumatology | QMUL | Regenerative medicine and Rheumatology |
Dima, Danai | Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience | City UoL | The study of cognition and mental health, mostly employing neuroimaging and genetics. |
Dipper, Lucy | Reader in Speech and Language Therapy | City UoL | Exploring the best ways to assess and remediate communication disorders |
Dokal, Inderjeet | Professor of Child Health, Honorary Consultant in Haematology | QMUL | Genetics and Bone marrow failure |
Drey, Nicholas | Senior Lecturer in Health Services Research | City UoL | Patient Safety and Research Ethics and Methodology |
Eaton, Philip | Professor of Cardiovascular Biochemistry | QMUL | Cardiovascular, redox signaling, oxidative stress |
Feng, Yan | Senior Lecturer in Health Economics | QMUL | Quality of life research, economic evaluation alongside clinical trials, health policy evaluation, pay-for-performance incentives in primary and secondary care, and applied micro-econometrics in health |
Fett, Anne-Katherin | Reader in Clinical and Biological Psychology | City UoL | Loneliness and social isolation in mental health disorders |
Ficz, Gabriella | Senior Lecturer in Cancer epigenetics | QMUL | Epigenetic mechanisms |
Finer, Sarah | Clinical Senior Lecturer in Diabetes Honorary Consultant in Diabetes | QMUL | Genes & Health, Type 2 diabetes and Multimorbidity |
Fitzgibbon, Jude | Professor of Personalised Cancer Medicine | QMUL | Genetics, epigenetics and rare blood cancers |
Foster, Graham | Professor of Hepatology | QMUL | Hepatitis C therapy in hard-to-reach populations |
Gallipoli, Paolo | Clinical Reader in Experimental Haematology | QMUL | Mechanisms of disease initiation and maintenance and the identification and validation of novel therapeutic targets in myeloid leukaemias |
Gasto-Massuet, Carles | Reader in Genetics and Endocrinology | QMUL | Developmental Genetics |
Gillard, Steve | Professor of Mental Health | City UoL | Mental health services researcher whose research takes a social and community perspective on mental health |
Giovannoni, Gavin | Professor of Neurology | QMUL | Clinical neurology and neuro-immunology |
Graham, Trevor | Professor of Cancer Evolution | QMUL | Cancer genomics and cancer evolution |
Griffin, Xavier | Professor of Bone and Joint Health | QMUL | Clinical and cost effectiveness of new and existing treatments to improve bone and joint health and has been cited by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence |
Grigg, Jonathan | Professor of Paediatric Respiratory and Environmental Medicine | QMUL | Asthma, air pollution in paediatric populations |
Grose, Richard | Professor of Cancer Cell Biology | QMUL | Cell signalling and 3D cancer models |
Guasti, Leo | Professor of Experimental Endocrinology | QMUL | Diseases of the adrenal gland |
Harden, Angela | Professor of Health Sciences | City UoL | Social science, public health, health promotion and health inequalities |
Henry, Lucy | Professor of Speech and Language | City UoL | Memory and executive skills in children with developmental conditions |
Henson, Sian | Professor of Immunology | QMUL | Aging and T cell immunity |
Herman, Rosalind | Professor of Child Language and Deafness | City UoL | Language development in British Sign Language (BSL) and communication and reading in deaf people |
Hilari, Katerina | Professor of Acquired Communication Disorders | City UoL | Mental health, outcomes and intervention development and effectiveness for acquired communication disorders in under-represented groups |
Hirani, Shashi | Senior Lecturer in Health Services Research | City UoL | Behavioural Medicine and self-management of long-term conditions and care of the aged population |
Hodivala-Dilke, Kairbaan | Professor of the Tumour Microenvironment | QMUL | Tumour microenvironment discovery research |
Howard, Sasha | Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology | QMUL | Optimising the diagnosis and management of patients with disorders of puberty and reproductive endocrinology |
Hull, Chris | Professor of Optics of Vision | City UoL | Visual optics and visual science to overcome disadvantage due to vision impairment |
Jones, Dan | Clinical Senior Lecturer of Clinical Trials in Cardiovascular Intervention | QMUL | Translational interventional clinical trials |
Kanoni, Stavroula | Reader in Nutrigenetics and Cardiovascular Health | QMUL | Genetic architecture of complex traits, the biological links between diet/lifestyle and cardiometabolic traits, as well as the interplay of genetic predisposition and nutritional parameters for cardiovascular health |
Kelly, Paul | Professor of Tropical Gastroenterology | QMUL | Enteropathy in adults and children with malnutrition in Africa |
Kelsell, David | Professor of Human Molecular Genetics | QMUL | Rare skin disease syndrome; keratinocyte biology; oesophageal biology |
Knowles, Charles | Professor of Surgery, Director of National Bowel Research Centre | QMUL | Functional colorectal and pelvic floor disorders, including rare gastrointestinal neuromascular dysfunction |
