Rate My Professor Richard Siow

Dr Richard Siow FRSB is Director of Ageing Research at King’s (ARK) and a Reader in Vascular Biology within the School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences at King’s College London, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. He graduated from King’s College London with a BSc in Nutrition in 1993 and a PhD in Cardiovascular Physiology in 1996. Following postdoctoral research in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cambridge, he joined King’s as a Lecturer in November 2001 and progressed to his current readership position.

Siow’s research focuses on the role of nutrigenomics and ageing on redox signalling in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health and disease. He has held leadership roles including Vice-Dean (International) in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine and Faculty Lead for the King’s Service Committee. Since 2015 he has directed ARK, a cross-university consortium advancing multidisciplinary research on mechanisms of ageing, health-span, and the social and economic impacts of ageing. He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford and Honorary Secretary General of the European Society for Preventive Medicine. Siow is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and Fellow of the European Society for Preventive Medicine. He serves as joint Editor in Chief of the journal Longevity and has previously held editorial positions including Chief Editor of the Healthy Longevity Section of Frontiers in Ageing and Associate Editor of Frontiers in Nutrition. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers and secured more than £4 million in collaborative research funding. His professional email address is richard.siow@kcl.ac.uk.