- Richard Sykes
Sir Richard Sykes, DSc, FRS, FMedSci, (born 1942) is the current Rector of Imperial College. He is a trustee of the Natural History Museum (London) and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He was formerly chairman of GlaxoSmithKline and president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He is perhaps best known for leading Glaxo's introduction of the drug Zantac.
- Brian May
Brian Harold May CBE (born July 19, 1947) is an English guitarist best known as the lead guitarist and backing (sometimes lead) vocalist for the English rock band Queen. As a guitarist, he is known for his memorable riffs and solos, distinctive tone, as well as for the fact that he built (with his father) his own guitar, called the "Red Special". He is also cited as a pioneer of the delay effect. He wrote many of Queen's most famous songs and biggest hits, …
- Roy Anderson
Professor Sir Roy Malcolm Anderson FRS is a leading British expert on epidemiology. He has mathematically modelled the spread of diseases such as new variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease and AIDS. Roy Anderson was born in 1947. He gained a BSc in zoology at Imperial College and a PhD in parasitology in 1971. The majority of Roy Anderson's early career was at Imperial College, becoming a full professor by 1984.
- Samson Abramsky
Professor Samson Abramsky FRS (born March 12, 1953) is a computer scientist. Since the Year 2000, he has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing at Oxford University Computing Laboratory. He has also been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 2004. His research achievements include the development of game semantics, domain theory in logical form, and categorical quantum mechanics.
- John Henry
Professor John Anthony Henry was a professor specializing in toxicology in the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington. He conducted research on the health effects of cannabis, cocaine and other recreational drugs.
- Julia Higgins
Professor Dame Julia Higgins DBE FRS FREng (b. Julia Stretton Downes on 1 July, 1942) is Professor of Polymer Science in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology at Imperial College London. On 1 November 2006, she finished her five year appointment as Vice President and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society.
- Julia Polak
Professor Dame Julia M. Polak, FMedSci, DBE (b. 1939, Argentina) and was educated at the University of Buenos Aires, before moving to London. She is married to Professor Daniel Catovsky, and has three children. Prof. Polak is one of the longest surviving recipients of a heart and lung transplant in the United Kingdom. It was her transplant in 1995 which caused her to change her career direction from Pathology towards the newly developing field of Tissue Engineering.
- Olivia Judson
Olivia Judson is an evolutionary biologist at Imperial College London. Under the pseudonym "Dr Tatiana" she wrote a light-hearted best-selling guidebook to sex throughout the natural kingdom, entitled "Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation". She was a pupil of W.D. Hamilton. She graduated from Stanford University, gained a doctorate from Oxford, and worked for some time as a journalist, before becoming a research fellow at Imperial College London.
- Igor Aleksander
Igor Aleksander is (2005) an emeritus professor of Neural Systems Engineering at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London who has worked on neuromodelling of the visual system in primates, visuo-verbal system in humans, modelling the effect of anaesthetics on awareness, and the meaning of artificial consciousness. He designed one of the first neural pattern recognition system, the WISARD (marketed by CRS, Wokingham) in the 1980s.
- Julia King
Professor Julia King CBE FREng is the Vice-Chancellor of Aston University Prof King graduated from the University of Cambridge (New Hall) with a degree in natural sciences. Her PhD, also from Cambridge, was in materials. She was a lecturer at the University of Nottingham from 1980 to 1987, then at Cambridge from 1987 to 1994, when she moved to Rolls Royce where she held a number of senior positions.
- Michael Rowan-Robinson
Michael Rowan-Robinson is an astronomer and astrophysicist. He is Professor of Astrophysics and head of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department at Imperial College London. From 1981 to 1982, he gave public lectures as professor of astronomy at Gresham College. He is currently the president of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- Stephen Muggleton
Stephen Muggleton is Director of Modelling at the Centre for Integrative Systems Biology at Imperial College and holds a Royal Academy of Engineering/Microsoft Research Chair. He received his BSc in Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh in 1982. His PhD research, on the topic Inductive Acquisition of Expert Knowledge was carried out at Edinburgh University under the supervision of Prof. Donald Michie He was awarded his PhD in 1986.
- David Miles
Professor David Miles of Imperial College London is a British economist who produced a report in 2003 for the Chancellor to examine why long-term fixed rate mortgages are so unpopular. The report states: "A great many borrowers focus on the initial cost of debt and do not seem to consider carefully how those payments might change relative to their incomes ".