Kocher, Hemant | Professor of Liver and Pancreas Surgery | QMUL | Pancreatic cancer, liver metastasis, tumour-stroma interactions, bio-markers, clinical trials, surgery |
Korbonits, Márta | Professor of Endocrinology | QMUL | Endocrinology, genetics, rare diseases |
Kranc, Kamil | Professor of Haematology | QMUL | Haematology, stem cell biology |
Lemoine, Nick | Professor of Molecular Oncology | QMUL | Genomics and molecular pathology of pancreatic cancer and the development of oncolytic virotherapy |
Longhi, Paula | Reader in Dendritic Cell Biology | QMUL | Adaptive immunity in metabolic syndrome |
Marelli-Berg, Federica | Professor of Cardiovascular Immunology | QMUL | Inflammatory Cardiomyopathies, Immunosuppression |
Marino, Silvia | Professor of Neuropathology | QMUL | Brain tumours, epigenetic mechanisms, models |
Marouli, Eirini | Senior Lecturer in Computational Biology | QMUL | Interface of genetics, bioinformatics and artificial intelligence |
Marshall, Charles | Clinical Senior Lecturer in Neurology (Dementia) | QMUL | Predicting and preventing dementia through improved understanding of the causes |
Martin, Sarah | Reader in Cancer Cell Biology | QMUL | Genome Stability |
McCabe, Rose | Professor of Clinical Communication | City UoL | Mental Health in hard-to-reach populations |
McCafferty, Kieran | Senior Lecturer | QMUL | Diabetic kidney disease and haemodialysis |
McCann, Edward | Reader in Mental Health Nursing | City UoL | Psychosocial issues impacting on social justice, health inequalities, healthcare access and service delivery |
McClelland, Sarah | Senior Lecturer, in Chromosomal instability | QMUL | Chromosomal instability |
McCormick, Peter | Professor of Molecular Pharmacology | QMUL | G-protein coupled receptor oligomerization |
McCourt, Christina | Professor of Maternal Health | City UoL | Anthropology of health, maternity and childbirth |
McKeown, Eamonn | Senior Lecturer in Health Services Research | City UoL | Social Anthropological investigation of sexualities, sexual health, art and health and social inclusion |
McKnight, Aine | Professor of Viral Pathology | QMUL | Pathology, immunity to, and tropism of viral infections including HIV and SARS-CoV-2 |
Metherell, Lou | Professor of Endocrine Genetics | QMUL | Rare disease/precision medicine – Adrenal insufficiency |
Mills, China | Senior Lecturer in Public Health | City UoL | Different facets of the global mental health assemblage |
Morrissey, Dylan | Professor of Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy | QMUL | Sports and Exercise Medicine |
Munroe, Patricia | Professor of Molecular Medicine | QMUL | Cardiovascular genetics – gene discovery, functional analyses and risk prediction |
Murray, Esther | Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology | QMUL | Social inequalities in health, wellbeing in medical students and doctors, and doctor patient communication |
Nadkarni, Suchita | Senior Lecturer in Immunology | QMUL | How maternal neutrophils can influence T-cell responses and how such interactions can regulate placental development |
Nightingale, Tom | Senior Lecturer in Cell Biology | QMUL | Cell biology of endothelial cells during injury and inflammation |
Nizetic, Dean | Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology | QMUL | Ageing, cancer, neurodegeneration through understanding of Down syndrome. Human iPSC disease modelling |
Nourshargh, Sussan | Professor of Microvascular Pharmacology and Immunopharmacology | QMUL | Impact of vascular ageing on immune cell trafficking and mechanisms of systemic inflammation |
Orkin, Chloe | Professor of HIV Medicine | QMUL | Clinical trials in the development of novel anti-retroviral therapy and novel anti-retroviral strategies; and blood-borne virus testing |
O’Shaughnessy, Ryan | Senior Lecturer in Cell Biology | QMUL | Epidermal barrier function, Skin diseases and Cancer |
O’Toole, Edel | Professor of Molecular Dermatology | QMUL | Skin biology, rare disease, atopic eczema |
Oyebode, Oyinlola | Professor of Public Health | QMUL | The health of marginalised urban populations, including migrant health. Behavioural risk-factors for non-communicable diseases |
Pearse, Rupert | NIHR Professor of Intensive Care Medicine | QMUL | Improving patient outcomes following major surgery, and has led numerous large multi-centre randomised trials, epidemiological studies and mixed-methods research projects |
Pennington, Daniel | Professor of Molecular Immunology | QMUL | T cell development and immune responses to human disease |
Petersen, Steffen | Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine | QMUL | Cardiac imaging, epidemiology, health economics |
Pitzalis, Costantino | Professor of Rheumatology | QMUL | Advanced phenotyping in Rheumatology and inflammation |
Prasad, Rathi | Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer | QMUL | Paediatric Endocrinology, genetic disorders of primary adrenal insufficiency |
Prendergast, Andrew | Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunology | QMUL | Global health, Malnutrition, HIV, Infectious diseases |
