King's College London

King's College London has welcomed a cohort of 19 AI+ Senior Fellows, following a highly competitive global search that attracted applications from outstanding researchers across disciplines and continents. The AI+ Senior Fellows are the first to be appointed under King's £18 million AI+ investment, created to support researchers who will push the boundaries of how artificial intelligence is used in science, society and the arts.

The AI+ Senior Fellows will tackle questions ranging from how to prevent avoidable deaths and improve cancer care to how AI can reshape musical composition, monitor environmental change and make political debate less polarised.

Their research spans health equity in infectious diseases, epidemic modelling and control systems, AI‑driven cancer assessment, protein interaction studies and microscopy, psychosis and epilepsy, as well as decolonial AI, AI safety, cognitive science, ageing, social impacts of technology, climate and the environment, and humanities‑led approaches to AI.

Each Senior Fellow will spend three years with up to 80 per cent of their time protected for research, giving them the space to develop ambitious research in partnership with departments across King's. The cohort was selected for both research excellence and the potential to act as future leaders who can bridge disciplines and shape responsible uses of AI.

The AI+ Senior Fellows will work closely with the King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence - a central hub for a diverse and growing interdisciplinary community of over 200 AI researchers.

Vice‑Chancellor & President Professor Shitij Kapur said:

"AI will touch every part of society, so it must be shaped by many different voices and disciplines. Our AI+ investment is about building a community of future AI leaders at King's who can accelerate the development and adoption of AI while ensuring it is safe, responsible and beneficial for all."

11 AI+ Senior Fellows have already started their work at King's in 2026. The remaining members of the cohort join over the course of the summer. This is accompanied by AI+ Professorship appointments and continued investment in computing and research infrastructure.

Meet some of the AI+ Senior Fellows and explore their research

• Meet: Dr Lorenzo Nava – Using AI to help predict and prepare for natural disasters
• Meet: Dr Richard Rosch – Using AI to understand and treat epilepsy through the dynamics of the brain

• Meet: Dr Eric Orenstein – Building AI to understand a changing, unseen ocean world

• Meet: Dr Liane dos Santos Canas – Reimagining preventative medicine with AI

• Meet: Dr Christopher Banerji – Working to ensure AI serves rather than replaces human expertise in healthcare

• Meet: Dr Robert Laidlow – Discovering what music becomes when AI stops trying to sound human

Further spotlights on AI+ Senior Fellows will be published over the coming months.

Hear directly from King's AI+ Senior Fellows about the research they are undertaking by attending the AI Frontiers events.

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