Month: June 2025

Enterprise Lab: Empowering entrepreneurship at Imperial

Sarah Ranchev-Hale and Ben Mumby-Croft

“It’s not only that Imperial is super professional and super high performance, but it’s just got an amazing culture and community which is bursting with creative energy.” 

The Enterprise Lab is Imperial’s dedicated support service for students, staff and alumni who want to develop their entrepreneurial mindset, skills, and networks. Ben Mumby-Croft, Director of Entrepreneurship, and Sarah Ranchev-Hale, Head of Enterprise Lab, support Imperial founders to build their ideas, create successful businesses, and deliver solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.  (more…)

Satpal Sangha: Making design concepts a reality

Satpal Singha

“At Imperial there are lots of opportunities to be creative.”

Satpal Sangha is a Research Design and Manufacturing Manager in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has worked at Imperial since 2012.

Consultant for all mechanical engineering design projects

Satpal has been in his current role since 2023, managing a team of seven technicians at a workshop in the City and Guilds Building. The team supports a wide range of academics and researchers, playing a vital role in making their projects a reality. (more…)

Jennifer Quint: Championing early career researchers

Jennifer Quint

“Early career researchers are fundamental to the future of research and essential to Imperial. Our role is to keep them, enthuse them, and help train them for success.”

Jennifer Quint is one of two Deputy Directors (Academic) for the Early Career Researcher Institute (ECRI) and a Clinical Professor of Respiratory Epidemiology.

She leads the Respiratory Electronic Health Record group in the School of Public Health, alongside national roles including the Associate Director for the Respiratory Data Science Catalyst.

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Farwa Abbas: Making the most of the Imperial experience

Farwa Abbas

“I want young people, especially girls, to feel like they belong in science, like it’s something they can own.”

Farwa Abbas is a final year PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.  

It was always her dream to study at Imperial and as the first in her family to pursue higher education abroad and earn a PhD, Farwa has made the most of all the opportunities on offer during her time here as a postgraduate research student.  

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