Elections to Fellowships, 2005

Elections to Fellowship under Title A (Research Fellowships)

Mr Iain Burns was elected to a Research Fellowship from 1 October 2005, for research in Chemical Engineering.  He graduated from the University of Strathclyde with an MEng in 2002 and since then has been working towards his PhD on 'A Sensor for Combustion Thermometry based on Blue Diode Lasers' in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Cambridge.

Miss Fiona Edmonds was elected to a Research Fellowship from 1 October 2005, for research in Medieval History.  She has a BA (Hons) in Modern History and an MSt in Historical Research (Medieval) from New College, Oxford, and since 2002 has been working towards her DPhil on 'Hiberno-Saxon and Hiberno-Scandinavian Contact in the West of the Northumbrian Kingdom', also at New College, Oxford.  She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.  She has been appointed to a University Lectureship in Celtic History in the Department of Angl-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge, from 1 January 2006.

Mr Edward Holberton was elected to a Research Fellowship from 1 October 2005, for research in English Literature.  He has a BA in English and an MPhil in Renaissance Studies from Trinity College, Cambridge, and since 2001 has been working towards his PhD on 'Political Poetry and the Culture of the Protectorate'.

Election to Fellowship under Title B (Teaching Fellowship)

Dr Albert Galy was elected to a Fellowship from October 2005 and appointed a College Lecturer in Earth Sciences.  He has been with the Department of Earth Sciences in Cambridge since 2000, as Assistant Lecturer and then Lecturer, and prior to that was a Research Associate in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford.  His research interests are concerned with the influence of the biosphere on geological processes such as erosion and sedimentation, and also the tectonic evolution of the Earth since its formation.  He has a PhD from the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine and in 2004 received the Houtermans medal, which is awarded by the European Association for Geochemistry to outstanding young scientists for their contribution to geochemistry.