Fellows Directory
Honorary Fellows of the College
Professor David R Midgley
Emeritus Professor of German Literature and Intellectual History
Modern and Medieval Languages
German
Cultural change in Germany since the unification of 1871. Cultural memory and the literary representation of memory in a German context.
Office: F1 Third Court
Telephone: 38779
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Emeritus Professor of German Literature and Intellectual History
Modern and Medieval Languages
German
Cultural change in Germany since the unification of 1871. Cultural memory and the literary representation of memory in a German context.
Office: F1 Third Court
Telephone: 38779
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Professor Eric Miska
Director of Studies in Molecular Biology, Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics
Natural Science (Biological)
Office: M3 Second Court
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Director of Studies in Molecular Biology, Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics
Natural Science (Biological)
Office: M3 Second Court
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Dr Morag Morrison-Helme
Director of Studies in Education
Education
Arts Education: Applied Theatre practice and pedagogy, Teacher Education and Professional Development.
Dr Morrison-Helme is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education where she teaches on the Undergraduate Tripos track Education, English, Drama and the Arts, and she coordinates the MPhil Postgraduate thematic route, Arts, Creativity and Education. Her research interests centre on Applied Arts pedagogies to support, reflective practice, democratic learning and conflict management in cross-disciplinary and cross-professional contexts. Dr Morrison-Helme has an Erasmus exchange position with the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where she collaborates with colleagues teaching and researching the use of Applied Theatre practices in Medical and Health Care Professional Development. Her Tripos teaching centres on the Part II papers Research and Investigation and Performance, Education and Society.
Office: E11 New Court
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Director of Studies in Education
Education
Arts Education: Applied Theatre practice and pedagogy, Teacher Education and Professional Development.
Dr Morrison-Helme is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education where she teaches on the Undergraduate Tripos track Education, English, Drama and the Arts, and she coordinates the MPhil Postgraduate thematic route, Arts, Creativity and Education. Her research interests centre on Applied Arts pedagogies to support, reflective practice, democratic learning and conflict management in cross-disciplinary and cross-professional contexts. Dr Morrison-Helme has an Erasmus exchange position with the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where she collaborates with colleagues teaching and researching the use of Applied Theatre practices in Medical and Health Care Professional Development. Her Tripos teaching centres on the Part II papers Research and Investigation and Performance, Education and Society.
Office: E11 New Court
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Professor Robert Mullins
College Lecturer in Computer Science, Director of Studies in Computer Science, Professor in Computer Architecture at the Department of Computer Science and Technology
Computer Science
Computer architecture and digital electronics.
Office: Room 8, Merton Hall
Telephone: 38764
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College Lecturer in Computer Science, Director of Studies in Computer Science, Professor in Computer Architecture at the Department of Computer Science and Technology
Computer Science
Computer architecture and digital electronics.
Office: Room 8, Merton Hall
Telephone: 38764
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Dr Jessie Munton
Director of Studies for Philosophy, Associate Professor in Philosophy
Philosophy
Office: C4c North Court
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Director of Studies for Philosophy, Associate Professor in Philosophy
Philosophy
Office: C4c North Court
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Professor Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
University Professor of Celtic and Medieval Studies, College Lecturer in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Director of Studies in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Tutor
Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNC)
Medieval Irish language, literature and history. Medieval Welsh language, literature and history. The Vikings. Hiberno-Norse relations. Inter-relationships between peoples and cultures of Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia.
Office: E5 Second Court
Telephone: 38667
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University Professor of Celtic and Medieval Studies, College Lecturer in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Director of Studies in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Tutor
Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNC)
Medieval Irish language, literature and history. Medieval Welsh language, literature and history. The Vikings. Hiberno-Norse relations. Inter-relationships between peoples and cultures of Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia.
Office: E5 Second Court
Telephone: 38667
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Dr Mark Nicholls
History
Elizabethan and early-Stuart government and politics. Conspiracies, including the Gunpowder Plot. Treason trials. Sir Walter Raleigh. The history of the British Army.
