Chair in Signal Processing,,
department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College

Maria Petrou was a lecturer in Astronomy at the Kapodistrian University of Athens (1981-1983) and a Post Doctoral Research Assistant at the University of Oxford, Department of Theoretical Physics (1983-1986). She has been working on Computer Vision since 1986, initially as a Research Associate at the NERC Unit for Thematic Information Systems (NUTIS) in the Geography Department of Reading University, later as an Atlas Research Fellow of St. Hilda's College Oxford at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, from 1988 to 2005 at the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering of Surrey University, initially as a lecturer subsequently as a Senior Lecturer then as a Reader and from 1998 to 2005 as the Professor of Image Analysis. From September 2005 she holds the Chair of Signal Processing at Imperial College London. She became the Head of  the Communications and Signal Processing Group at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Imperial College in April 2006.