Faculty

Dr Niamh Bhalla

BA, MA, PhD

Director & Assistant Dean Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Associate Professor in Art History

Dr Niamh Bhalla is Assistant Dean, Associate Professor in Art History and Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Northeastern University London. Niamh came to Northeastern University London in 2018, having previo...

Dr Susan Frances Jones

Assistant Professor in Art History

Sue attended Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University before obtaining a PhD in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She has curatorial experience from The National Gallery, London (1994-96) and The Ar...

Dr Kate Grandjouan

BA, MA, PhD

Assistant Professor in Art History

Dr Kate Grandjouan is an Assistant Professor in Art History at the New College of Humanities where she teaches European and North American painting post-1700. She joined Northeastern University London in 2019 from the Co...

Dr Sam Kemp

BA (Hons), MA, PhD, FHEA

Assistant Professor in Creative Writing

Dr Sam Kemp is Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northeastern University London. He’s a widely published poet and his work has been featured in international journals and anthologies. His teaching specialisms ...

Deborah Walker

Assistant Professor in Creative Writing

Deborah Walker is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Northeastern University London and Royal Literary Fund Fellow currently in post at Reading University. Deborah specialises in Creative Non-Fiction, drawing on ...

Dr Claire Griffiths

BA Hons, MA, PhD, FHEA

Associate Head, Assistant Professor, Creative Writing

Dr Claire Griffiths is Associate Head of Creative Writing at Northeastern University London, and Programme Lead for the institution’s online MA in Contemporary Creative Writing. Her teaching specialisms include flash f...

Dr Courtney Hagen-Ford

MA, PhD

Assistant Professor in Marketing

Courtney Hagen Ford is an Assistant Professor in Marketing at Northeastern University London, where she teaches Introduction to Marketing to first-year undergraduates. She combines real-world examples and experiences wit...

Dr Sanjay Bhowmick

MSc, MBA, PhD

Head of Business and Project Management and Associate Professor in Business

Dr Sanjay Bhowmick is an Associate Professor in Business and Head of Business and Project Management at Northeastern University London. He joined the university in 2023. In his role, Sanjay works with Northeastern Univer...

Dr Marianna Koli

BSc (UMIST), MSc (Manc), PhD (Manc)

Faculty Director Social Sciences and Senior Lecturer for Economics

Dr Marianna Koli joined Northeastern University London for its first teaching year, and has held a range of responsibilities at the University. She is currently Faculty Director of Social Sciences, overseeing Business &a...

Dr Sabina Crowe

MA (Nantes), PhD (SOAS)

Head of Economics & Assistant Professor in Economics

Sabina Crowe is a Assistant Professor in Economics at Northeastern University London where she teaches first-year courses in International Business, Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. Over the last eight years she has wo...

Dr Juyi Lyu

PhD

Assistant Professor in Macroeconomics

Juyi is an Assistant Professor in Economics at Northeastern University London. She completed her PhD in Economics at Cardiff University in 2021 and subsequently worked as a Teaching Fellow in Economics at the University ...

Dr Peter Sozou

BA, PhD

Assistant Professor

Dr Peter Sozou is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Economics at Northeastern University London. Qualifications: BA, University of Oxford PhD, Birkbeck College, University of London Email: peter.sozou@nulondon.ac....

Enrique Fernandez-Pino

Lecturer

Enrique Fernandez-Pino is a Lecturer at Northeastern University London. His teaching specialisms include project and programme management. Enrique is a CIO (Chief Information Officer) with over 30 years’ experience in ...

Dr George Zouros

BSc (QMUL), MSc (Imp Lond), PhD (LSE), PGCE (KCL)

Assistant Professor in Economics

Dr Zouros has worked as a Assistant Professor and Senior Tutor in Economics at Northeastern University London since its foundation, teaching Mathematics, Statistics and Further Mathematics. He received his PhD in Philoso...

Dr. Priyan Khakhar

BA(Hons) MSc PhD RnR

Assistant Professor of International Business (IB)

Dr. Priyan Khakhar is head of International Business (IB) at Northeastern University London and affiliate Faculty with the International Business and Strategy Group at D’Amore-McKim School of Business in Boston, Ma...

Dr Sebastian Ille

MSc (HU), PhD (UNISI)

Associate Director of Research & Knowledge Exchange and Associate Professor in Economics

Sebastian is an Associate Professor of Economics at Northeastern University London and author of “Models of Society and Complex Systems”. He is also the Associate Director of Research & Knowledge Exchange for Soc...

