Professor Peter Haynes will take up his role as Imperial’s new Provost and Deputy President on 1 October 2025.
Currently Imperial’s Vice-Provost for Education and Student Experience, his new role will have responsibility for all of Imperial’s academic affairs, working with colleagues across our community to ensure excellence in education, research and translation activities, and furthering our reputation as a world-leading university.
Prior to becoming Vice-Provost in October 2022, he was Head of the Department of Materials for seven years. In 2012, he was appointed Professor of Theory and Simulation of Materials, a joint appointment between the Departments of Materials and Physics. He was awarded the Maxwell Medal and Prize for Computational Physics by the Institute of Physics in 2010 and was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2021.
His research interests focus on the development of new methods for performing first-principles quantum-mechanical simulations and their application to materials science, nanotechnology and biological systems.
Peter studied Natural Sciences at Christ’s College, Cambridge, specialising in Theoretical Physics, and completed his doctorate in the Theory of Condensed Matter group at the Cavendish Laboratory in 1998. After that he held the Thomas Nevile Research Fellowship at Magdalene College, the Ramon Jenkins Senior Research Fellowship at Sidney Sussex College and was a Royal Society University Research Fellow from 2005 until 2013. He joined Imperial College London in June 2007.