Professor Tamar Pincus has been appointed as the next Dean of the Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Professor Pincus joins us from Royal Holloway University of London, where she is currently Head of School of Life Sciences and the Environment. Professor Pincus will take up her role at Southampton on 1 June 2022.
“It is an honour and pleasure to take up the position of Dean at the University of Southampton. We live in strange and turbulent times, and excellent education, innovative and creative research, and close links with the community around us have never been more important. The University, and the Faculty of the Environmental and Life Sciences excel at all of these, and I look forward to being part within an institution that has the potential to change the world for the better.”
Professor Mark E. Smith, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton welcomed Professor Pincus’s appointment.
“I am delighted to announce that the next Dean of FELS will be Prof. Tamar Pincus. There was very strong competition for this role which gives an indication of the regard the Faculty is held in internationally. Tamar impressed the panel with both her experience in leading across a range of disciplines that closely map to FELS, as well as her ambition to work with FELS colleagues to build on its already strongly regarded position. I very much look forward to working with Tamar over the next few years. I would also like to thank Prof. Jon Bull for taking on the role of interim Dean and providing such excellent and committed leadership in these uncertain times. I look forward to continuing to work with him in this role until June.”
A Professor of Health Psychology, Tamar was awarded her MSc and PhD at University College London and her MPhil from the University of Cambridge. She joined Royal Holloway in 1998 as a lecturer, rising to Reader in the Department of Psychology in 2004 and then Professor in 2011. Most recently, she has served as Associate Dean Research (Science), and is the Director of the Research Centre for the Study of Pain and Wellbeing at RHUL.
