Our team
Our team of academics and Professional Services colleagues work together across Queen Mary to support Early Career Researchers.
Professor Claudia Cooper
Claudia is Professor of Psychological Medicine, Deputy Vice President for Research Innovation and Culture and Director of the Centre for Early Career Research.
Professor Claudia Cooper's profile
Professor Akram Alomainy
Akram is Professor of Antennas and Applied Electromagnetics and Deputy Dean for Postgraduate Research in the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
Professor Akram Alomainy's profile
Professor Paul Chapple
Paul is Professor of Molecular Cell Biology and Deputy Dean for Postgraduate Research in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry.
Professor Paul Chapple's profile
Professor Caroline Morris
Caroline is a Professor of Constitutional Law and Deputy Dean for Postgraduate Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Zi Parker
Zi is the Head of the Centre for Early Career Researchers. She works to ensure that all aspects of the Centre run smoothly and that we are integrated into the national and global networks surrounding the early career researchers we support.
Dr Ele Groves
Ele is the Research Manager for the Centre for Early Career Researchers. Her role is involved in all aspects of the Centre, but importantly she works to craft and develop applications for funding to support postgraduate research programmes, particularly through doctoral training entities.
Paul Newman
Paul is the Centre for Early Career Researchers Operations Coordinator. Paul is responsible for the operational running of the CECR, developing systems and processes. He assist with the organising of training and career events and is responsible for coordinating the PGR induction in October, January and May each year.
Melanie Crisfield
Melanie is the PGR Training Manager within the Centre for Early Career Researchers. She is responsible for delivering the postgraduate researcher development programme, as well as working collaboratively with Schools, Institutes, and Doctoral Training Entities.
Dr Rui Pires Martins
Rui is the Researcher Development Manager (Postdocs and ECRs) within the Centre for Early Career Researchers. He is responsible for delivering the Early Career Researcher development programme.
Emma Marie Fry
Emma is the Careers Consultant for Early Career Researchers. She works with the training leads to support workshops for early career researchers as well as offering one-to-one appointments to support our early career researchers to develop their career pathways.
Dr Holly Harrod
Holly is the R&I Special Projects Finance Officer. Her role is involved in reporting and financial management of postgraduate research programmes, supporting the RSIC team with the financial management of the Impact Accelerator, Flexible Research Funding and Higher Education Innovation Funding awards.
Dr Laurienne Edwards
Laurienne is the Doctoral Training Manager for Data Centric Engineering, a PGR programme working across the Science and Engineering faculty, with links to industry partners.
Angela Kamara
Angela is the Doctoral Training Administrator (LISS DTP) based at Queen Mary. Angela supports our LISS DTP partnership across our London partners, supporting Queen Mary students.
Vivienne Codjoe
Vivienne is the Doctoral Training Coordinator for the London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) DTP. She is responsible for supporting students, studentship application processes, funding and collaborating with partners and internal DTP managers.
Roxana Raileanu
Roxana is the Senior Communications Officer for the Centre for Early Career Researchers. She leads on how the Centre communicates with our research community, from the website and newsletters to news, events and the wider CECR brand.
Samuel White
Samuel is the Barts Charity DTP Manager. He also serve as Acting Manager for the BBSRC Doctoral Forward Award in Advanced AI for Multi-modal Spatial Biology.
Alina Zakrjevsky
Alina is the Support Administrator for the Centre for Early Careers Researchers. Her role entails supporting the CECR administratively with training and careers events, in addition to supporting operational processes.