Dr Mahmoud Shahin

PhD (Exeter)

Lecturer in Economics

Dr Mahmoud Shahin is a Assistant Professor in Economics at Northeastern University London. He is teaching on Principles of Microeconomics and Intermediate Microeconomics. He graduated from Faculty of Economics, Universit...

Dr Serhiy Kovela

MSc, PhD, MBA

Associate Professor in Project Management

Serhiy is an educator, scholar and practitioner with over 21 years of experience in project management and business IT. He delivers educational and training programmes for university and executive audiences and provides ...

Dr Catherine Brown

BA (Cantab), MSc (LSE), MA (UCL), Dip (Cantab), PhD (Cantab), SFHEA

Director of Graduate Research School

Dr Catherine Brown is the Director of Graduate Research School at Northeastern University London. Dr. Brown previously taught nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and comparative literature, with particular specia...

Dr Charlotte Grant

BA (Cantab), MA (Courtauld Institute), PhD (Cantab)

Associate Professor in English

Dr Charlotte Grant is Associate Professor in English. She studied English at Trinity Hall Cambridge, where she also did her PhD on Eighteenth-Century literature and visual culture following a Masters in Art History at th...

Dr Peter Maber

BA, MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab)

Head of English, Creative & Academic Writing, Head of Faculty and Associate Professor in English

Dr Peter Maber is the Head of Faculty and an Associate Professor in English, in addition to Lead on Academic Engagement at Northeastern University London. He has degrees from the University of Cambridge in English and Am...

Dr Daniel Swift

BA (Oxon), PhD (CU)

Associate Professor in English

Dr Daniel Swift is Associate Professor in English. He has a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Columbia University in New York. He has written books about William Shakespeare, Ezra Pound, and the poetry of the Seco...

Dr Riyukta Raghunath

BA, MA, PhD

Assistant Professor in English and Education, Programme Director for Mobility Programmes

Dr Riyukta Raghunath is the Programme Director for Mobility Programmes and an Assistant Professor in English and Education at Northeastern University London. She teaches on and is also the course leader for First-Year Wr...

Dr Chloe Yale Pinto

BA, MSt, PhD

Assistant Professor in English

Dr Chloe Yale Pinto is Assistant Professor in English at Northeastern University London. She graduated as Valedictorian from New College of the Humanities with a BA in English (First) and was awarded the University of Lo...

Dr Rebecca Newby

BA, MA, PhD

Assistant Professor in English

Dr Rebecca Newby is Assistant Professor (Teaching & Scholarship) in English (Academic Writing) at Northeastern University London. She holds BA and MA degrees from Cardiff University in English Literature and complete...

Dr Adrian Hillman

BA, MA, PhD, PGCHE

Assistant Professor of Communication

Dr Adrian Hillman is an Assistant Professor of Communication in the Faculty of English at Northeastern University London. His teaching specialism includes journalism and society, political communication and public speaki...

Rory Gleeson

BA, MA, Mst

Assistant Professor in English

Rory Gleeson is an Assistant Professor in English at Northeastern University London. He is a writer and teacher with specialisms in creative writing and writing for publication and production, adaptation, screenwriting, ...

Dr Naomi Wynter-Vincent

BA, MA, MSc, PhD

Assistant Professor in English

Dr Wynter-Vincent is Assistant Professor in English at Northeastern University London. Her teaching specialisms include academic writing, creative writing, and psychoanalysis. Naomi holds a first degree in Social and Pol...

Dr Jacob McGuinn

BA, MA, PhD

Assistant Professor in English

Jacob is Assistant Professor in English at the Northeastern University London, having also taught literature at Goldsmiths, University of London and Queen Mary, University of London, and worked as a Postdoctoral Research...

Dr Laura Acosta-Ortega

BA, MA, PhD

Assistant Professor in Spanish

Dr Acosta-Ortega is Assistant Professor in Spanish at Northeastern University London. Her teaching focuses on using the language in communicative situations to encourage the students to express themselves in the target l...

Orlando Reade

BA, MA, PhD

Assistant Professor in English

Orlando Reade is Assistant Professor (Teaching and Research) in English (Writing & Literature) at Northeastern University London. His teaching specialisms include Academic Writing, Creative Writing, and English Liter...

Tomas Elliott

BA, MA, PhD

Assistant Professor in English

Dr Tomas Elliott is Assistant Professor in English at Northeastern University London. His teaching specialisms include the history of theatre and film, European modernism, world literature, and film adaptation. Tomas rea...

