Dr Frank Salmon

Dr Frank Salmon was educated at Downing College, Cambridge, and the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. He taught at the University of Manchester from 1989, then from 2002 served as Assistant Director for Academic Activities at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (he was also an Adjunct Associate Professor of History of Art at the Centre's mother institution, Yale University). In 2006 he returned to teach in Cambridge, where he was Head of the Department of History of Art from 2009 to 2012. He became a Fellow of St John's College in 2006. For seven years he was Tutor for Medical and Veterinary Sciences students until he became President of the College (2015-19). In 2021 he founded and became Director of the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture, housed at Downing College. He has held a number of positions in public bodies, including Historic England, and is currently a Trustee of the national Sir John Soane's Museum, nominated by the Society of Antiquaries.

Dr Salmon is an architectural historian, whose teaching during his career has embraced the history of architecture of the European tradition from the ancient worlds to the 20th century. His research-led teaching interests lie in British and European architecture of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially in the history of archaeology in relation to Neo-classicism and to the impact of the Renaissance in 19th-century architecture.