Provost’s Visiting Professors

Samuel Agyei-Mensah

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Samuel Agyei-Mensah Provost's Visiting Professor of Population Health

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Professor Agyei-Mensah is Professor in the Department of Geography and Resource Development at the University of Ghana. He has served the University of Ghana as Head of Department, Dean of the School of Social Sciences and as Provost of the largest College of Humanities which encompasses the Business School, School of Social Sciences, School of Law, School of Arts and School of Performing Arts. Professor Agyei-Mensah is the Director and Project Leader respectively of the Andrew Mellon Foundation funded Centre for Teaching and Learning Innovation (CTLI) and Building the Next Generation of African Academics (BANGA) project funded by Carnegie Foundation, New York. He has served as visiting lecturer/guest researcher in many universities across the world including Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, University of Flensburg, Germany, Ohio State University, USA, and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Professor Agyei-Mensah is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences .

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His areas of expertise are in using geographical concepts, geospatial technology and citizen science in studying population health and spatial inequality.
Omu Anzala

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Omu Anzala Provost’s Visiting Professor of Virology and Immunology

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A medical doctor by training with specialisation in infectious disease, particularly immunology and virology. The work at the Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology involves teaching undergraduates and Masters students on various aspects of infectious agents, immunology and vaccines.

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KAVI-Institute of Clinical Research, an institute of the University of Nairobi, includes research, supervision and mentorship of Masters, PhD students and postdoctoral fellows.

Research work spans over 25 years starting with HIV basic research, vaccine discovery and clinical trials.
Professor Eiman Kanjo

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Professor Eiman Kanjo Provost’s Visiting Professor of Pervasive Sensing and TinyML

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Professor Kanjo is Professor of Pervasive Computing & Mobile Sensing and Head of Pervasive Computing Group and of the Smart Sensing Lab, at Nottingham Trent University. Professor Kanjo is the award lead of the new NTU-Turing Data Science Network funded by the Alan Turing Institute. Professor Kanjo was named Top 50 Women in Engineering in 2022 as awarded by The Women’s Engineering Society (WES).

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Her areas of expertise are in the development of pervasive systems, TinyML, multimodel sensing and intervention systems, edge computing, data science and technology for wellbeing.
Professor Dangyuan Lei

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Professor Dangyuan Lei Provost's Visiting Professor of Physics

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Professor Lei is Professor in the Department of Materials and Science and Engineering, and Program Leader of MSc in Materials Engineering & Nanotechnology, at the City University of Hong Kong. He is in charge of the editorial office of Nanophotonics Group (NPG) Light: Science & Applications in Hong Kong. He serves at the Frontiers in Photonics as an Associate Editor, and also sits on the Editorial Board of Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Semiconductors, Journal of Physics Communications, Materials Today Energy, Acta Physica Sinica, Chinese Physics B, Nano Materials Science, and Journal of Light Scattering. Professor Lei was elected member of the The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences in 2022 and was awarded the “World’s Top 2% Most-cited Scientist” by Stanford University (single-year-impact) in 2022.

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Professor Lei obtained his PhD at the College, in the Department of Physics, where he then was a Research Associate (2011-2012). His areas of expertise are on nanophotonics, optoelectronics, and low-dimensional quantum materials, particularly on cavity enhanced nanoscale light-matter interaction and applications in miniaturized optoelectronics, sensing, imaging, energy conversion and saving.
Alessandra Luati

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Alessandra Luati Provosts Visiting Professor of Statistics
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Professor of Statistics at the University of Bologna in Italy, and will be joining Imperial for a year from November 2022.

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Focused on time series analysis, including non-linear modelling of time varying parameters. My work on spatio-temporal models has applications in neuroscience, and has collaborated with colleagues at the University of Cambridge to develop a model for spontaneous activations of the brain at rest.
Julie Makani

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Julie Makani Provost’s Visiting Professor of Haematology

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Based at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Tanzania.

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Haematology and blood transfusion, particularly sickle cell disease, how genomics can be used to understand disease and improve health, and how gene therapy can be used to cure disease.

One of the principal investigators for SickleInAfrica, a consortium working in eight countries in Africa and collaborating with colleagues around the world. SickleInAfrica is conducting research in clinical, social and implementation science, whilst improving standards of healthcare and training scientists, healthcare providers and community.
Pallab Maulik

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Pallab Maulik Provost’s Visiting Professor of Mental Health
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Currently the Deputy Director and Director of Research, George Institute for Global Health India, Professor at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education in India, and also an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales in Australia.

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A focus on providing mental health services to the most disadvantaged communities in low and middle income countries, and India in particular – that includes people living in isolated rural areas and urban slums, and those who are incarcerated.
Professor Sasiragha Priscilla Reddy

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Professor Sasiragha Priscilla Reddy Honorary Professor at the Centre for CCRRI, at University of KwaZuluNatal in South Africa and Research Associate at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Nelson Mandela University and Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts.

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Currently the Honorary Professor at the Centre for CCRRI, at University of KwaZuluNatal in South Africa and Research Associate at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Nelson Mandela University and Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts.

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Quantitative behavioural science including tobacco use, sexual behaviour (in the fight against HIV/AIDS), behaviour during Covid. Professor Reddy has close links with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), UNICEF, mother and child groups, government agencies, South Africa parliament and many others.
Professor Sandhya Visweswariah

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Professor Sandhya Visweswariah Provost's Visiting Professor of Biochemistry

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Professor Visweswariah is Honorary Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics, at the Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore.

Professor Visweswariah also holds an Adjunct Professor position at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Sciences and elected Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences.

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Her areas of expertise are in cell biology, signal transduction mediated by cyclic nucleotides, microbiology, and structural biology. She studies mutations in cGMP-mediated pathways in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.