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Gates Scholars 2011 Foreword by Professor After my first year as Provost, I am that community’s extension beyond Cambridge is to be even more impressed by what this found both in the work of the Alumni Association and in extraordinary programme offers my own meetings with former Gates Scholars around the both the world. During this last year, I have personally seen some and its élite of Gates Scholars. of them in New Haven, Seattle, New York and Singapore. It has been a year of reviewing All of them remain deeply committed to the Gates the tremendous achievements of the last decade and Cambridge Trust. We can be confident that each new looking ahead to the further development of the Trust. generation of graduates will further enhance the profile of Working closely with the Scholars’ Council on this has the Scholarships. Academic brilliance, allied to leadership been immensely rewarding, reinforcing my respect for potential, justified their original selection. Their work, the ways in which the students themselves enrich the across so many disciplines, will change the ways in which experience and opportunities afforded by the vision important global challenges are met. Gates Scholars have and founding generosity of the Bill & Melinda Gates the responsibility and privilege to shape the future. Foundation. The newly-established formal Welcome and Graduation occasions here in Cambridge have also strengthened the sense of community which is a distinct feature of the Gates Scholarships. And the evidence of Professor Robert Lethbridge, Provost

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Contents Foreword by Professor Robert Lethbridge...... 1

About the Scholarships...... 2

Trustees, Officers and Staff...... 3

Scholars’ Council...... 4

Alumni Association...... 5

Alphabetical list of Gates Scholars in residence during 2011–12 by year of entry...... 6

Table of Gates Scholars in residence during 2011–12 by country...... 66

Table of Gates Scholars in residence during 2011–12 by college...... 66

About the scholarships The Gates Scholars’ Council (page 4), made up of 12 In October 2000 the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation current scholars, represents the needs of Scholars in donated $210 million to the University of Cambridge to Cambridge. The Council organises a range of regular establish the Gates Cambridge Trust. events for new and current scholars – such as the orientation programme for new scholars, a distinguished The Trust administers the Gates Cambridge Scholarships lectures series, Scholars’ symposia, annual conferences – a prestigious international scholarship programme that and a wide range of social events – most of which are brings outstanding graduates from outside the United open to the wider Cambridge community. Kingdom to study at the University of Cambridge. Gates Cambridge Scholarships are awarded on the basis of a The Gates Scholars’ Alumni Association [GSAA] (page 5) person’s intellectual ability, leadership capacity, a good – established in 2005 by members of the inaugural class fit with Cambridge, and a desire to use knowledge to of scholars – works to ensure every alum remains part contribute to society. of the Gates Cambridge community after completing their course. There are currently 836 Gates Alumni from The first entry of Gates Scholars came to Cambridge in 88 countries who are spread throughout the world October 2001. Since then the Trust has awarded 1,075 pursuing a wide range of careers. The GSAA organises scholarships to citizens of 94 countries. In October 2011 regular alumni events, undertakes outreach activities the Trust awarded 88 scholarships to new Scholars from and helps to build a strong and lasting network of future 29 countries. leaders committed to improving the lives of others.

In the 2011/12 academic year there are 239 Gates Full details about the Gates Cambridge Scholars from 53 countries studying in Cambridge. Scholarships, Scholars and Alumni are available from Scholars pursue the full range of academic disciplines www.gatesscholar.org. available at Cambridge and are spread throughout all 31 Colleges. The following pages highlight their achievements, activities and aspirations.

2 Trustees Professor Sir Leszek Mr William H Gates Sr Borysiewicz, FRS Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Vice-Chancellor of the University of Foundation Cambridge and Chair of the Gates Cambridge Trust

Mr Eric Godfrey Lord Rees of Ludlow, Vice President & Vice Provost for OM, FRS Student Life, University of Washington President of the Royal Society and of Trinity College, Cambridge

Dr Andrew Robertson Dr David Runciman UC Berkeley School of Law, Reader in Political Thought at and Gates Scholar 2001 Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Professor Susan Smith, FBA Professor Megan Vaughan, Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge FBA Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Cambridge

Officers Professor Robert Mr Andrew Thompson, Lethbridge (Provost) MBE (Treasurer) Master of Fitzwilliam College, Fellow (and Senior Bursar Emeritus) Cambridge of Magdalene College, Cambridge

Dr Mr Jim Smith (Secretary) (Executive Officer) of the University of Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge Cambridge

Dr David Lott Ms Lucy Milazzo (Trust Accountant) (Student Support Officer) Senior Member of Wolfson College, Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge Cambridge

Ms Kirsty Simons Mrs Usha Virdee (Scholarships Officer) (Accounts Assistant)

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Scholars’ Council 2011–12 The Gates Scholars Council was established to enrich the The Council puts on a range of events for current academic, social, and professional lives of Scholars while Scholars, including: a multi-day orientation event new in Cambridge, as well as to help create a global network Scholars, the Gates Cambridge Distinguished Lecture of future leaders committed to improving the lives of series, Scholar colloquia and regular social and academic others. events throughout the year.

Orian Megan Sim Douglas Welling Vice President & Brumley President & Secretary Treasurer Chair

Stella Andrew Cameron Nordhagen Gruen Taylor Alumni Officer Communications Gates Scholar Officer Magazine Editor-in-Chief

Alice Gina Diego Adriaenssens Murphy Bravo Academic Affairs Internal Officer External Officer Officer

Alex Davies Anastasiia Dankrad Social Officer Kamenska Feist Social Officer Technology Officer

4 Gates Scholars Alumni Association (GSAA) The GSAA was established in 2005 by members of The GSAA is funded by and fully aligned with the the inaugural class of Scholars and works closely with strategic aims of the Trust: its Board of Directors the Trust to create a global network of future leaders undertake outreach and profile-raising work though committed to improving the lives of others. the Ambassadors programme and organise a range of in person and on-line events to ensure that All Gates Scholars automatically become members of alumni continue to feel part of the Gates Cambridge the GSAA upon completion of their Scholarship and community upon completion of their degree. are encouraged to become involved in its activities.

Co-Chairs of the Alumni Association Trivikram Jennifer Arun Piscopo

Coordinating Committee Members Tristan Lauren Kate Franko Brown Zeitels Director of Treasurer Secretary Communications

Dan Nathan Mun-Kit DiCenso George Choy Director of Director of Director of Communications Membership Membership

Mamta Sook May Sarah Thangaraj Ivy Tierney Director of Public Director of Niyogii Interest Professional Director of Development Technology

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Ms Tovah Ackerman Ms Andra Adams USA • 2011 Canada • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Criminology, Queens’ College PhD in Computer Science, previous university Emmanuel College Amherst College previous university University of Waterloo I am honored to be studying criminology in Cambridge. I am I’m currently pursuing a PhD in particularly interested in narratives of criminality, particularly Computer Science in the Emotionally Intelligent Interfaces the dehumanizing rhetoric used to describe criminals in research group of the Computer Laboratory. My research the U.S., e.g. calling them monsters, scum, beasts, etc. In my focuses on applying affective computing and social experience such language is often followed by espoused robotics in an intervention for children with autism support for harsh punishment. I am curious whether a spectrum conditions. Specifically, I’m using a highly-realistic similar narrative of criminality exists in the U.K. and, if so, robotic head to facilitate emotion recognition from facial how such a narrative might relate to a national attitude on expressions. I love travelling and hiking, and am looking criminal punishment. I will be applying this year to PhD forward to another year of exploring the incredible trails in programs in the US and eventually would like to teach, the UK and throughout Europe. research, and stay involved in non-profit prison reform Interests: social robotics, affective computing, technology organizations. for education, travelling, hiking, running, scuba diving, Interests: Travelling, good food, and good books. kayaking, watching ice hockey /uploads/5567/001 Andra Adams_thumb.JPG /uploads/5573/Ackerman_thumb.jpg

Miss Victoria Adesanya Miss Alice Adriaenssens Nigeria • 2009 USA • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Engineering, Queens’ College PhD in Clinical Biochemistry, previous university Churchill College University of Lagos previous university University of California (Davis) I have the greatest honour of being one of the 2009 Gates Scholars. I will I recently graduated from the be studying for an MPhil in Advanced Chemical Engineering University of California, Davis with a B.S. in Biochemistry and research into renewable energy sources. In addition I and Molecular . With the generous help of the Gates hope to offer as many management modules as possible Cambridge Trust, I am entering my third year in the four year to enhance my innovation and improve my business skills. PhD program in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease at After Cambridge, I intend to work where I can apply my the Institute of Metabolic Science. My PhD project will focus technical and commercial knowledge on cutting-edge on the molecular basis of the incretin effect. Specifically, projects and attain a chartered engineer status. I will be using various imaging techniques to analyze the Interests: Travelling, sight-seeing, photography, singing, nutrient sensing capabilities of intestinal enteroendocrine watching movies and cooking Nigerian dishes. cells, as well as the vesicle dynamics of incretin /uploads/5419/DSC01043 – Copy_thumb.JPG hormones. Hopefully, by understanding the intricacies of stimulus-secretion coupling mechanisms in intestinal enteroendocrine cells we will be closer to harnessing the incretin effect in therapies aimed at improving the glucose tolerance of patients with type 2 diabetes. Interests: I enjoy any outdoor sport or activity, including distance running, cycling, hiking, backpacking, soccer, and equestrian sports. I also love traveling and vegetarian cooking.

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6 Dr Sara Ahmadi-Abhari Ms Darinee Alagirisamy Iran • 2009 Singapore • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Public Health and Primary Care, MPhil in Modern South-Asian Studies, Trinity College Selwyn College previous university My name is Darinee Alagirisamy Tehran University of Medical Sciences and I hail from the sunny island of From the research projects I Singapore. My undergraduate years in engaged in during my time as a medical student and the National University of Singapore instilled in me a deep my work experience on Malaria control at the United appreciation of the past, and its enduring relevance to the Nations Development Programme, I realized how vital present. In particular, the experience piqued my curiosity epidemiological research is in developing disease control about the South Asian diaspora. Having won a teaching programs. In pursuing PhD in public health, I plan to work scholarship earlier, I entered the world of pre-university as a scientific researcher, conducting population-based education as a lecturer and tutor upon graduation. research that is translated into strategies that address health Throughout this time, my passion for research persisted problems at a global level. and I hope to now explore some of the questions that my undergraduate work spawned. My MPhil focuses attention Interests: Travelling, hiking, photography, music, swimming. /uploads/5420/1424-1_thumb.jpg on the relationship binding the Tamil community settled in late-colonial Malaya to India. I believe that in the wake of the HINDRAF riots that shook Malaysia in 2007, my research on this community’s identity formation and its implications for nation-building, is not only timely, but critical. I trust that the MPhil will be an important foundation to my envisioned career in academia. Interests: When I am not thinking or talking about my research interests, I indulge in reading, traveling, yoga and cooking.

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Mr Martin Atela Ms Sophie Atkinson Kenya • 2009 Australia • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Public Health and Primary Care, MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Peterhouse Development, Jesus College previous universities I am excited to be furthering my University of Copenhagen studies at Cambridge this year University of Cambridge with an MPhil in Engineering for Moi University Sustainable Development. My research for my honours thesis involved addressing renewable energy options for Using mix methodology approaches – household survey the State of Victoria. I explored the potential for Victoria to & hospital document reviews/analysis, supplemented with become carbon neutral by harnessing its natural resources, key policy makers/implementers targeted interviews and such as wind and solar energy. I presented a paper on my participatory approaches – my research investigates the research at the ISPRS/IGU Joint Conference in Hong Kong, factors that impact on the performance of household- 2010. I undertook a student exchange to Lund University, health system accountability & engagement mechanisms Sweden, where I witnessed a socially and environmentally in supporting primary care delivery in Kenya’s rural health effective approach to transport and urbanisation. Prior facilities. The aim is to understand the role of process in to coming to Cambridge, I was working as an engineer the functioning of the structures with a view to generating for VicRoads, where I was involved in major infrastructure coherent policy options to strengthen the capacity of development including construction of a major bridge, structures in delivering care for HIV/AIDS patients at this incorporating road, rail and river networks. I seek to help level of the health system. transform trends in urbanisation and transport through Interests: In addition to health research, I very much sustainable development. I am eager to commence my enjoy and is involved in several developmental politics studies and become involved in life at Cambridge. constructed around maternal and child health and youth Interests: Running, reading and travelling. empowerment through education besides group cooking. /uploads/5638/Atkinson, Sophie_thumb.jpg

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Miss Marianne Bauer Ms Rachel Baum Germany • 2008 Canada • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in , Jesus College MPhil in Musicology, previous university Sidney Sussex College St Andrews University previous university McGill University After an MPhil in Theoretical Chemistry, I moved into theoretical I’m studying Islam and daily life physics to understand more about more fundamental during the 10th century CE. My main interest is social processes in different systems. My supervisor and group interactions that integrated or involved musical behaviours. in Cambridge and the support of the Trust have helped Interests: Medieval history and languages; cross-cultural me enormously during this transition. I am now working studies; improvisation; historiography; Arabic literature; towards my PhD in the area of ultracold atoms. I hope that singing and playing instruments; organic gardening and at some point I will be able to make use of all the different cooking; vegetarianism; animal rights; midwifery. aspects of my education. /uploads/5520/gatespicanija_thumb.jpg Interests: Reading, languages, hiking, tea, friends.

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Mr Kevin Beckford Miss Sytske Besemer USA • 2011 Netherlands • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in African Studies, PhD in Criminology, Jesus College Downing College previous universities previous university Free University, Amsterdam Yale University Leiden University I am pursuing an MPhil in African Before coming to Cambridge I studied Studies. My areas of interest include: black transnationalism, psychology and criminology in Leiden and Amsterdam. political protest, and youth identity. For my PhD I am investigating mechanisms explaining Interests: Jesus Christ, Gospel Music, Hip Hop Culture, the intergenerational transmission of violent and criminal Activism, Food, Community Service, Education, Weight behaviour. Why do children of criminal/aggressive parents Lifting, Afro – Caribbean culture, Comedy, have a higher risk of showing similar behaviour? I aim to /uploads/5575/KB – Professional 1_thumb.jpg contrast several explanations for this intergenerational continuity such as social learning, official bias against certain families, and the transmission of risk factors. I investigate this in as well as in the Netherlands. By doing this I hope to contribute to knowledge about the development of aggression and criminal behaviour, which can help to design interventions against such behaviour. I am fascinated by human development of which these types of behaviour are just one part. Interests: I love playing outdoors; on my roadbike, skiing down mountains, climbing rocks, and windsurfing. I also love photography, cooking, and volunteering for Heppie (www.heppie.nl).

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8 Mr Apoorva Bhandari Mrs Anjali Bhardwaj Datta India • 2008 India • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Biological Science, PhD in History, Trinity College Darwin College previous university previous universities University of Delhi University of Edinburgh History has always fascinated me. It National Centre for Biological Science, was my love for the discipline that India made me opt for humanities in school. Subsequently, St. Xavier’s College, Gujarat University, India I attained my honours, Masters and M. Phil degrees in I have a long standing interest in understanding the History from the University of Delhi where I attained architecture of the brain and how it contributes to making University positions and scholarships, and was engaged in us the way we are. I believe that increasingly, discourses undergraduate teaching. Over the last eight years of my in people management and education will be based on a teaching I have published my research papers in journals shared account of brain function. At Cambridge I intend of international repute. I am deeply interested in twentieth to pursue a PhD studying the mechanisms of attention century Indian history with special focus on gender and and cognitive control in humans. Eventually I wish to society. My earlier research focused on post Partition (of establish a laboratory in India to pursue research in the India-1947) refugee rehabilitation with special focus on neural mechanisms of higher cognition, an area largely women as agents of change in the capital city of Delhi. unrepresented in my country. I hope to build bridges with For my PhD, I wish to expand my interest to looking at a the education and tutoring community and fulfill the comparative and correlative study of Partition in the West promise that neuroscience holds for education. and East of India via the case studies of Delhi and Calcutta Interests: I’m interested in children’s minds, politics, SLR with chief thrust on women as sustainers bringing urban photography, street food, hindi cinema and the history of morphological changes. the Indus Valley Civilization and the Enlightenment. Interests: My other interests include traveling, playing /uploads/5223/apoorva.bhandari_thumb.JPG badminton, engaging with my two year old son, listening to music and working towards the emancipation of women through activism in India.

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Ms Beatrice Bianchi Ms Julia Bolotina Italy • 2011 Canada • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in African Studies, Peterhouse MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and previous universities Celtic, St John’s College University of Paris I “Panthéon- I graduated from the University of Sorbonne Toronto with a degree in Medieval University of Naples “L’Orientale Studies and English, and am pursuing an MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic with At the age of 18 I made my first trip to Africa, to volunteer the generous aid of the Gates Cambridge Trust. My thesis in a hospital in Ethiopia. This experience changed my life focuses on medicine as it was practiced in Anglo-Saxon and played a fundamental role in determining my academic England outside of monastic circles, particularly by those choice in socio-political and African studies. I graduated who are under-represented in the written record; with this in “International Relations” focused on African studies in I hope to address issues of the access to and dissemination Italy, then carried out my postgraduate studies in African of information. Politics at the Sorbonne. Since 2007 I have been focusing

on political research about Guinea Conakry. Considering the /uploads/5606/picresized_1311438843_24_thumb.jpg present extremely crucial socio-political situation of Guinea, my MPhil in Cambridge will enable me to achieve precious tools to continue my research on the political evolution, by analysing the achievements or failures of the transition in a country often neglected by academic research. My hope is to continue my research towards a PhD focused on a comparative study of post-crisis affairs in West Africa. My ambition is to work for international organisations or NGOs involved in conflict management and peace building. Interests: International Relations, Anthropology, travelling, discovering new cultures and people. I also enjoy classical music, photography, and hiking.

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Mr Joseph Bonneau Mr Matko Botincan USA • 2008 Croatia • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Computer Science, PhD in Computer Science, Churchill College Trinity College previous university previous university Sveuciliste u Zagrebu (Croatia) I study security, researching both I come from Croatia where I finished technical aspects of cryptography and the human element my previous degrees in Mathematics. So far I have worked in large systems like the Internet. I’ve studied everything on a number of computer science projects in academia and from lock-picking to number theory to the economics industry dealing with different topics such as combinatorial of privacy with the goal of balancing technology’s role optimization, numerical simulations, compiler construction, in our lives. I’m passionate about using computers as an security and semantic web. As a PhD student at Computer empowering technology, enabling privacy, free speech, free Laboratory I am working in the area of software verification association, and free access to information. My thesis work trying to find new and improve current techniques focuses on the increasing difficulty of establishing identity for checking correctness of software. I am also actively in an interconnected world of many digital devices. involved in entrepreneurial activities and am serving Interests: Sports (American football, association football, as Vice-President for 2010/11 of Cambridge University rugby, water polo), bicycle touring, hosting pub quizzes, Entrepreneurs. science fiction, classic video games. Interests: Computer science, entrepreneurship, economy,

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Mr Chris Boyce Mr Diego Bravo USA • 2011 Argentina • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Chemical Engineering, PhD in Physiology, Development & Trinity College Neuroscience, St John’s College previous university previous universities Massachusetts Institute of Technology Balseiro Instiute, Cuyo National Since high school I have been University very interested in engineering new energy technologies Balseiro Institute – Cuyo National University to help mitigate carbon emissions. Now I am imaging and modeling fundamental aspects of fluidized beds One of the most promising models of synaptic plasticity to better enable combustion cycles with carbon shows that it depends on the precise timing of neuronal capture and sequestration. I am also interested in using activation. These learning – related events are embedded entrepreneurship to bring developing technologies to on structures generating sustained oscillatory activity. The industry, where these technologies can truly impact the temporal and spatial interplay of both processes generates world. Now, I am working on a company I started after high a rich and complex dynamics with fascinating emergent school which designs and simulates flexible, stretchable properties. Beyond its aesthetic charms, these phenomena circuit boards to enable wearable electronics. In the future, I are fundamental and ubiquitous in the developing and hope to combine these interests to entrepreneur innovative functioning brain. I plan to devote my next three years to energy ideas which can ultimately help to mitigate global a combined approach to the topic, alternating theoretical climate change. and experimental techniques: mathematical models and Interests: Soccer, tennis, entrepreneurship, scuba diving, computational simulations from my original background in Gates scholars events theoretical physics, and electrophysiology and optogenetics /uploads/5576/Boyce, C_thumb.jpg from my newly acquired skills in physiology. Interests: Besides neuroscience, my dearest pleasure is literature: reading, writing short-stories and oral storytelling. I also enjoy baroque music, teaching, languages, walking and hiking with friends, and evenings at the theatre.