Dr Chunyan Wu

BA, MA, PhD

Assistant Professor in Communication Studies

Dr Chunyan Wu is Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Northeastern University London. She is the course leader for ‘Introduction to Communication Studies’ and ‘Global and Intercultural Communication’. ...

Flora Lisica

BA (NCH/UL), MA (Courtauld Institute), PhD (Cantab)

Lecturer

Dr Flora Lisica is Assistant Professor in English at Northeastern University London. Her teaching specialisms include the literature and culture of Romanticism and the long eighteenth century, tragedy, Shakespeare and hi...

Dr Sam Waterman

BA, MA, PhD

Assistant Professor in English

Dr Sam Waterman is Assistant Professor in English at Northeastern University London. His teaching specialisms include Shakespearean adaptation, 19th, 20th and 21st century Anglophone literature and literary theory. Sam...

Dr Chiara Alfano

BA (Oxon), MA, PhD (Sussex)

Associate Dean Teaching & Learning, Associate Professor in English and Education and Director of Undergraduate Studies

Dr Chiara Alfano is an Associate Professor in English and Education and the Director of Undergraduate Studies. She has a BA from the University of Oxford, and a MA and PhD from the University of Sussex. She was an IASH p...

Dr Peter Ely

BA, MA, PhD

Assistant Professor in English Literature

Dr Peter Ely is Assistant Professor in English Literature at Northeastern University London. He has taught across a wide range of disciplines and periods, with specialisms in contemporary British fiction and poetry, Blac...

Dr Jessica Terekhov

BA, MA, PhD

Assoc. Director Teaching & Learning (Humanities) & Assistant Professor in English

Dr Jessica Terekhov is Assistant Professor in English at Northeastern University London. Her teaching specialisms include academic writing, Victorian literature, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British humane lett...

Dr Faissal Hameed

BA, MA (SOAS), PhD (Birmingham)

Lecturer in History

Dr Faissal Hameed is Lecturer in Modern History at Northeastern University London. He has been teaching US students studying abroad in England for over 10 years. Faissal has a BA (Hons) in History and Politics and an MA ...

Dr Estelle Paranque

BA, MA (Aix), PhD (UCL), FHEA, FRHistS

Associate Professor in Early Modern History

Dr Paranque is an Associate Professor specialized in early modern and public history. She joined the University in 2017, after previously teaching at King’s College London, Winchester University, University College Lon...

Dr Luna Sabastian

PhD, MPhil, MA, BA

Assistant Professor in History

Luna Sabastian is the newest addition to the History faculty at Northeastern University London. She joins us from the University of Cambridge, where she was Smuts Research Fellow from 2019 to 2022. With a background in R...

Dr Stephen Spencer

PhD, MA

Assistant Professor in Medieval History

Dr Stephen Spencer is an Assistant Professor in Medieval History. He is primarily a historian of the central Middle Ages, with expertise in the crusades and the Latin East, the history of emotions, the formation of cultu...

Dr. Chloë R. McKenzie

BA, MRes, PhD

Assistant Professor in Medieval History

Dr. Chloë R. McKenzie is Assistant Professor in Medieval History and joined the Northeastern University London in December 2020. Chloë has a background of working in museums and delivering public history projects. She...

Dr Michael Peplar

BA, MA (Ebor) PhD (Greenw) FRHistS

Associate Professor in History

Dr Michael Peplar joined Northeastern University London in 2020 as Academic Director of Student Mobility Programmes and Associate Professor in History. Before this, he was for many years Academic Director of Boston Unive...

Dr Olly Ayers

BA (Manc), PhD (Kent)

Associate Professor in History

Dr Olly Ayers is an Associate Professor in History. He received a first-class honours degree in History from the University of Manchester before completing a PhD in history at the University of Kent in 2013, where he was...

Dr Lars Kjaer

BA (AU), MPhil, PhD (Cantab)

Head of Faculty & Associate Professor in Medieval History and temporary Head of Art History

Dr. Lars Kjaer works on elite life and culture in medieval Europe, especially the period from c. 1000 to c. 1300. He has a background in social anthropology and is interested in the opportunities and challenges of interd...

Dr Edmund Neill

MA, DPhil (Oxon), MSc (LSE), FRHistS

Assistant Professor in Modern History

Dr Neill is a Assistant Professor in Modern History at Northeastern University London. He gained a BA in Modern History at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, where he was a college scholar. Subsequently, he gained an MSc...

Ursula Smartt

JP, PGDipjur, MA, MPhil

Associate Professor in Law

Ursula Smartt is Associate Professor in Law at Northeastern (Northeastern University London) and Legal Careers Counsellor for all students in the Faculty of Law. She holds the Master of Philosophy in Social Policy and Cr...

