Fellows Directory
Honorary Fellows of the College
Alison Cox
Domestic Bursar
Engineering
Office: F12a Chapel Court
Telephone: 07875216446
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Domestic Bursar
Engineering
Office: F12a Chapel Court
Telephone: 07875216446
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Professor Meredith A Crowley
College Lecturer in Economics, University Lecturer in Economics, Director of Studies, Professor of Economics
Economics
International trade, trade policy, firms in international trade, law and economics of the GATT/WTO
Office: F11a Cripps
Telephone: 65268
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College Lecturer in Economics, University Lecturer in Economics, Director of Studies, Professor of Economics
Economics
International trade, trade policy, firms in international trade, law and economics of the GATT/WTO
Office: F11a Cripps
Telephone: 65268
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Professor Orietta Da Rold
College Lecturer in English, Professor of Medieval Literature and Manuscript Studies
English
Medieval Literature, Chaucer, Editing, Textual Studies and Medieval British Manuscripts.
Office: C6b North Court
Telephone: 68181
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College Lecturer in English, Professor of Medieval Literature and Manuscript Studies
English
Medieval Literature, Chaucer, Editing, Textual Studies and Medieval British Manuscripts.
Office: C6b North Court
Telephone: 68181
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Professor Sir Partha S Dasgupta
College Supervisor in Economics, Formerly Frank Ramsey Prof of Economics
Economics
Environmental and resource economics. The economics of poor countries. Game theory.
Office: A5b New Court
Telephone: 38788
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College Supervisor in Economics, Formerly Frank Ramsey Prof of Economics
Economics
Environmental and resource economics. The economics of poor countries. Game theory.
Office: A5b New Court
Telephone: 38788
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Professor Michael F L De Volder
Reader in Nanomanufacturing, College Lecturer in Engineering
Engineering
Nanoparticle manufacturing and assembly.
Office: 18b&c New Court
Telephone: 68280
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Reader in Nanomanufacturing, College Lecturer in Engineering
Engineering
Nanoparticle manufacturing and assembly.
Office: 18b&c New Court
Telephone: 68280
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Dr Irene C Dedoussi
College Lecturer in Engineering, University Associate Professor in Sustainable Aviation and Energy
Engineering
Dr Irene Dedoussi is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Aviation and Energy in the Department of Engineering of the University of Cambridge and a member of the Whittle Laboratory. Her research interests revolve around better understanding the environmental impacts of aviation and other transportation and energy sectors, including how emerging energy sources and technologies can effect change. Prior to joining the University of Cambridge, Irene was an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of TU Delft, with which she remains affiliated. Irene is a fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering and a member of the Young Academy (De Jonge Akademie) of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Irene holds a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, an SM in Aeronautics and Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, and a BA (Hons) and MEng (Hons w/ Distinction) in Engineering from the University of Cambridge (St John’s College).
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College Lecturer in Engineering, University Associate Professor in Sustainable Aviation and Energy
Engineering
Dr Irene Dedoussi is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Aviation and Energy in the Department of Engineering of the University of Cambridge and a member of the Whittle Laboratory. Her research interests revolve around better understanding the environmental impacts of aviation and other transportation and energy sectors, including how emerging energy sources and technologies can effect change. Prior to joining the University of Cambridge, Irene was an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of TU Delft, with which she remains affiliated. Irene is a fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering and a member of the Young Academy (De Jonge Akademie) of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Irene holds a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, an SM in Aeronautics and Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, and a BA (Hons) and MEng (Hons w/ Distinction) in Engineering from the University of Cambridge (St John’s College).
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Professor Laura Diaz Anadon
Professor of Climate Change Policy , College Supervisor in Land Economy, Director of Studies in Land Economy, Director of Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance
Land Economy
Energy, Innovation, Climate Policy, Multiphase Flow and MRI.
Prof Laura Diaz Anadon holds the chaired Professorship of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge she is also Director of the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG) and Fellow of St. John's College, where she is the Director of Studies for Land Economy. She is also a long-standing Affiliate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) at Harvard University, where she was a Visiting Scholar for 2021–2022, an Assistant Professor of Public Policy (2013-2016), and Director of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group.