Office: I4 First Court and Library
Telephone: 38661/38649
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History
Elizabethan and early-Stuart government and politics. Conspiracies, including the Gunpowder Plot. Treason trials. Sir Walter Raleigh. The history of the British Army.
Office: I4 First Court and Library
Telephone: 38661/38649
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Dr Sofia Nivarti
Assistant Professor of Architecture, College Lecturer in Architecture
Architecture
History and theory of architecture, Modern and contemporary architecture, The Aaltos, Sámi architecture
Dr Nivarti’s specialism is Aalto scholarship — the critical analysis of the architecture, urbanism, design and thought of Finnish modernists Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto and their associates. Her other research interests lie in the histories and theories of modern architecture, Indigenous architectures, architectural criticism, and architectural pedagogies for children. She is currently engaged in two main research projects, one on the post-construction ‘afterlives’ of Aalto buildings, and the other on contested notions of contemporaneity in Sámi public buildings.
Informing and informed by her academic research, Dr Nivarti is also actively engaged in curating architecture. Major exhibitions include Città dei Morti — City of the Dead at the Alvar Aalto Museum (2015) — and, most recently, Alvar Aalto in Deutschland: Gezeichnete Moderne/Alvar Aalto in Germany: Drawing Modernism at the Tchoban Foundation in Berlin (2023). She also served as academic adviser and presenter for the feature-length documentary film, 'AALTO' (dir. Virpi Suutari, 2020).
Dr Nivarti lectures and supervises widely across the Architecture Tripos, particularly for historical-theoretical papers, and supervises MArch and MAUS students. She also teaches research methods to graduate students and serves as a tutor and examiner for the MSt Apprenticeship in Architecture.
Office: Room 4, Merton Hall
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Assistant Professor of Architecture, College Lecturer in Architecture
Architecture
History and theory of architecture, Modern and contemporary architecture, The Aaltos, Sámi architecture
Dr Nivarti’s specialism is Aalto scholarship — the critical analysis of the architecture, urbanism, design and thought of Finnish modernists Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto and their associates. Her other research interests lie in the histories and theories of modern architecture, Indigenous architectures, architectural criticism, and architectural pedagogies for children. She is currently engaged in two main research projects, one on the post-construction ‘afterlives’ of Aalto buildings, and the other on contested notions of contemporaneity in Sámi public buildings.
Informing and informed by her academic research, Dr Nivarti is also actively engaged in curating architecture. Major exhibitions include Città dei Morti — City of the Dead at the Alvar Aalto Museum (2015) — and, most recently, Alvar Aalto in Deutschland: Gezeichnete Moderne/Alvar Aalto in Germany: Drawing Modernism at the Tchoban Foundation in Berlin (2023). She also served as academic adviser and presenter for the feature-length documentary film, 'AALTO' (dir. Virpi Suutari, 2020).
Dr Nivarti lectures and supervises widely across the Architecture Tripos, particularly for historical-theoretical papers, and supervises MArch and MAUS students. She also teaches research methods to graduate students and serves as a tutor and examiner for the MSt Apprenticeship in Architecture.
Office: Room 4, Merton Hall
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Dr Amy Orben
College Lecturer in PBS, Director of Studies in PBS
Psychological and Behavioural Sciences (PBS)
Cognitive approaches to understanding digital technology use and adolescent mental health
Dr Amy Orben is a Group Leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and Fellow of St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge. She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford and MA at the University of Cambridge and now directs an internationally renowned research programme investigating the links between mental health and digital technology use in adolescence. Dr Orben’s work is supported by key national and international funders, charities and foundations, and she advises governments, health officials and public servants around the world, holding appointments on the UK government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology College of Experts and the British Academy Public Policy Committee. She has received a range of prestigious awards including the Medical Research Council Early Career Impact Prize (2022), British Psychological Society Award for Outstanding Contributions to Doctoral Research (2019), Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science Mission Award (2020) and British Neuroscience Association Researcher Credibility Prize (2021).
