UCL STS Announces Promotions 2022-23

The latest round of UCL’s academic promotions has been announced and we are delighted that this year we have five promotions.
Dr Chiara  Ambrosio has be promoted from Associate Professor to Professor of History and Philosophy of Science.
Dr Carina Fearnley has been promoted from Associate Professor to Professor of Science Communication and Warning Research
Dr Charlotte Sleigh has been promoted to Associate Professor
Dr Noémi Tousignant has been promoted to Associate Professor
Dr Cristiano Turbil has been promoted to Associate Professor 

Chiara is an expert on the interrelations between science, art, and philosophy. Her research focuses on representations across art and science, nineteenth and twentieth century visual culture, the relations between classical Pragmatism and science, and the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce.

Carina's research focuses on Science Communication and Warning Research. I have developed a body of research in four distinct fields; (i) developing Warnings as an interdisciplinary field globally and building a community around it; (ii) the field of Volcano Alert Level Systems (VALS) creating a new academic debate around the use and implementation of these systems globally; (iii) Art/Science projects involving significant public engagement around environmental hazards, and (iv) developing new innovative research methods and approaches around wicked, real-world, complex problems where it has been necessary to push the boundaries and pioneer inter / trans disciplinary methodologies such as using mind maps to analyse large sets of multi-sited qualitative data.
Since 2020, Carina has been the Director of the UCL Warning Research Centre.

Charlotte is a researcher, writer and practitioner across the science humanities (science & history, literature, theology) and science communication. In recent years Charlotte has been involved with a number of art and science projects and various forms of climate science communication. She has long-standing research interests in human-animal relations and science fiction.

Noémi is an expert in medical anthropology, studying policy development in sub-Saharan Africa.

Cristiano researches history of science and medicine in Europe in the modern period. His current research focuses on the history of evolution and the ‘science of the mind’ in Europe, especially how evolution and experimental psychology were discussed by scientists, philosophers and amateurs between 1870 and 1920.
 

The full list of successful 2022-23 promotions is available on the UCL HR website.