Professor Parveen Yaqoob OBE
DEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PRO-VICE-CHANCELLOR (RESEARCH AND INNOVATION)

As Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Parveen Yaqoob deputises for the Vice-Chancellor in both executive and ceremonial functions when he is unable to do so himself.

As Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Professor Yaqoob is responsible for the University's research strategy at Executive Board level, and drives its performance, with the aim of positioning the University of Reading firmly amongst the leading research universities in the UK and internationally. 

View the Pro-Vice-Chancellor's (Research and Innovation) expenses – 2021/22 (PDF)

View the Pro-Vice-Chancellor's (Research and Innovation) expenses – 2022/23 (PDF)

View the Pro-Vice-Chancellor's (Research and Innovation) expenses – 2023/24 (PDF)

Contact

Elisha Bird

Executive and Governance Office 

research-ego@reading.ac.uk

Professor Yaqoob graduated with a BA in Physiological Sciences and subsequently a DPhil in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford.

Following post-doctoral positions at both the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton, she was appointed to a Lectureship in Human Nutrition at the University of Reading in 1998 and awarded the title of Professor of Nutritional Physiology in 2010. Her research investigates the influence of nutrition on immunity, inflammation and vascular function, particularly with respect to cardiovascular disease and she contributes to a number of national and international research funding panels.

Professor Yaqoob was elected Fellow of the Association for Nutrition in 2014, appointed Head of the School of Chemistry, Food & Pharmacy in 2015 and Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation in 2018.

Professor Yaqoob was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in 2022.