Prof Diaz Anadon is a Lead Author in the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III on Climate Change Mitigation. She is a member of the Economics of Decarbonization Advisory Group for the UK Treasury’s Net Zero Review, of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Independent Commission on Climate and of the Board of Directors of Cambridge Enterprise Ltd. She is also in the Management Board of the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI) and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).
She has received numerous awards and recognition for her research. In June 2018 she was awarded the XVII Fundación Banco Sabadell Prize for Economic Research for the best young Spanish economics researcher, in 2021 a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Tsinghua University, and in 2022 a Senior Fellowship from the JM Keynes Fellowship Fund. In March 2022 she was selected as one of the 15 founding members of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate, where she was elected as Vice-Chair of the Board.
Prof Diaz Anadon has engaged with policymakers in the United States, China, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and Spain among others, and contributed to the UN Global Sustainable Development Report and the Global Energy Assessment. She has also contributed evidence to US Congress and the UK Parliament and worked as a consultant for Climate Strategies on a World Bank project, the UNFCCC and the OECD. Prior to starting her academic career, Prof Diaz Anadon did research projects at DuPont, Bayer Pharmaceuticals and Johnson Matthey Catalysts and worked as a financial consultant at Oliver Wyman working on risk models for financing technology projects.
Prof Diaz Anadon holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Magnetic Resonance and Catalysis Group at the University of Cambridge, a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Masters in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester. During her undergraduate degree she also studied at the University of Stuttgart.
Office: C4a North Court
Telephone: 37156
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Professor of Climate Change Policy , College Supervisor in Land Economy, Director of Studies in Land Economy, Director of Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance
Land Economy
Energy, Innovation, Climate Policy, Multiphase Flow and MRI.
Prof Laura Diaz Anadon holds the chaired Professorship of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge she is also Director of the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG) and Fellow of St. John's College, where she is the Director of Studies for Land Economy. She is also a long-standing Affiliate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) at Harvard University, where she was a Visiting Scholar for 2021–2022, an Assistant Professor of Public Policy (2013-2016), and Director of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group.
Prof Diaz Anadon is a Lead Author in the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group III on Climate Change Mitigation. She is a member of the Economics of Decarbonization Advisory Group for the UK Treasury’s Net Zero Review, of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Independent Commission on Climate and of the Board of Directors of Cambridge Enterprise Ltd. She is also in the Management Board of the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI) and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).
She has received numerous awards and recognition for her research. In June 2018 she was awarded the XVII Fundación Banco Sabadell Prize for Economic Research for the best young Spanish economics researcher, in 2021 a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Tsinghua University, and in 2022 a Senior Fellowship from the JM Keynes Fellowship Fund. In March 2022 she was selected as one of the 15 founding members of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate, where she was elected as Vice-Chair of the Board.
Prof Diaz Anadon has engaged with policymakers in the United States, China, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and Spain among others, and contributed to the UN Global Sustainable Development Report and the Global Energy Assessment. She has also contributed evidence to US Congress and the UK Parliament and worked as a consultant for Climate Strategies on a World Bank project, the UNFCCC and the OECD. Prior to starting her academic career, Prof Diaz Anadon did research projects at DuPont, Bayer Pharmaceuticals and Johnson Matthey Catalysts and worked as a financial consultant at Oliver Wyman working on risk models for financing technology projects.
Prof Diaz Anadon holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Magnetic Resonance and Catalysis Group at the University of Cambridge, a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Masters in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester. During her undergraduate degree she also studied at the University of Stuttgart.
Office: C4a North Court
Telephone: 37156
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Dr Matthias Dörrzapf
Director of Scholarships & International Programmes, Director of Studies in Mathematics, Acting Tutor
Mathematics
Applied Mathematics
Algebraic aspects of quantum field theories, in particular representations of superconformal algebras in conformal field theories and string theories.
Office: O1 Second Court
Telephone: 38648
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Director of Scholarships & International Programmes, Director of Studies in Mathematics, Acting Tutor
Mathematics
Applied Mathematics
Algebraic aspects of quantum field theories, in particular representations of superconformal algebras in conformal field theories and string theories.
Office: O1 Second Court
Telephone: 38648
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Dr Leah Downey
Human, Social and Political Sciences (HSPS)
Political theory is the study of how people ought to live together. Political economy considers how people produce what they need to live. These endeavours are, and always have been, fundamentally and inextricably linked. It is in the shadow of this observation that Dr Downey's research employs the tools of political theory to better understand the relationship between macroeconomic policy and democracy.