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10 Mr Simon Breakspear Mr Peter Brereton Australia • 2009 USA • 2001 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Education, Queens’ College PhD in Physics, St Edmund’s College previous university previous university University of Oxford Naval Academy I want to re-imagine and redesign In Richard Phillips’ Quantum organised learning as we know it Optoelectronics Group at the (i.e. education systems). I am increasingly passionate about Cavendish looking into the coherent control and working with school and system leaders to challenge spectroscopy of quantum structures in semiconductors the status quo, inspire fresh thinking and leverage new (quantum wells/dots). Research has wide applicability solutions in order to radically improve learning. My PhD in the design of new and novel semiconductor devices research focuses on the role international comparisons for computing as well as adding to our fundamental of school system performance can play for policy makers understanding of electronic processes in condensed matter who are seeking to improve their country’s performance. systems. Enjoying Cambridge with my wife Amy (a visiting I have spent 3 months at the OECD in Paris as part of the scholar at the Faculty of Education) and twin babies Peter PISA team and am now interviewing policy makers across and Isabelle. five countries. I am also leading a network of emerging Interests: Quantum Information science, Rowing. educational leaders across Australia and New Zealand who /uploads/3520/passportphoto_thumb.jpg are seeking to develop innovative solutions to local learning challenges. Interests: Running, traveling, and long, lazy meals with friends.

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Miss Emily Bruce Mr Douglas Brumley USA • 2007 Australia • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Biological Science (Pathology), PhD in Applied Mathematics and Pembroke College Theoretical Physics, Trinity College previous university previous university Vassar College I work in Dr Paul Digard’s lab in the In 2008 I completed a Bachelor of Division of Virology studying the role of cellular proteins in Science (Degree with Honours) from The University of Influenza A virus assembly and budding. Melbourne, after which, I studied the fluid mechanics of Interests: I enjoy reading, hiking and traveling (especially nanoscale devices. I am now in the second year of my outside cities). I recently ran my first half-marathon and I PhD in Applied Mathematics at Cambridge. In particular, have a dog named Pippin, who occupies much of my time I study the fluid mechanics of biological systems. At the when I’m not in lab. moment I am developing mathematical models to describe /uploads/5043/emilybruce.jpg concentrated suspensions of swimming microorganisms, in which the hydrodynamic interactions are significant. Interests: I enjoy cycling, swimming and rowing, both from a competitive and social point of view. I also enjoy cooking, woodwork (furniture and model making) and photography.

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Ms Marie Brunet Mr Michael Bycroft France • 2011 New Zealand • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Pharmacology, Christ’s College PhD in History and Philosophy of Science, Darwin College I graduated as a veterinarian in 2010 from Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire previous university d’Alfort, Paris. I am currently attending University of Toronto a specialization in medicine and In September 2010 I arrived in surgery of small animals at Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire Cambridge to begin my PhD in the History and Philosophy d’Alfort and writing my veterinary thesis. I have always been of Science. Earlier this year I published two papers in the interested in Research and Pharmacology. I discovered subject: Going Outside the Model: Robustness Analysis more about those fields during a summer school in and Experimental Science, in Spontaneous Generations Cambridge. I organized a collaboration between my (online journal run by graduate students at the University of veterinary school and the Pharmacology Department to Toronto) The trials of theory: Psychology and institutionalist come back to do my veterinary thesis there. Outside of my economics, 1910-1931, in Journal of the History of the studies, I enjoy to share my knowledge with other students Behavioral Sciences My PhD topic is on the emergence and to help them to go through the lessons. I worked as of the experimental method in the late 17th and early a student’s tutor for 6 years. I belong to an association 18th centuries in the physical sciences, with a focus on aiming to protect wildlife and the environment. I intend to experimental variation: the use of multiple materials, pursue a PhD in Pharmacology in Cambridge, focused on instruments, procedures, and experimenters to give the mechanism governing the trafficking and targeting of multi-pillared support to claims about . I am looking the P2X7-purinergic receptor, an important regulator in the forward to studying under Professor Hasok Chang. inflammatory response. Interests: Reviewing popular science books; learning French Interests: Social activities, dance, sport, music /uploads/5622/Brunet, Marie_thumb.jpg and reading French literature; building a website to allow language-learners to extract, sort, store and learn words and phrases while reading online text in a new language; tennis, cricket, swimming.

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Ms Andrea Cabrero-Vilatela Mr Ambrogio Camozzi Mexico • 2011 Pistoja course in cambridge Italy • 2010 MPhil in Micro & Nanotechnology , course in cambridge Pembroke College PhD in Italian, Pembroke College My name is Andrea Cabrero Vilatela previous university and I was born in Mexico City, Mexico. Universita Degli Studi di Milano (Italy) In 2010 I graduated with honors from Universidad Iberoamericana where I did my undergraduate Part of my family is originally from Kiev but as the oldest of studies in Physics Engineering. I had the opportunity to four siblings, I grew up between Milan and Lake Como, in Italy. study in prestigious research institutions across the country During my university education I was taught the historicist during summer periods. I also did internships abroad, approach of the “scuola storica” and began to consider Dante’s four months at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a masterpiece in relationship to its cultural background and for summer at Rice University, Texas, USA, working in research its literary all-inclusiveness. In 2004 I co-founded ‘Esperimenti projects related to Nanotechnology. Since High School, I Danteschi’, an international course in Dante studies that saw its have been tutoring in Mathematics and Physics as a part seventh gathering in spring 2011. Throughout my research in time job, which I deeply enjoy. At Cambridge, I plan to Milan, Paris and I have been investigating the sources study the MPhil in Micro and Nanotechnology Enterprise of the Commedia and now, in Cambridge, as a PhD student to acquire a stronger theoretical and practical knowledge at Pembroke College, I intend to focus on the relationship in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Afterwards I am between the poet and the cultural traditions of Alexander the interested in studying a PhD in Materials Science in Great. In my research I aim also to investigate connections preparation to become a well-rounded scientist and be able between the Abrahamitic religions and make a contribution to do research and teach at University level. to our understanding of the relationship between Western and Eastern Mediterranean cultures. Interests: Apart from studying, my other passion in life is to dance Flamenco. I have formally danced from a young age, Interests: More generally, I am interested in the history and devoting periods of my life entirely to this activity. I also perspectives of European cultural identity, especially within teach Flamenco to young girls and perform in shows a few academia. I enjoy spending time with Tom, Jasper and Tessa, times per year. reading the Herald Tribune, cooking and lively conversation /uploads/5639/Cabrero Vilatela, Andrea_thumb.jpg over a Bordeaux.

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12 Ms Bianca Carpeneti Ms Margaret Carpenter USA • 2011 USA • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Archaeology, Clare Hall MMus in Choral Studies, Clare College previous university previous universities Stanford University University of North Carolina at Greensboro I’m interested in heritage and Keele University museums, especially the way people design and use public spaces to create and engage in their I am currently undertaking the M. Mus. in Choral Studies, community. My background is in archaeology, focusing a program that strengthens my long-standing desire for on the Mediterranean world and material culture studies. musical education to feature prominently in the growth of For the past couple summers, I’ve been working on an all young people. My course is both practical and research excavation in the north of England at a Roman military fort based; I am studying the art of choral conducting while also called Binchester. My work there has looked at the cultural learning music editing skills and observing and working heritage landscape of the region, and how Binchester with the choir schools and chapel choirs at Cambridge. My fits into this. When I can, I like to volunteer with outreach main interests are working with a choir school program programs in museum and archaeology education. I’m while actively performing as a choral singer and conductor, passionate about using ethnographic research to design my hope being that my teaching and performance will lead and implement human-centered museum spaces that build to a more widespread interest in choral music as an art form community and foster lifelong learning. and also music as a unique medium of communication Interests: Hiking, running (non-competitive), bicycle unto itself. touring, cooking (as long as I don’t have to follow a recipe), Interests: My interests include horseback riding, hiking, and adventuring, poetry, Italian movies, learning Arabic, book traveling; and count me in for a good pub night!

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Mr Christopher Carter Mr Andres Castro Samayoa USA • 2011 El Salvador • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Latin American Studies, MPhil in Department of Geography, Fitzwilliam College Jesus College previous university previous university University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill At Harvard, I completed a BA in The MPhil in Latin American Studies has given me the Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and intend to opportunity to combine two of my strongest passions. After continue my focus on gender by pursuing an MPhil in spending two summers in Latin America teaching English Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies. During my college years, and conducting research, I developed a strong interest I devoted much of my time to working at the Harvard in the region’s political systems. More recently, I have College Women’s Center and chairing the Women’s developed a passion for public opinion research and how Leadership Project. My academic interests focus on the it affects state-society relations. As part of my dissertation, intersections of gender studies and physical spaces, with I will use public opinion data to study perceptions of a particular focus on institutions of higher education. I am democracy among indigenous groups in Ecuador. In the interested in the history of residential living facilities, both at future, I hope to continue developing these two interests Harvard and Cambridge. I hope that my research can better by pursuing a PhD in political science with a focus on Latin prepare other institutions of higher education to create American political behavior. environments that are welcoming to diverse experiences Interests: In my spare time, I enjoy traveling, playing tennis, and perspectives, especially for all genders and sexualities. and listening to music. I also love watching UNC basketball. Currently, I hold a Management Fellowship at Harvard /uploads/5579/carterc_thumb.jpg College with the Office of Student Life and work with the Freshman Dean’s Office on issues of diversity. Interests: Diversity in Higher Education Administration, LGBTQ issues, gender theory.

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Mr Guilhem Chalancon Ms Rohini Chaturvedi France • 2011 India • 2007 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Biological Science @ MRC Lab PhD in Geography, Fitzwilliam College for Molecular Biology, Trinity College previous university Using computational and Indian Institute of Forest Management experimental approaches, my I grew up in Pune, a city reputed research at the MRC Laboratory for its environmental conscience. of Molecular Biology will be devoted to identifying the As an undergraduate student I often volunteered time major factors that influence gene expression noise, and at an environmental education camp for children where quantifying their relative impact. I wish to develop design I had the opportunity to interact with experts in diverse principles for gene structures as well as gene circuit fields ranging from botany to anthropology. These architectures that allow to fine tune noise. Dissecting interactions left me eager to learn more about the linkages the strategies used by cells to accommodate and/or among natural resources, livelihoods and development. exploit gene expression noise is key to understand cell Consequently, I moved on to study forestry management differentiation, diseases’ penetrance, bacterial pathogenicity, and later worked in India where I had the opportunity to molecular evolution. It also promises to improve the observe firsthand the gaps between grassroots reality and efficiency of synthetic gene circuits in bioengineering. On environmental policy decisions. In an effort to enhance my a longer term, I want to pursue a career at the interface understanding of environment-development issues, I joined between data mining, biotechnologies and theoretical the MPhil in Environment, Society and Development at biology. Cambridge. I completed the course in 2008 and I am now Interests: Hobbies: Travelling, soccer, cycling, music, continuing into a PhD. I will be studying environmental infographics, drawings, cinema, languages. Academic: federalism in India, focusing on how shifts in power systems biology, machine learning, data mining, molecular between the Centre and the states are influencing forest biology, networks, evolutionary biology, education, public related decision making. health, politics /uploads/5623/Chalancon, Guilhem_thumb.jpg Interests: I enjoy travel, cinema, music, and reading.

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Mr Lubin Chen Miss Yen-Chun Chen China • 2009 Taiwan • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhDPg in Pharmacology, Jesus College PhD in Sociology, Queens’ College previous universities previous universities Shanghai Jiao Tong University University of Cambridge University of Oxford Utrecht University National Taiwan University With the help of the Gates Cambridge Trust, I am pursuing a PhD in the Department of I am from Taiwan, a country full of friendly people and Pharmacology. My work is to investigate into an ion channel warm welcome. My concern about other people’s lives lead called Hyperpolarization-activated Cyclic Nucleotide- me to study in social science (from politics, social works modulated (HCN) ion channels. Our lab has shown that to sociology). Volunteer experience in different kinds of HCN channel subtype 2 plays a central role in both organisations and positions is a big part of my life stories inflammatory and neuropathic pain. And I am currently and has opened up different doors for me to explore the working on the molecular mechanism of how this channel global world. For my PhD, I will focus on intergenerational is modulated in the hope of finding some chemicals which relationship, especially on employed women’s roles as the target on this channel and may have potential therapeutic main care giver in the family. As a person with such a strong benefits for those patients who suffer from pain. familial orientation, I plan to go back to Taiwan after my Interests: Reading and writing; Basketball, Football and study and use my knowledge and ability to contribute to Swimming; Music in general; Chinese calligraphy and the land and people that have nurtured me so much. history, especially the history of Song Dynasty. Interests: hiking, jogging, classical music(the lighter and /uploads/5424/IMG_0075_thumb.JPG softer the better), opera, musical, tea/coffee tasting, reading, singing(very much), traveling(alone or with family and friends), volunteering, and helping people!

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14 Miss Ekaterina Mr Zhe Choo Chernyakova Singapore • 2009 • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in History, Trinity College PhD in Music, Emmanuel College previous university previous university University of Cambridge Utrecht University I’m a history PhD, focusing on reserve After graduating from St. Petersburg Conservatory as a currency politics and economic musicologist, I spent a year in Utrecht and a year in Paris thought in the Bretton Woods period from 1945 to 1971. studying the Middle Ages and medieval music in particular. The greater part of the present Bretton Woods literature My MPhil project at Utrecht University was dedicated to the deals with high political and high bureaucratic narratives. study of early medieval notions of hearing, aural perception, My goal is to deepen our understanding of the politics and musical ear. For my PhD at Cambridge I plan to of the Bretton Woods era by uncovering neglected continue exploring the problems of hearing, perceiving narratives of global imbalances from trade unions, business and memorizing music within the context of medieval associations, and the financial press. plainchant repertories and the earliest Western musical Interests: Medieval history, films, popular science. /uploads/5425/IMG_0887aa_thumb.jpg notations. Interests: Music of all kinds, books, movies, theatre, fashion, paleography, meeting people, languages, Carolingian music theory treatises.

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Mr Edward Chouchani Dr Rajiv Chowdhury Canada • 2008 Bangladesh • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Biological Science, PhD in Public Health and Primary Care, King’s College Queens’ College previous university previous universities Carleton College University of Cambridge University of Dhaka During my undergraduate work I have been involved in extra-curricular independent research My PhD research will focus on various lifestyle, behavioural with Mobilab Technologies, a privately owned biotech and genetic risk factors of cardiovascular disease in South company founded by a partner and myself. As its V-P I have Asian countries such as Bangladesh and Pakistan, based been responsible in large part for the development of a on collaborative primary studies between Cambridge bioelectric solar cell, offering a much lower cost alternative and local leading cardiovascular facilities. These are to conventional solar technologies by using robust, countries which, despite huge vascular disease burden, renewable biological materials. Within the academic sphere remain largely unaddressed. Comprehensive evidence I have researched towards the improved characterization expected from this work should contribute importantly of the Stearoyl-CoA desaturase enzyme, responsible for to scientific understanding, to the development of locally regulation of fat storage and widely pursued potential drug appropriate strategies to prevent and control the disease, target. At Cambridge I intend to develop and characterize and to the efficient use of scarce resources for vascular targeted antioxidant small molecules to provide improved prevention in low-income countries. Additionally, as a therapies for age-related dysfunction, as well as to further scientific coordinator of a large consortium of UK-based understand the role of oxidative stress in the aging process. cohorts (CNC, comprising over 100,000 participants), I am I believe this research provides an excellent balance of investigating the roles of diet and nutrigenetics to increase entrepreneurial drive with a desire for better understanding cardiovascular risk in Western population. of fundamental biochemical processes. Interests: I like travelling, swimming and reading science fiction novels. I am also an avid follower of international /uploads/5225/Edward1_thumb.jpg politics and global health policies.

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Miss Lindsay Chura Ms Sara Clarke-Habibi USA • 2008 Canada • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Psychiatry, Trinity College MPhil in Education (Thematic), previous university Homerton College Mount Holyoke College I earned a BA in Ethics, Society & Law from the University of Toronto Over the past several years I have (1999) and an MA in Conflict pursued biomedical research along Resolution from Landegg International University (2002). a developmental continuum from embryonic to postnatal My graduate studies lead me to specialize in peace development. Most recently, as a Fulbright Scholar in education and to work with school communities in post- Australia, I investigated the role of lifestyle factors on ovarian war Bosnia-Herzegovina on educational approaches to function and pregnancy outcome. I am fascinated by the inter-group reconciliation and healing from the effects of mechanisms through which maternal and environmental mass violence. My MPhil/PhD research at the University of conditions induce physiological changes in the womb Cambridge focusses on identity-formation and the role of and influence later development. At Cambridge I plan transformative learning approaches in helping individuals to conduct research into whether neurodevelopmental and communities recover from ethnically and/or religiously conditions are programmed by high levels of testosterone motivated violence, and on how to prevent the future in the womb. This will serve as a foundation for my future occurence of intergroup violence through appropriate career in clinical research and health policy. I have a strong educational policies, methodologies and curricula. interest in translational “bench to bedside” research and through my work will endeavor to help bridge the divide Interests: I love performing choral music, painting and that separates laboratory research and clinical practice. cooking for friends and family, gardening and being with my kids. I enjoy reflecting on deep existential questions and Interests: Biomedical research, autism, international health symbolisms. My favorite way to chill out is watching stand- and science policy, science diplomacy and education, up comedy and Rom-Coms. bioethics. /uploads/5651/Picture0001b_thumb.jpg

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Mr Ben Cole Mr Adam Comer USA • 2011 USA • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Advanced Computer Science, PhD in Engineering, Churchill College Trinity College previous university previous university United States Air Force Academy Cornell University In hopes of performing meaningful After spending the last year working research on the efficient and for Google as a Technology Pioneer in Africa, Ben is currently responsible use of energy, I am pursuing a PhD in pursuing his MPhil in Advanced Computer Science in engineering with a focus on the optimization of fuel Trinity College. He plans to use his degree from Cambridge injectors in gas turbine engines. The ultimate goal to try to build technology for social progress, especially is the minimization of the environmental impact of in the developing world. Aside from the academics, Ben gas turbine combustion and the maximization of fuel enjoys running, exploring new places, and getting to know efficiency. More specifically, I am analyzing liquid fuel interesting people. injectors for aero-engine applications. This optimization Interests: Technology, Foreign Affairs, Business, Reading, problem is complicated by a number of design trade- Thinking offs and the computationally expensive simulations /uploads/5581/IMG_3568_thumb.JPG required for an accurate assessment of a given design’s performance. Combining empirical and analytical tools with computational fluid dynamics conducted at varying degrees of spatial and temporal resolution, I aspire to develop an automated, multi-fidelity approach for fuel injector design. Furthermore, this project will provide some insight into the influence of injector design parameters on overall combustor performance. Interests: I enjoy football (soccer), tennis, running, and lifting weights. I am always fascinated to hear the religious and philosophical views of others.