Office: E9B New Court
Telephone: 01223 767723
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College Lecturer in PBS, Director of Studies in PBS
Psychological and Behavioural Sciences (PBS)
Cognitive approaches to understanding digital technology use and adolescent mental health
Dr Amy Orben is a Group Leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit and Fellow of St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge. She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford and MA at the University of Cambridge and now directs an internationally renowned research programme investigating the links between mental health and digital technology use in adolescence. Dr Orben’s work is supported by key national and international funders, charities and foundations, and she advises governments, health officials and public servants around the world, holding appointments on the UK government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology College of Experts and the British Academy Public Policy Committee. She has received a range of prestigious awards including the Medical Research Council Early Career Impact Prize (2022), British Psychological Society Award for Outstanding Contributions to Doctoral Research (2019), Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science Mission Award (2020) and British Neuroscience Association Researcher Credibility Prize (2021).
Office: E9B New Court
Telephone: 01223 767723
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Richard Partington
Senior Tutor
History
Office: F8 Chapel Court
Telephone: 38657
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Senior Tutor
History
Office: F8 Chapel Court
Telephone: 38657
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Professor Uta Paszkowski
Director of Studies in Plant Sciences, College Lecturer in Plant Sciences, Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics
Natural Science (Biological)
Plant Sciences
Plant Molecular Genetics with special focus on Cereal Symbioses.
Office: A11 Cripps
Telephone: 60185
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Director of Studies in Plant Sciences, College Lecturer in Plant Sciences, Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics
Natural Science (Biological)
Plant Sciences
Plant Molecular Genetics with special focus on Cereal Symbioses.
Office: A11 Cripps
Telephone: 60185
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Professor Ole Paulsen
College Supervisor in Physiology, University Professor of Physiology (1883) , Principal Investigator, Neuronal Oscillations Group
Medical Science
Neuroscience
How the cortex of the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves information.
Office: E7 Second Court
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College Supervisor in Physiology, University Professor of Physiology (1883) , Principal Investigator, Neuronal Oscillations Group
Medical Science
Neuroscience
How the cortex of the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves information.
Office: E7 Second Court
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Professor Josephine Quinn
Classics
Josephine Quinn was educated at comprehensives in the Midlands before studying at Oxford and Berkeley, where she also taught at San Quentin Prison. She moved back to Europe in 2001 for a fellowship at the British School at Rome and then held a lectureship at St John’s College, Oxford in 2003-2004. From 2004 she taught in the Classics Faculty at Oxford, with a fellowship at Worcester College, before taking up the Chair in Ancient History at Cambridge in 2025. She co-directed the Tunisian-British archaeological excavations at Utica, and she has held fellowships at the Getty Villa and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books.
Josephine Quinn works on Mediterranean history and archaeology in a global context. She has a particular interest in ancient North Africa and Phoenician-speaking communities, but she has published articles on topics from Roman imperialism to Athenian sculpture to Numidian architecture to Edwardian education. She is currently beginning a new project on anarchy in the ancient Mediterranean.
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Classics
Josephine Quinn was educated at comprehensives in the Midlands before studying at Oxford and Berkeley, where she also taught at San Quentin Prison. She moved back to Europe in 2001 for a fellowship at the British School at Rome and then held a lectureship at St John’s College, Oxford in 2003-2004. From 2004 she taught in the Classics Faculty at Oxford, with a fellowship at Worcester College, before taking up the Chair in Ancient History at Cambridge in 2025. She co-directed the Tunisian-British archaeological excavations at Utica, and she has held fellowships at the Getty Villa and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books.
Josephine Quinn works on Mediterranean history and archaeology in a global context. She has a particular interest in ancient North Africa and Phoenician-speaking communities, but she has published articles on topics from Roman imperialism to Athenian sculpture to Numidian architecture to Edwardian education. She is currently beginning a new project on anarchy in the ancient Mediterranean.
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Professor Dhruv Ranganathan
College Lectureship in Pure Mathematics , Professor of Algebraic Geometry
Mathematics
Algebraic geometry
Professor Ranganathan studies algebraic geometry. His work focuses on tropical geometry in moduli theory and enumerative geometry.