- Diomidis Spinellis
Diomidis D. Spinellis is a Greek computer science academic and author of the book Code Reading. He is also a committer in the FreeBSD project, and author of a number of popular free or open-source systems: the UMLGraph declarative UML diagram generator, the bib2xhtml BibTeX to XHTML converter, the outwit Microsoft Windows data with command line programs integration tool suite, the CScout source code analyzer and refactoring browser, …
- Malcolm Green
Sir Malcolm Green was the lately vice-president faculty of medicine at Imperial College London and head of National Heart and Lung Institute. Emeritus Professor Malcolm Green DM FRCP from the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) in the Faculty of Medicine was made a Knight Bachelor for services to medicine in the 2007 Queen's New Year Honours list. Green began his career at Oxford University followed by St Thomas' Hospital Medical School.
- David Cox
Sir David Roxbee Cox (born 1924 in Birmingham) is an English statistician. He studied mathematics at St. John's College of the University of Cambridge and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds in 1949. He was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, from 1946 to 1950 at the Wool Industries Research Association in Leeds, and from 1950 to 1956 worked at the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
- Eric Ash
Sir Eric Albert Ash CBE FRS FREng FIET (born 31 January 1928) is a distinguished German-born British electrical engineer and past Rector of Imperial College. Born in Berlin, Ash emigrated with his family to Britain in 1938 to escape Nazism. Educated at University College School, he won a scholarship to Imperial College London aged 17, and after graduating in electrical engineering, he continued his studies with doctoral research.
- João Magueijo
João Magueijo is a cosmologist and lecturer in theoretical physics at Imperial College London. He is a supporter of the variable speed of light (VSL) theory of cosmology, which proposes that the speed of light was much higher in the early universe. It is presented as an alternative to the more mainstream theory of cosmic inflation. The model was first proposed by John Moffat, a Canadian scientist, in the early 1990s.
- Geoffrey Wilkinson
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson was an English chemist. He was born 14 July 1921 in the village of Springside, near Todmorden in Yorkshire. His father, also a Geoffrey, was a master house painter and decorator; his mother worked in a local cotton mill. One of his uncles, an organist and choirmaster, had married into a family that owned a small chemical company making Epsom and Glauber's salts for the pharmaceutical industry. This is where he first developed an interest in chemistry.
- Chris Higgins
Professor Chris Higgins (b. 1955) is, since April 2007, the Vice-Chancellor of Durham University. He was previously the director of the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre and Head of Division in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London. Professor Higgins studied at the Royal College of Music, then converted to botany, graduating with a PhD from the University of Durham in 1979. Working at UC Berkeley, and the University of Dundee, …
- Armand Marie Leroi
Armand Leroi was born in Wellington, New Zealand on the 16 July 1964. A Dutch citizen, his youth was spent in New Zealand, South Africa and Canada. He was awarded a BSc. by Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada in 1989, and a Ph.D. by the University of California, Irvine in 1993. This was followed by postdoctoral work at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York using the nematode "Caenorhabditis elegans" as an experimental organism.
- Robert Kowalski
Robert Anthony Kowalski (Bob Kowalski, born May 15, 1941, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA) is a logician and computer scientist, of Polish descent, who has spent most of his career in the UK. He was educated at the University of Chicago, University of Bridgeport (BA in mathematics, 1963), Stanford University (MSc in mathematics, 1966), University of Warsaw and the University of Edinburgh (PhD in computer science, 1970).
- Babar Ahmad
Babar Ahmad (b. 1974) is a prisoner currently held in the United Kingdom pending an appeal against extradition to the United States where he faces terrorism-related charges. Ahmad was born in London, the son of a British Civil Servant who immigrated from Pakistan in 1962. He studied for a degree in engineering at Imperial College London and after graduation got a job in IT Support at the College.
- Sandra Dawson
Dame Sandra J. N. Dawson DBE is Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, KPMG Professor of Management Studies and Director of the Judge Business School. In a 2004 poll, student newspaper Varsity named her as the 6th most powerful individual in the university - one place above Professor Stephen Hawking. Prior to becoming Director of the Judge Business School in 1995, …
- John Fox
(Anthony) John Fox is a British statistician, who has worked in both the public service and academia. He was born on April 25 1946, the son of Fred Frank Fox OBE. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, University College London (BSc) and Imperial College London (PhD). He was a statistician at the Employment Medical Advisory Service, 1970-5 and then the Medical Statistics Division of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) until 1979.
- Simon Schaffer
Simon Schaffer (born 1 January 1955) was born in Brighton and was educated at Varndean Grammar School for Boys (now Varndean College). He is a professor of the history and philosophy of science at Cambridge University. He is the co-author, along with Steven Shapin, of the 1985 book "Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life". Schaffer studied at Cambridge and Harvard and previously taught at Imperial College London and UCLA.
- Joan Ruddock
Joan Mary Ruddock (born 28 December, 1943, Pontypool as Joan Mary Anthony), is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Labour Party Member of Parliament for Lewisham Deptford and was first elected in 1987. She is the partner of Frank Doran, the Labour MP for Aberdeen North. Born in Wales, she was educated at Pontypool grammar school and at Imperial College London.
