Professor Jonathan Wastling, Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Jonathan joined Brunel from the University of Keele, where he was Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

Whilst at Keele, Jonathan was the strategic lead on a collaborative partnership with Harper Adams University to develop the UK’s 9th Vet School and the only joint Vet School in the country. He also led work on equality, diversity and inclusion, transforming Keele’s Foundation Year programme, interdisciplinary education and research, and oversaw £42million capital redevelopment of science teaching and research facilities.

Jonathan has over 30 years’ experience working on infectious diseases and the biology of human and animal pathogens. He continues to play an active part in science policy in the areas of food safety and security. Prior to Keele, Jonathan worked at University of Liverpool for 11 years where he held several roles including Head of Department of Infection Biology, helping lead the university’s submission for REF 2014. Previously Jonathan spent 14 years working in Scotland at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh where he helped develop pioneering techniques for the identification of proteins which enable pathogens to enter and colonise the body.

An alumnus of Keele, where he gained a joint honours degree in Chemistry and Biology and a life-long commitment to the value of interdisciplinary research and education, Jonathan also holds a doctorate from the University of Aberdeen.