Office: I1 Corfield Court
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College Lectureship in Pure Mathematics , Professor of Algebraic Geometry
Mathematics
Algebraic geometry
Professor Ranganathan studies algebraic geometry. His work focuses on tropical geometry in moduli theory and enumerative geometry.
Office: I1 Corfield Court
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Dr George A Reid
Formerly Senior Bursar & formerly College and University Lecturer in Mathematics. , Formerly Head, Office of Intercollegiate Services
Mathematics
Pure Mathematics
University and inter-Collegiate affairs.
Office: C5 North Court
Telephone: 37036
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Formerly Senior Bursar & formerly College and University Lecturer in Mathematics. , Formerly Head, Office of Intercollegiate Services
Mathematics
Pure Mathematics
University and inter-Collegiate affairs.
Office: C5 North Court
Telephone: 37036
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Professor Stefan C Reif
University Emeritus Professor in Medieval Hebrew Studies
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Medieval Hebrew
Manuscript material from the Cairo Genizah; History of Hebrew liturgy; Medieval Jewish Bible commentary; Historical development of Hebrew studies at Cambridge.
Office: B2 First Court (shared)
Telephone: 38786
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University Emeritus Professor in Medieval Hebrew Studies
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Medieval Hebrew
Manuscript material from the Cairo Genizah; History of Hebrew liturgy; Medieval Jewish Bible commentary; Historical development of Hebrew studies at Cambridge.
Office: B2 First Court (shared)
Telephone: 38786
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Professor Erwin Reisner
College Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, Professor of Energy and Sustainability
Natural Sciences (Physical)
Chemistry
We are interested in applying principles from the traditional field of Biological Inorganic Chemistry to Renewable Energy research. We design artificial photosynthetic systems, which either mimic photobiological energy generation and/or incorporate enzymes directly in biotechnologically relevant hybrid systems. To achieve this aim, a solar light-harvesting component is coupled to a suitable redox catalyst to drive an energetically uphill redox transformation to produce a so-called "solar fuel".
Office: E6b New Court
Telephone: 38611
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College Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, Professor of Energy and Sustainability
Natural Sciences (Physical)
Chemistry
We are interested in applying principles from the traditional field of Biological Inorganic Chemistry to Renewable Energy research. We design artificial photosynthetic systems, which either mimic photobiological energy generation and/or incorporate enzymes directly in biotechnologically relevant hybrid systems. To achieve this aim, a solar light-harvesting component is coupled to a suitable redox catalyst to drive an energetically uphill redox transformation to produce a so-called "solar fuel".
Office: E6b New Court
Telephone: 38611
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Dr Martin Richards
College Lecturer in Computer Science, Retired University Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Computer Science
Programming Languages, Compiling techniques, Data Structures and Algorithms.
Office: F1 Second Court (shared)
Telephone: 38745
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College Lecturer in Computer Science, Retired University Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Computer Science
Programming Languages, Compiling techniques, Data Structures and Algorithms.
Office: F1 Second Court (shared)
Telephone: 38745
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Professor John Rink
College Supervisor in Music, Professor of Music, Director, Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies
Music
Nineteenth-century music (especially Chopin, Liszt, Brahms), performance studies, theory and analysis, digital musicology, improvisation.
Office: I12 New Court
Telephone: 46957
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College Supervisor in Music, Professor of Music, Director, Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies
Music
Nineteenth-century music (especially Chopin, Liszt, Brahms), performance studies, theory and analysis, digital musicology, improvisation.
Office: I12 New Court
Telephone: 46957
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Professor Jason J W A Robinson
University Reader
Natural Sciences (Physical)
The electronic and magnetic properties of metallic and oxide thin-films, multilayers, and heterostructure devices.
Office: E6 Second Court
Telephone: 38651
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University Reader
Natural Sciences (Physical)
The electronic and magnetic properties of metallic and oxide thin-films, multilayers, and heterostructure devices.
