About
Athena Moustaka is a chartered architect and senior academic. Her work sits where architecture, cultural heritage, urbanism and neuroscience meet.
She has spent nearly a decade at the University of Salford, where she is Senior Lecturer in Architecture in the School of Science, Engineering & Environment. She has supervised five PhD students to completion and has secured over £100K for Salford as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on UKRI-funded projects, with a total project value of £220K.
She has been a Visiting Scholar and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie RISE researcher at San Diego State University and at Northeastern University, Boston. Her research on cultural heritage and its social impact is recognised across the MENA region.
Credentials
- Chartered Architect (RIBA), registered with ARB
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
Roles and recognition
- Former co-Lead, Built and Human Environments Research Centre
- Former REF deputy lead, UoA13 (Architecture, Built Environment and Planning)
- Former RKE Lead, Directorate of Built and Natural Environments
- Member of RIBA validation boards, accrediting schools of architecture worldwide
- Member, UKRI Talent Peer Review College
- Member, Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA)
Education
- 2024 to 2026PGCert Neuroimaging for Research, Edinburgh Medical School
- 2018 to 2019PGCert Academic Practice, University of Salford
- 2012 to 2017PhD Architecture, University of Manchester. Thesis: The networks of concrete: Tracing materiality in the redevelopment of Park Hill
- 2002 to 2005MSc (Integrated) Architecture
- 2000 to 2001MSc Environmental Design of Buildings
- 1997 to 2000BEng Architectural Engineering