Staff
Current and former notable members of academic staff by subject field:
Arts
- José Antonio Bowen, jazz musician and President of Goucher College
- Pam Cook, author on cinema history [23]
- William Crozier, contemporary still-life and landscape artist [24]
- Michael Finnissy, composer, pianist and former president of the International Society of Contemporary Music [25]
- Michael Zev Gordon, composer [26]
- Heinz Henghes, modernist sculptor [27]
- Aamer Hussein, short story writer and literary critic [28]
- Mark Kermode, film critic [29]
- Nell Leyshon, dramatist and novelist [30]
- Richard Marlow, conductor and former Director of Music at Trinity College, Cambridge [31]
- Ray Monk, biographer and philosophy author [32]
- Frank Prince, poet known for the 1942 poem "Soldiers Bathing" [33]
- Ken Russell, director of Oscar-winning film Women in Love (1969) and The Who's Tommy (1975) [34]
Sciences
Chemistry
- Maurice Brookhart, member of National Academy of Sciences [35]
- Ian Croudace, Emeritus Professor of Environmental Radioactivity and Environmental Geochemistry.
- Alan Carrington CBE, winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry Longstaff Medal, Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences [36]
- Martin Fleischmann, electrochemist famous for the claimed discovery of cold fusion; past President of the International Society of Electrochemistry [37]
- David James, Bishop of Bradford [38]
- Stanley Pons, electrochemist famous for the claimed discovery of cold fusion [37] [39]
Electronics and computer science
- Bashir Al-Hashimi, co-director of the ARM-ECS Research Centre, and current dean
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web inventor [40]
- Michael Butler, expert in formal methods for software engineering [41]
- Christopher Gutteridge, Open Data innovator [42]
- Dame Wendy Hall, President of the British Computer Society; co-founding Director of the Web Science Research Initiative [43]
- Stevan Harnad Cognitive scientist and external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences [44]
- Tony Hey CBE, Corporate Vice-President of Microsoft UK [45]
- Nick Jennings, Regius Professor of Computer Science [46]
- Kirk Martinez, computer scientist; digital imaging and wireless sensor network pioneer [47]
- Luc Moreau, expert in digital provenance [48]
- Kieron O'Hara, philosopher, computer scientist and political writer [49]
- David Payne CBE, member of the team that invented the erbium-doped fibre amplifier EDFA used in fiber optic cables [50]
- Philip Russell, Director of the third division of the Max Planck Research Group [51]
- Sir Nigel Shadbolt, computer scientist; co-founder and Director of the Web Science Research Initiative [52]
- Erich Zepler, pioneering contributor to radio receiver development [53]
Mathematics
- Brian Bowditch, Geometric group theorist and topologist and winner of the LMS Whitehead Prize
- Ian Diamond, noted statistician, head of the Office for National Statistics and appointed UK National Statistician in 2019.
- Martin Dunwoody, made major contributions in combinatorial and geometric group theory especially in the field of group splittings
- Roy C. Geary, founder of the Central Statistics Office and the Economic and Social Research Institute
- David Guest, Communist British mathematician and philosopher; volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War; was killed in Spain in 1938
- Hans Hamburger, formulated the Hamburger moment problem [54]
- Daniel Pedoe, author of several influential books on geometry [55]
Ocean and earth science
- George Deacon, awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society for contributions to physical oceanography and leadership as director of the National Institute of Oceanography [56]
Physics and astronomy
- Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, President of the Institute of Physics [57]
- Sir David Wallace, Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge and master of Churchill College, Cambridge [58]
- Anna Watts, astrophysicist and Professor at University of Amsterdam
Engineering
- Wing Commander Thomas Reginald Cave-Browne-Cave [59] elder brother of Air Vice Marshal Henry Cave-Browne-Cave; both engineering officers in the Royal Naval Air Service during World War I
- Sir Peter Gregson, Vice Chancellor of Cranfield University, former President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast [60]
Medicine
- Sir Donald Acheson, former Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom [61]
- Michael Arthur, Provost and President of University College London; former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds [62]
- David Barlow, Honorary Research Fellow in Neurophysiology and Emmy Award-winning film-maker [63]
- Terry Hamblin, haematology and immunology expert [64]
- Gerald Kerkut, zoologist and physiologist [65]
- Robert Read, professor of infectious diseases
- Sir Eric Thomas, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol; chair of the Worldwide Universities Network [66]
Nursing and midwifery
- Dame Jill Macleod Clark, President of the Infection Control Nursing Association [67]
- Dame Jessica Corner, Dean (since 2010) of the Faculty of Health Sciences; Professor (since 2008) of Cancer and Palliative Care at the University of Southampton [68]
Social sciences
- Sir Alan Budd, economist, founding member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee [69]
- Nitin Desai, economist and United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs [70]
- Sir Ian Diamond, UK National Statistician, formerly Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen and Chief Executive of Economic and Social Research Council [71]
- Clive Gamble, archaeologist and anthropologist specialising in human origins, and a trustee of the British Museum [72]
- Paul Geroski, economist and former member of Monopolies and Mergers Commission [73]
- Jan Haaland, Rector of the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration [74]
- Tim Holt, former President of the Royal Statistical Society and Office for National Statistics [75]
- Christopher Janaway, philosopher specialising in the work of Nietzsche; publishing through OUP Oxford, his most recent work is Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy [76]
- Maurice Kugler, Colombian economist; CIGI Chair in International Public Policy;Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government
- Harold Lawton, former Pro Vice-Chancellor of University of Sheffield; thought to have been the last surviving Allied soldier captured on the Western Front [77]
- Jakob Broechner Madsen, economist, professor, former financial analyst, deputy chief economist at the Bank of Jutland
- David Pearce, pioneer of environmental economics; chief environmental adviser to the UK Secretaries of State, 1989-1992; a convening lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Christopher Pissarides, Nobel Laureate in Economics
- Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, archaeologist [78]
- Howard Root, Professor of Theology
- Raymond Plant, Baron Plant of Highfield, Labour peer; Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy at King's College London
- Steve Smith, Vice-Chancellor, University of Exeter; Chair of the Board of the 1994 Group [79]
- T. M. Fred Smith, former President of the Royal Statistical Society [80]
- Donald Tyerman, former editor of The Economist [81]
- Peter Ucko, founder of the World Archaeological Congress [82]
- Paul Webley, Director and Principal of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London [83]
- Richard Werner, Professor of Finance, known for his theory of quantitative easing
Geography
- Florence Clark Miller, lecturer in Geography from 1921 and head of the Geography Department from 1949 [84]
- Sir Paul Curran, current Vice-Chancellor of City University London; former Vice-Chancellor of Bournemouth University; recipient of the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society [85]
History
- David Cesarani, historian specialising in Jewish history [86]
- Sir Barry Cunliffe, former President of Council for British Archaeology (1976–79); interim chair of English Heritage [87]
- Anne Curry, historian, Dean of Faculty of Humanities [88]
- Miriam Daly, Irish republican activist and historian [89]
- David Quinn, historian who specialised in the discovery and colonisation of America [90]
- Robert Young, post-colonial theorist and historian [91]
Law
- Malcolm Grant, Provost and President of University College London [92]
- Alastair Hudson, Professor of Equity and Finance Law
- Dame Judith Mayhew, former Provost of King's College, Cambridge; on the Board of Directors at Merrill Lynch [93]
- Albie Sachs, former Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa [94]