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16 Ms Annalijn Conklin Ms Tara Cookson Canada • 2011 Canada • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Medical Science @ MRC PhD in Geography, Wolfson College Epidemiology Unit, Trinity Hall My current work in the Department My phd in epidemiology will focus of Geography has developed largely on patterns of individual dietary out of the research I undertook for my ‘lifestyle choices’ and how these are MA thesis around social reproduction, influenced by multiple social determinants, particularly the women’s activism and transnationalism, as well as my contribution of the physical environment. After migrating to experiences working in the development field in Latin many cities since growing up in a small town near canada’s America. I am interested in pursuing some of the issues that point pelee national park in south-western ontario, I am were highlighted during my time as a project developer by thrilled to be studying in cambridge with the support focusing on ‘community-based’ multi-national NGOs in Latin of a Gates Scholarship. Since completing a Master’s in America that tackle such issues as housing, healthcare, and Life Sciences (Edinburgh) and a Master’s in Public Health education within low-income contexts. (Columbia), I have worked as a health policy analyst at Rand Interests: I enjoy studying language, in particular Spanish Europe, a not-for-profit research organisation. My goal is to and Portuguese. I love to cook, wander bookstores and develop a career in the intersection of academia and policy, farmers’ markets, and dance salsa until the sun rises! working closely with communities and governments to /uploads/5652/DSC02687_thumb.jpg support the translation of research evidence into preventive action for tackling disparities in population health and well- being. Interests: In my spare time I cross-train in martial arts, travel, listen to music or drum, watch or play in theatre performances, reflect on moral philosophy, psychology and social theory, hang out with friends or volunteer for One Degree and other charities.

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Miss Jessica Cooney Mr Jacob Cox USA • 2009 USA • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Archaeology, St John’s College MPhil in Biological Science, previous universities Trinity College University of York previous university Columbia University Virginia Military Institute During my time at Cambridge I will After six months researching sleeping be researching children in the Upper Palaeolithic. I will be sickness in sub-Saharan Africa, I am now in Cambridge looking at art, especially finger flutings done in France and pursuing an MPhil in pathology. My current work focuses Spain to determine the ages and biological sex of the artists. on trypanosomes, the parasites responsible for African Hopefully this will also lead to a better understanding of sleeping sickness, and the mechanisms they use to evade children’s lives in the Upper Palaeolithic. I am also very their host’s immune system. After receiving my degree from interested and active in archaeological outreach for youths, Cambridge, I will begin an MD/PhD program in the US. hoping to foster their interest in the past. My hope is to then enter a career developing treatments Interests: Traveling, friends, scuba diving, reading, for African sleeping sickness and other neglected diseases photography, museums, and new adventures. and to serve as an adviser to entities, like the World Health /uploads/5427/EMPL_PHOTO_GMYDCMRTGYYTCNI=_201062_thumb.JPG Organization, that are working to develop health care in sub-Saharan Africa. Interests: Good company, travel, camping, fitness, and food.

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Ms Kathryn Crowcroft Mr Alexander Davies Australia • 2011 Australia • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Medieval and Renaissance PhD in Engineering, Trinity College Literature, Jesus College previous university My MPhil research examines Geoffrey Australian National University Chaucer’s reception in English I’ve come to Cambridge to study Renaissance texts, employing a DPhil in Machine Learning. I’m linguistic approaches to uncover evolving theological ideas interested in extending the ground-breaking techniques of about language and speech during this period. Chaucer’s the field to areas where they can have the most impact. influence extended across the Protestant Reformation, Interests: Water polo, surfing, guitar, piano and this raises questions about cultural memory, and our /uploads/5519/IMG_2077_thumb.JPG understanding of historic (and academic) periodization. I have always been fascinated by the lessons we can learn from history, and I aim to champion the Humanities in social outreach projects within and beyond the university sphere. Interests: Learning languages; literacy education projects; writing short fiction and poetry; Qi Gong; travel and the outdoors.

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Miss Mary Beth Day Ms Natasha Degen USA • 2009 USA • 2007 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Earth Sciences, Clare Hall PhD in History of Art , Trinity College previous universities previous university University of Florida Princeton University Hamilton College Having spent the last year working in My research is driven by an interest in Beijing as an arts reporter, I’m thrilled the interactions between humans and their environment. to have the opportunity to continue thinking and writing Using lake sediment records, I can track changes in about art at Cambridge. I hope to study twentieth century paleoclimate and paleoenvironment. This information British art, using an interdisciplinary approach to present may contribute to our understanding of human-climate- culture and politics as complementary parts of a single environment interactions in the past. As a part of my PhD, I narrative. will examine a sediment record from a reservoir in Angkor, Interests: Travel, film, gossipy stories about historical figures, the ancient Khmer city, located in modern day Cambodia. dessert. This record may provide information about environmental /uploads/5048/02868_thumb.jpg conditions at the time the city was abandoned. Interests: Hiking, cooking, traveling, music.

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18 Miss Gillean Denny Mr Mathieu Desruisseaux USA • 2007 Canada • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Architecture, Jesus College PhD in Management Studies, previous university King’s College Pennsylvania State University previous university Harvard University Continuing from my MPhil research in sustainability and urban planning, I grew up in Quebec and lived in New my current PhD work seeks to determine the direct impact Mexico, before studying comparative politics at Harvard of Urban Agriculture on an individual’s ecological footprint. and working in China. At the Judge Business School, I zoom In the wider world of art and design, theatre sets, the Jesus in on social networks within organizations and explore May Ball, the culinary arts, and my own sketchbook make implications for leadership, entrepreneurship, women and my days in Cambridge a true joy. minority groups. Interests: Sustainable design and construction, theater, Interests: Early Renaissance choral music, Chinese literature, anything having to do with the outdoors, all aspects of the political philosophy, Montreal, local politics, minority rights, written word (devouring books one page at a time, writing, squash, hiking, tango, jazz, volunteering, passionate people getting lost in musty libraries and second hand bookshops), and big open skies. /uploads/5226/MD_thumb.jpg the world of chocolate (I am on a life quest for the perfect cup of hot chocolate), architecture (the more ancient the structure, the keener my interest), cooking (absolutely everything and anything), and a good nap (if I ever find the time to indulge I assure you that I’d probably enjoy it immensely).

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Ms Clara Devlieger Mr Luca Di Mario Belgium • 2011 Italy • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge MRes in Social Anthropology, PhD in Engineering , Selwyn College Trinity College previous universities I am very grateful to have received Imperial College London a Gates scholarship to start my PhD Universita’ La Sapienza, Rome research in Social Anthropology this I am interested in exploring and year. I will be preparing for fieldwork next year in Kinshasa, researching the most appropriate technologies for water the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). and sanitation in low-income communities. After my There I will research the niche in trade between Kinshasa academic studies I would like to work in the developing (DRC) and Brazzaville (capital of Republic of Congo) over world, working either as an Environmental Engineer for an the Congo River, a niche completely dominated by disabled International Agency, or at an NGO. The Cambridge MPhil traders. I am specifically interested in how the traders in Engineering for Sustainable Development is an unique manage to turn their marginalised social position around in opportunity to expand on my current knowledge and this African border zone. I will be looking into how the niche skills on the wider environmental aspects of engineering in originated, which survival techniques the disabled use development. to keep it alive, and what the future of the niche will look like. After my PhD I hope to continue research through the Interests: International Relations, sustainable development. international academic community and to use my findings I enjoy reading books, jogging, cooking, traveling and watching movies. in development cooperation. /uploads/5428/luc_thumb.jpg Interests: Orienteering, French society, cooking, travel, hiking, spending time with friends and family.

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Mr Jonathan Diaz Mr David Dillon USA • 2011 USA • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Astronomy, Churchill College PhD in Public Health and Primary Care, previous universities Wolfson College University of Western Australia previous university Georgia Institute of Technology Northwestern University Galaxies are often admired for their My driving interest lies in stemming elegance and beauty, but they are also quite fragile. All the spread of preventable disease through novel research, across the night sky we see galaxies destroying one another, improved healthcare delivery and direct patient care. To and these processes occur close to home in the small dwarf academically prepare myself for this daunting task I am galaxies which orbit around our Milky Way. Using numerical pairing an American M.D. with a Cambridge PhD in Public simulations, I am able to constrain the interaction histories Health and Epidemiology, enabling me to understand of these galaxies as they are being ripped apart. Streams of both the clinical and theoretical aspects of my future work. stars and gas are spewed from these galaxies during this As part of my PhD, I am currently working to define the process, and my goal is to understand the mechanisms burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in sub- responsible for their formation. Saharan Africa and explore possible associations between Interests: Theatre, music, film, guitar, vegetarian cooking HIV and NCD risk factors. This work takes me to Blantyre, /uploads/5640/Diaz-pic2_thumb.jpg Malawi, where I have lived for the past year designing and implementing a population based cohort study in collaboration with the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust.

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Ms Bela Dimova Miss Yama Dixit Bulgaria • 2011 India • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Archaeology, PhD in Earth Sciences, St John’s College Murray Edwards College (New Hall) previous universities While growing up I was fascinated by Jawaharlal Nehru University Bulgaria’s multi-layered past and the University of Delhi mysterious culture of ancient Thrace, I graduated with distinction in which weaves together myths and beautiful golden objects. Chemistry from Delhi University and did my Post graduation Critical archaeological research, which I will undertake in Environmental Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University. through my PhD, is the best way to understand that At Cambridge, I aim to study whether environmental complex past and use it to build a future of inter-cultural change was indeed the reason for the collapse of Harappan tolerance in the Balkans. I graduated from an International Civilization by reconstructing the paleoclimatic history of Baccalaureate school in Paris which taught me about the the region. My research at Cambridge should shed light challenges and value of inter-cultural communication. on the nature of the patterns interrelating climate and I pursued my interests in human diversity and in past civilizational activities. societies by reading Archaeology & Anthropology at Cambridge, and Archaeology of the East Mediterranean Interests: Apart from being a trained Kathak (Indian Classical and Middle East (MA) at UCL. I organised an ethnographic dance) dancer, I am an ardent fan of movies. I like spending time with my family and friends. expedition to Cuba, co-edited a student anthropology /uploads/5469/photo_thumb.JPG journal, and excavated in Bulgaria, Britain, Sardinia, and Turkey. I am determined to pursue a research career, addressing burning issues of identity-making and heritage. Interests: Besides archaeology and anthropology, I also enjoy learning languages, cookery, caving, and mountaineering.

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20 Ms Justine Drennan Dr Elizabeth Dzeng USA • 2011 USA • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in International Relations, PhD in Sociology, King’s College Selwyn College previous universities previous universities Johns’ Hopkins University Princeton University Stanford University Oxford University I am a physician interested in the For my MPhil in International Relations, I’m looking at broader interactions of sociology and political economy Uighur and Han ethnic interactions in China’s Xinjiang on health. Upon completion of my internal medicine region. Focusing on the Chinese government’s recent training at Columbia this past year, I began a combined demolition of Kashgar’s Old Town, I’ll explore the different PhD in Sociology and General Internal Medicine fellowship groups’ perceptions of identity and culture in the area. at Johns Hopkins, to further explore the greater effects of Why did the government demolish the Old Town? What political, economics, and business practices on health. In did the Old Town mean to Uighur residents? To Hans? particular, I hope to explore the power structures within Are these perspectives reconcilable? I’ll look into the role the US health care system and the influences of large that respective players’ political and economic power, capitalistic institutions such as biotech, pharmaceuticals, international presence, and organization do or don’t play in insurance companies, and other businesses on health in the these perceptions. United States. Interests: Writing, running and other outdoors things, music, Interests: rowing, volleyball, music (piano, viola), tennis, media, history, mythology, language(s), word games. riding horses, traveling /uploads/5583/drennan_thumb.jpg /uploads/5051/portrait1.jpg

Mr Lucas Edelman Miss Natalia Egorova USA • 2009 Russia • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Biological Science @ Babraham PhD in Biology, Institute, King’s College Lucy Cavendish College previous university previous university University of Illinois at Urbana- École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Champaign Sociales I grew up just outside of in Glenview, Illinois. Having a diverse but mainly Arts background, at Cambridge I studied Bioengineering at the University of Illinois, I shifted to Sciences, pursuing a PhD in Biology at the Urbana-Champaign, where I performed research in MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. I have always cardiac physiology, magnetic resonance imaging, and been interested in how people use language in context computational genetics. At Cambridge I am conducting (pragmatics), and what mechanisms in the brain underlie graduate studies in the field of ‘epigenetics’, examining the contextual enrichment. Therefore for my PhD I chose to role played by molecules known as ‘Noncoding RNA’ in the explore the neural correlates of speech act processing, thus control of developmental processes and human disease. contributing to the emerging discipline of neuropragmatics. Interests: Reading, running, learning to row, politics and Interests: Languages, traveling, literature, piano, coffee, current events, baseball, American football – and learning to people.

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Mr William Eucker Mr Dankrad Feist USA • 2008 Germany • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Polar Studies, Peterhouse PhD in Applied Mathematics and previous university Theoretical Physics , Girton College United States Naval Academy previous universities University of Cambridge I am a junior naval officer and Technische Universität Darmstadt member of the Arctic Ocean Geopolitics Programme at the Scott Polar Research Institute. I am just starting to work on my PhD on Topological Recently, I have been exploring the increasingly dangerous Solitons, which we use as a model for atomic nuclei. I gap between national and international maritime had a very good time doing Part III in Cambridge and governance structures in the ice-diminishing Arctic Ocean. learned a lot. I expect the coming three years to be equally After my studies, I will serve in the U.S. Submarine Force. stimulating, both for my work and my other activities. Interests: Playing squash, skiing, rowing, running, swimming, Interests: Mathematics and Physics, cello, sustainability, traveling, eating, picking berries, making and savoring hiking, cycling, running, rowing, dancing, computers.

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Mr Luke Fletcher Miss Molly Fox Australia • 2010 USA • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Politics & International Studies, PhD in Biological Anthropology, St Edmund’s College Gonville and Caius College previous university previous university University of California (Berkeley) Yale University I have come to Cambridge I’ve been researching the evolution after working for the last few years as an advocate on of post-menopausal longevity in humans. My collaborators International Development Issues. My main areas of work and I have amended the popular \”Grandmother have been past and current Australian aid and trade policy Hypothesis\” with a genetics perspective, and have found towards developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region and a sex-specific mortality trend in grandchildren based on the impact of mining, oil and gas on developing countries X-Chromosome relatedness with grandmothers. Here at and communities. I have also done some advocacy work on Cambridge I plan to continue studying the evolution of reform of certain global financial markets and institutions. life-history traits affecting humans at the earliest and latest For my PhD I hope to explore generally the origins and stages of life. history of globalisation and intenational development, Interests: Theatre, writing, music. with a particular focus on the forces and institutions that /uploads/Fox Photo(1).jpg produced the predominance of a particular model of development thinking.

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22 Ms Mercedes Galindez Mr Jan Gaspers Argentina • 2011 Germany • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Latin American Studies, PhD in International Studies, Lucy Cavendish College Pembroke College While studying History in Di Tella previous universities University (Buenos Aires), I took University of Cambridge part in a research project for the University of Sussex Argentinean Board of Scientific Research. Its aim was to University of Maastricht explain the use of mass culture and printed media in the My PhD thesis examines the socialising effects of the hands of Catholicism during the 30s in Buenos Aires. This European Union (EU) foreign policy regime on the experience provided the base for my current research in the behaviour and identities of EU member state diplomats M Phil in Latin American Studies, which deals with the role within the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and media played in the building of President F.D. Roosevelt’s the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe image in Buenos Aires and Montevideo during his term (OSCE). I also continue to conduct research and have of office. I have chosen Cambridge University to carry out published various pieces on different aspects of EU-NATO the research in the hope that it will provide an objective cooperation, the OSCE Corfu Process, the European External environment being outside the American continent. I am Action Service and the the evolution of the EU’s Common passionate about writing, from short stories to large essays. Security and Defence Policy. In the past, I have worked I hope to become a solid communicator, and thus help the inter alia with the OSCE Section of the Delegation of the understanding of Latin America. In the meantime, I write European Union to the International Organisations in a blog about my experience as an Argentinean in the UK: Vienna, the European Union Institute for Security Studies, http://ponchogown.blogspot.com/ the OSCE and the European Centre for Development Policy Interests: Journalism; languages; cooking; yachting. /uploads/5660/Galindez, Mercedes_thumb.jpg Management. Interests: Tennis, swimming, travelling, theatre, opera, ballet, exhibitions and various strands of fictional literature

Mr Christopher Geissler Miss Talia Gershon USA • 2008 USA • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in German, Jesus College PhD in Materials Science, Clare College previous universities previous university University of Cambridge Massachusetts Institute of Technology Columbia University Hello, fellow Gates Scholars! Born I am finishing work on my and raised in New York, I completed dissertation, ‘A Distinctly German Mission: Slavery and my BS in Materials Science and Engineering at MIT and am Abolitionism in German Writing, 1789-1871’, which explores now going into the third year of my PhD at Cambridge how the crafting of German national identity was both (in Materials Science and Metallurgy). My research focus is implicated in and impacted by the globalized context of inexpensive solar cells, which absorb light and convert it European colonialism of the nineteenth century and its directly to electricity. As you might already know, the solar complicated twin, international humanitarianism. I come to cells you find on the market today are too expensive to German studies from my first degree in Middle East & Asian be cost-competitive with coal-based electricity, so we are studies at Columbia. In between I held a fellowship at the trying to develop alternatives (ask me about this!). I also University of Leipzig and worked for several years in New play rugby on the Cambridge Blues squad and encourage York City in the health field. all who are interested to consider giving it a go! It’s a great opportunity to meet a lot of new people and try playing a /uploads/5229/296429_942452890060_36919849_46513347_211768542_a_thumb.jpg sport that is probably brand new to you. Interests: Renewable energy, solar cells, rugby, mountains, sunshine, vegetables, exotic fruits, friends, and all combinations of the above.

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Ms Linda Gichuyia Ms Girija Godbole Kenya • 2011 India • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Environmental Design in PhD in Geography, Fitzwilliam College Architecture, Hughes Hall previous university I recently completed a Bachelor of University of Pune Architectural studies and Bachelor I have done graduate and post- of Architecture degrees from the graduate degrees in botany and University of Nairobi and I am profoundly humbled and anthropology respectively. Following that I did a certificate honored by being one of the 2011 Gates scholars. I am course in environment education. I want to study the excited to continue my studies at cambridge where I causes and effects of rapid changes in the access to and will be pursuing an Mphil in Environmental design in availability of natural resources and its impact on the socio- architecture. I wish to focuss my study on the Impact of cultural and economic scenario in Western India. It will help Buildings on Climate Change seeing that evidence suggests me to contribute in finding solutions to reduce the adverse that buildings under construction and in use play the impact of these changes on the poor and marginalised greatest contributory role in global warming. I am keen to people in India. Having worked at the grassroots level investigate this to Phd level since with regard to the global I aspire to work at the policy-making level in India. The warming debate, little if any attention has been paid to valuable insights gained at the field level and academic the construction industry as a source of CO2 emissions, training at Cambridge will better equip me to achieve this. compared to the much attention that has been focussed on the role of transport and industry in their contribution to Interests: I am interested in theatre and the Indian classical global warming. dance form, kathak, in which I have undergone training for almost seven years. I have participated in street plays Interests: Sharp shooting, making new friends, traveling, and also kathak dance performances. I completed ‘C’ reading and watching detective literature, photography certificate of National Cadet Corps Air Wing during college. and swimming, design and definitely watching discovery I am a Fellow of the international network Leadership for channel. /uploads/5609/DSC_0028_thumb.JPG Environment & Development (LEAD).

