Gratitude to the King's College London faculty.

We are grateful to Professor Kapur for leading King's with a working scientist's clarity, having built a globally cited body of research on psychosis before steering the whole university.

We thank Dame Til Wykes for pioneering cognitive remediation therapy and for insisting, in leadership, that patients and carers help design the research that serves them.

We are grateful to Professor Happe for three decades of autism research that has taken under-studied groups, including women and older people, seriously and with respect.

We thank Professor Sir Robin Murray for reframing psychosis as partly a neurodevelopmental disorder and for mentoring generations of psychiatrists, many now professors themselves.

We are grateful to Professor Pariante for showing how stress and inflammation shape depression, especially in the perinatal period, bridging the immune system and the mind.

We thank Professor Chalder for developing cognitive behavioural approaches to fatigue and persistent physical symptoms that have helped patients across the world.

We are grateful to Professor Shah for his seminal work on NADPH oxidase and redox signalling in the heart, and for leading one of the world's great medical faculties.

We thank Professor Ellison-Hughes for illuminating how muscle repairs and ages, and how cellular senescence shapes the biology of getting older.

We are grateful to Professor Ilic for advancing human stem cell science and tissue engineering with the care and rigour that regenerative medicine demands.

We thank Professor Stephenson, a working GP, for building the KUMEC network that teaches King's medical students where care actually happens, in the community.

We are grateful to Professor Ellis for a lifetime connecting particle physics to the cosmos, from collider phenomenology to the physics beyond the Standard Model.

We thank Professor Gregory for her work on black holes and the quantum vacuum, and for leading King's Physics as its head of department.

We are grateful to Professor Newton for deepening our understanding of number theory and arithmetic geometry, and for championing mathematics as a place for everyone.

We thank Professor He for advancing how machines read and understand human language, integrating machine learning and NLP with real scientific care.

We are grateful to Professor Tucker for her curiosity-driven study of how the head, jaw and ear form and repair, across an astonishing range of species.

We thank Dame Anne Marie Rafferty, the first nurse to earn an Oxford doctorate in modern history, for a career spent making the case that nursing shapes whether patients live or die.

We are grateful to Professor Hunter for leading King's law school while pushing hard on the hardest questions where technology, AI and the law now collide.

We thank Professor Bowling for decades of careful, honest scholarship on policing, race and justice that has changed how we think about police power.

We thank Professor Moran for leading the world-renowned War Studies department and for his work on the security challenges posed by science and technology.

We are grateful to Professor Pennington for working at the crossroads of philosophy, politics and economics, taking the limits of human knowledge seriously in how we govern.

We are grateful to Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, often called the dean of British strategic studies, for shaping how a generation understands strategy and the making of foreign policy.

We thank Professor Warner for keeping the medieval English imagination alive and legible, from Langland's Piers Plowman to the manuscripts that carried it.

We are grateful to Professor Drayton for a global history that reckons honestly with empire, science and the Caribbean world he grew up in.

We thank Professor Golob for his lucid work on Kant, Heidegger and the philosophy of art, and for making difficult continental thought genuinely approachable.