Dunja Aksentijevic is a Wellcome Trust Career Re-Entry Fellow, Reader (Associate Professor) in Cardiovascular Physiology & Metabolism at The William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London. she is the Director of Education WHRI as well as FMD Athena Swan Chair (Medicine) and Deputy EDI Lead.

Current roles include Programme Lead for MSc Clinical Drug Development, MSc Healthcare Research Methods, MRes Clinical Research, Academic Visitor University of Oxford, Honorary Research Fellow King’s College London. 

Dunja graduated from the University of Hull in 2004 with a BSc (Hons First Class) in Biomedical Science and was the recipient of the Faculty of Science Academic Scholarship. Immediately upon completion of her doctoral thesis in 2008, she joined the group of Prof Stefan Neubauer at the Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford. She was the senior research fellow at King’s College London, The Rayne Institute, St Thomas Hospital.