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Mr Hanns Goetzke Dr Rajna Golubic Germany • 2011 Croatia • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Zoology, Hughes Hall PhD in Epidemiology, St John’s College After graduating from Heinrich Heine previous university University, Düsseldorf, with a Bachelor University of of Science in Physics, I moved to I am now in the second year of Cambridge. At the University of my PhD at the MRC Epidemiology Cambridge I have been studying theoretical physics for Unit. The focus of my PhD is physical activity (in particular the past year. Now, having just started my PhD in animal occupational domain), its distribution in different physiology, I am very excited to investigate some of the occupational groups and associations with cardiometabolic biomechanical principles of jumping insects. My research risk factors, diabetes type 2 and cardiovascular disease. interests are in adhesion mechanisms, especially those of I am using the data from large-scale epidemiological insects that can jump off smooth surfaces. I hope to use studies that are being conducted by the Unit and their nature’s principles to improve technology. international collaborators. The findings of my PhD will help Interests: I like playing volleyball, rowing for my college and identify the groups of workers that need encouragement windsurfing. I enjoy modern and contemporary art and to increase their physical activity outside working hours especially like photography. and will to the development and implementation of public /uploads/5625/HHGportrait_thumb.jpg health strategies that target primary prevention of non- communicable lifestyle related diseases among workers by advocating activity and healthy diet at work. Interests: Public health, occupational medicine, health promotion, epidemiology; ballroom dancing, salsa, running, foreign languages, traveling.

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24 Ms Sherry Gong Mr Igor Gotlibovych USA • 2011 Germany • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge MAST in Pure Mathematics, PhD in Physics, Churchill College Churchill College previous university previous university University of Cambridge Harvard University In 2010 I started the first year of my My main academic interests are PhD in the Atomic, Mesoscopic and in algebraic geometry and differential topology. Most Optical Physics group in the . My recently, I have been working on a research project about research will concentrate on studying novel aspects of the cyclic cohomologies of finitely generated, torsion free Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) – dense atomic clouds at subgroups of GL_2(R). I also enjoy teaching mathematics; I extremely cold temperatures unmatched anywhere in the have done this as a grader at the Math Olympiad Program, universe. While creating BECs is a significant experimental and also as a leader for the United States team to the Girls’ challenge, they exhibit many properties found in other Math Olympiad. In addition, I coordinated at the Math complex systems, e.g. superfluidity. Studying BECs Olympiad of Central America and the Caribbean when ultimately leads to better understanding of superfluids, it was held in my home island of Puerto Rico. I intend to superconductors and collective phenomena in general. attend graduate school and obtain a Ph.D. in mathematics Interests: Sailing, Climbing, Judo with a concentration in algebraic geometry. After this, /uploads/001 Igor Gotlibovych(1).JPG I would like to pursue a career as a mathematician and engage in research and teaching. As a preparation for these career plans, I would like to study algebraic geometry at Cambridge. There, I also hope to gain a broader view of mathematics, which would allow me to become both a greater researcher and a more effective teacher.

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Ms Julia Gottschalk Mr Philip Graff Germany • 2011 USA • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Earth Sciences, PhD in Physics, Queens’ College Homerton College previous university I finished my undergraduate studies University of Maryland (Baltimore in Marine Geology at the University County) of Bremen – a leading institution At Cambridge, my PhD in Physics for marine geosciences. During my studies I had the focuses on Einstein’s theory of general relativity and its opportunity to participate in several multinational research implications. I am studying the application of Bayesian projects and sea-going expeditions all over the world inference for the detection of gravitational waves. I am dedicated to study past changes of our climate and the also looking into theoretical predictions for primordial ocean. I became passionate about climate research also in gravitational waves as remnants of the Big Bang. This work the face of its socioeconomic and political importance. I has potential for opening a new window onto our Universe am currently enrolled in the first year of my PhD studies at and providing direct observations of the earliest moments the Department of Earth Sciences focusing on the global in our Universe’s history. signature of past abrupt climate change recorded in marine sediments. Particular emphasis will be put on changes in Interests: Baseball, American football, ultimate Frisbee, hurling, traveling. biological productivity and the ocean circulation in the South /uploads/5191/passport_size_photo_thumb.jpg Atlantic Ocean to explain the millennial-scale variability of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The study is supported by analyzing further climate archives as ice cores and cave formations as well as numerical climate simulations. Interests: I love being outside especially running long distances, gardening and mountaineering. Among many other activities I enjoy swimming, singing and playing guitar.

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Ms Jennifer Grayson Revd Kevin Grove USA • 2011 USA • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Asian & Middle Eastern PhD in Divinity, Trinity College Studies, Selwyn College My home and family are in Montana; I just graduated from Brown my undergraduate degrees were University this past May,and I am in Seattle and my master’s at Notre excited to begin my MPhil in Middle Dame in Indiana. After finishing my Eastern Studies at Cambridge. My research will focus on a master’s degree in 2009 I was ordained a Holy Cross priest group of manuscripts written in Judeo-Arabic, which are (Holy Cross is a Catholic religious order that does work housed in the University Library’s Taylor-Schechter Genizah around the world in education) and served in parishes in Unit. I am particularly interested in issues of cultural and South Bend, Indiana for two years. These years helped me to religious identity in the medieval Islamic world. refine my thinking on the need for the theological research I am undertaking in my doctoral program here at Cambridge. /uploads/5585/grayson_thumb.jpg I am working on the problem of theological memory, forgetting, and its implications for forgiveness. Interests: Reading, jogging, music, skiing.

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Mr Andrew Gruen Miss Katie Gunderson USA • 2008 USA • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Social & Political Science, PhD in Earth Sciences, Jesus College King’s College previous university previous university University of Oklahoma Northwestern University My PhD research focuses on This year I am in the field, studying developing nuclear waste forms what \”viability\” means for born-digtial, accountability based on naturally-occuring mineral structures. I am journalism producing news organizations. After I finish data studying isostructural and isoelectronic zircon and collection, I hope to write a \”cook book\” for what kinds of xenotime, which have very different responses to radiation resources people need to successfully launch new, quality damage. The methods I use include doping samples with news enterprises. to observe radiation effects over time, and Interests: Technology, social media, news, choral music, investigating the effect of alpha-particle damage on crystal travel, Korea, food of all sorts, and the subsequent need for structures. With this work I hope to provide insight into the jogging. basic mechanisms of radiation damage and to determine /uploads/5192/IMG_0031_thumb.JPG why some mineral phases are more radiation reisistant than others. Interests: travelling (especially hiking in the Alps), cooking, American football, undergraduate teaching

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26 Ms Berenice Guyot-Rechard Miss Paula Haas France • 2009 Germany • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in History, Trinity College PhD in Social Anthropology, previous universities Murray Edwards College (New Hall) London School of Economics previous university Sciences Po Paris University of Cambridge I was born in Paris but grew up in Before coming to Cambridge, I Brussels, where I received an international education which studied Chinese and Mongolian Languages and Cultures gave me a passion for the world and for languages. Through at Venice University (Italy), and worked in Outer Mongolia my studies, travels, and work experience I developed a for two years following my graduation. During my stay in passion for India, and in particular its history and politics. Mongolia, I often realised how deeply people’s everyday My PhD focuses on India’s north-eastern borderlands in life is conditioned by pervasive mistrust. For my PhD I thus the transitional period after independence. Unlike the rest study Mongolian ideas of trust, mistrust, and cooperation, of India, this mountainous, tribal region had been largely how trust is established, maintained, and broken, how and un-administered and unexplored under colonial rule. My why trust is so often abused and with what consequences, objective is therefore to understand how the young Indian and what role gender plays in the creation of trust and state tried to re-shape this strategic area, located between mistrust. I have just come back from a year of fieldwork in a India and China, into a part of India’s national space. My small rural community of Barga Mongols in Inner Mongolia, intent is not only to study a region that is marginal both China, and will now start to write up. in reality and in scholarly literature, but also to offer some Interests: Reading, learning languages, music, fencing, insight into its troubled present. hiking.

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Ms Lisbeth (Jamila) Haider Ms Katie Hammond Austria • 2011 Canada • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Geographical Research, MPhil in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Downing College Studies, Wolfson College I am currently doing an M Phil in I am at Wolfson College working Geographical Research, with a focus on my M.Phil in Multi-Disciplinary on Political Ecology. Specifically, I Gender Studies under the supervision am analyzing adaptive co-management patterns in a Joint of Martin Johnson. My academic interests involve the Forestry Management project in Tajikistan. My research examination of issues of social justice and human rights interests are broadly related to studying variables necessary through a legal lens, particularly in regards to their impact for transformation in social ecological systems, spurred on societal groups disadvantaged by class, gender, and during my time with the Aga Khan Development Network sexual orientation. My research is based off a volunteer in Tajikistan and Afghanistan, where I coordinated a Cross experience working in a slum house in Bangalore India. Border programme, and later worked as the National I am examining whether policies preventing women’s Natural Resource Management Programme Coordinator. egg sale are protecting women from entering into non- Also, I am writing a small book “Bo dastoni khud – With our autonomous choices, or whether they are inhibiting them hands”: A Book of Food, and Life, in the Afghan and Tajik from a mechanism of money gain. In particular, I am looking Pamirs, which tells the story of a rapidly changing cultural at women’s motivations for egg donation in jurisdictions and physical landscape and invokes memory as a platform where eggs sale is not permitted. from which to envision the future. Interests: My interests include swimming, tennis, travel, Interests: Travelling, running, yoga, dancing, writing, kayaking, camping and music.

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Mr Nicholas Handler Ms Gitte Hansen USA • 2011 Denmark • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Historical Studies, PhD in Asian and Middle Eastern King’s College Studies, Wolfson College previous university previous university Yale University University of Copenhagen I graduated from Yale University in My research deals with femininity in 2009 with a B.A. in History. I wrote my senior thesis about a Japanese culture and cultural expressions. I am especially small group of left-wing lawyers who defended anarchists interested in women as agents of violence – violence in sedition trials during World War I, and spent a year after towards the self (eating disorders and self-harm) and graduation working for Professor Beverly Gage on her violence towards others. I work on a wide range of cultural upcoming biography of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. expressions including Murakami Haruki’s literary works and I am interested in the history of political responses to Miyazaki Hayao’s animations. Communism in the 20th century, and next year I will pursue Interests: cooking, going to the seaside. an MPhil in Historical Studies, focusing on the difference /uploads/5433/Gitte_Marianne.Hansen_Cambridge.82850_thumb.jpeg between British and American attitudes towards domestic Communist movements. Interests: Running, reading, exploring new cities, football, and cartoons.

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Mr David Harris Miss Eva-Maria Hempe USA • 2011 Germany • 2007 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Advanced Chemical PhD in Engineering, St John’s College Engineering, King’s College previous universities previous university University of Regensburg Auburn University University of Erlangen At Auburn University I was an active University of Cambridge member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (AIChE), Cupola Engineering Ambassadors, and the I am interested in questions around knowledge creation University Honors College. I have conducted undergraduate and management, organizational learning and the research with biomaterials and in vitro cell culture to help influence of contextual settings. My research focuses on design safer and more effective drug eluting stents. I also healthcare services, more specifically the design of services participated in two summer programs, including the for people with learning or intellectual disabilities. However, Summer Institute in Anatomy at Johns Hopkins University I hope to be able to draw general conclusions for public and the NSF REU in Cellular Engineering at Rice University. services to inform policy making. I was named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar in April of Interests: travel, sports (rowing, cycling, refereeing soccer, 2010. My plans are to eventually pursue a combined M.D./ skiing, swimming, running ....), outdoor activities, cooking graduate degree and have a career in translational medical /uploads/5116/!Head4_thumb.jpg research. I am particularly interested in biotechnology and the medical device industry. At Cambridge, I plan to study for an M Phil in Advanced Chemical Engineering to broaden my knowledge of these fields and obtain more experience in research and entrepreneurship. Interests: Running, juggling, traveling, history, French, college football, and coaching elementary school Science Olympiad.

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28 Miss Melissa Hok Cee Wong Mr Jared Holley Canada • 2009 Canada • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Music, Queens’ College PhD in Social and Political Sciences, previous universities Trinity Hall McGill University previous universities Columbia University University of Cambridge University of Victoria My dissertation, tentatively titled \”Tracking Pop: A History of Cover Versions, Remixes, and My PhD focuses on the reception of classical atomist Mash-ups,\” seeks to illuminate problems of authorship, philosophy in eighteenth-century France and its creativity, and performance in popular music and explore deployment in philosophical debates concerning the how these issues have shaped and been shaped by nature of politics and citizenship. I am particularly interested business, legal, and technological concerns. I am currently in the impact of Epicurean and Lucretian themes on the pursuing ethnographic research for this project in the music political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. community in Toronto, Canada. Interests: Surfing, music, philosophy.

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Ms Hanna Hornberg Mr Johnny Hu Sweden • 2009 USA • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Physiology, Development and MPhil in Biological Science, Neuroscience, Pembroke College Darwin College previous university previous university Uppsala University Harvard University My research in Cambridge will focus During my year of studies in on how nerve cells navigate correctly from the eyes to their Cambridge, I will be investigating the role of local protein targets during the development of the visual system. I am translation in axon guidance. I am working in Professor particularly interested in the role of local protein translation Christine Holt’s lab and am using fluorescence imaging and degradation in axonal pathfinding and will focus my to visualize the transport and localization of the different research on its role in the later stages of visual system machineries necessary for protein synthesis. We are also development. interested in the different signals in the cell that turn on Interests: Travelling, skiing, music, films, reading and keeping and off these different processes. Looking ahead, I hope up with international politics. to continue pursuing neurobiology research as well as /uploads/5437/hh_thumb.jpg teach at the university level. I am fascinated by the neuron and how its actions lead to information processing and decision making. We still have much to learn, and I hope to contribute to the understanding of these amazing cells. Interests: Basketball, piano, swimming, sailing, rowing.

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Mr Yang Hu Mr Timothy Humpton China • 2011 USA • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Sociology, Queens’ College PhD in Oncology, Corpus Christi College I am from Chongqing, a beautiful mountainous city in China. I previous university completed my B.A. in English Massachusetts Institute of Technology Language and Literature in Zhejiang Cancer is a global disease that will University, China. My interests in the themes of growth, touch most people in some way during their life. Although socialization, family, gender roles, etc. in literature and my we have made good progress in identifying and treating experience as a volunteer to the local schools brought many types of cancer, for others progress has been much my focus to the family studies, and the inter-generational slower. The five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer, for relations in particular. In China, where the school education example, has remained pegged at only 5% for decades. It is highly standardized, family is one of the most important is my goal to help to unlock key the mechanisms behind spheres that are accountable for the production and cancer initiation and progression in pancreatic cancer reproduction of social inequalities. For the current MPhil, I’m and to translate this research into something valuable working on how family social class influences the out-of- for actual patients. I’ve come to Cambridge in order to school activities of children aged 12-14 in China. For my pursue this goal. The lab that I’m working in here is one of PhD, I will focus on the inter-generational reproduction of the few in the world where basic research into pancreatic cultural capital in the divorced-motherhood in China. I hope cancer is conducted side-by-side with work to apply my researches could effect policy implications to eradicate emerging science directly to pancreatic cancer therapy. This the inequalities the children are faced with due to their represents a unique situation where I will hopefully be able family background. to make a real difference against a deadly disease. Interests: Music (especially jazz), playing the clarinet, Interests: Aside from science, I am a cyclist who competes badminton, reading, travelling, volunteering, poetry, family seriously in both road racing and track (velodrome) racing. and friends. /uploads/5661/IMG_0164_thumb.JPG I’m also extremely interested in cooking and the science behind making great food.

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Mr Isaac Idun-Arkhurst Miss Ioana Ilie Ghana • 2005 Romania • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in International Relations, PhD in Education, Queens’ College St John’s College previous university previous university Jacobs University, Bremen University of Ghana Diving deeper into educational My research examines a theory and practice has been my comparatively neglected aspect of China’s ambitious post- goal for 2010 and the beginning of the new academic year Cold War expansion into Africa: whether an authoritarian has sparked a lot of thoughts and plans for action, a fresh capitalist power can aid the economic and political perspective on my research topic and a renewed desire to development of poor, democratising societies and under become more involved in the educational landscape of my what conditions such development diffusion would occur. home country. Interests: Creative writing, African and Asian cultures, Interests: Singing, traveling and coffee football, volleyball, travelling, and ping pong! /uploads/Sonia Ilie – Photo(1).JPG

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30 Ms Darja Irdam Mr Muhammad Irfan Estonia • 2011 Pakistan • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Modern Society and Global PhD in Land Economy, Transformations, Hughes Hall St John’s College Born in Sillamäe, Estonia, I graduated previous universities from University, Estonia and University of Cambridge Koç University, Turkey. As president National Graduate Institute for Policy of the student council and a member of Estonia’s Youth Studies (Tokyo) Parliament, I carried out many social and educational University of Punjab projects for marginalized people, abandoned children, Before coming to Cambridge for MPhil Development alcohol and drug addicts, ethnic and social minorities. I have Studies in 2007, I was working as a Civil Servant in Pakistan closely worked with migrant enterprises in four European – involved in multilateral negotiations at the WTO and part countries and I continued my research at MiReKoç, of the Trade Policy formulation team. Through my present the Centre for Migration Research at Koç University. research on the Political Economy of WTO negotiations, I am At the University of Cambridge I study socio-cultural finding ways for poor countries to make effective polices marginalization and how people recreate their status for economic development. I will initially return to my job in through shuttle migration and suitcase trade between Pakistan but hope to contribute globally through my work the post-Soviet states and Turkey. Some of my professors in international organisations. changed my life with their teaching, support and guidance. Therefore, I want to be a professor to help young people Interests: Sports (cricket, tennis, squash, swimming and find their ways in life. I hope to make people believe they rowing), foreign languages and cultures, travelling, cooking, poetry, politics and public speaking. can create change and improve not only their own lives, but /uploads/Irfan2(1).jpg also the lives of others. Interests: Apart from my academic interests, I am also a passionate tailor, I love cinema, baking and reading.

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Mr Noah Isserman Miss Amna Jabeen USA • 2008 Canada • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Geography, PhD in Biological Anthropology, Gonville and Caius College Downing College previous university previous university Amherst College McGill University After completing a research What processes were involved in the MPhil in Geography, I am continuing my work as a PhD evolution of the modern human brain and cognition? How student. I focus on the provision of capital and support can we study such processes? The material culture studied by to social enterprises. More specifically, I study \”venture archaeologists to understand the cognition and mind of early philanthropy,\” a high-engagement form of philanthropy humans are the art objects left by people of early cultures. Some that is explicitly based on venture capital concepts and of the earliest examples of art belong to the European Upper practices. Outside of my academic pursuits, I am involved Palaeolithic – a culture spanning between 30,000 to 10,000 with some fantastic start-ups and consult in the social years. The human subject in this art has been a controversial profit sector with Washington, DC-based Common Ground topic due to its supposed poor quality of execution and has led Consulting. to numerous debates about the dichotomy observed in the Interests: Playing football/soccer as often as possible, graphical depiction of animal vs. human subject. Human figure entrepreneurship, organisational growth and strategy, and is one of the fundamental subjects in modern society as it is one cooking (with remarkably variable results). of the first figures drawn by children. Therefore what can we /uploads/Isserman Photo(1).jpg learn about the perceptual processes of the Palaeolithic people with regards to the human form. Was this schemata stable for the entire Upper Palaeolithic as proposed for the animal figure or did it change from phase to another? Interests: The human body and its depiction throughout the various historic and prehistoric ages, 18th century British Art, Islamic and Indian art especially the calligraphy and manuscripts, visits to planetarium, and anything related to evolution.

