Fellows Directory
Honorary Fellows of the College
Dr Jules O'Dwyer
Modern and Medieval Languages
Jules O’Dwyer works primarily on contemporary French film and thought. His doctoral work addresses interrelated questions of spatiality and sexuality, with a focus on the work of Jacques Nolot, Vincent Dieutre and Alain Guiraudie. His publications have looked at a range of theoretical paradigms—including object-oriented thought, apparatus theory, and questions of intertextuality and stardom—through the lens of French film, ranging from 1950s ethnographic film to recent queer cinema.
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Modern and Medieval Languages
Jules O’Dwyer works primarily on contemporary French film and thought. His doctoral work addresses interrelated questions of spatiality and sexuality, with a focus on the work of Jacques Nolot, Vincent Dieutre and Alain Guiraudie. His publications have looked at a range of theoretical paradigms—including object-oriented thought, apparatus theory, and questions of intertextuality and stardom—through the lens of French film, ranging from 1950s ethnographic film to recent queer cinema.
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The Rev'd Canon Dr Mark Oakley
Dean
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Dean
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Richard Partington
Senior Tutor
History
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Senior Tutor
History
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Professor Uta Paszkowski
Director of Studies in Plant Sciences, College Lecturer in Plant Sciences, Reader in Plant Molecular Genetics
Natural Science (Biological)
Plant Sciences
Plant Molecular Genetics with special focus on Cereal Symbioses.
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Director of Studies in Plant Sciences, College Lecturer in Plant Sciences, Reader in Plant Molecular Genetics
Natural Science (Biological)
Plant Sciences
Plant Molecular Genetics with special focus on Cereal Symbioses.
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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.
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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.
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Dr Anna Plumridge
English
My primary interests are in textual scholarship and colonial and postcolonial literatures. My research so far has focused on writing produced under colonial rule in Australasia.
My first publication was a scholarly edition of the ‘Urewera Notebook’, a journal kept by Katherine Mansfield while camping in the central North Island of New Zealand in 1907. My PhD consisted of another scholarly edition, this time of Samuel Butler’s satiric novel 'Erewhon' (1872). My edition situated the novel in its colonial context, as an example of the two-way literary and cultural traffic between Cambridge and New Zealand at the height of the British Empire.
During my Fellowship, I am working on a monograph which examines the workings of empire as a ‘textual exercise’, maintained through the media of ink and paper, through a book-length case study of the official and literary papers of Alfred Domett (1811-1887), colonial premier, journalist and poet.
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English
My primary interests are in textual scholarship and colonial and postcolonial literatures. My research so far has focused on writing produced under colonial rule in Australasia.
My first publication was a scholarly edition of the ‘Urewera Notebook’, a journal kept by Katherine Mansfield while camping in the central North Island of New Zealand in 1907. My PhD consisted of another scholarly edition, this time of Samuel Butler’s satiric novel 'Erewhon' (1872). My edition situated the novel in its colonial context, as an example of the two-way literary and cultural traffic between Cambridge and New Zealand at the height of the British Empire.
During my Fellowship, I am working on a monograph which examines the workings of empire as a ‘textual exercise’, maintained through the media of ink and paper, through a book-length case study of the official and literary papers of Alfred Domett (1811-1887), colonial premier, journalist and poet.
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Dr Dhruv Ranganathan
College Lectureship in Pure Mathematics
Mathematics
Algebraic geometry
Dr Ranganathan studies algebraic geometry. His work focuses on tropical geometry in moduli theory and enumerative geometry.
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College Lectureship in Pure Mathematics
Mathematics
Algebraic geometry
Dr Ranganathan studies algebraic geometry. His work focuses on tropical geometry in moduli theory and enumerative geometry.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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".
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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".
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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.
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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.
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Professor John Rink
Director of Studies in Music, College Supervisor in Music, Professor of Musical Performance Studies, Director, Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies
Music
Nineteenth-century music (especially Chopin, Liszt, Brahms), performance studies, theory and analysis, digital musicology, improvisation.
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Director of Studies in Music, College Supervisor in Music, Professor of Musical Performance Studies, Director, Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies
Music
Nineteenth-century music (especially Chopin, Liszt, Brahms), performance studies, theory and analysis, digital musicology, improvisation.
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Dr Christopher J Robinson
Formerly Organist & formerly Director of Music
Music
Music
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Formerly Organist & formerly Director of Music
Music
Music
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Col Richard H Robinson
Formerly Domestic Bursar
Ex Army
Retired
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Formerly Domestic Bursar
Ex Army
Retired
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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.
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University Reader
Natural Sciences (Physical)
The electronic and magnetic properties of metallic and oxide thin-films, multilayers, and heterostructure devices.
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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.
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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.
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Dr Kadi Saar
Natural Sciences (Physical)
Biophysical Chemistry
My research focusses on developing new experimental and predictive computational methods for understanding the behaviour of proteins in their native state in solution.
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Natural Sciences (Physical)
Biophysical Chemistry
My research focusses on developing new experimental and predictive computational methods for understanding the behaviour of proteins in their native state in solution.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dr Gabriella Santangelo
College Lecturer in Economics, University Lecturer in Economics
Economics
Economics of Developing Countries
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College Lecturer in Economics, University Lecturer in Economics
Economics
Economics of Developing Countries
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Ms Ella M Sbaraini
History
18th and 19th century British history
Ella Sbaraini is a historian with a particular interest in histories of mental health, death, the emotions, race and sexuality. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of Britain from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, and it seeks to examine the construction, and experience, of mental ill-health during this period.
