Magdalen Fellow Professor Constantin Coussios OBE has been appointed as the next Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Innovation. He will start in his new role next month.
Professor Coussios came to Oxford as the first academic appointment in biomedical engineering in 2004 and was elected to the first statutory Chair in Biomedical Engineering in 2011. He served as Director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering between 2016 and 2025. In 2022, he became the founding director of the Podium Institute in Sports Medicine and Technology, supported by a £40m 10-year partnership between the University and charity Podium Analytics, creating the world’s first cross-disciplinary biomedical institute focused on safety in youth, community and female sports.
In 2008, he co-founded Oxford University spin-out OrganOx Ltd, in 2014, he co-founded OxSonics Ltd, and in 2018, he co-founded OrthoSon Ltd.
Professor Coussios received the Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2017 for contributions to the translation of novel medical technologies into clinical practice, was elected a Fellow of the Academy in 2019, awarded an OBE in 2022 for Services to Biomedical Engineering and elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2024. Since 2020, he also served as an independent non-executive Director of ConvaTec, a FTSE100 company. In 2025, he led the team that won the MacRobert Prize, the UK’s foremost award recognizing technological innovation with societal and commercial impact.