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Mr William Jacobs Ms Jargal Jamsranjav USA • 2010 Mongolia • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Chemistry, Emmanuel College MPhil in Geographical Research, previous university Corpus Christi College University of Virginia previous university National University of Mongolia I recently graduated from the University of Virginia with After graduated as a biologist, I concentrations in physics and computational materials worked on a UNDP/Wildlife Conservation Society funded science. At Cambridge I will be applying computational field research project on Mongolian gazelle. I then managed methods to the study of molecular recognition and Darwin Initiative’s research projects on wild plants and multicomponent mixtures in Professor Daan Frenkel’s animals and spent a year in Cambridge as a Chevening theoretical chemistry group. Scholar in Biodiversity at the UNEP-WCMC. I provided an Interests: Cycling, bicycle touring, running, jazz piano assessment of protected areas in East Asia, focusing on /uploads/Jacobs William(1).JPG the relationships between key threatened species. After I returned to Mongolia, I worked as host country counterpart for the Darwin Initiative project in Mongolia. I won a Whitley Award for International Conservation to study “Sustainable natural resource use and livelihood improvement” in Gobi desert. At Cambridge, I will study the complex relation between society and depleting natural resources. This will give me an opportunity to put my practical experience of the conflict between nomadic herders and wildlife to finding a conservation solution in an academic context. Interests: I enjoy reading, yoga and clothing design. I held a gold medal in Mongolian traditional dancing.

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Miss Iwona Janicka Miss Smruthi Jayasundar Poland • 2010 India • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in French, Trinity Hall PhD in Surgery, St John’s College previous universities previous universities University of Cambridge Sri Ramachandra University, India Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Ethiraj College, Chennai, India National University, My doctoral research at Cambridge Université Paris Sorbonne – Paris IV, France University is in the rapidly advancing field of stem cell My PhD project sets out to examine the return to the biology focussing on understanding the early stages category of the universal in chosen strands of contemporary of development of haematopoietic (blood) stem cells. French and North American literary theory. I wish to reflect My long-term career plan is to carry out clinically useful on the possibility of establishing what I call transformative research and thus contribute significantly not only to ethics i.e. a mode of thinking that can be considered as science but also society at large. a political tool for social change. I am interested in the Interests: I am a professional Indian classical dancer and an contemporary developments in the Western philosophy eloquent speaker. I also draw, paint and make traditional and I am curious to see what will follow postmodernism. handicrafts. Other interests are designing, all forms of dance, Interests: Making jewelry, painting in oil, rock and punk music, reading, socializing. /uploads/5239/01_thumb.JPG concerts, Czech music by J. Nohavica, table tennis, listening to Trójka, punting, Korean food, Berlin.

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32 Mr David Jiménez Torres Ms Emily Rose Jordan Spain • 2009 USA • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Spanish, Clare College PhD in Experimental Psychology, previous universities Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge previous university Washington University in Saint Louis Columbia University My interests lie in the crisis in Spanish I study the neuroscience of drugs of politics, society and identity that begins after the loss of the abuse, focusing on how the environment an individual lives last remaining colonies in 1898. They also lie in the ways in in interacts with genetics to create risk factors for addiction. which we as Spaniards can form a modern conception of In particular, I am interested in how social factors influence what being Spanish means. This new conception should drug taking, and I use an animal model to test how social come from a re-evaluation of the Spanish liberal tradition stress modulates cocaine self-administration. I pair these and of its relationship with those of England and the United behavioural techniques with neurochemical analyses States. For all these purposes, Ramiro de Maeztu is ideal: within the brain to try to elucidate how the brain controls of the generation of intellectuals of 1898, and all the way addiction and can be shaped by experiences. until the Spanish Civil War, he was the one most interested Interests: Science, food, and travel are my three passions in the Anglo-Saxon world. He was very concerned with the in life. In my free time I maintain a science themed institutional and cultural problems of Spain, and for a while Twitter, which you may find entertaining (@drsciencelady) tried to apply the English model to them. Maeztu can help and I also enjoy working on my food/travel blog us understand why Spain devolved towards the gradual (thingsweatethatweliked.wordpress.com). breakdown of institutions and the radicalization that led to /uploads/5399/gates photoej_thumb.jpg the civil war, instead of taking the path of progressive and consensual reforms of the Anglo-Saxon model.

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Miss Anastasiia Kamenska Miss Alexandra Kamins Ukraine • 2010 USA • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Biochemistry, Wolfson College MPhil in Veterinary Science, previous university Selwyn College National Tara Shevchenko University previous university of Kiev Emory University I got a lifetime opportunity to work Even as we understand more about towards a PhD degree in Biochemistry, the field that medicine, we have only unearthed more questions about inspires me the most. I strongly believe that our better the true causes of disease. As a global health community, understanding of the mechanisms that regulate translation we’re starting to explore the vast web that impacts each of proteins in cells can have a tremendous number of and every existing and emerging disease; there is no implications. I hope that the unique expirience Cambridge escaping the threads that span countries and even species. Department of Biochemistry provides will help me to I’m only just beginning this journey, but I hope that develop as a cutting-edge scientist. I am excited to become everything I learn and discover will contribute to our ability a part of a powerful Gates Scholars network and want to to sustainably improve the lives of all species worldwide. commit and gain the most of it. Interests: Adventures! I love my horse; the chance to travel; Interests: I am passionate about travelling, dancing, reading and writing, which really are just traveling of a scuba-diving, food/cooking, fashion, languages, music and different kind, drawing, science and art.

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Ms Erin Kara Ms Anna Kathryn Kendrick USA • 2011 USA • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Physics (Astronomy), PhD in Spanish, Emmanuel College St John’s College Hailing from the city of Boston and previous university educated in Cambridge, MA, I moved Columbia University to the UK in 2009 to teach history, I’m currently in Cambridge studying English, and Spanish at Shrewsbury for an MPhil in Physics from the Institute of Astronomy. School, Shropshire. Having completing the Cambridge There I am working with the Cambridge X-ray Astronomy MPhil in European Literature last year, focusing on group, researching the broad iron K – and L – emission lines philosophies of education in early twentieth century Spain, from Active Galaxies, in the hopes of better understanding I am now embarking on a PhD project examining cultural the turbulent environment surrounding the central black pedagogy in interwar Spain and Germany. My academic hole. It is a great privilege to study and live in Cambridge, interests lie in European nexuses of intellectual transfer: and I am continually impressed with the traditions, the journals and periodicals, academics and institutions, community and the caliber of education that this university philosophical and psychological writings; and their impact offers. on collective moral and ethical thought in times of crisis. Interests: Wonderful Cambridge & Gates friends, /uploads/5590/kara_thumb.jpg Emmanuel College ducks, cycling in the Fens and beyond, rowing (Radcliffe Crew, Cambridge Blue Boat 2011), hiking, languages, charity shops, markets, cellos, chapels, the English sun.

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Ms Brianne Kent Ms Marie Kolkenbrock Canada • 2011 Germany • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Experimental Psychology, PhD in German, Trinity Hall St John’s College previous university I am thrilled to be starting my Freie-Universität Berlin PhD at Cambridge. My interest in In my PhD I will examine a crisis neuroscience research developed of masculinity as a nexus of the while I was an undergraduate at Simon Fraser University, representation of gender and anti-Semitism in Arthur and since my focus has been on the neurobiology of Schnitzler’s narratives. As theoretical framework, I will use learning and memory. While at Cambridge I will be studying a psychoanalytical approach, which has been one of my the role of neurotrophic factors in memory formation as main interests for quite a while. I am also looking forward well as in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. to working with Schnitzler’s papers that are stored in the Interests: Dance, travel, hiking, skiing, backpacking, and University Library of Cambridge. anything else that gets me outside! /uploads/5626/Kent, Brianne_thumb.jpg Interests: Psychoanalysis, gender studies, literary theory. In my spare time I enjoy going to the theatre, from classic plays to improvised shows. I also love exploring cities on foot.

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34 Mr Eric Koskinen Ms Simone Kotva USA • 2008 Sweden • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Computer Science, PhD in Divinity, Emmanuel College Jesus College I am research student in Philosophical previous universities Theology, and my research revolves Brown University around the thought of Gilles Deleuze College of William and Mary and Friedrich Schlegel, and their reactions to and appropriations of Spinoza, pantheism and I began my career as a software engineer working at a vitalist philosophy of life. Amazon.com. I returned to academia in order to study ways to improve the correctness of computer programs, Interests: Word-mongering: reading, writing, calligraphing which has undoubtedly become important in an age where and inventing new languages. /uploads/5613/Kotva, Simone_thumb.jpg mission-critical software is pervasive. I am currently finishing a PhD in Computer Science, and will soon begin a Research Scientist position at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NYU). The Gates scholarship has provided me with aunique opportunity to study theoretical computer science in Cambridge, among many leaders in the field. My thesis is on techniques for automatically analyzing computer programs, using mathematics to prove their correctness.

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Ms Eszter Kovacs Mr Ramana Kumar Australia • 2008 Australia • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Geography, PhD in Computer Science, Peterhouse Sidney Sussex College Martin Davis wrote a book called previous university \”Engines of Logic\” describing University of Sydney computers and their history. His title I finished my MPhil in Environment, is accurate. But it is amazing how Society and Development at Cambridge last year, and the phenomena from video games to music engraving software following three years will see me extending my time here, emerge from, basically, physically realised arithmetic (it pursuing a PhD. I plan to study the politics and science of does, however, make the emergence of personalities from the evaluation and monitoring of payments for ecosystems biochemistry seem more plausible). I’m interested in the projects in Europe. philosophy of computer science. I am specifically working on mechanised logic: formalising mathematics using Interests: I take my sport very seriously, and I fenced at the computers and, on the flip side, building logical models Commonwealth Games in 2006. I love rowing and fencing of computer systems, usually with an aim of improving at Cambridge, and other interests include reading new their safety or security. I believe we can learn a lot about fiction, writing, languages and politics over good cake... /uploads/Kovacs2(1).jpg meaning by examining our use of computer systems, but there are many secrets hiding in plain sight. Interests: Mainly music: viola, orchestra, string quartet, piano, singing, composition. Cambridge has so much to offer by way of societies. I joined, for example, dancing, punting, and tea society. I enjoy cycling and practising Mandarin Chinese.

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Ms Patrycja Kupiec Mr Niraj Lal Poland • 2011 Australia • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Archaeology, Trinity College PhD in Physics, Clare Hall My research interests include the previous university Viking expansion into the North Australian National University Atlantic region, the applications I commenced a PhD in Physics at the of soil micromorphology to floor Nanophotonics Centre at Cambridge deposits in archaeological settlements, human impacts with Professor in January 2009, and on landscapes, and the application of geoarchaeological I’m loving it. My topic is \”Nanovoid Plasmon-Enhanced methods to identify seasonal occupation of archaeological Photovoltaics\” – using some new physics to make solar sites. My research focuses on testing application of cells more efficient. I think one of the biggest challenges of micromorphological analysis of undisturbed floor our generation is to understand our planet’s resources and sediments to detect punctuated occupation and to aid develop ways to live with them sustainably. I’m enjoying future research on seasonally occupied settlements and researching a means of electricity generation that can be enrich our understanding of how past societies used, safe, clean and decentralised. manipulated, and sometimes damaged their environment. Interests: The environment, governance, science Interests: Books (I will read anything!), learning new communication, and staying sane by running, surfing, languages, watching bad and good movies (hate mediocre playing music and football and getting into the bush. ones!), museums, Viking Age, fashion /uploads/Lal2(1).jpg

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Ms W Victoria Lee Miss Alexandra Leech USA • 2010 Ireland • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Architecture, Trinity College PhD in Social & Political Science, previous university King’s College University of Cambridge previous universities University of Cambridge I received my undergraduate and University College Dublin master degrees in architecture from MIT. At Cambridge under the MPhil program in My doctoral research is focused on integrating cognitive environmental design, I investigated the relationship – and interpersonal-vulnerability models of depression between buildings’ ability to resist long and short amongst British adolescents. The study explores the validity term hazards. I am continuing my research as a PhD of the relevant theories and the practical applicability student. There is still a large gap in our understanding of the adjacent therapeutic options for prevention and of the correlation between how well a building can intervention of adolescent mental illness during times resist earthquakes and how effectively it can protect its of significant transition. Preliminary results suggest the occupants from climatic elements such as hurricanes and significance of rumination, stable attribution styles and cold winters. Yet over half of the world’s population lives in parental support mechanisms. Qualitative data has places where such an understanding can greatly increase highlighted the need for, and inadequacies of, current the quality of life, if not the odds between death and health promotion and maintenance strategies, and the survival. In the future I hope to apply what I learn from my potential for reformation of policy and practice. My career research to reduce risks in the built environment of disaster- objectives are to gain further research and practical prone areas. experience in the field of adolescent mental health so that I Interests: hiking, visiting museums, cooking, music, may progress towards establishing a best practice model for photography, traveling, graphic design, reading, trying new adolescent depression which is reflected in disseminated things prevention and intervention strategies.

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36 Miss Julia Li Mr Guangru Li Canada • 2008 China • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Engineering, St John’s College PhD in Physics, Queens’ College previous universities I am just starting my first year of PhD University of British Columbia in Physics Department. My subject Canadian Institute of Chartered will be on organic solar cells which Accountants (CA) are aiming to develop efficient and cheap way of converting sunlight into electricity. My passion in life is biotechnology and oncology drug My potential specific focus may be on fabricating and development. I have pursued this passion from a young optimizing different kinds of polymer/inorganic nano- age and completed my undergraduate studies in Finance particle system, and then on new concepts such as singlet and Immunology. I am currently pursuing PhD doctoral fission and energy transport at the edge of the band research on financing global health. I examine \”push\” and and how to use them to improve solar cells. My research \”pull\” incentives for the biotech/pharma sector to innovate experience on GaN photo detectors in previous 3 years will for low and middle-income countries (base of pyramid greatly help me to understand this new project. markets). I believe in the power of both technological and social innovations to transform global health. I am co- Interests: travel, tennis, singing /uploads/5642/Guangru, Li_thumb.jpg founder of the African Innovation Prize (AIP) and started the London for Acumen Fund young professionals chapter focused on patient capital and social entrepreneurship. Interests: Habitat for Humanity International, volunteer at Beijing Olympics 2008, Vancouver Olympics 2010 – and hopefully London Olympics 2012! Other loves include music, dance, dark chocolate and Baroque art.

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Miss Meng Liang Mr David Liebers China • 2010 USA • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Asian & Middle East Studies, MPhil in History, Philosophy & Jesus College Sociology of Science , Trinity College previous university previous university Nagoya University, Japan University of Rochester For my PhD study, I will conduct a I am studying the legal, political and case study of Chinese migrant workers in Kawakami village, ethical consequences of advances in human genetics. Nagano prefecture. In specific, I will explore the framework I am excited to be pursuing a degree that allows me to of this form of migration, examine migrant workers’ study both (a) the history of evolutionary biology and its conditions and expectations, and elucidate the effects of relationship to different political regimes and (b) how future this migration. I will engage in participant observation in data in behavioral genetics will reconcile with democracy, both the Japanese and Chinese communities of Kawakami freedom and personal liberties. village, conduct narrative interviews with the villagers and Interests: Birding, Mets baseball, Giants football, boxing, the migrant workers, and conduct expert interviews with political history, Poland, vado, cam’ron, cassidy, chopin and employers, village heads, neighbourhood associations, christopher lasch. recruitment agencies, NPOs, and other key persons /uploads/5591/liebers_thumb.jpg involved. In doing so, I hope to acquire a comprehensive understanding on the working and living situations of migrant workers in Kawakami village, and gain an insight into the impacts which might be brought to both the Chinese workers and the local Japanese community. Interests: Music, Movie, Language learning, Piano, Swimming

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Miss Rachel Linn Mr Max Liu USA • 2008 USA • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in International Studies, MPhil in Medical Science (Medical Trinity Hall Genetics), Churchill College previous universities previous university University of Cambridge Cornell University Stanford University Over the next year, I will be pursuing I plan to pursue a career in policy research, specialising in research with Drs. David Rubinsztein and Angeleen Fleming the politics and economics of the Middle East and North exploring the roles autophagy, a cellular recycling process, Africa. For my PhD I am studying the comparative framing plays in the nervous system in normal and diseased states. of mainstream Islamist movements in Tunisia and Morocco, Currently, I plan to work on two aspects of autophagy: while also working to improve my Arabic and French. In its role in the development of the nervous system and Cambridge, I am highly involved in my college – having its function in clearing protein aggregates. I hope that served as the Trinity Hall MCR President and an Ents Officer. I during my year here, I will be able to contribute to our also row in the Women’s First VIII and serve on the boat club understanding of the functions of autophagy in the brain. committee for THBC. Interests: I enjoy cooking, photography and travel, and Interests: Languages, sports (esp. rowing, football and jogging /uploads/5605/223534_1014073286006_1650270060_86346_3649_n_thumb.jpg marathoning), politics, pubs, music and travel.

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Mr Steffen Loesch Ms Corina Logan Germany • 2009 USA • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Computer Science, PhD in Experimental Psychology, Trinity College Murray Edwards College (New Hall) previous university previous universities Saarland University Evergreen State College Skagit Valley College My PhD is about computer programming language semantics. This involves I have always found the study of animal behavior most mathematically defining what a program does, thereby inspiring, thus I was excited to conduct my PhD in the being able to prove things about its behaviour. More Comparative Cognition Lab at Cambridge. I investigated specifically, I work on denotational semantics for how birds in the crow family (corvids) support each other concurrency. I believe that in the not-too-distant future, after stressful events and whether this support serves to every safety-critical program will not just be tested to work, reduce stress. but proven to be correct. Disasters caused by program Interests: tango dancing, hiking, tropical biology, adventure, errors such as the explosion of the Arianne 5 rocket in 1996 vegan food. will be a matter of history. Hopefully my research will help /uploads/5199/corina_thumb.jpg to get a small step closer to this ultimate goal. Interests: I like skiing, long-distance running, football, squash, youth work, student politics, listening and making music, watching movies and reading newspapers.

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38 Mr Eduardo Machicado Mr Raghu Mahajan Murillo India • 2011 Bolivia • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge MASt in Applied Mathematics, PhD in Archaeology, Queens’ College Trinity College I graduated from Universidad Mayor This year in Cambridge, I am doing a de San Andrés in La Paz, Bolivia in one year taught masters in Theoretical 2003 and received my professional Physics. My primary interests are in licence in 2008. Before coming to Cambridge I worked String Theory and all aspects and applications of Quantum with the German Archaeological Institute (DAI-KAAK) and Field Theory: whether it is high-energy physics, condensed the University of California, Berkeley in archaeological matter physics or cosmology. My undergraduate research expeditions that took me from the Titicaca Basin to can be described as an attempt to understand phases of the Amazon Forest. Last year I completed an MPhil in matter when the interactions between particles are very Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. very strong, like in High-Temperature Superconductors. In that time I set the groundwork for my PhD research in I am also really interested in International Development the Llanos de Moxos, eastern Bolivia, on the development and Education in India at all levels, and look forward to of early complex societies in the Amazon Basin. I hope networking with people working in the field. that my work will help reveal the unknown history of the Interests: I enjoy doing Recreational Math and reading present indigenous communities and have a positive History and humourous fiction. I like to run, hike and play impact in developing policies for future heritage and forest badminton. I enjoy Indian and Western Classical Music, management. Parallel to my research I work at FFMV, a small Punjabi Folk and pop music. I also enjoy cooking, but only in non-profit organisation, that aims to support young Bolivian the company of other people. /uploads/5644/293911_10100206921524405_431858_47899423_1765078034_n_thumb.jpg scholars and promote free access to research resources in the fields of Music, Arts and Social Sciences. Interests: History and Archaeology, Latin American Politics, Social Theory, Heritage Management, Contemporary Art, Music, Literature, Technology.

