Gratitude to the University College London faculty.

A thoughtful legal scholar who came from Sydney to steward UCL, he leads one of the world's great civic universities with an openness that keeps it outward-looking and humane.

A cognitive neuroscientist turned research leader, he champions UCL's discovery mission while still caring about the brain science that first drew him in.

A pioneer of engineering immune cells to fight cancer, she now leads UCL's medical faculty and shows what it looks like when a working scientist takes on stewardship of a whole community.

His insistence on smarter, gentler prostate cancer diagnosis has spared countless men unnecessary biopsies, and after years as dean he still sees patients and pushes the field forward.

Through the landmark TRACERx study he changed how the world understands cancer as an evolving, branching thing, and his work on air pollution and lung cancer reaches far beyond the clinic.

A clinical virologist who has spent his career limiting the spread of HIV, he built bridges between London and South Africa that put real communities at the centre of the science.

Her decades-long SABRE study following Londoners of different ethnic backgrounds has quietly reshaped how we understand who gets heart disease and why, insisting that everyone's health counts.

He directs UCL's Centre for Artificial Intelligence and wrote a generous, freely shared textbook on Bayesian reasoning that has taught a generation how machines can handle uncertainty.

He co-wrote the open Mathematics for Machine Learning book that demystified the field for thousands, and points his methods at climate, weather, and fusion where they can do real good.

Founder of the Institute of Making and author of Stuff Matters, he makes the ordinary stuff of the world feel wondrous and has been named Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement.

She studies how people really use technology in healthcare, where human errors matter most, keeping the human squarely at the centre of interaction design.

A founder of the Dark Energy Survey, he probes the invisible scaffolding of the universe and brings machine learning to bear on the biggest questions we can ask about the cosmos.

His ExoMol project catalogues the fingerprints of molecules so astronomers can read the atmospheres of distant worlds, patient foundational work that quietly enables discovery everywhere.

A beloved teacher and Faraday-medal science communicator, he makes chemistry vivid on radio and in lecture halls while caring deeply about the environment and how the university runs.

The first woman to head mathematics at UCL, she models the strange flow of suspensions and polymers and once famously worked out the fluid dynamics of a chocolate fountain.

His discovery of place cells, the brain's inner map, won the 2014 Nobel Prize and still shapes how we understand memory and the toll of Alzheimer's disease.

He invented the statistical tools that let researchers everywhere read brain scans, and his free energy principle offers a bold unifying theory of how the brain models the world.

She studies how the brain hears speech, emotion, and laughter, and shares it all with such warmth and humour that she gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

A pioneer whose cognitive theories reframed how the world understands autism and dyslexia, she has also been a tireless, generous advocate for women and diversity in science.

Her empirical Paths to Justice studies reshaped how policymakers think about legal aid, and her Centre for Access to Justice puts free legal help where ordinary people can actually reach it.

Through the open-access CORE Econ project she has rebuilt how economics is taught for students in hundreds of universities, insisting the subject start from the real problems people face.

A former President of the Royal Historical Society, she uncovers the hidden family and colonial histories behind modern Britain with honesty and a scholar's patience for what the records really say.

A founder of space syntax and former Bartlett dean, he shows how the shape of our streets and buildings quietly shapes the way communities live, meet, and thrive.

His work on how bilingual and multilingual children learn, and on the wellbeing of immigrant families, leads one of the world's foremost centres of education with real care for belonging.