Her doctoral thesis explored what it would look like to democratise monetary policy. Recognising that the creation and allocation of money are among the state’s most distinctive powers, she argued that instituting an approach to monetary policymaking that respects the integrity of domestic democracy would have radical implications for both domestic and global economic governance.
As a Fellow at St John’s, Dr Downey will extend her research into the relationship between macroeconomic policy and democracy to explore how different notions of time employed by policymakers in modern democracies shape the power and possibilities of macroeconomic policymaking. This is an urgent task for two reasons: first, because it is essential to unlocking the state’s macroeconomic policymaking powers in the face of an existential climate crisis, and secondly, because doing so is critical for achieving the full realisation of a flourishing democratic state.
Office: Room 3, Merton Hall
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Human, Social and Political Sciences (HSPS)
Political theory is the study of how people ought to live together. Political economy considers how people produce what they need to live. These endeavours are, and always have been, fundamentally and inextricably linked. It is in the shadow of this observation that Dr Downey's research employs the tools of political theory to better understand the relationship between macroeconomic policy and democracy.
Her doctoral thesis explored what it would look like to democratise monetary policy. Recognising that the creation and allocation of money are among the state’s most distinctive powers, she argued that instituting an approach to monetary policymaking that respects the integrity of domestic democracy would have radical implications for both domestic and global economic governance.
As a Fellow at St John’s, Dr Downey will extend her research into the relationship between macroeconomic policy and democracy to explore how different notions of time employed by policymakers in modern democracies shape the power and possibilities of macroeconomic policymaking. This is an urgent task for two reasons: first, because it is essential to unlocking the state’s macroeconomic policymaking powers in the face of an existential climate crisis, and secondly, because doing so is critical for achieving the full realisation of a flourishing democratic state.
Office: Room 3, Merton Hall
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Dr Brigid Ehrmantraut
Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNC)
The languages and literatures of medieval Britain and Ireland.
Ms Ehrmantraut is a philologist and intellectual historian specialising in the languages and literatures of medieval Britain and Ireland. My interests include Celtic studies, Latin literature, Classical reception and textual transmission, translation and landscape studies.
Her PhD thesis explored the reception of Classical mythology in medieval Ireland between the 10th and 12th centuries, and the ways in which Greek and Roman narratives became situated within a medieval Christian worldview. She examined a corpus of vernacular Irish adaptations of Classical Latin epic, as well as the influence of Classical mythology on medieval Irish authors’ conceptions of their own pre-Christian past. Ms Ehrmantraut has also worked on medieval perceptions of prehistoric monuments in Irish, Welsh and Latin literature.
During her Fellowship, Ms Ehrmantraut will continue her study of medieval Irish Classical reception into the 13th and 14th centuries, examining the development of the cath ‘battle’ genre of tales. These compositions drew heavily on Classical literature as well as on the earlier vernacular Irish adaptations of Classical epic produced during the 10th through 12th centuries, which she investigated in her PhD thesis.
Office: M5 Second Court
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Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNC)
The languages and literatures of medieval Britain and Ireland.
Ms Ehrmantraut is a philologist and intellectual historian specialising in the languages and literatures of medieval Britain and Ireland. My interests include Celtic studies, Latin literature, Classical reception and textual transmission, translation and landscape studies.
Her PhD thesis explored the reception of Classical mythology in medieval Ireland between the 10th and 12th centuries, and the ways in which Greek and Roman narratives became situated within a medieval Christian worldview. She examined a corpus of vernacular Irish adaptations of Classical Latin epic, as well as the influence of Classical mythology on medieval Irish authors’ conceptions of their own pre-Christian past. Ms Ehrmantraut has also worked on medieval perceptions of prehistoric monuments in Irish, Welsh and Latin literature.
During her Fellowship, Ms Ehrmantraut will continue her study of medieval Irish Classical reception into the 13th and 14th centuries, examining the development of the cath ‘battle’ genre of tales. These compositions drew heavily on Classical literature as well as on the earlier vernacular Irish adaptations of Classical epic produced during the 10th through 12th centuries, which she investigated in her PhD thesis.