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Mr Luke Maishman Miss Aditi Malik Ireland • 2010 India • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Pathology, Wolfson College MPhil in International Relations, previous university Newnham College Trinity College Dublin previous universities Northwestern University In October 2010 I started a PhD Franklin and Marshall College in Pathology at Cambridge. I am working on trypanosomes, the parasites that cause African This year at Cambridge, I will be pursuing the MPhil in Sleeping Sickness in humans and Nagana in cattle and International Relations. My research interests lie in the other livestock. study of post-conflict states, with an emphasis on the study Interests: Swimming, cooking, chilling with friends, visiting of political violence, post-violence nation-building and London. reconciliation. I have conducted field research in Cambodia /uploads/001 Luke Maishman(1).JPG and Rwanda and am particularly interested in examining the limits and varied contributions of legal and non-legal approaches to reconstruction efforts. Interests: Traveling, playing the piano, cricket.

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Mr Andrew Marin Mr Michael Marin USA • 2008 Canada • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Materials Science, LLM in Law, Wolfson College Churchill College I am a lawyer by profession and previous university most recently served as Law Clerk Georgia Institute of Technology to the Hon. Mr. Justice Binnie of I am in the second year of my PhD in the Supreme Court of Canada. Materials Science researching photovoltaic devices. Outside Prior to this, between 2008 and 2010, I practiced in the of the lab I am highly involved in Cambridge’s business- area of general commercial litigation at a Wall Street firm. technology community. I currently lead Cambridge My experience working at the epicenter of the Global University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC) – a Financial Crisis made me realize the need fundamentally society founded by Gates Scholars that links technical reform the governance and regulation of large financial achievements from the university with business-savvy institutions. To this end, I am pursuing a Master of Law individuals around the world. It is great to be in a place that and writing a thesis that I hope will propose a regulatory values turning scientific advancements into functioning framework better suited to mitigating the systemic risks products! that materialized three years ago. In 2011, I became a Fellow of Action Canada, where I am studying the links between Interests: I am a huge sports enthusiast – ironman triathlete, inequality and the knowledge-based economy. I am also marathon runner, wakeboarder, snow skier, and soccer President of the CAPE Scholarship, which helps people from player. /uploads/Marin Photo 2(1).jpg disadvantaged backgrounds pursue professional studies. Upon completion of my studies, I will join the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law as an assistant professor. Interests: politics, economics, literature, travel, rugby, hockey.

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Ms Cecilia Martinez Perez Ms Ramona Meyricke Mexico • 2011 Australia • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Plant Sciences, King’s College PhD in Land Economy, Corpus Christi College I am interested in the way organisms evolve and the genetic basis behind previous university these processes. My background is Australian National University mainly ecological having worked I completed a Bachelor of Science with different groups such as crustaceans, protists, birds, with Honours in Applied Statistics at the Australian National oaks and cacti. This has given me a broad view of the way University. After graduating, I worked at PwC in Australia, different organisms adapt to their environment. Now I will whilst qualifying as an actuary. My work and studies focus focus on plant evolution; what I like the most about this on financial risk management in relation to retirement subject is the possibility to unveil the complex mechanisms incomes, employee benefits and welfare. that control the incredible developmental plasticity plants exhibit. In my PhD I’ll be analyzing the evolution of Interests: Broadly I am interested in public-private solutions for long-term social problems involving uncertainty. floral morphology in snapdragon from a molecular and /uploads/Meyricke photo(1).jpg ecological perspective. This information will help us to explain how subtle changes in the developmental patterns of the organisms can have enormous consequences for life on the planet. Interests: Ballet, figure skating, irish dance, jogging.

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40 Mr Marc Mierowsky Dr Marina Minic Australia • 2011 Montenegro • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in English, Queens’ College PhD in Clinical Biochemistry, Clare College This year I have started a PhD which seeks to re-examine the history of previous universities public poetry in Restoration and University of Belgrade early eighteenth-century Britain. I am University of Novi Sad interested particularly in how the changing political context University of Montenegro – in which public opinion gained political currency – altered I am a practising doctor in specialist training. In 2007 I had the writing, publication and dissemination of poetry. What 3 months of intensive exposure to cutting edge research draws me to this era is the reciprocal relationship of politics at the University of Cambridge, concentrating on the and literature; literature was not just the principal medium molecular genetics of insulin resistance. The project I helped for political discourse but indeed shaped many of the to develop then, and will continue to work on during my political debates of the era and was central to public life. PhD, aims to investigate the relationship between insulin This was an era in which the political invective was written and production of the fat cell hormone adiponectin, which by Dryden, Swift, Defoe and what they produced puts the has attracted keen interest as a marker of and potential negative attack ads of our own era to shame. Perhaps this treatment for diabetes. discrepancy speaks to the distinctions between political philosophy, literature and polemic that have ossified in our Interests: I enjoy traveling and learning different customs, own context. cultures and traditions as well as theatre, music, dancing and foreign languages. Interests: Outside of English literature and political /uploads/5446/Marina Minic, photo_thumb.jpg philosophy love comedy and will be attending as many productions that I can in my three years here.

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Ms Silvia Montano Mr Thabo Msibi Palomino South Africa • 2009 Sweden • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Education (Thematic Route), PhD in Latin American Studies, Pembroke College St Edmund’s College previous universities previous universities Columbia University University of Cambridge University of KwaZulu-Natal University of Melbourne I am currently registered for an MPhil in educational During my study in Melbourne, I took part in a project for research, which hopefully will turn into a PhD at the end resettlement of displaced rural communities in the Peruvian of my studies here at Cambridge. The focus of my study Andes. This experience reinforced an interest in post- is on the relationship between sexuality and schooling, conflict societies already developed through five years of particularly exploring the experiences of learners and active involvement with human rights NGOs in Stockholm. teachers deemed ‘sexually deviant’. It is my hope that my It also convinced me of the importance of researching study will offer possible interventions that will make schools transitional justice and the role of Truth Commissions in safer spaces for all. furthering dialogue and democracy. During my MPhil in Interests: I am interested in issues of social justice and Latin American Studies at Cambridge I looked at discursive equity. I enjoy reading mystical books. I also do not easily narratives that emerged alongside the Peruvian Truth shy away from a debate. /uploads/5448/thabo_thumb.jpg Commission’s report. In my PhD I will attempt to expand this and explore the way in which bystanders understand/ represent the conflict that tormented Peru during the 1980s/90s and its aftermath. I plan to work with non- profit organisations in Sweden and Peru, contributing to the development of strategies that allow a constructive and successful dialogue between the communities of perpetrators, bystanders, and survivors.

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Mr Siza Mtimbiri Miss Georgina Murphy Zimbabwe • 2009 Ireland • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Education, St Edmund’s College PhD in Public Health and Primary Care, previous universities St John’s College University of Cambridge previous university Harvard University Trinity College Dublin University of South Africa Having completed my MPhil in My doctoral thesis examines the psycho-emotional impact Development Studies in Cambridge, I am now doing a PhD of HIV/AIDS on rural primary school students in Zimbabwe in Epidemiology/Public Health as a continuing scholar. My to find ways of intervention which will enable students research is looking at the prevalence and distribution of to learn more effectively, despite the on-going epidemic. noncommunicable diseases (such as diabetes, liver disease I hope this will bring a clearer understanding of how and hypertension) and their risk factors in rural Uganda. education is being affected – a prerequisite to educational Noncommunicable diseases are thought to be an increasing planning that will be most effective in implementing problem in developing countries, yet little research is being meaningful change. I intend to return to Zimbabwe to done to investigate them in Africa. I hope that this research improve the education of children in the rural areas. will give us a better understanding of the burden of disease and context-specific determinants. I’m looking forward to Interests: I direct a charitable organization that aims to the opportunity of combining my knowledge of molecular change children’s lives through education and health medicine and development to further investigate the provision. I like to run, play tennis and chess. /uploads/5474/Mtimbiri photo_thumb.jpg policy implications of the study outcomes. As I am directly contributing to the design, implementation and quality control of the study, I am currently based in Uganda and will continue to be here until October 2011 – exciting, but missing my fellow Gates Scholars! Interests: I love learning about, discussing and debating global issues, reading, and travelling. I also enjoy art and water sports. I’m particularly looking forward to combining all the above during adventures in Africa over the next year.

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Mr Greg Nance Ms Muktha Natrajan USA • 2011 USA • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Management, PhD in Clinical Neurosciences, Fitzwilliam College Newnham College previous university previous university University of Chicago University of Georgia In college I studied how geography My research interests currently lie in influences international relations and wrote my bachelor’s the field of neurodegeneration and discovering possible thesis on China’s maritime environment and the strategic treatments for neurodegenerative disorders. Specifically, I consequences. At Cambridge I am pursuing a masters in am interested in looking at stem cell treatments for these management through the business school to bolster my disorders. I am currently pursuing a PhD at the University toolkit as an entrepreneur in the education space. I aim of Cambridge under Dr. Robin Franklin in the Department to create innovative solutions to the challenges facing of Clinical Neurosciences. I will be working on a project America’s education system. I come from Bainbridge dealing with the effects of age on the macrophage Island, Washington, and plan to return when starting my response to demyelination in a toxin-mediated mouse entrepreneurial career. model of multiple sclerosis (MS). I will be partnering with Interests: running, hiking in the mountains, Seattle sports, Dr. Bibiana Bielekova at the National Institutes of Health and harmonica, foreign policy, chess and bible study intend to study similar factors using samples from patients /uploads/5592/Nance, G_thumb.jpg with MS. The part of the project performed in Dr Bielekova’s laboratory (NIH) will attempt to translate the observations from the mouse model into the human system with the goal to define molecular and functional characteristics of monocytes that promote effective remyelination in MS patients. Interests: Tennis, Travel, Reading, Singing

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42 Mr Kevin Nead Mrs Sara Neihaus USA • 2011 USA • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Epidemiology, Clare Hall PhD in Plant Sciences, previous university Gonville and Caius College Stanford University previous university University of Florida I completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Florida Originally from Wetumpka, Florida, where I was also on the swimming team. Prior to I graduated from the University of Florida in 2005 with arriving at Cambridge I was a third year medical student degrees in Mathematics and Environmental Science. After at Stanford University. During medical school I conducted working for 5 years in land conservation, I am currently research in cardiovascular epidemiology with a focus on a first year PhD student in the ecology group in the biomarkers and genetic risk factors in peripheral arterial Department of Plant Sciences. My fieldwork will take me to disease. My work in this area was both inspirational and Panama, where I am investigating the relationship between instructive in that I realized my passion for this method soil nutrients, plant growth, and soil respiration through an of research while recognizing the necessity of a stronger ongoing leaf litter manipulation experiment in a tropical foundation in epidemiological principles. At Cambridge I lowland forest. I aim to advance the understanding of will obtain the practical training offered by a taught master’s how nutrients and carbon cycle through the rainforest, while further exploring cardiovascular disease treatment with applications for conservation and improving climate and prevention strategies through my thesis work. During change models. my career as a physician-scientist I will use epidemiology Interests: Hiking and other outdoor activities, cooking, to identify risk factors in cardiovascular disease in order travelling, literature to enhance our ability to predict individual disease risk, /uploads/Neihaus Sara(1).JPG response to treatment, and disease outcomes. Interests: Backpacking, hiking, skiing, swimming, traveling

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Mr Yifan Ng Ms Feilin Nie Singapore • 2008 China • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Surgery, Churchill College PhD in Natural Science (Chemistry), previous university Trinity College University of Cambridge I am starting my PhD study in Chemistry Department, in the area I started dabbling in science and of Synthetic Chemistry and Chemical research from 11, and won an award Biology. My academic interest is centred on finding new that year for my invention to aid the daily lives of people drugs to treat disease, in particularly using chemical with rheumatoid arthritis. At 18 I won the Merit prize in methods and related techniques to discover biologically the Singapore National Science Talent Search based on active compounds. Ten years of study and research in a biochemistry project investigating a particular enzyme Pharmaceutical and Chemical related areas has given me a in the venom of the poisonous Malaysian krait (Bungarus well rounded preparation of PhD study in Cambridge. The candidus). For my PhD I intend to work on stem cells and focus of my research is on Diversity Oriented Synthesis. My development, which complements with my clinical goal objective is to design and synthesise small molecules in a of becoming an obstetrician and gynaecologist – I wish diversity oriented context. It is hoped that small molecules to look at the developmental basis of subfertility and help with novel biological activity will be discovered. couples everywhere bring their own little bundles of joy Interests: Tai Chi Martial Art into the world. /uploads/5645/340_thumb.jpg Interests: Outside medicine, my interests revolve around birdwatching and music, specifically DJing. In 2002 I produced a video entitled “Kingfishers of Singapore and Malaysia” to raise awareness about these beautiful birds in the region.

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Miss Stella Nordhagen Miss Astrid Noren-Nilsson USA • 2008 Sweden • 2007 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Land Economy, Queens’ College PhD in Politics, King’s College previous university previous universities Middlebury College School of Oriental and African Studies Uppsala University After studying economics and physics/astronomy at Middlebury I am pursuing a PhD in Politics College, I did a fellowship in global health research at the researching nationalist projects in Cambodia from 1993 Harvard Initiative for Global Health in Boston, Seattle, and onwards. I hold an MPhil in Development Studies from Tanzania. At Cambridge, I have shifted focus towards the Cambridge and a BA in Politics & Southeast Asian Studies intersection of environment and development, particularly from SOAS. I am also a research fellow at the Cambodian agricultural adaptation to climate change in developing Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP). Previously, countries. My work has taken me as far afield as Papua New I have worked in Cambodia on issues concerning rural Guinea, but the time in Cambridge has been some of the development and literacy promotion. I also work on a most rewarding. I’ve loved the stimulating company of freelance basis as a political analyst on Southeast Asia. Gates Scholars over the past two years and look forward to Interests: Travelling; the fine arts; singing karaoke. more to come! /uploads/5128/Gates2_thumb.jpg Interests: Travel and the outdoors! Hiking, backpacking, climbing, skiing, distance running... Also politics, cooking/ baking, folk music, and foreign languages.

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Mr Toby Norman Miss Amber North USA • 2011 USA • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Management Studies, PhD in Philosophy, King’s College Sidney Sussex College previous university Originally from a small town called Northwestern University Cohasset in the United States, I My PhD argues for and tries to recently completed my B.A. from strengthen a new emerging Harvard and my MPhil at Cambridge. My passion is global consensus about the foundation of morality: that moral health, and I’ve worked on a range of health initiatives in objectivity stems from what is constitutive of human Kenya, Chile, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. My agency itself. The 20th century exhibited a sort of vertigo PhD research looks at the application of management when it came to the search for a moral compass, due to a science to health problems, specifically using randomized- loss of religious morality and the rise of the scientific world control trial field experiments to test how different business view. But the \”constitutivist\” line takes these developments models affect the access and impact of health services in stride, and provides a naturalistic understanding of in rural India. I hope to combine my passion for global how human action, human fitness, is performed via and healthcare with the rigor of scientific management to premised on a commitment to morality. I try to strengthen improve the delivery of health services around the world. this view by showing not only how this foundation is Interests: Traveling, boxing, fencing, skydiving, and consistent with a scientific world view, but also how it is parliamentary debate /uploads/5662/Norman, Toby_thumb.jpg actually the logical conclusion of it. Our common sense view that morality is grounded in our humanity, and our scientific understanding of human action, amount to the same explanatory point of view when properly understood. Interests: song-writing, hiking, spices, the northwest, travel, Flipboard, arts education, global health, philosophical and scientific understandings of faith practices, the role of the university in the 21st century, Kant, , community development.

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44 Mr Zachary Norwood Ms Queen Nworisara Quinn USA • 2011 USA • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge MAST in Pure Mathematics, PhD in Management Studies , Churchill College Christ’s College previous university previous universities University of Nebraska Harvard University Penn State University After completing my BA in mathematics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, I I’m currently working on my PhD in Management Studies came to Cambridge to study Part III maths. My academic at the Judge Business School after recently completing interests lie chiefly in mathematical logic, but one of the my MPhil in innovation, strategy & organizational behavior. opportunities studying at Cambridge offers is exposure My research will focus on the emergence of social impact to a wide array of mathematical ideas. The breadth of investing in frontier African markets and how perceptions knowledge with which I hope to leave Cambridge should influence the flow of capital towards these markets. I hope allow me to converse more fluently with mathematicians to develop research which helps to improve access to of all sorts, enhancing both my understanding and the capital for African firms and entrepreneurs. I also aspire to understanding of my students and colleagues. After I leave teach students about entrepreneurship and hope that my Cambridge I intend to pursue a PhD in mathematics. research would prove beneficial in educating a new class of Interests: mathematics, literature, music, coffee, games, investors about investment opportunities in Africa. language, animal rights & related topics, wine, computers, Interests: Pilates, hiking, film, travel, West African and French tennis cuisine. /uploads/5595/profilepic_thumb.jpg /uploads/Nworisara Queen(1).JPG

Mr Gabriel Onagoruwa Mr Martin Otero Knott Nigeria • 2008 Peru • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Law, Wolfson College PhD in History, St John’s College previous universities I am very grateful to the Gates University of Cambridge Cambridge Trust for their generous University of Ibadan financial support of my PhD in Intellectual History. My research I am very grateful to the Trust for centres on eighteenth century debates concerning the funding my PhD research interest. My research is focused on sociability of mankind – with a particular focus on questions the emerging framework for cross-border bank insolvencies regarding the foundations of morality and conjectural and the contrast between bank insolvency and general accounts describing the earliest stages of human corporate insolvency. development. My intention is to reconstruct this discourse Interests: Music, soccer and traveling. /uploads/5278/Onagoruwa photo_thumb.JPG of sociability as a means of reevaluating the philosophical contributions generated by some of the most exciting minds of the Enlightenment. In particular, I will focus on Adam Smith’s contribution to these debates by exploring his reading of various ‘new systems’ of jurisprudence that were devised by continental scholars. Interests: Progressive Rock

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Mr John Ottem Ms Olympia Papachristofi Norway • 2010 Cyprus • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Pure Mathematics , PhD in Biostatistics, Robinson College St Catharine’s College After finishing with a Bsc in previous university Mathematics from Imperial College University of Oslo London, I came to Cambridge I’m doing a PhD in pure mathematics to pursue further studies on at the DPMMS, Cambridge. My research field is algebraic Mathematics and especially Statistics. Thus, I first completed geometry, a subject which deals with higher dimensional the MAST in Pure Mathematics where though I solely spaces defined by polynomial equations. Aside from my selected Statistics modules and I am now continuing with studies, I’m on the basketball team and enjoy playing my a PhD in Biostatistics. The project I will focus on deals with acoustic guitar. the assessment of the impact of learning curves, multiple operators and non-proportion hazards in clinical trials of Interests: Music. Guitar playing. Mountain hiking. Being tall. /uploads/5536/liten_thumb.jpg surgical procedures and devices. Possible career paths I am considering after the PhD are doing research for my country’s ministry of health or for the first medical school that is about to open in Cyprus. Interests: Greek and Cypriot traditional dances, extreme sports like sky-diving,bungee jumping,zorbing, travelling, musicals,good food from around the world.

