Senior staff
David Delpy, Chief Executive
Professor David Delpy is the Chief Executive of EPSRC. He took up the appointment on 1 September 2007. Professor Delpy joined EPSRC from University College London, where he was Vice-Provost for Research from 1999. Prior to that, from 1992 to 1999, he was Head of the Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering UCL.
His career at UCL started in 1972 working on an MRC funded project to develop an invasive blood pressure sensor. In 1976 he was appointed as a Senior Physicist at University College Hospital with a major responsibility for the physiological monitoring equipment in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and became a Principal Physicist in 1982. In 1986 he became a Senior Lecturer at UCL and in 1991 became Hamamatsu Professor of Medical Photonics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Professor Delpy's research interests have principally been in the field of physiological monitoring, and especially in the development of techniques for the non-invasive monitoring of tissue oxygenation and metabolism.
Chief Executive’s office
John Armitt, Chair
John took up the post of EPSRC Chair in April 2007 for four years. He is chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, a position he took up on 1 September 2007. He was the chief executive of Network Rail from October 2002 to July 2007, prior to which he was CEO of Railtrack.
Lesley Thompson, Director - Research Base
Lesley was previously Director of Research and Innovation since December 2006. Before this, she was our healthy research base co-ordinator.
Research base
Clive Hayter, Associate Director - Capability
Clive joined the Council in 1998 coming from an industrial research role. He has had a variety of programme roles including Energy, Nanotechnology, Basic Technology and Materials. Clive took up his present position as Associate Director of Research in 2008 and became Associate Director of Capability in 2011.
Neil Viner, Associate Director - Leaders
Neil was formerly head of the Chemistry and Physical Sciences programmes. Prior to this he was head of the policy and analysis team and a specialist policy advisor at the Office of Science and Technology and has held a variety of strategy and operational roles within the Research Councils.
Catherine Coates, Director - Business Innovation
Catherine has worked in a variety of roles within the research council since 1974. She was Director of Planning and Communication from 2000 to 2008. Before that, she was Programme Manager for the Infrastructure and Environment Engineering Programme.
Business innovation
Alison Wall, Associate Director - Impact
Alison heads up the teams responsible for all the major cross-Council programmes which EPSRC leads, or is a partner. Alison was previously head of the energy programme and the lead for energy across all the Research Councils and before this, led programmes in Infrastructure and Environment, Chemistry and Large Scale Facilities and High End Computing.
Atti Emecz, Director - Communications, Information and Strategy
Atti was previously Director of Programme Operations at EPSRC, and before that he was Head of Information Systems.
Communications, information & strategy
Andrew Lewis, Associate Director – Finance and Operations
Andrew joined EPSRC in November 2009. Prior to this he was Deputy Director of Finance for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). His early career was in Local and Police Authorities.