Office: M5 Second Court
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Dr Georgina L Evans
College Lecturer in French, University Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Director of Studies for Modern and Medieval Languages
Modern and Medieval Languages
French
Georgina Evans works mainly on contemporary French film. She has a particular interest in inter-sensory relationships in cinema, and the workings of synaesthetic narrative. She has published work on the French films of Michael Haneke and Krzysztof Kieslowski, and also has a particular interest in Claire Denis. Her next project examines the idea of home in French cinema.
Office: E7 Corfield Court
Telephone: 30264
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College Lecturer in French, University Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Director of Studies for Modern and Medieval Languages
Modern and Medieval Languages
French
Georgina Evans works mainly on contemporary French film. She has a particular interest in inter-sensory relationships in cinema, and the workings of synaesthetic narrative. She has published work on the French films of Michael Haneke and Krzysztof Kieslowski, and also has a particular interest in Claire Denis. Her next project examines the idea of home in French cinema.
Office: E7 Corfield Court
Telephone: 30264
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Professor Robert A Evans
College Supervisor in Economics, University Professor of Economic Theory
Economics
Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Political Economy, Economics of Contracts.
Office: G6 Second Court
Telephone: 38784
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College Supervisor in Economics, University Professor of Economic Theory
Economics
Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Political Economy, Economics of Contracts.
Office: G6 Second Court
Telephone: 38784
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Chris F Ewbank
Senior Bursar
History/Law
Responsible for overall direction of the College's finances.
Office: Bursary, I5 New Court
Telephone: 38627
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Senior Bursar
History/Law
Responsible for overall direction of the College's finances.
Office: Bursary, I5 New Court
Telephone: 38627
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Dr Nick Friedman
Dean of Discipline
Law
My research concerns the control of corporate power, which I study from a public law perspective. My interests cut across a range of topics in legal and political philosophy, constitutional law, human rights, and corporate law.
Office: A2ab Cripps
Telephone: 38670
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Dean of Discipline
Law
My research concerns the control of corporate power, which I study from a public law perspective. My interests cut across a range of topics in legal and political philosophy, constitutional law, human rights, and corporate law.
Office: A2ab Cripps
Telephone: 38670
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Professor Sir Richard H Friend
Natural Sciences (Physical)
Physics
Optoelectronic properties of organic semiconductors. Polymer light-emitting diodes, solar cells and transistors.
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Natural Sciences (Physical)
Physics
Optoelectronic properties of organic semiconductors. Polymer light-emitting diodes, solar cells and transistors.
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Dr Dorian A Gangloff
College Lecturer, Fellow
Natural Sciences (Physical)
Quantum Technology
I am a quantum information scientist and leader of the Quantum Engineering Group. I develop systems, tools, and protocols with hybrid physical components that enable a fundamental understanding of the interaction of few and many quantum objects, with an eye to the development of quantum computing, communication, and simulation technologies.
I hold a Royal Society University Research Fellowship on "Quantum interface engineering with solid-state spins and photons" and a UKRI New Investigator Award on "Deterministic quantum gate between photons in a next-generation light-matter interface". I lead the QuantERA consortium MEEDGARD on “Memory-enhanced entanglement distribution with gallium arsenide quantum dots”.
My previous positions include an Associate Professorship of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford with a Tutorial Fellowship at Balliol College (2022-2023) and a Junior Research Fellowship at St John’s College in Cambridge (2017-2021). I completed my PhD at the MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms in 2016 and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Physics at the University of British Columbia in 2010.
Office: First Court K3
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College Lecturer, Fellow
Natural Sciences (Physical)
Quantum Technology
I am a quantum information scientist and leader of the Quantum Engineering Group. I develop systems, tools, and protocols with hybrid physical components that enable a fundamental understanding of the interaction of few and many quantum objects, with an eye to the development of quantum computing, communication, and simulation technologies.
I hold a Royal Society University Research Fellowship on "Quantum interface engineering with solid-state spins and photons" and a UKRI New Investigator Award on "Deterministic quantum gate between photons in a next-generation light-matter interface". I lead the QuantERA consortium MEEDGARD on “Memory-enhanced entanglement distribution with gallium arsenide quantum dots”.
My previous positions include an Associate Professorship of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford with a Tutorial Fellowship at Balliol College (2022-2023) and a Junior Research Fellowship at St John’s College in Cambridge (2017-2021). I completed my PhD at the MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms in 2016 and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Physics at the University of British Columbia in 2010.
