The following is a list of notable academics past and present, who have taught or researched at Queen Mary University of London and at the institutions historically merged to from the current university.
Sciences
Biologists
Fran Balkwill - British oncologist, Professor of Cancer Biology, and author of children's books about scientific topics. Lorna Casselton – British biologist, Professor of Genetics at Queen Mary's College (1989-1991), later Vice-President of the Royal Society (2006-2010). Lars Chittka – German biologist, founded the Department of Psychology at Queen Mary in 2007 Sir Richard Owen – British biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist Denise Sheer – British academic, Professor of Human Genetics
Chemists
Donald Bradley – British chemist, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry (1965-1987). Michael Dewar – British chemist Sir Edward Frankland – British chemist Robin Ganellin – British chemist Michael Mingos – British chemist William Odling – British chemist who contributed to the development of the periodic table J. R. Partington – British chemist and historian of chemistry Matthew Todd - British chemist
Physicists and material scientists
Edgar Andrews – British physicist and engineer, Emeritus Professor of Materials, having founded the Department of Materials at Queen Mary in 1967. Ted Bastin – British physicist and mathematician Sir Harshad Bhadeshia – Indian-British metallurgist William Bonfield – British material scientist, former Dean of Engineering at the then Queen Mary College, now Emeritus Professor of Medical Materials in the University of Cambridge. Sebastian Doniach – British-American physicist and professor at Stanford University Michael Duff – British physicist Michael Green – British physicist Gwyn Jones – British physicist and curator, Professor of Physics Peter Kalmus – British academic, Emeritus Professor of Physics Ian C. Percival – British theoretical physicist Harold Roper Robinson – British academic, Professor of Physics Sir Joseph Rotblat – Polish physicist, Professor of Physics, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College (1950–76); awarded the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts toward nuclear disarmament
Astronomers
Guillem Anglada-Escudé - Catalan astronomer, at QMUL 2013 to 2019. Bernard Carr – British mathematician and astronomer, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Astronomy. Glenn White – British Astronomer, Professor of Physics and Astronomy.
Engineers
Teresa Alonso-Rasgado - Mexican bio-engineer, a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Dean for Global Engagement in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Colin Bailey - British structural and fire safety engineer, who became the President and Principal of Queen Mary University of London in September 2017. Previously, Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Manchester. Peter Clarricoats – British microwave engineer Graham Dorrington – British aeronautical engineer, subject of The White Diamond George Hockham – British engineer, co-pioneer of optical fibres for long-distance communications systems Sir Alistair MacFarlane – British electrical engineer Alec David Young – British academic, Professor of Aeronautical Engineering
Earth scientists
David Drewry – British glaciologist and geophysicist
Michael Russell - geologist
Mathematicians
Deborah Ashby - British medical statistician. Now Director of the School of Public Health and Chair in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials at Imperial College London. Rosemary A. Bailey – Professor Emerita of Statistics. Ginestra Bianconi - Italian mathematician, Professor of Applied Mathematics at QMUL since 2019, known for her work on statistical mechanics, network theory, multilayer and higher-order networks, and in particular for the Bianconi–Barabási model of growing of complex networks and for the Bose–Einstein condensation (network theory) in complex networks. She is the editor-in-chief of Journal of Physics: Complexity. Eileen Brooke - British medical statistician. Completed BSc in maths (1926), followed by MSc (1929) at the East London College. Completed PhD in maths (1952) at Queen Mary's College. Specialised in mental health statistics, undertaking work for the World Health Organization. Peter Cameron – Australian mathematician. Professor of Mathematics at QMUL (1987-2012), now Professor Emeritus. Karl W. Gruenberg – British mathematician Vito Latora – British mathematician Shahn Majid – British mathematician Sir Adrian Smith – British mathematician