{"id":626,"date":"2026-02-19T10:08:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=626"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:08:54","slug":"dean-of-the-faculty-of-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2026\/02\/19\/dean-of-the-faculty-of-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean of the Faculty of Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.imperial.ac.uk\/o.matar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Professor\u00a0Omar Matar<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0has accepted\u00a0appointment\u00a0as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, with effect from\u00a01 October 2026 for a fixed term of five years.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Reporting to the Provost and Deputy President, in this role Professor\u00a0Matar\u00a0will\u00a0be responsible for\u00a0all aspects of the\u00a0Faculty\u2019s\u00a0strategy, operations and finances. As a senior member of the University Management Board, he will also make a significant contribution to the strategic direction,\u00a0management\u00a0and development of Imperial as a whole.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Matar will be stepping down from his current role as Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, and the\u00a0search for a new Head of\u00a0Department will\u00a0commence\u00a0shortly.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As previously announced, Professor Nigel Brandon is taking up a new role as\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2025\/08\/01\/vice-president-corporate-engagement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Vice-President (Corporate Engagement)<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in October\u00a02026.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor\u00a0Omar Matar\u00a0has accepted\u00a0appointment\u00a0as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, with effect from\u00a01 October 2026 for a fixed term of five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,319054],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-senior-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}