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Mr Kris Parag Miss Meghana Patel Trinidad and Tobago • 2010 India • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Engineering, Trinity College PhD in Clinical Biochemistry, previous university St Edmund’s College University of previous universities Sheffield Hallam University I studied Aerospace Engineering Gujarat University, M.G.Science College at the University of Sheffield (UK) with specialisation is Controls and Systems Engineering. Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and metabolic disorders have I have now started a PhD in Controls in the Cambridge reached epidemic proportions. The molecular mechanisms Engineering department. My likely focus of research will underlying the pathology of obesity and insulin resistance involve biological applications of control theory possibly at leading to atherosclerosis and heart failure are still not well the molecular level. understood. My research revolves around understanding Interests: Cricket, table tennis, archery, tennis, novels, video the complex signals in the cells that lead to progress games, anime of obesity and atherosclerosis. I am thankful to Gates /uploads/001 Kris Parag(1).JPG Cambridge Trust for providing me with an opportunity to work towards this goal. Interests: Music, playing guitar, sketching, experimental cooking, reading, writing, watching movies and travelling.

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46 Miss Kendell Pawelec Mr Zhenwei Peng USA • 2010 China • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Materials Science and PhD in Earth Sciences, Jesus College Metallurgy, Pembroke College previous universities previous university State University Michigan State University China University of Geosciences (Beijing) In the spring of 2010, I finished my Bachelors of Science in Materials Science Engineering My research is about how the crystallographic structure from Michigan State University (USA). As an advocate of iron-nickel alloy, its mechanical properties and phase of international study and exchange, I was more than transition vary with temperature, pressure, chemical happy to accept a place in Cambridge as a Gates scholar composition and other conditions. I am trying to investigate and member of Pembroke College. I plan to complete a those property variations by high temperature experiments, PhD in Cambridge focusing on biomaterials – specifically theoretical calculation and computational modeling. The researching architecture in collagen scaffolds. Besides lab motivation of this project is related to the fact that the work, I’m taking the opportunity to soak up all of the diverse Earth’s inner core is believed to be formed mainly by the culture that Cambridge has to offer and serving as Welfare same alloy. It is therefore vital to understand the working Officer for the graduate community at Pembroke. of our planet, because all the globe-scale changes, such as Interests: Besides materials science, art and music are my earthquakes, are more or less related to the interior activities main interests. To display my art, I’ve started a website: of our planet. http://k-m-pawelec.artistwebsites.com. Interests: Photography, traveling, cooking, Russian language. /uploads/5503/KM Pawelec 2011_thumb.JPG /uploads/5451/IMG_5194_thumb.JPG

Mr Luis Perez Ms Nicole Person-Rennell El Salvador • 2011 USA • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Latin American Studies, MPhil in Public Health, St Catharine’s College St John’s College previous universities previous universities Princeton University Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Portland State University Arizona State University Portland State University I am a medical student at Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Portland State University Minnesota on a lovely public health academic leave, The Centre of Latin American Studies has welcomed me originally from Phoenix, Arizona. In pursuing a career as a with open arms. After the warm reception from the Gates public health physician, I hope to focus on addressing social Foundation and my cohorts, this was a perfect way to begin determinants of health and women’s health issues, whether the year and my studies at Cambridge. Thank you all! I am through work with an NGO or with a government agency. already schedule to present my current research on Che In medical school, I have been privileged to work with Guevera and Aesthetics in Cuba at St. Catharine’s College, clinicians in multiple research projects, including examining and am hoping to meet scholars who deal with political post-partum depression outcomes, family planning history, economics, (post)Marxism, (post)Colonial and/or educational models, medical students’ attitudes in service Cultural Studies, Anthropologists working on post-Soviet projects, and a humanities based anatomy project. I was societies and those working on the philosophy of power, also able to research domestic violence and public health specially in the Caribbean. in South Africa for one year as part of an undergraduate Interests: Avid rock climber, cyclist and footballer. Love to study abroad program focused on service learning; I have cook and wine tasting. A deep liking of visual arts (design, continued to work with women experiencing domestic film/documentaries, photography). violence in the Rochester community and focused a dance education project on domestic violence issues in Arizona. Interests: I enjoy dancing with AZDance Group, a professional contemporary ballet company, playing my flute and singing with my church choir. I also hope to continue ballroom dance with my husband while in residence at Cambridge.

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Ms Monica Petrescu Mr Matthew Phinney USA • 2011 USA • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Economics, Trinity College MASt in Pure Mathematics, previous university Darwin College Wake Forest University I am currently studying for Part III of the Mathematical (MASt Pure Born in Romania, I lived in Vernon Mathematics). My main interests lie in Hills, Illinois before attending Wake applied and computational analysis, probability theory, and Forest University. I graduated summa cum laude in May stochastic calculus. I am particularly interested in the design 2010 with a BA in Economics and Political Science. In of efficient algorithms for the characterization of multiscale my economics honors thesis, “Income Inequality in the systems. European Union: Determining Factors in a Decade of

Expansion,” which received the 2010 Wake Forest Economics /uploads/5646/Phinney, Matthew_thumb.jpg Prize, I researched the impact of social, macro-economic, and political factors on within-country income distributions. In 2009 I won a Richter Research Grant to study labor migration and human trafficking in Kuwait. At Cambridge, I plan to pursue an MPhil in Economics, and focus on labor and migration, particularly within the European Union. Afterward I hope to pursue a terminal degree and work in academia or with an international organization such as the International Labor Organization. Interests: I’m passionate about human rights and diversity work and was a leader in Amnesty International and the Interfaith Council at Wake Forest. I love learning languages and have studied French, German, Arabic & Italian; I am currently working on Russian.

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Ms Agnieszka Piasna Ms Katherine Pickard Poland • 2009 USA • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Sociology, Queens’ College MPhil in Social & Developmental previous universities Psychology, Newnham College University of Cambridge previous university Warsaw University Harvard University Following my research with the Italian This year at the University of Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, I will study adaptations Cambridge, I will be receiving an MPhil in Social and of work-life balance strategies in an economic downturn. Developmental Psychology under the supervision of Dr. I aim to contribute to a better understanding of labour Claire Hughes. During my time in Cambridge I will be market dynamics and transitions from work to non-work working on Dr. Hughes’ \”Toddlers and Up\” project, a to improve future policy measures. I used to worked as longitudinal study that examines young children’s learning a communication consultant on campaigns addressing profiles. By looking at young children with high levels issues of exclusion and discrimination in the labour market of inhibition and social anxiety, I hope to compare their – among others with the leaders of the Solidarnosc trade performance on executive function tasks to their more unions. outgoing peers. Interests: Backpacking, cycling, art films, design, Interests: clinical psychology, swimming, running, reading, photography. and being outdoors /uploads/5598/pickard_thumb.jpg /uploads/5452/AP 2_thumb.JPG

48 Ms Suzanne Pilaar Miss Hannah Pincham USA • 2008 Australia • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Archaeology, St John’s College PhD in Experimental Psychology, previous university St John’s College Rutgers University previous university University of Sydney I earned a BSc in Evolutionary Anthropology and Paleoecology from I am completing my PhD in Rutgers University in 2008 and a MPhil in Archaeological Experimental Psychology as a Gates Scholar under Science at Cambridge in 2009. My PhD uses zooarchaeology the supervision of Dr Denes Szucs. My research and stable isotope analysis to identify changes in human investigates the neural mechanisms of attention using diet and seasonal mobility in response to environmental electroencephalography. Over the past year I have had a change from the Pleistocene/Holocene transition to the great time trying to uncover the brain states that generate introduction of domestic animals and agriculture (11,000- optimal or sub-optimal behaviour. After finishing my PhD, I 7,000 years BP) in the Eastern Adriatic, working with Drs will start my medical training in Sydney. I plan to specialise Preston Miracle and Tamsin O’Connell. in paediatric neurology, and ultimately hope to combine Interests: Travelling, hiking, kayaking, reading, writing, both research and medical practice in order to enhance archaeology, natural history, human ecology and evolution, children’s lives. I enjoy volunteer work and have been science education and public engagement. involved in a number of projects in Ghana, Kenya, and most /uploads/5208/gatesyearbook_thumb.jpg recently Rwanda. In my spare time I enjoy swimming, team sports, travel and baking.

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Ms Diana Pirjol Mr Andrey Poletayev Romania • 2011 Russia • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Public Health, MPhil in Physics, Darwin College St Edmund’s College In addition to all the others, the I have recently finalized my MSc challenge of generating accessible degree in Management and Policy and ecologically sustainable energy Analysis in health at VU University in is paramount in today’s world. Amsterdam, the Netherlands and I am now following the Developing economically scalable solar cell technology Mphil in Public Health at Cambridge. During this program is the ideal answer to this challenge. This year, I plan on I intend to combine the knowledge I have gained so far studying crystals of small organic molecules in the hope of in the area of health policy analysis with public health. I creating a new, efficient and cheap photovoltaic. I want to am, more specifically, interested in the situation of Roma take the best of both currently active areas of solar energy community in Europe and I hope in the nearby future I research: the stability and efficiency of traditional crystal will be able to challenge the adequacy of the health care technology, and the low cost and flexibility of organics. systems/ health policies/ strategies towards the situation Interests: climbing, orienteering, cycling, meditation and of Roma, at the European Commission level. I am excited awareness, guitar. to be part of the excellent University of Cambridge /uploads/5647/Polatyev, Andrey_thumb.jpg Graduate School of Life Sciences and this would have not been possible without the generous support of Gates Foundation. Interests: I enjoy skiing, hiking, climbing, gliding and reading. My favorite topics include history, economics, politics and health.

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Miss Nandhini Mr Oleksandr Poplavskyy Ponnuswamy Ukraine • 2007 India • 2007 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Chemistry, Selwyn College PhD in Chemistry, St John’s College previous universities previous university University of St Stephen’s College, University of Utrecht University Delhi In Cambridge I read for the Certificate Science has been my favourite subject since childhood. The of Advanced Study in Mathematics (Part III). Having studied logical way of reasoning and appreciating each and every theoretical physics in Ukraine and the Netherlands, and aspect of Mother nature appeals to me and fills me with worked as a Marie-Curie researcher in Orsay, France, I the desire to know more and more about her. Chemistry plan to expand my knowledge in probability theory, interests me the most. The mysteries of the colors, beautiful which became especially important for physicists with ring and cage structures always amaze me. Asymmetric the invention of Stochastic Loewner Evolution (SLE, Fields synthesis, Biochemistry are my favourite topics. After my Medal 2006 to W. Werner). higher studies I want to work in the interface of chemistry Interests: Besides doing research in theoretical physics, I like and biology. For example, in the field of designing drugs to spend time with my friends, travelling, and mountain and vaccines for diseases like cancer, AIDS, etc which pose backpacking. In the Netherlands, I also loved very much a great danger to mankind. I’m really looking forward to sailing a canoe through the picturesque canals of Utrecht. I Cambridge. It’s a dream come true for me. had a lot of fun doing this together with my friends.

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Mr Kiran Rachuri Mr Ivan Rajic India • 2009 Serbia • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Computer Science, PhD in Land Economy, Darwin College St John’s College previous university previous universities University of Belgrade Indian Institute of Technology Madras My main academic interests have National Institute of Technology led me to the Development Studies Warangal MPhil at Cambridge, which I finished in 2010. Being at I am a third year PhD student in the Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, and being a Gates Scholar. was, without University of Cambridge. I work in the domain of smart exaggeration, one of the best experiences in my life. Once I phone based sensing systems. Modern mobile phones are finished my MPhil, I took a year off. I have now started PhD, equipped with many sensors like accelerometer, camera, at the Development Studies Centre, under the supervision GPS, microphone etc. and they can be used to capture of Dr Ha-Joon Chang. In my PhD, I will explore the political various details about users automatically like accelerometer economy of state dissolution. This topic started off from can be used to infer activity, Bluetooth to detect colocation, my interest in former Yugoslavia, for which I hold that the GPS to infer location, microphone to infer speech/noise. \”ethnic-hatred\” and similar explanations for its dissolution Mobile phone based sensing systems find applications are woefully inadequate. I wish to see whether political in many domains such as social psychology, health care, economy plays a far greater, but much less explored, role and navigation systems. However, since mobile phones in the process of state dissolution (not only in the case of are battery-powered, continuous sensing from the sensors Yugoslavia). I consider myself a heterodox economist, and, leads to faster depletion of the phone battery. My research besides my PhD, I also wish to use my time at Cambridge to is on energy efficiency of the smart phone based sensing do what I can to further reform in the economics academia. systems. Interests: development economics, economic history, Interests: Besides academia my interests include cricket, political economy, economic methodology, economic squash, and tennis. theory, wide interest in the social sciences in general

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50 Miss Kavita Ramakrishnan Ms Surabhi Ranganathan USA • 2009 India • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Geography, Queens’ College PhD in Law, St John’s College previous universities previous universities University of California (Los Angeles) New York University University of Southern California National Law School of India My PhD research focuses on \”future\” I have degrees in law from discourses in Indian urban renewal projects and the University (as an Arthur Vanderbilt Scholar); and the National implications for urban citizenship and identity. My particular Law School of India University, from where I graduated third interest is people displaced by the 2010 Commonwealth with two gold medals. I am interested in public law, and Games in Delhi – – through the lives of mobile migrant public international law. From September 2006-2008, I was workers, I will explore notions of home, belonging, and a fellow at NYU’s Institute for International Law and Justice, future imaginaries. where I combined programmatic and research responsibilities Interests: Travel, dance, vegetarianism, social justice activism, for projects on ‘Private Military Companies’ and ‘Global cities, and my bike. Administrative Law’. At Cambridge, I will study the creation /uploads/5404/P1010085_thumb.JPG and mediation of conflicts between treaties with non-identical parties, and seek to develop an account of their systemic implications. I hope to graduate to a career combining teaching with policy-oriented research. Into this, I aim to channel previous research and work experience, including an Indian Supreme Court clerkship, internships at UNICEF and UNHCR, the Indian telecom regulator, an environmental action group, and research assistance to Professor Thomas Franck. Interests: I enjoy long walks, reading, politics, history, coffee, word-games, movies, and writing. I maintain a blog, to discuss the use (and abuse!) of international law in films, at www.iiljfilms.blogspot.com.

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Mr Umang Rawat Mr Max Reibman India • 2007 USA • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Economics, PhD in History, Pembroke College St Edmund’s College previous university previous university University of Cambridge St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi Having completed an M.Phil in History at Cambridge in June 2010, As a student of Economics I have been fascinated by the I am currently beginning a PhD and could not be more sheer magnitude of influence this subject has on the world excited at the prospect of several more years in Cambridge. today. Therefore I decided to pursue it further as an affiliate My main interest is the Middle East and the origins of student in the University of Cambridge. With the world American diplomacy in the region. I intend to use Egypt becoming a global village, the fate of all the countries is and, in particular, the major cosmopolitan city of Cairo, as interlinked. Through my studies in Economics I want to a lens to examine the different groups of exiles, diplomats enjoy an experience that will help me delve deeper into and intellectuals who convened there during the interwar the nuances of this subject, particularly the international years. I hope my research will challenge the existing linkages of the development process. Hoping that time narrative of the Middle East in the prelude to World War II spent here becomes some of the most cherishable and thereby lead to a greater understanding of how we moments of my intellectual odyssey. came to the current diplomatic and political situation in the Interests: Listening to music (mostly Indian), observing region. Aside from all things history, I captain the Pembroke people, meeting new people and exploring new places and College squash team, play ice hockey and contribute to the watching movies. Cambridge Review of International Affairs. I am also an avid /uploads/5135/3.JPG fan of foreign films. As a Francophile, I most enjoy those from the French and other New Wave movements. Interests: History and languages, especially French and Arabic. Politics, global affairs, film, the New York Rangers and Michigan football.

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Mr Mark Retter Ms Johanna Riha Australia • 2011 Austria • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Law, Trinity Hall PhD in Public Health and Primary Care, previous universities Homerton College University of Cambridge I am half Austrian half Tanzanian University of New South Wales and previously studied and worked University of Sydney in East and West Africa and the UK. Through the Gates scholarship I will pursue a PhD in Underlying all human rights is an intrinsic moral claim epidemiology with a focus on urbanisation metrics and that all humans have a certain human dignity which is so non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. fundamental that it ought to be respected. I am exploring why the underlying moral claims of human rights are Interests: Swimming, painting, reading, art exhibitions, partaking in festivals, traveling and photography. important for positive human rights law. In particular, I /uploads/5631/JRiha-Photo_thumb.jpg believe there is a need to rediscover the underlying source of legitimacy of human rights through moral philosophy. The focus of my research will be on the right to freedom of movement. I will be looking at the law affecting freedom of movement, and also natural law philosophy, to explain what it is that constitutes the freedom of movement as a human right, and how it ought to be applied. In particular, I hope to explore how the right of a person to freedom of movement forms part of, and interacts with, the wider common good of a political community. I am hoping to use my research to pursue a career in human rights advocacy and academic scholarship. Interests: Catholicism, philosophy, theology, history, law, learning, travelling, cricket, rugby, volleyball, friends and life

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Ms Ann Robbins Miss Caroline Robertson USA • 2011 USA • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Medical Science (Clinical PhD in Psychiatry, Biochemistry), Homerton College Lucy Cavendish College previous university previous university University of Chicago Columbia University For the next year, I will be studying Before coming to Cambridge, for an M.Phil. in Clinical Biochemistry in Dr. David Savage’s I studied neurobiology, religious philosophy, and Laboratory at the Metabolic Research Laboratories. My classical oboe at Columbia. I’m currently doing a PhD in project is focused on the mutations causing lipodystrophy, neurobiology, with a focus on autism. Although autism is a disorder that results in an individual’s fat tissue being a disorder about which we know little, it seems to have malformed or nonexistent. The work I hope to accomplish roots in part of the brain that we understand quite well: the will have implications not only for lipodystrophy, but for visual system. My research aims to exploit this intersection diabetes research as well. I am immensely grateful to by targeting a consistent deficit in autism, coherent motion the Gates Trust for allowing me this opportunity and for perception, using fMRI. I’m hoping that pressure on this introducing me to my fellow Scholars, who are some of the sensory deficit will reveal a building block of higher level most fascinating and compassionate people I have met. problems in the autistic brain, such as the commonly Interests: swimming, baking, reading, learning to ride a observed tendency in autism to “see the trees, but not the bicycle on the left hand side of the road, exploring new forest.” places Interests: Many of my interests circle back to trauma: what

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52 Mrs Jennifer Saari Miss Sukanya Sarbadhikary USA • 2008 India • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Education, Trinity Hall PhD in Social Anthropology, previous universities Trinity College University of Cambridge previous universities University of Turku, Finland Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Scripps College Calcutta Jawaharlal Nehru University My research focuses on how educational policies impact University of Calcutta student persistence in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics related) fields. I am currently My research interest lies in trying to appreciate the various collecting data in Finland, Sweden and the United articulations of popular religion and religious music in States. Within educational research my interests include Bengal. On completing my studies in the University of quantitative methods and educational policy, particularly Cambridge, I would ideally like to engage in an active access to education and the relation of education to research and teaching career. labor market, economical and social outcomes, both for Interests: Besides academia, an area of passionate interest to the individual and for a society at large. Underlying this me has always been music. I have trained in Indian Classical is a desire to clarify the boundaries between equity and Music for several years. Apart from classical music, I am also efficiency in education, and a keen interest in the history interested in semiclassical varieties and several forms of and philosophy of education, particularly the evolving Bengali music, including songs of Tagore. I have made stage structures and aims of public education. performances, performed on television and won prizes on Interests: Outside of school and schools, my activities several occasions. /uploads/Sarbadhikary photo(1).jpg include urban gardening, cooking, dance, meditation, hiking and trying to learn multiple languages.