Office: First Court K3
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Dr D J H (Ben) Garling
Formerly President, Tutor, Senior Proctor, College Supervisor in Pure Mathematics, University Emeritus Reader in Mathematical Analysis
Mathematics
Pure Mathematics
Functional Analysis, and particularly the geometry of Banach spaces, probabilistic methods, related inequalities and applications to classical analysis.
Office: F1 Second Court
Telephone: 38719
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Formerly President, Tutor, Senior Proctor, College Supervisor in Pure Mathematics, University Emeritus Reader in Mathematical Analysis
Mathematics
Pure Mathematics
Functional Analysis, and particularly the geometry of Banach spaces, probabilistic methods, related inequalities and applications to classical analysis.
Office: F1 Second Court
Telephone: 38719
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Dr Helena Gellersen
Research Fellow
Psychological and Behavioural Sciences (PBS)
(BSc Jacobs University Bremen, MRes Maastricht University, PhD Cambridge) for Experimental Psychology
I am a cognitive neuroscientist studying how healthy ageing and the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease alter brain function and memory processes.
Memories vary widely in terms of the amount of detail we recall, yet most prior studies used simple binary (correct vs. incorrect) measures. During my PhD at the University of Cambridge, I designed new tests to assess the fidelity with which people recall information uncovering cognitive processes that explain inter-individual differences in memory precision during ageing.
During my Fellowship at St John’s, I will use functional MRI to identify the neural underpinnings of memory fidelity in healthy ageing and determine features of brain dynamics that can explain youth-like performance even into old age. In collaboration with the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, I will test whether memory fidelity tasks are promising for early detection of the preclinical phase of Alzheimer’s disease where individuals do not yet show obvious cognitive decline but harbour silent brain pathology. Using novel high-resolution neuroimaging methods, I will obtain a precise characterisation of the effects of preclinical pathology on memory systems at an unprecedented resolution. These insights are crucial to improve current memory tests for screening of at-risk older adults and monitoring potential treatment effects
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Research Fellow
Psychological and Behavioural Sciences (PBS)
(BSc Jacobs University Bremen, MRes Maastricht University, PhD Cambridge) for Experimental Psychology
I am a cognitive neuroscientist studying how healthy ageing and the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease alter brain function and memory processes.
Memories vary widely in terms of the amount of detail we recall, yet most prior studies used simple binary (correct vs. incorrect) measures. During my PhD at the University of Cambridge, I designed new tests to assess the fidelity with which people recall information uncovering cognitive processes that explain inter-individual differences in memory precision during ageing.
During my Fellowship at St John’s, I will use functional MRI to identify the neural underpinnings of memory fidelity in healthy ageing and determine features of brain dynamics that can explain youth-like performance even into old age. In collaboration with the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, I will test whether memory fidelity tasks are promising for early detection of the preclinical phase of Alzheimer’s disease where individuals do not yet show obvious cognitive decline but harbour silent brain pathology. Using novel high-resolution neuroimaging methods, I will obtain a precise characterisation of the effects of preclinical pathology on memory systems at an unprecedented resolution. These insights are crucial to improve current memory tests for screening of at-risk older adults and monitoring potential treatment effects
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Dr Petra M Geraats
College Lecturer in Economics, University Senior Lecturer, Director of Studies
Economics
Macroeconomics, international finance and behavioral economics, with a special interest in transparency of monetary policy.
Office: 3rd Court F6
Telephone: 38726
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College Lecturer in Economics, University Senior Lecturer, Director of Studies
Economics
Macroeconomics, international finance and behavioral economics, with a special interest in transparency of monetary policy.
Office: 3rd Court F6
Telephone: 38726
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Professor Zoubin Ghahramani
Professor of Information Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Engineering
Office: I4 New Court (shared)
Telephone: 68192
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Professor of Information Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Engineering
Office: I4 New Court (shared)
Telephone: 68192
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Professor Richard J Gilbertson
Director of Studies for Clinical Science
Medical Science
Molecular Oncology
Normal development and the origins of cancer, particularly brain tumors. Development of new treatments of cancer. Diagnostic tests and clinical trials among children with cancer.
