Contact our network
If you have a query about interdisciplinary research or are looking for a collaborator for your next project, get in touch with one of our Key contacts, established academics, who can provide insight and help with queries.
Our Early Career Champions are researchers who can offer friendly, peer-to-peer advice on interdisciplinary infection research to undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students.
Contact details, as well information about their areas of expertise, can be found below. If you are unsure who to contact, please send your query to infectioninstitute@imperial.ac.uk.
Key contacts
Dr Becca Asquith
Dr Becca Asquith
Mathematics, bioinformatics; predictive models of cell-mediated immunity; chronic viral infections
Professor Charles Bangham
Professor Charles Bangham
Understanding of the persistence of HTLV-I and the immune response to HTLV-I
Professor Wendy Barclay
Professor Wendy Barclay
Viral pathogenesis and transmissibility; Human airway models; Influenza, SARS-CoV-2
Dr Anna Barnard
Dr Anna Barnard
Chemical biology, synthetic and medicinal chemistry; antimicrobial resistance; malaria
Dr Lauren Cator
Dr Lauren Cator
Vector behaviour, zoonoses, ecology, disease dynamics; malaria, dengue
Professor Chris Chiu
Professor Chris Chiu
Protective immunity; Human Challenge studies; RSV, influenza, SARS-CoV-2
Dr Abigail Clements
Dr Abigail Clements
Molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis; AMR; Shigella, E. coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae
Dr Andy Edwards
Dr Andy Edwards
Antibiotic mode of action, resistance and tolerance; early-stage translational studies
Professor Tom Ellis
Professor Tom Ellis
Synthetic genome engineering; therapeutic molecules, biological sensors, functional living materials
Professor Pantelis Georgiou
Professor Pantelis Georgiou
Biomedical electronics; medical devices & diagnostics; lab-on-chip technologies; AMR, malaria, Covid
Professor Cleo Kontoravdi
Professor Cleo Kontoravdi
Bioprocess design and optimisation
Professor Marisa Miraldo
Professor Marisa Miraldo
Interface between economics, behavioural science & public health; policy evaluation; behavior change
Professor Faith Osier
Professor Faith Osier
Immunology and vaccinology; malaria; capacity building
Professor Robin Shattock
Professor Robin Shattock
RNA-based vaccines; mechanisms of mucosal infection; SARS-CoV-2, HIV
Early Career Champions
Dr Fadil Bidmos
Dr Fadil Bidmos
Bacterial vaccine antigen discovery & pathogenesis; human adaptive immunity; Bacterial meningitis
Luke Granger
Luke Granger
mRNA & self-amplifying RNA vaccine, therapeutics design, anti-viral immune responses
Dr Loukas Papargyris
Dr Loukas Papargyris
Human experimental infection; protective & pathological immunity; respiratory viral infections
Clare Robinson
Clare Robinson
Bacterial synthetic biology & genetic engineering; gut microbiome and inflammation
If you're interested in becoming an Early Career Champion, please do get in contact. We are always interested in hearing from researchers, early on in their career, who have experience working across disciplines and are willing to be listed as a contact point for other ECRs. We may also request your insight/perspective on our Institute events/activities.