Anton Dinev

Assitant Professor in Law

Anton Dinev joined NU London in January 2023 as a part-time Lecturer in EU and Competition Law (from Vrije Universiteit Brussel), after working as a Counsel at the Brussels office of a large law firm. He has now moved to...

Dr Aislinn O’Connell

BA, MA, PhD

Assistant Professor in Law

Aislinn has been a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Northeastern University London since January 2020. Aislinn is also a lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London. She has held posts at St Mary’s University Twic...

Dr Deborah Gater

PhD

Assistant Professor in Chemistry

Dr Deborah Gater has two Master’s degrees, in Chemistry and in Protein and Membrane Chemical Biology, and a PhD in Chemistry, all from Imperial College, London. Following her PhD studies, she worked as a journal ed...

Dr Constantinos Zeinalipour

PhD, MA, BSc

Lecturer in chemistry

Dr Constantinos Zeinalipour is a lecturer in chemistry at Northeastern University London since July 2023. After obtaining his Bachelor’s in chemistry from the University of Cyprus in 1999 he obtained an MA in chemistry...

Dr Dimitrios Lekkas

PhD, MSc, BSc

Assistant Professor in Mathematics

Dimitrios Lekkas was appointed as Assistant Professor in Mathematics in September 2022, where he is the course leader of Mathematical Methods I and III, taught to Northeastern University Mobility students. He comes from ...

Dr Sam Mutter

PhD

Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Sam Mutter (he/him) is one of the newest members of the Mathematics team at Northeastern University London, where he mainly teaches mobility students. Over the last five years, he has striven to promote Maths both as a t...

Dr James Kneller

PhD

Assistant Professor of Physics and Applied Mathmatics

I’m James Kneller, an Assistant Professor in Physics and Applied Mathematics. At Northeastern University London and previous institutions I have provided instruction and management to a number of physics and mathem...

Dr David Mitchell

BA, MA, DPhil (Oxon), MSc (LSE)

Associate Professor in Philosophy

Dr David Mitchell has been a faculty member of Philosophy at Northeastern University London since September 2012. He currently leads courses in the first, second and third year undergraduate curriculum and in the MA in P...

Dr Andrés Saenz de Sicilia

PhD, MA, BA

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Dr Andrés Saenz de Sicilia is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University London. He holds a PhD from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University. He has previously been...

Dr Naomi Goulder

BA (Hons), MA (Cantab), PhD (Lond)

Deputy Dean & Associate Dean Innovation & Enterprise & Innovation and Associate Professor in Philosophy

Naomi is Dean for Academic Development & Innovation and Associate Professor in Philosophy at Northeastern University London. As a founding member of the University, she has played a significant role in the institutio...

Dr Tom Williams

BA, MPhilStud, PhD

Assistant Professor in Philosophy

Dr Tom Williams is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Northeastern University London. Before joining Northeastern University London Tom studied philosophy at UCL. He was awarded his PhD in 2022. Prior to this, he co...

Dr Peter West

BA, PhD

Assistant Professor in Philosophy

Peter West is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Northeastern University London. Peter’s work specialises in metaphysics and epistemology in the history of philosophy, focusing on typically marginalised figure...

Dr Hossein Dabbagh

BSBM, MA, PhD

Assistant Professor in Applied Ethics

Dr Hossein Dabbagh is an Assistant Professor in Applied Ethics in the Faculty of Philosophy. He is also acting as an Interim Diploma Course Leader. He studied for his PhD in moral philosophy at the University of Reading ...

Dr Alessandro Rossi

BA, MA, MPhil, PhD

Assistant Professor in Philosophy

Dr Alessandro Rossi is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Northeastern University London. He obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of St. Andrews (2021) with a dissertation entitled ‘Existence, Actu...

Dr Brian Ball

BA (McGill), BPhil, DPhil (Oxon)

Head of Faculty and Associate Professor in Philosophy

Dr Brian Ball is the Head of Faculty and Associate Professor in Philosophy at Northeastern University London. He received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University with Honours in Philosophy and a Minor Concentration in ...

Alice C Helliwell

MA, MA (Hons), PGCert

Assistant Professor in Philosophy

Alice C Helliwell is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Northeastern University London. Alice specialises in the philosophy of artificial intelligence, ethics, and aesthetics. Alice is completing a PhD on the philosoph...

Dr Bianca Serwinski

BSc (Kent), MSc, PhD (UCL)

Head of Psychology, Course Leader and Assistant Professor in Psychology

Dr Bianca Serwinski is Programme Director and Assistant Professor in Psychology at Northeastern University London in the Psychology minor and in the NU.in programmes, having joined in 2018. She further lectures in Psycho...