Office: F4 Third Court
Telephone: 67943
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Director of Studies for Clinical Science
Medical Science
Molecular Oncology
Normal development and the origins of cancer, particularly brain tumors. Development of new treatments of cancer. Diagnostic tests and clinical trials among children with cancer.
Office: F4 Third Court
Telephone: 67943
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Dr Elena Giusti
Fellow - Elect
Classics
Latin Literature
I am currently Assistant Professor of Latin Literature at the Faculty of Classics. I was previously Associate Professor in Latin Literature and Language at the University of Warwick, Research Fellow in Classics at St John's College Cambridge and University Teacher in Classics at the University of Glasgow. I studied at the University of Rome La Sapienza (BA and MA) and at King's College Cambridge (PhD).
I am broadly interested in Roman literature and thought, with a specialism in Augustan literature and Virgil in particular. I have published articles and book chapters at the junctures between traditional philology, cultural and intellectual history, and literary theory, with special interests in ideology critique, postcolonial studies and feminist theories.
My first monograph (Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid: Staging the Enemy under Augustus, Cambridge 2018) maps the oft-neglected influence of Carthage in Roman literature and thought, arguing for its significance in wider debates about the role of Greek literature and culture in the formation of Roman identity. It explores how Virgil’s Aeneid constructs, exploits, and subverts notions of Romans and Barbarians, and hides memories of both Punic and Civil Wars behind a mythical but cautionary tale. Among my current Virgilian projects, I am writing a commentary on Aeneid 5 for a new Lorenzo Valla commented edition of the Aeneid and co-writing a book on Dido of Carthage (with Samuel Agbamu) for Bloomsbury Academics.
I am currently writing a second monograph (Rome’s Imagined Africa, supported by a British Academy mid-career fellowship), which examines Roman literary representations of Africa (both Africa in the Latin sense of the term, and Ethiopia) and autochthonous African people at the turn between the Republic and the early imperial period. One of my aims is to show that a significant shift in the conceptualisation of Africa and of the whole oikoumene took place in this specific timeframe, especially in the ages of Augustus and Nero, and that the texts produced in this period bear commonalities with later European proto-colonialist and colonialist literature that allow us to bridge the gap between antiquity and modernity on the history of Western constructions of subaltern identities in the African continent. Africa emerges as a unique case study for understanding how histories of race, xenophobia, formation of the ‘Other’ work in (dis-)continuity between pre- and early modernity.
Another major strand of my research deals with strategies of textual absence and self-censorship under authoritarian regimes. In the pipeline, I am planning a monograph (Augustan Poetry and its Conspiracies) that will reflect upon ‘conspiracy’ as a simultaneously historical and literary practice, theorising a novel approach to reading poetic ambiguity and faltering political allegiance in Augustan poetry. The project employs the lens of ‘conspiracy’ both as a fundamental historical reality of the late Republic and early Augustan period that imbued these texts with a sense of political instability, and as a poetic strategy by which Augustan authors engage their readers, anticipating our own hermeneutic suspicions.
I have been involved in many collaborative projects. Together with Rosa Andújar and Jackie Murray, I am co-editing the new Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race; with Samuel Agbamu, I am co-editing a collection of essays on Classics and Italian Colonialism (De Gruyter). With Tom Geue, I co-edited a volume (Unspoken Rome: Absence in Latin Literature and its Reception, Cambridge 2021) that treats textual absence as a fundamental generative force both for the hermeneutics and the ongoing literary aftermath of Latin literary texts. With Victoria Rimell, I have co-edited a collection of essays on feminist theory and Virgilian scholarship (Vergil and the Feminine, special issue of Vergilius 2021); with Mathias Hanses and Giovanna Laterza, a special journal issue of Ramus on different interpretative readings of the Vitruvian man (2024).
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Fellow - Elect
Classics
Latin Literature
I am currently Assistant Professor of Latin Literature at the Faculty of Classics. I was previously Associate Professor in Latin Literature and Language at the University of Warwick, Research Fellow in Classics at St John's College Cambridge and University Teacher in Classics at the University of Glasgow. I studied at the University of Rome La Sapienza (BA and MA) and at King's College Cambridge (PhD).
I am broadly interested in Roman literature and thought, with a specialism in Augustan literature and Virgil in particular. I have published articles and book chapters at the junctures between traditional philology, cultural and intellectual history, and literary theory, with special interests in ideology critique, postcolonial studies and feminist theories.