Her PhD explored the experience of feeling suicidal in England and Wales between 1700 and 1850. It considered what it was like to feel suicidal at a time when suicide was illegal, the emotions that people expressed, and how these changed over time. It challenged the idea that suicide was ‘secularised’ over this period, instead proposing that suicide had profound religious significance for those who considered it.
During her Fellowship, Ms Sbaraini is working on a new project investigating the relationship between mental health, race and class in Britain from 1770 to 1920. Using a wider variety of legal, institutional and personal sources, it will seek to historicise racism and race-making in British mental health institutions, and to examine how racialised conceptions of mental health operated in wider society.
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History
18th and 19th century British history
Ella Sbaraini is a historian with a particular interest in histories of mental health, death, the emotions, race and sexuality. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of Britain from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, and it seeks to examine the construction, and experience, of mental ill-health during this period.
Her PhD explored the experience of feeling suicidal in England and Wales between 1700 and 1850. It considered what it was like to feel suicidal at a time when suicide was illegal, the emotions that people expressed, and how these changed over time. It challenged the idea that suicide was ‘secularised’ over this period, instead proposing that suicide had profound religious significance for those who considered it.
During her Fellowship, Ms Sbaraini is working on a new project investigating the relationship between mental health, race and class in Britain from 1770 to 1920. Using a wider variety of legal, institutional and personal sources, it will seek to historicise racism and race-making in British mental health institutions, and to examine how racialised conceptions of mental health operated in wider society.
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Dr Christiana Scheib
Archaeology
Ancient DNA
The intersection in human health between diet, genes and disease. Population genetics, ancient DNA, ancient proteins, pathogens.
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Archaeology
Ancient DNA
The intersection in human health between diet, genes and disease. Population genetics, ancient DNA, ancient proteins, pathogens.
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Professor Malcolm Schofield
Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy, College Supervisor in Ancient Philosophy
Classics
Has interests in a broad range of subjects within ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. Author (with G.S. Kirk and J.E. Raven) of The Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge U.P., 1983 [2nd edn.]), The Stoic Idea of the City (Chicago U.P., 1999 [expanded edn.]), Saving the City (Routledge, 1999), and Plato: Political Philosophy (Oxford U.P., 2006). Co-editor of The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy (Cambridge U.P., 1999), and the Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (Cambridge U.P., 2000). Editor of Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the First Century B.C. (Cambridge U.P., 2013). Currently working mostly on Plato's Laws and on Cicero's philosophical writings.
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Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy, College Supervisor in Ancient Philosophy
Classics
Has interests in a broad range of subjects within ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. Author (with G.S. Kirk and J.E. Raven) of The Presocratic Philosophers (Cambridge U.P., 1983 [2nd edn.]), The Stoic Idea of the City (Chicago U.P., 1999 [expanded edn.]), Saving the City (Routledge, 1999), and Plato: Political Philosophy (Oxford U.P., 2006). Co-editor of The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy (Cambridge U.P., 1999), and the Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (Cambridge U.P., 2000). Editor of Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoreanism in the First Century B.C. (Cambridge U.P., 2013). Currently working mostly on Plato's Laws and on Cicero's philosophical writings.
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Dr Matteo Seita
Granta Design Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering
Engineering
Dr Seita's research focuses on metal additive manufacturing (AM), characterisation and testing, and microstructure engineering of structural alloys. He is very interested in studying how the point-by-point material forming process typical of AM yields the microstructure heterogeneity that is frequently observed in metal parts. This heterogeneity is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it leads to large property scatter and casts uncertainty over parts performance, hindering the adoption of additive technologies by the industry. On the other hand, it may impart exceptional mechanical properties, which even surpass those found in conventionally produced materials. Dr Seita's goal is to understand and control this microstructure heterogeneity to design and produce materials with "architected microstructures" which will exhibit more predictable behaviour and tailored functionalities. His vision is that this unique capability will enable a new design paradigm in metal AM for producing both geometry-and microstructure-optimized parts.
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Granta Design Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering
Engineering
Dr Seita's research focuses on metal additive manufacturing (AM), characterisation and testing, and microstructure engineering of structural alloys. He is very interested in studying how the point-by-point material forming process typical of AM yields the microstructure heterogeneity that is frequently observed in metal parts. This heterogeneity is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it leads to large property scatter and casts uncertainty over parts performance, hindering the adoption of additive technologies by the industry. On the other hand, it may impart exceptional mechanical properties, which even surpass those found in conventionally produced materials. Dr Seita's goal is to understand and control this microstructure heterogeneity to design and produce materials with "architected microstructures" which will exhibit more predictable behaviour and tailored functionalities. His vision is that this unique capability will enable a new design paradigm in metal AM for producing both geometry-and microstructure-optimized parts.
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Professor Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri
College Lecturer in Physiology/Reproductive Biology , Tutor for Law, Land Economy and Geography
Natural Science (Biological)
Physiology/Reproductive Biology
Professor Sferruzzi-Perri's interest lies in understanding the aetiology of pregnancy complications and the regulation of developmental processes in a wider context. Her laboratory has been investigating the environmental and genetic control of placental morphogenesis and function and its relevance for fetal development, maternal health and the long-term programming of disease.
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College Lecturer in Physiology/Reproductive Biology , Tutor for Law, Land Economy and Geography
Natural Science (Biological)
Physiology/Reproductive Biology
Professor Sferruzzi-Perri's interest lies in understanding the aetiology of pregnancy complications and the regulation of developmental processes in a wider context. Her laboratory has been investigating the environmental and genetic control of placental morphogenesis and function and its relevance for fetal development, maternal health and the long-term programming of disease.
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