About Us

"Our team reaches across professional schools, ensuring virtual environments are made to bear on a variety of professional contexts.”

The Centre for Virtual Environments and the Professions is supporting and supported by researchers in Engineering, Law, Architecture and Medicine.

The Director is Dr Sylvie Delacroix (UCL Laws), with Dr Caroline Fertleman (UCL Medicine) as medical lead, and Dr Xueni Sylvia Pan (Goldsmiths Computing) as VR lead. The Research Director is Prof Mel Slater (ICREA-University of Barcelona & UCL).

Dr Sylvie Delacroix

Dr Caroline Fertleman

Dr Sylvia Xueni Pan

Prof. Mel Slater

Advisory Board

Under construction

Professor Anthony Finkelstein

Professor of Software Systems Engineering, Alan Turing Institute and UCL Engineering

Dr Jayne Kavanagh

Lead of Medical Ethics and Law unit, UCL Medical School

Professor Pascoe Pleasence

Professor of Empirical Legal Studies, UCL Laws

David Swapp

Immersive VR Laboratory Manager, UCL Computer Science

Dr Ruth Morgan

Director of the UCL Centre for the Forensic Sciences

Professor Anthony Steed

Professor in Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics, UCL Computer Science

Dr Sanjiv Sharma

Deputy Medical Director for Medical Education, Consultant in Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children NHS Foundation Trust