The following is a list of notable academics past and present, who have taught or researched at Queen Mary University of London and at the institutions historically merged to from the current university.
Sir Richard Owen, British biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist
Sir John Vane, British pharmacologist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1982
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature
Lord Peter Hennessy, British contemporary and constitutional historian, author and broadcaster.
Miri Rubin, Israeli historian of early modern and medieval Europe, author.
Sir Richard Owen, British biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist
Lorna Casselton, British professor of genetics, Vice-President of the Royal Society.
Fran Balkwill - British oncologist, Professor of Cancer Biology, and author of children's books about scientific topics.
Lorna Casselton – British biologist, Professor of Genetics at Queen Mary's College (1989-1991), later Vice-President of the Royal Society (2006-2010).[1]
Lars Chittka – German biologist, founded the Department of Psychology at Queen Mary in 2007
Maud Godward - British botanist, scientist at Queen Mary College 1940 to 2002[2]
Marion Delf-Smith - British botanist, founded Westfield College's botany program in 1906 [3]
Sir Richard Owen – British biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist[4]
Richard A. Nichols - British biologist, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics
P. David Polly - American paleontologist, Lecturer at Barts and London and School of Biological Sciences 1997-2006
Denise Sheer – British academic, Professor of Human Genetics
William Bonfield – British material scientist, former Dean of Engineering at the then Queen Mary College, now Emeritus Professor of Medical Materials in the University of Cambridge.[6]
Sebastian Doniach – British-American physicist and professor at Stanford University[7]
Sir Joseph Rotblat – Polish physicist, Professor of Physics, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College (1950–76); awarded the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts toward nuclear disarmament[9]
Deborah Ashby - British medical statistician. Now Director of the School of Public Health and Chair in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials at Imperial College London.[14]
Eileen Brooke - British medical statistician. Completed BSc in maths (1926), followed by MSc (1929) at the East London College. Completed PhD in maths (1952) at Queen Mary's College. Specialised in mental health statistics, undertaking work for the World Health Organization.
Peter Cameron – Australian mathematician. Professor of Mathematics at QMUL (1987-2012), now Professor Emeritus.[15]
Samson Abramsky - British computer scientist, Professor of Computer Science at UCL, previously the Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing at the University of Oxford, from 2000 to 2021. Honorary fellow at QMUL, having completed his PhD there.
Jade Alglave - French computer scientist, now a Professor of Computer Science at UCL.
Kevin Beurle - British space scientist and programmer who played a key role in the Cassini–Huygens mission to study Saturn and its moons. Died in 2009 in a hot air balloon crash.[17][18][19]
Sir Nicholas Wright – British academic, Professor of Histopathology, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London[22]
W. Ross Ashby – British psychiatrist and pioneer in cybernetics, the study of complex systems
Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy – British politician, cross-bench member of the House of Lords; Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London (1995–2006)
Stephen Bustin - British scientist, Professor of Molecular Sciences at QMUL (2004-2012). Formerly a lecturer and reader in molecular science at Barts. Specialist in the study and research on polymerase chain reactions.
John Barrell - British scholar of eighteenth and early nineteenth century studies, Professor (later Professor Emeritus) of English at QMUL.
Claus Bock - professor of German studies, a lecturer at the then Queen Mary College (1958), then reader (1964), and finally professor of German at Westfield College (1969).
Fay Bound Alberti - British cultural historian of gender, emotion and medicine. Professor of Modern History and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at King’s College London, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, co-founder of the Center for the History of Emotions at QMUL.[28]
Stanley Bindoff - British historian, specialist on the Tudor period, the first Professor of History at the then Queen Mary College. Died 1980.[33]
David Blackbourn - British historian, specialising in modern German and European history. Lecturer at Queen Mary from 1976 to 1979. Currently the Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History at Vanderbilt University, previously the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University.
Jim Bolton - British medieval economic historian, a member of Queen Mary since 1965. A Professor Emeritus of History since retiring from teaching in 1994, he remains a professorial research fellow.[34]
Richard Bourke - Irish historian, Professor of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge since 2018, previously Professor of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary.[35]
Jerry Brotton - British historian, PhD from QMUL (1995), later lecturer (2003) and then Professor of Renaissance Studies (2007) at QMUL.
Jeremy Jennings – British political theorist and historian of political thought, currently Professor of Political Theory at King's College London.[38] Professor of Political Theory
William Blair - British jurist, former High Court judge, since 2017 Professor of Financial Law and Ethics at Queen Mary's the Centre for Commercial Law Studies[42][43]
Richard Baillie - British–American economist and statistician who is currently the A J Pasant Professor of Economics at Michigan State University and a part time professor at King's College, London.[46][47]
Victor Bulmer-Thomas - British economist, lecturer in Development Economics at Queen Mary's College (1978), later Reader in Latin American Economics (1988) and Professor of Economics (1990). Later Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies (1992-1996) and Director of Chatham House (2001-2006).
Catherine Fieschi - Franco-British political analyst, academic, and author. Former director of Demos (2008). Established the Global Policy Institute at QMUL in 2019.[50]
David Mowbray Balme - former decorated RAF bomber pilot, classicist, reader (1957-1965) and later Professor of Classics (1965-89) at QMUL, previously the first principal of University College of the Gold Coast, the forerunner of the University of Ghana.[51]