- Winston Wong
Winston Wong, formerly Winston Wang, is a Taiwanese businessman with substantial investments in mainland China. Wong is the eldest son of Wang Yung-ching, chair of the Formosa Plastics Group (FPG), by his second wife. Wong is married, with two children, and holds degrees in physics, applied optics, and chemical engineering. His English name was chosen during his study at the Imperial College of the University of London.
- Anjana Ahuja
Anjana Ahuja is a British Indian science journalist and columnist for "The Times". Ahuja read physics at Imperial College London, followed by a postgraduate course in space physics during which she worked on data about the Sun's magnetic field from the Ulysses probe. After receiving her PhD in 1994, she was hired by "The Times" as a graduate trainee journalist. Anjana currently writes the weekly "Science Notebook" column in "The Times", …
- Charles Kennedy
Charles Kennedy (1923 - November 4 1997 was a Scottish economist, often considered one of the finest theorists of his generation. He was born into a large family, the youngest of five sons; he was the son of George Kennedy, an architect, and grandson of the painter Charles Napier Kennedy. A gifted child, he was educated at Gordonstoun, and entered Balliol College, Oxford at the age of seventeen. His tutor there was Thomas Balogh.
- David Potter
David Potter is the founder and Chairman of the microcomputer systems company Psion plc. He received his education at Imperial College London after completing studies in South Africa. He was initially a physics academic specialising in the use of computer software to model physical phenomena. Notably, Psion's first real success, a flight simulation game for the ZX Spectrum, …
- Christopher Evans
Sir Christopher Thomas Evans, OBE, PhD, is a biotechnology entrepreneur in the United Kingdom. Originally from Port Talbot, Wales, he was educated at Imperial College London and the University of Hull, then obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, where he held a research fellowship. He was the founder of Chiroscience (now merged with Celltech), Celsis, Enzymatix, and a number of other companies.
- Janet Browne
E. Janet Browne (b. 1950) is a British historian of science known especially for her work on the history of 19th century biology. She had taught at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College, London, before moving to Harvard. After working as an associate editor on the University of Cambridge Library project to collect, edit, and publish the correspondence of Charles Darwin, …
- Robert Boyd
Professor Sir Robert Lewis Fullarton Boyd (19 October, 1922 - 5 February, 2004) was a pioneer of British space science and founding director of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (part of University College London). Robert Boyd was born in Saltcoats, Ayrshire - one of identical twin boys. He was a pupil at Whitgift School and studied at Imperial College (BSc(Eng) 1943) and University College London (PhD 1949; Fellow 1988).
- Michael Dixon
Michael Dixon is the Director of the Natural History Museum. Michael Dixon was educated at Imperial College London and the University of York. He was Director General of the Zoological Society of London and became Director of the Natural History Museum on 1 June 2004.
- Henry Tizard
Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (23 August 1885 in Gillingham, Kent – 9 October 1959 in Fareham, Hampshire) was an English chemist and inventor and past Rector of Imperial College. Tizard's ambition to join the navy was thwarted by poor eyesight and he instead studied at Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford where he concentrated on mathematics and chemistry, doing work on indicators and the motions of ions in gases in 1911.
- Roderic Hill
Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderic Hill <small>KCB MC AFC and Bar RAF</small> (1 March, 1894 - 6 October, 1954) was a senior Royal Air Force commander during World War II, and a past Rector of Imperial College. Hill was Commander-in-Chief of Fighter Command (also briefly called the Air Defence of Great Britain during his command) from 1943 to 1945.
- Caribou
Daniel V. Snaith, Ph.D. (born 1979) is an electronic musician recording under the stage name Caribou. Snaith grew up in Dundas, Ontario (which is also the name of a song from his debut album "Start Breaking My Heart") and studied mathematics at the University of Toronto. He is the son of Victor Snaith, a mathematics professor at the University of Sheffield, and the brother of Nina Snaith, a mathematics professor at the University of Bristol.
- Kevin Buzzard
Professor Kevin Mark Buzzard is a British mathematician and currently a Professor of Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London. He specialises in algebraic number theory. He studied for a B.A. (Parts I & II) in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and went on to complete the C.A.S.M. (Part III). He then completed his dissertation, entitled "The levels of modular representations", under the supervision of Richard Taylor, …
- Aston Webb
Sir Aston Webb, RA, FRIBA, (May 22 1849 - August 21 1930) was an English architect, active in the late 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. He was President of the Royal Academy 1919-1924. The son of a water-colour painter (and former pupil of landscape artist David Cox), Edward Webb, Aston Webb was born in London and received his initial architectural training articled in the firm of Banks and Barry from 1866 to 1871, …