Priebe, Stefan | Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry | QMUL | Social Psychiatry, mental health in deprived populations |
Prowle, John | Senior Clinical Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine | QMUL | Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Treatment and Outcomes of Acute Kidney Injury, Continuous Renal Replacement Therapies in the ICU, Fluid Therapy and Medical Complications of Major Surgery |
Puthucheary, Zudin | Senior Clinical Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine | QMUL | Primary and secondary prevention of acquired functional disability following critical illness |
Rajan, Prabhakar | Clinical Senior Lecturer/Consultant Urologist | QMUL | Understanding prostate cancer risk, genetics, and treatment barriers in under-represented populations |
Rappoport, Jacqueline | Lecturer in Trauma Sciences, Emergency and Resuscitation Medicine | QMUL | Psychological Trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences and Trauma, Traumatic Brain Injury and Emotional Regulation |
Rathod, Krishnaraj | Clinical Senior Lecturer at WHRI, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer | QMUL | Cardiovascular disease |
Reynolds, Christian | Senior Lecturer in Food Policy | City UoL | Global expert on food loss and waste and sustainable diets |
Riches, John | Clinical Reader/Consultant Haemato-oncologist | QMUL | Lymphoma, B-cell immunology, metabolism |
Rot, Antal | Professor of Inflammation | QMUL | Experimental Pathology and the effect of rare African genotype on immune function |
Rouault-Pierre, Kevin | Lecturer | QMUL | Haematopoietic stem cells and leukemic initiating cells |
Rowe, Helen | Lecturer in Epigenetics | QMUL | Epigenetic regulation of immune genes |
Salmon, Debra | Professor of Community Health | City UoL | Maternal and Young People, interventions to improve access to health and social care, reduce inequality and improve outcomes for those from disadvantaged backgrounds |
Sanders, Julie | Director Clinical Research (SBH), Clinical Professor Cardiovascular Nursing | QMUL | Outcome and recovery after cardiac surgery including long-term outcome and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) |
Scammell, Mandie | Senior Lecturer in Midwifery | City UoL | Risk and the maternity services in the UK |
Sharp, Tyson | Professor of Cellular and Molecular Biology | QMUL | Basic understanding of cancer biology. Novel immune checkpoint biology and therapeutic development. HIF/hypoxia, miRNA-silencing. Tumour suppressor gene biology in lung cancer |
Sheehan, Katie | Professor of Rehabilitation | QMUL | Musculoskeletal rehabilitation and health services research |
Sheldon, Trevor | Professor of Health Services Research | QMUL | Analysis of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of healthcare and public health interventions, patient safety, health policy and evaluation, inequalities in health, and public sector resource allocation |
Sikandar, Skip | Senior Lecturer in Sensory Biology | QMUL | Sensory Neurophysiology of pain |
Sin, Jacqueline | Professor of Mental Health Nursing | City UoL | Understanding the needs and experiences of individuals affected by severe mental illness, and those of their families and local communities |
Stavropoulou, Charitini | Reader in Health Services Research | City UoL | The effect of financial crisis on health care systems and individual behaviours; strategies to get patients to improve their own safety |
Storr, Helen | Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology | QMUL | Paediatric Endocrinology Growth disorders, Genetics, Population studies |
Subramanian, Ahalya | Senior Lecturer in Optometry | City UoL | Quality of life in visually impaired adults and children and strategies to improve, including artificial intelligence |
Suzuki, Ken | Professor of Translational Cardiovascular Therapeutics | QMUL | Myocardial regeneration and repair, Stem cell therapy, Macrophages |
Swinglehurst, Deborah | Professor of Primary Care, NIHR Clinician Scientist | QMUL | Principal Investigator on the APOLLO-MM project (Addressing the polypharmacy challenge in older people with multimorbidity) |
Tapper, Katy | Reader in Psychology | City UoL | Dr Tapper is interested in how we change health behaviours, particularly those relating to diet, physical activity and smoking |
Thiemermann, Christoph | Professor of Pharmacology | QMUL | Sepsis, Trauma, Kidney disease |
Tiwari, Divya | Lecturer in Immunobiology | QMUL | Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug development; host pathogen interaction |
Van Heel, David | Professor of Genetics | QMUL | Genomics and Child Health |
Warner, Tim | Professor of Vascular Inflammation | QMUL | Platelet roles in haemostasis and pathological conditions |
Warren, Helen | Senior Lecturer in Statistical Genetics | QMUL | Genetics & Pharmacogenetics in Hypertension and other Cardiovascular Traits: Genetic Discovery; Risk Scores; Risk Prediction; Treatment Response |
Whiteford, James | Reader in Extracellular Matrix Biology | QMUL | Angiogenesis |