Appointments 2016/17
Appointments commenced between 1 August 2016 and 31 July 2017.
College of Humanities & Social Science
Personal Chairs
- Professor Rowena Arshad Personal Chair of Anti-Racist and Multicultural Education
- Professor Stefan Bilbao Personal Chair of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing
- Professor Stephen Bowd Personal Chair of Early Modern History
- Professor Mary Brennan Personal Chair of Food Marketing and Society
- Professor Matthew Chrisman Personal Chair of Ethics and Epistemology
- Professor Paul Du Plessis Personal Chair of Roman Law
- Professor Adam Fox Personal Chair of Social History
- Professor Alison Koslowski Personal Chair of Social Policy and Research Methods
- Professor Stephen Neff Personal Chair of War and Peace
- Professor Larissa Ryazanova-Clarke Personal Chair of Russian and Sociolinguistics
- Professor Kenny Smith Personal Chair of Evolutionary Linguistics
- Professor Genevieve Warwick Personal Chair of History of Art
- Professor Nuala Zahedieh Personal Chair Economic and Social History
Professorships
- Professor Francis Greene Chair of Entrepreneurship
- Professor Aisha Holloway Chair of Nursing Studies
- Professor Nasar Meer Chair of Race, Identity and Citizenship
- Professor JP Singh Chair of Culture and Political Economy
Honorary Professorships
- Professor Peter Aspinall Edinburgh College of Art
- Professor Michael Clarke Edinburgh College of Art
- Professor Guy Jubb Business School
- Professor Chen Liming School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures
- Professor Li Yining Business School
College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine
Personal Chairs
- Professor Colin Duncan Personal Chair of Reproductive Medicine and Science
- Professor Ross Houston Personal Chair of Aquacultural Genetics
- Professor Keisuke Kaji Personal Chair of Biology of Reprogramming
- Professor Simone Meddle Personal Chair of Behavioural Neuroendocrinology
- Professor Harish Nair Personal Chair of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health
- Professor Hilary Pinnock Personal Chair of Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
- Professor Martin Taylor Personal Chair of Evolutionary Genomics
- Professor Albert Tenesa Personal Chair of Quantitative Genetics
- Professor Mike Watson Personal Chair of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Professor Christopher Weir Personal Chair of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials
- Professor Anna Williams Personal Chair of Regenerative Neurology
- Professor Jim Wilson Personal Chair of Human Genetics
Professorships
- Professor Liz Baggs Chair of Food and Environmental Security
- Professor Appolinaire Djikeng Chair of Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health
- Professor David Dockrell Chair of Infection Medicine
- Professor Giles Hardingham City of Edinburgh Chair of Pharmacology
- Professor John Norrie Chair of Medical Statistics and Trial Methodology
- Professor Geoff Simm Chair of Global Agriculture and Food Security
Honorary Professorships
- Professor Lesley Colvin Deanery of Clinical Sciences
- Professor Steve Cunningham Deanery of Clinical Sciences
- Professor John Gillies Deanery of Molecular, Genetic & Population Health Sciences
- Professor Adam Hill Deanery of Clinical Sciences
- Professor Aileen Keel Deanery of Molecular, Genetic & Population Health Sciences
- Professor Ian Russell Deanery of Molecular, Genetic & Population Health Sciences
- Professor Roshini Sanders Deanery of Clinical Sciences
- Professor Richard Sharpe Deanery of Clinical Sciences
- Professor Natalie Waran Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
- Professor Lesley Young Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
College of Science & Engineering
Personal Chairs
- Professor Marialuisa Aliotta Personal Chair of Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics
- Professor David Aspinall Personal Chair in Software Safety and Security
- Professor Tom Bruce Personal Chair of Coastal and Maritime Hydromechanics
- Professor Nick Colegrave Personal Chair of Experimental Evolution
- Professor Ruth Doherty Personal Chair of Atmospheric Sciences
- Professor Kousha Etessami Personal Chair of Algorithms, Games, Logic, and Complexity
- Professor Vittorio Ferrari Personal Chair of Visual Learning
- Professor Andrew Goryachev Personal Chair of Computational Cell Biology
- Professor Catherine Heymans Personal Chair of Observational Cosmology
- Professor Elham Kashefi Personal Chair of Quantum Computing
- Professor Vasileios Koutsos Personal Chair of Soft Materials and Surfaces
- Professor Robert Mann Personal Chair of Survey Astronomy
- Professor Simon Mudd Personal Chair of Earth Surface Processes
- Professor Lev Sarkisov Personal Chair of Molecular Thermodynamics
Professorships
- Professor Romeel Dave Chair of Physics
- Professor Stephen Finney Chair in Power Electronics
- Professor Grunde Jomaas BRE Chair of Fire Safety Engineering
- Professor Spyros Karamanos Chair of Structural Engineering
- Professor Simon Kelley Chair of Isotope Geochemistry
- Professor Finn Lindgren Chair of Statistics
- Professor Murray Roberts Chair in Applied Marine Biology and Ecology
Honorary Professorships
- Professor Sarah Curtis School of GeoSciences
- Dr Francisco Garcia School of Informatics
- Professor Paul Glendinning School of Mathematics