Fellowship Report

Three new Official Fellows have joined the College this year. Jane Rempel is a classical archaeologist from Ontario who comes to Cambridge via Sheffield and excavates ancient Greece on the shore of the Black Sea. Jane will teach classics. Helen Charman returns to Cambridge from Durham to teach modern English and the political history of motherhood. Burigede Liu, an expert on data-driven multi-scale modelling, joins us to teach engineering. Jon Sterling, an expert on category theory, studied linguistics at Berkeley and then Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. He joins the College as a bye-Fellow to teach computer science. Nick Simcik Arese moves from being external Director of Studies in Architecture to a bye-Fellowship. Michelle Arora, who is a consultant paediatrician and clinical lead for student experience at the Clinical School, has been working with David Rowitch as DoS in Clinical Medicine and also becomes a bye-Fellow.

We have two new research Fellows in the humanities: Kate Tilson, who studies the British missionary movement and the history of printing in the nineteenth-century South Pacific; Jessica Plant, who studies archaeology of the Mediterranean basin and is an expert on the impact of architectural surfacing on the Roman world. Macarena Arenas, who joined the College last year as the Denman Baynes Senior Student has now become a research Fellow after being awarded her PhD on cubical small-cancellation theory and large-dimensional hyperbolic groups.

Julija Krupic has left the Fellowship to become a group leader at the UK Dementia Research Institute, UCL, where she will study entorhinal-hippocampal neural circuits and their influence on how we remember places and events. Damien Pollard has moved to Northumbria University where he is continuing to listen to the movies. Raj Pandya has changed tack from the physics department in Cambridge to the chemistry department at the University of Warwick where he is imaging complex charge dynamics.

The College Research Associates, chaired by Ed Harding, have demonstrated the breadth of their knowledge through a wide-ranging lecture series this year, including neuroscience, noise reduction, klezmer music, tardigrades, crystals and fluid mechanics. We are grateful for all of their contributions to teaching and to College life.

Both Andrew Carter (Admissions Tutor) and David Hodell (Director of Studies in Earth Sciences) have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society. Andrew studies dyneins: molecules that walk along microtubules. David is an expert on how climate change has affected ancient civilisations. Honorary Fellow Anthony Appiah, who is a cultural theorist and Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, is now a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society.