Office: E6 Second Court
Telephone: 38651
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Dr Christopher J Robinson
Formerly Organist & formerly Director of Music
Music
Music
Office: F1 Second Court (shared set)
Telephone: 38765
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Formerly Organist & formerly Director of Music
Music
Music
Office: F1 Second Court (shared set)
Telephone: 38765
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Professor Ulinka C Rublack
University Professor of Early Modern European History
History
The social, cultural and religious history of Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Office: E11a New Court
Telephone: 38682
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University Professor of Early Modern European History
History
The social, cultural and religious history of Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Office: E11a New Court
Telephone: 38682
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Dr Jeanne Salje
Natural Science (Biological)
Dr. Salje completed her MBioch in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at the University of Oxford in 2005, and PhD in bacterial cell biology at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 2010. She worked in Japan, Thailand and the USA before moving to the University of Cambridge as a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in 2022. She has been affiliated with the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok, Thailand since 2013.
Dr. Salje delivers undergraduate lectures in the Departments of Pathology and Biochemistry, and is a Director on the MPhil in Biological Sciences (Infection Biology and Molecular Immunology) course. She provides college supervisions to Natural Sciences (Biological) students.
Dr. Salje's research focuses on understanding the fundamental biology of a group of bacteria that exclusively replicate inside living eukaryotic cells. These obligate intracellular bacteria cause a range of human and animal diseases, and the Salje lab is particularly focused on one called Orientia tsutsugamusi that causes the severe but neglected human disease scrub typhus. Research areas include mechanisms of bacterial growth and division, interactions with host cells, the evolution of intracellular bacteria, and disease pathogenesis.
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Natural Science (Biological)
Dr. Salje completed her MBioch in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at the University of Oxford in 2005, and PhD in bacterial cell biology at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 2010. She worked in Japan, Thailand and the USA before moving to the University of Cambridge as a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in 2022. She has been affiliated with the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok, Thailand since 2013.
Dr. Salje delivers undergraduate lectures in the Departments of Pathology and Biochemistry, and is a Director on the MPhil in Biological Sciences (Infection Biology and Molecular Immunology) course. She provides college supervisions to Natural Sciences (Biological) students.
Dr. Salje's research focuses on understanding the fundamental biology of a group of bacteria that exclusively replicate inside living eukaryotic cells. These obligate intracellular bacteria cause a range of human and animal diseases, and the Salje lab is particularly focused on one called Orientia tsutsugamusi that causes the severe but neglected human disease scrub typhus. Research areas include mechanisms of bacterial growth and division, interactions with host cells, the evolution of intracellular bacteria, and disease pathogenesis.
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Dr Frank Salmon
College Lecturer in Architecture and History of Art, Director of Studies in History of Art, University Senior Lecturer in History of Art, Formerly Head of Department of History of Art (2009-12), Director of the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture (www.csca.aha.cam.ac.uk)
History of Art
History of Art and Architecture
Post-medieval British and European architecture and landscape history; the relationship of classical architecture with archaeology; the history of classical sculpture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Office: E4 Second Court
Telephone: 39366
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College Lecturer in Architecture and History of Art, Director of Studies in History of Art, University Senior Lecturer in History of Art, Formerly Head of Department of History of Art (2009-12), Director of the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture (www.csca.aha.cam.ac.uk)
History of Art
History of Art and Architecture
Post-medieval British and European architecture and landscape history; the relationship of classical architecture with archaeology; the history of classical sculpture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Office: E4 Second Court
Telephone: 39366
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Professor Richard J Samworth
College Lecturer in Pure Mathematics , University Professor of Statistical Science
Mathematics
Pure Mathematics
Nonparametric and high-dimensional statistics. Particular topics include shape-constrained density and other nonparametric function estimation problems, nonparametric classification, clustering and regression, the bootstrap and high-dimensional statistical inference.
Office: A15 New Court
Telephone: 37934
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College Lecturer in Pure Mathematics , University Professor of Statistical Science
Mathematics
Pure Mathematics
Nonparametric and high-dimensional statistics. Particular topics include shape-constrained density and other nonparametric function estimation problems, nonparametric classification, clustering and regression, the bootstrap and high-dimensional statistical inference.
Office: A15 New Court
Telephone: 37934
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