My first monograph (Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid: Staging the Enemy under Augustus, Cambridge 2018) maps the oft-neglected influence of Carthage in Roman literature and thought, arguing for its significance in wider debates about the role of Greek literature and culture in the formation of Roman identity. It explores how Virgil’s Aeneid constructs, exploits, and subverts notions of Romans and Barbarians, and hides memories of both Punic and Civil Wars behind a mythical but cautionary tale. Among my current Virgilian projects, I am writing a commentary on Aeneid 5 for a new Lorenzo Valla commented edition of the Aeneid and co-writing a book on Dido of Carthage (with Samuel Agbamu) for Bloomsbury Academics.
I am currently writing a second monograph (Rome’s Imagined Africa, supported by a British Academy mid-career fellowship), which examines Roman literary representations of Africa (both Africa in the Latin sense of the term, and Ethiopia) and autochthonous African people at the turn between the Republic and the early imperial period. One of my aims is to show that a significant shift in the conceptualisation of Africa and of the whole oikoumene took place in this specific timeframe, especially in the ages of Augustus and Nero, and that the texts produced in this period bear commonalities with later European proto-colonialist and colonialist literature that allow us to bridge the gap between antiquity and modernity on the history of Western constructions of subaltern identities in the African continent. Africa emerges as a unique case study for understanding how histories of race, xenophobia, formation of the ‘Other’ work in (dis-)continuity between pre- and early modernity.
Another major strand of my research deals with strategies of textual absence and self-censorship under authoritarian regimes. In the pipeline, I am planning a monograph (Augustan Poetry and its Conspiracies) that will reflect upon ‘conspiracy’ as a simultaneously historical and literary practice, theorising a novel approach to reading poetic ambiguity and faltering political allegiance in Augustan poetry. The project employs the lens of ‘conspiracy’ both as a fundamental historical reality of the late Republic and early Augustan period that imbued these texts with a sense of political instability, and as a poetic strategy by which Augustan authors engage their readers, anticipating our own hermeneutic suspicions.
I have been involved in many collaborative projects. Together with Rosa Andújar and Jackie Murray, I am co-editing the new Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race; with Samuel Agbamu, I am co-editing a collection of essays on Classics and Italian Colonialism (De Gruyter). With Tom Geue, I co-edited a volume (Unspoken Rome: Absence in Latin Literature and its Reception, Cambridge 2021) that treats textual absence as a fundamental generative force both for the hermeneutics and the ongoing literary aftermath of Latin literary texts. With Victoria Rimell, I have co-edited a collection of essays on feminist theory and Virgilian scholarship (Vergil and the Feminine, special issue of Vergilius 2021); with Mathias Hanses and Giovanna Laterza, a special journal issue of Ramus on different interpretative readings of the Vitruvian man (2024).
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Dr Robin E Glasscock
Formerly Director of Studies, College Supervisor and University Lecturer in Geography, Dean,
Geography
Medieval settlement, agriculture and the economy in the UK and Ireland. Landscape history.
Office: E4 First Court
Telephone: 38695
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Formerly Director of Studies, College Supervisor and University Lecturer in Geography, Dean,
Geography
Medieval settlement, agriculture and the economy in the UK and Ireland. Landscape history.
Office: E4 First Court
Telephone: 38695
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Dr Peter Goddard
Formerly Master, Formerly University Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Formerly Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Mathematical physics; elementary particle physics; string theory; conformal field theory; infinite-dimensional Lie algebras.
Office: B2d Chapel Court
Telephone: 38745
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Formerly Master, Formerly University Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Formerly Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Mathematical physics; elementary particle physics; string theory; conformal field theory; infinite-dimensional Lie algebras.
Office: B2d Chapel Court
Telephone: 38745
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Dr Emily Gordon
College Associate Lecturer
Law
My main research interests lie in private law (particularly tort law) and legal history. I currently lecture and supervise Tripos students in Law of Tort and Civil Law I, and LLM students in Law and Information.
Office: Chapel Court D8b
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College Associate Lecturer
Law
My main research interests lie in private law (particularly tort law) and legal history. I currently lecture and supervise Tripos students in Law of Tort and Civil Law I, and LLM students in Law and Information.
Office: Chapel Court D8b
Full profile