Dr Christoph Schuringa

BA (Cantab), MA, PhD (Lond)

Associate Professor in Philosophy

Dr Christoph Schuringa holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (King’s College) and a PhD from the University of London (Birkbeck College).   Qualifications PhD in Philosophy, Birkbeck, Universi...

Dr Tom Beevers

BA, MSc, PhD

Dr Tom Beevers is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Northeastern University London. He received a PhD in Philosophy at King’s College London with a thesis on indeterminacy and conditionals funded by a grant from ...

Dr Ioannis Votsis

BA (UC Berkeley), PhD (LSE)

Associate Professor in Philosophy

Ioannis Votsis holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley (BA 1998) and the London School of Economics (PhD 2004). He is a Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Northeastern University London and a Fell...

Dr Marianna Griffini

PhD

Assistant Professor in International Relations and Anthropology

Marianna Griffini joined Northeastern University London in 2023 as Assistant Professor in International Relations and Anthropology in the Department of Politics, International Relations, Sociology and Anthropology. Maria...

Dr Diana Bozhilova

PhD (KCL), BA (Hons)

Associate Dean of Global Impact & Sustainability and Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations

Diana completed her doctoral degree at King’s College London where she was jointly an ORC UK and an Open Society New York Scholar. Diana then held posts at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) ...

Dr Xuechen Chen

BA (Beijing), MSc (LSE), PhD (KCL)

Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations

Xuechen is an Assistant Professor in Politics & International Relations at Northeastern University London and a Visiting Research Fellow at the London Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Science, King’s College Lond...

Dr John Wolfe Ackerman

BA, MA, PhD

Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations

Dr Ackerman is Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations and has been at NU London since 2019. He is a specialist in modern and contemporary political theory. Dr Ackerman received his PhD in Political S...

Celal Özkızan

Celal Özkızan is an Assistant Professor in International Relations and Politics at Northeastern University London. Celal received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from Middle East Technical Univers...

Dr Pablo Calderon Martinez

BA, MSc, PhD

Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations

Pablo is an Associate Professor in Politics & International Relations at the Northeastern University London. Prior to joining Northeastern University London, Pablo was a Lecturer in Spanish at Aston University, a Vis...

Dr Callum Barrell

BA, MPhil (Cantab), PhD (QMUL)

Associate Professor of Political Thought and Head of Sustainable Curriculum

Dr Barrell joined Northeastern University London in September 2016 as Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations, having taught here as Visiting Lecturer. He is now Associate Professor of Political Thoug...

Dr Sara Raimondi

PhD (Westminster), MA (Westminster), MSc (Milan), BA (Milan)

Faculty Director of Humanities, Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations

Dr Sara Raimondi joined Northeastern University London in July 2019 and she is currently an Assistant Professor in Politics & International Relations. She is currently course leader for several Level 5 courses in the...

Mark Martin

BSc, MA ed, MBE

Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Education Practice

Mark Martin aka @Urban_Teacher is an Advanced Skills Teacher in Education and Computer Science. Mark is a thought leader in #EdTech and a hugely popular speaker, sharing his expertise and insights to educators around the...

Dr Ibukun Afolabi

PhD

Assistant Professor in Computer Science

Ibukun Afolabi is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Northeastern University London. Prior to her joining Northeastern University London in 2022, she held a Senior Lecturer position in Covenant University wher...

Dr Dimitris Mylonas

MSc (UAL), PhD (UCL)

Assistant Professor in Computer Science; Director of Data Science

Dimitris is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Head of the Data Science and the Humanities research cluster at Northeastern University London. He holds a PhD from the Department of Computer Science, Universit...

Dr Alexandros Koliousis

MSc, PhD

Faculty Director Computing, Mathematics, Engineering & Natural Sciences & Associate Professor in Computer Science

Alexandros Koliousis is an associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University London. His current research interests lie at the intersection of scalable data systems and deep learning. Koliousis has work...

Dr Tobias Hartung

PhD

Assistant Professor in Computer Science

Tobias Hartung is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Northeastern University London. His work is in algorithm design for high energy physics, which includes quantum computing, high performance computing, and i...

Dr Emily C. Collins

BA, MSc, PhD

Associate Research Scientist

Dr. Emily C. Collins is an interdisciplinary Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Research Scientist. Her research interests include human-robot interaction, trustworthy autonomous systems, the ethics of robotics and AI, biomi...