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Mr Jaya Savige Ms Norma Schifano Australia • 2008 Italy • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in English, Christ’s College PhD in Italian, Clare College previous university Romance languages constitute a rich University of Queensland area of linguistic variation yet to be My PhD examines the epistemic properly explored. The superficial shift represented by the rise of the similarities among varieties and the concept of risk (see Giddens, Beck et al) as it is rendered in inheritance of a long-standing prescriptive tradition have Modernist literature, with a particular focus on the work of contributed to keep the highly valuable internal variation James Joyce. I was born in Sydney, and grew up on Bribie of this family in the shade. The aim of my research is to Island off the east coast of Australia. After withdrawing explore one of the many puzzles of Romance, that is verb- from an LLB/BCom double degree at the University of placement, and try to provide a non-stipulative account Queensland, I completed a BA dissertation on the nature of for this phenomenon. The first step of my work will thus literary influence, which examined Shakespeare’s influence include the collection of as many data as possible, across on the poetry of John Keats. My first collection of poetry, a selection of both standard and non-standard varieties, Latecomers, was published in 2005. In 2007 I held a writing in the strong belief that the theory must always be driven residency at the BR Whiting Studio, Rome, and have given by data. Hopefully, my reasearch will demonstrate the poetry readings in Berlin, Prague, Milan, Sydney and importance of looking at intra-Romance variation in detail, London. not only to achieve a more complete descriptive adequacy, but also because this may provide a challenge for those Interests: Surfing, poetry, amateur astronomy, Italy, modern theoretical approaches whose adequacy crucially relies on art, photography, theatre, politics, cricket. /uploads/5266/headshot1_thumb.jpg the apparent homogeneity of this family. Interests: reading, walking, rock n roll, yoga and tai chi

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Mr William Schmidt Ms Anna Kathryn Schoefert USA • 2009 Germany • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Criminology, Trinity Hall PhD in History and Philosophy of previous university Science, Downing College Yale University previous universities University of Cambridge I am currently conducting research Princeton University in the Institute of Criminology for my University of Virginia PhD. Specifically, I am investigating the causes of wrongful convictions. My current project involves a quantitative With the generous support of the Gates Cambridge examination of the causes of wrongful convictions in a Trust, I am starting my PhD in the History and Philosophy sample of cases investigated by the Criminal Cases Review of Science. My doctoral research concentrates on mid- Commission, a public body tasked with overseeing claims twentieth-century wet brain collections and material of miscarriages of justice in the UK. After completion of cultures in neurosciences, psychiatry, and neurology, my PhD, I hope to continue empirically evaluating legal illustrating the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature practices in order to promote more effective criminal justice of brain-related research; the transnational context of law and policy reform. locally produced knowledge; and the consequences of Interests: Travel, reading fiction and poetry, ballroom dance. spatial arrangements of basic research, clinical practice, /uploads/5409/GatesYearbookPhoto_thumb.jpg and industry-led studies. It aims to provide a desperately needed historical perspective for mid-twentieth-century medical collections in neuropathology, many of which have been dissolved, archived as museum collections, or re-investigated with contemporary methods in the last two decades. Interests: Theatre and dance, landscapes and architecture, urban life, public humanities.

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Mr Jeremiah Schwarz Miss Susanne Schweizer USA • 2009 Switzerland • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in History, Wolfson College PhD in Biology, Clare College previous universities previous universities University of Cambridge Maastricht University Fordham University Tilburg University As a student of history, I believe in the My research interests focus power of ideas and active inquiry to transform the world. I on understanding emotional disorders, in particular was raised in New York City where I came to appreciate the posttraumatic stress disorder. My PhD studies examine role of diverse ethnic cultures in contributing to society. neural and psychological components involved in the After graduating from Fordham University in 2003, I was regulation of emotion in individuals with emotional commissioned as an officer in the US Navy and sent to the disorders. I am currently investigating whether training Persian Gulf and Horn of Africa. In 2007 I left active duty to people’s cognitive capacities increases their ability to pursue an MPhil in Development Studies at Cambridge, regulate their emotions. We are looking both at the effects focusing on the role of political systems in aiding on a behavioural and neural level to detect the promises development of poor states. I am interested in the role of of such training for future treatment interventions. federalism in resolving ethnic conflicts within multicultural Hopefully, this work will have direct clinical implications societies. In 2009 I will start a PhD at Cambridge, identifying for the refinement of psychological treatments. Indeed, the root causes of the failures of the federal system of focusing on this translation from basic science to the clinic government in the former Yugoslavia. I hope to use my in understanding emotional disorders will hopefully be the research to create a body of knowledge that policymakers main theme of my PhD and beyond. can use in resolving ethnic conflicts within existing nation- Interests: My studies apart, I am a certified dive instructor states. It is a privilege to work and to study at Cambridge and love to discover the amazing underwater life. On land I University! enjoy exploring different parts of the world.

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54 Mr Anand Shrivastava Mr Sukrit Silas India • 2011 India • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Economics (Research), MPhil in Pathology, Trinity College St Edmund’s College previous universities previous universities University of Oxford University of Cambridge Princeton University Indian Institute of Technology, Madras My research at Cambridge will My undergraduate qualification is in Mechanical focus on the link between helminth infections and atopy. engineering and before coming to Cambridge I was Specifically, I will investigate the allergenicity of the S. working as a Manufacturing Manager for Unilever in India. mansoni homologue of tropomyosin – an evolutionarily I had also worked for a few months with an NGO on the conserved actin binding protein and cytoskeletal regulator issue of human-elephant conflict, its economic impact on that is known to be a major allergen in various foods. farmers and the efficacy of various mitigation measures. I Through my work, I hope to gain a better understanding of decided to change my career path and study economics as I S. mansoni pathogenesis, and of the molecular mechanisms found that I had an aptitude for research and was interested of atopic disease. I am greatly excited to be working under in issues relevant to the social and economic problems the direction of Professor David Dunne, whose expertise facing India. I am particularly interested in the assessment of in field-based research on invasive schistosomiasis in rural the costs and benefits of forest land, the variation in these Africa, coupled with his use of cutting edge genomic and costs and benefits across the population and the political molecular techniques for the holistic and multifaceted economics of the conversion of forest land for industrial characterization of the infection, presents a unique use. I completed a Graduate Diploma in Economics at opportunity for the precise application of scientific insights Cambridge this year and am looking at the MPhil course at critical junctures as a means to developing effective and as preparation for embarking on a PhD and conducting perhaps globally applicable public health strategies. relevant and innovative research on these issues. Interests: Music, History, Public Policy, Theatre, and this year Interests: Reading, writing, playing musical instruments. – learning to dance. /uploads/5656/Shrivastava, Anand_thumb.jpg /uploads/5632/Silas, Sukrit_thumb.jpg

Miss Megan Sim Ms Aline Simon Singapore • 2009 Germany • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Social and Developmental PhD in Biochemistry, Psychology, Sidney Sussex College St Catharine’s College previous university previous universities University of Southern California Imperial College London Technical University of Munich I am passionate about helping children in the legal system. My current research examines I have recently graduated from Imperial College London what actually happens when juveniles are interviewed by with an M.Res. in Structural Molecular Biology after obtaining police officers; in particular, I will examine the interrogation a B.Sc in Biochemistry from the Technical University of techniques used by police officers. I will investigate how Munich in 2009. My decision to focus on the structural and these techniques are related to case factors such as the age biophysical aspects of biochemistry was influenced by of the child and offence type, the effectiveness of these two research projects in the field of DNA repair and RNA strategies in relation to corresponding evidence elicited crystallography at the Immune Disease Institute in Boston, from the child, and case outcomes. Police interrogation MA and at Yale University, respectively, in 2009 and 2010. At tactics are a risk factor for juveniles making false confessions, Cambridge, I am pursuing a PhD in Biochemistry, where I and juveniles are overrepresented in the sample of proven will have the opportunity to combine my previous research false confessions. It is thus imperative that researchers interests by structurally characterizing a protein factor that focus the special considerations of working with children is part of the replisome progression complex (RPC) and thus and teenagers, in order to continually evaluate policies is involved in DNA replication. With the dysregulation or concerning juveniles. Eventually I would like to develop safe dysfunction of RPC components being linked to genomic and accurate methods of interviewing juveniles to ensure instability, I hope that my work in Cambridge will help to that they are appropriately represented in the legal system. contribute to a better understanding of the mutual interplay Interests: My other passions are the outdoors, music, of different RPC factors and to clarify their respective role. art, food, and travel. I continue to enjoy rowing, hiking, Interests: I am interested in various outdoor activities, including spontaneous sojourns to the Continent, singing, knitting, but not limited to hiking, running and travelling in general as photography, and cooking/baking up a storm. well as architecture and landscape photography and reading. /uploads/5454/IMG_2163 (Large)_thumb.JPG /uploads/5633/Simon, Aline_thumb.jpg

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Ms Devani Singh Mr Sergey Sitnikov Canada • 2011 Russia • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in English, Emmanuel College PhD in Veterinary Medicine, Trinity College My interest in literature develops from a lifelong fascination with libraries previous university and books. Guiding my doctoral University of Cambridge research is the notion that we can I am from Moscow, Russia. I got my better understand the literary texts we read if we interpret first degree in Medical Physics in Moscow State University, them as products of their cultural and historical moments. Faculty of Physics. Doing my graduate research which was My project is focused on the late medieval poet Geoffrey connected with brain injuries I decided to do my further Chaucer, and his reception in late sixteenth-century print. I studies in the field of neuroscience. Moreover cellular and study the ways in which this medieval author is rewritten by molecular mechanisms of brain damage and regeneration his later editors and commentators. From a material culture became my main topic of interest. The project I am working perspective, I am also interested in how the edited volumes on is connected with regeneration of glial cells of the brain. of Chaucer produced two centuries after his death differ Our main goal is to figure out key molecules of this process from, but also engage with, the manuscripts in which his to promote regeneration in the damaged nervous system. works were first circulated. It will definitely lead to new approaches of treatment Interests: All Literatures, cricket, desserts, Chaucer, travel currently incurable diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, /uploads/5620/Singh, Devani_thumb.jpg Spastic cerebral palsy and others. Interests: Outdoor activities, kayaking

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Mr Murat Siviloglu Ms Catherine Sleeman Turkey • 2008 New Zealand • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in History, Peterhouse PhD in Economics, Christ’s College previous universities After studying economics at École des hautes études en sciences Canterbury University, I took an sociales, Paris internship at the New Zealand Bogazici University Treasury where I helped to examine the impact of a proposed carbon tax on household I am mostly interested in social and intellectual history. At poverty. Following an honours year, I joined the Reserve Cambridge, I am working under the supervision of Professor Bank of New Zealand where I worked in the Research and Sir Christopher Bayly on the construction of the public Modelling Teams. After four years, I moved to Cambridge to sphere and its effects on the emergence and diffusion of complete a Masters. In my thesis, I evaluated the accuracy the new ideas in the Ottoman Empire during the second of the Bank’s forecast errors. I then joined Morgan Stanley as half of the 19th Century. a UK macroeconomist, where I spent two years forecasting

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56 Ms Marjorie Sorensen Ms Susanne (Frederica) Canada • 2010 Stahl course in cambridge Austria • 2011 PhD in Zoology, St John’s College course in cambridge previous university MPhil in Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Guelph Churchill College After a childhood discovering the At Harvard University I majored in the wilderness of Canada’s West Coast, I History of Science with a focus on Mind, studied Environmental Biology at the University of British Brain and Behavior. There my thesis analyzed the history of the Columbia. I then began my MSc in Zoology at the University pineal gland. The neuroendocrine though hidden between of Guelph where I studied the winter ecology of Cassin’s your brain hemispheres behind skin and skull, has light sensitive Auklets, a Pacific seabird species that has declined by 80% properties, which produced intriguing narratives about its since the 1970s. I am excited to be starting my PhD at the evolution and function. This research as well as volunteer work University of Cambridge in the Behavioural Ecology Group. at BMC’s women’s resource center sparked an interest in the My research will focus on the causes of population declines biological and historical relationship between human and in Palearctic-African migratory bird species that travel environment. How does our environment affect us? How do between their wintering grounds in sub-Saharan Africa and we become aware of these effects? In New York, I researched breeding grounds in Europe and Asia. physician-industry relationships and dual-loyalties in military Interests: hiking, bird watching, travel, photography, ice medicine at Columbia’s Center on Medicine as a Profession. hockey At Columbia’s Memory Lab I explored metacognition of /uploads/001 Marjorie Sorensen(1).JPG agency and failure. At the Cambridge, I will study evolutionary studies and research the underpinnings of theory of mind in order to grapple with the biological and evolutionary limits of perspective. Interests: Outside of my academic work, I have been collaborating with three artists on a children’s book about sustainable energy and innovation. My interest in conflicted relationships between individuals and their environments links these projects.

/uploads/5634/Stahl, Susanne_thumb.jpg Mr Kevin Street Mr George Suleman Zambia • 2009 Mgomella course in cambridge Tanzania • 2011 MPhil in Engineering, Selwyn College course in cambridge previous university PhD in Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cape Town Sidney Sussex College I am currently undertaking an MPhil previous universities in Engineering which aims to model Harvard University the effect of communication quality on design process University of Dar es salaam, Tanzania performance and to establish potential applications, such I was born and raised in Iringa, a small town in the Southern as improvements in manufacturing. I believe this research Highlands of Tanzania. Iringa is known for the wildlife at course will be invaluable in the engineering industry, where Ruaha National Park, agro-forestry, tea and maize farming. I aspire to be an integral part. I hold a Master of Public Health degree from Harvard Interests: Waterskiing, hiking, music. University, USA and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the /uploads/5455/kevin1_thumb.jpg University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. I am also a Certified Public Health professional by the National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE), USA.I have recently worked as the Country Director for FXB-Tanzania. Prior to that, I worked as Research Officer at African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi, Kenya. My work has span around research, M&E and technical assistance in the areas of: HIV and AIDS, reproductive health and health systems strengthening in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).I will be studying the burden of non-communicable diseases, their risk factors, their impacts on infectious and cardiometabolic risk factors, and diseases in SSA to inform policies and improve the well-being Interests: I enjoying swimming, running for charity races and half marathons. Movies and reading storybooks help me to past time and relax. I like traveling and i am a very outgoing person.

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Mr Luning Sun Mr Jakub Szamalek China • 2010 Poland • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Social & Developmental PhD in Classics, Clare College Psychology, Downing College previous university previous university University of Oxford Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität First and foremost, I’m a Hellenophile My name is Luning Sun. Luning stands – that is, I’m fascinated by the for two provinces where my parents come from. I was born archaeology, art and history of Ancient Greece. Whilst in Qingdao, China, a beautiful city along the coast. I stayed in in Cambridge I will study the material remains of Greek a boarding school for three years, before I was admitted into settlements in the Black Sea area. I’m particularly interested Chuko Chen Honors College, Zhejiang University. I spent one in the nature of the relations between the Greeks and the semester as an exchange student in Germany, and I enjoyed indigenous peoples inhabiting this region. my life there very much, which is why I furthered my study in Interests: History of art, archaeology, evolutionism, sci-fi and Munich after college. There I worked as a research assistant fantasy, sailing, football. at a psychiatric hospital and got involved in various research /uploads/5456/yearbook_thumb.jpg projects, including both clinical studies on patients and behavioral experiments with normal subjects. Based on my interests in psychological testing, I applied for a PhD position at the Psychometrics Center, Cambridge. Fortunately, I was offered with the admission and granted with Gates Cambridge Trust. My plan is to look into the area of cognitive assessment and testing instrument, and probably develop my own test to help the huge population in China. Interests: I like traveling a lot. During my Master study in Germany, I have been to 15 countries, and tasted all kinds of food and coffee. I am also good at cooking, especially Chinese food. It is always a pleasure for me to host a dinner for friends.

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Mrs Claudia Tardelli Terry Mr Cameron Taylor Italy • 2010 USA • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Italian, Downing College PhD in Italian, St John’s College previous university previous university University of Pisa University of California (Santa Cruz) I studied Italian Literature and Most people are unaware that there Philology at the University of Pisa are many Romance languages spoken and at the Scuola Normale Superiore. My main area of in Italy evolving from Latin alongside Standard Italian. My interest is Dante and the ancient commentaries tradition. research involves a comparative analysis of the syntax of In my research at Cambridge I will evaluate Francesco da these languages and finding out what the variation can Buti’s commentary on Dante’s ‘Commedia’ with particular tell us about natural language design. At the moment I regard to the historical and cultural context in which he am studying a variety called Nicoterese, which is spoken composed his work, as we still lack a comprehensive and in the extreme south of Italy in Nicotera, Calabria. Apart contextualized study of this vital aspect of his ‘Commento’. I from adding to the typological database of the structural aim to make a significant contribution to our understanding properties of Romance languages, documenting little- of Dante’s earliest reception, eventually supervising further known languages such as Nicoterese helps to preserve a research in this field. small piece of history. Interests: reading, travelling, cooking, swimming, music, Interests: Libraries, harp, people, walking, writing

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58 Miss Kerrie Taylor-Jones Miss Yvonne Tew Australia • 2010 Malaysia • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Earth Sciences, Trinity College PhD in Law, St Catharine’s College previous university previous universities University of Melbourne Harvard University University of Cambridge A love of the outdoors, especially mountainous regions, combined Yvonne’s desire to pursue a Ph.D. with an intense curiosity about how such landscapes and in Law focusing on constitutional law and human rights their constituent rocks form, made geology an obvious derives from two motivations: her commitment to the career choice. During my time at Cambridge I will work shaping of the legal landscape of developing countries, on reconstructing, via mineral assemblage modeling, the and a passion for the intellectual rigor of the law. She read metamorphic history of a continental crust terrain in the Law as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, western Alps, as it was subducted into the mantle and finishing with a B.A. in Law (Double First), and subsequently subsequently returned to the Earth’s surface. Aspiring to an graduated from Harvard Law School with a Master of academic career, I hope that through research, I am able to Laws (LL.M.). She has worked at the Permanent Mission of advance our knowledge of large-scale Earth processes – still Malaysia to the United Nations in New York on internship so poorly understood. and at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, as a tutor in Interests: I enjoy hillwalking, skiing, kayaking and rowing. Constitutional Law and as research assistant to its Vice- /uploads/001 Kerrie Taylor-Jones(1).JPG Chancellor. During her time at Cambridge for her Ph.D., she served as Editor-in-Chief of Law Review and as President of the Cambridge University Southeast Asian Forum. Interests: Jazz, swing, film, salsa, literature, beaches, debating, and travelling.

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Miss Elsa Treviño Ramírez Ms Allison Truhlar Mexico • 2009 USA • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Latin American Studies, MPhil in Biological Science (Zoology), Queens’ College Churchill College previous university previous university Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Cornell University Superiores de Mexico I am very excited to complete my I am interested in the productive influence that recent MPhil with the University of Cambridge’s Aquatic Ecology socio-historical transformations have had on the Mexican Lab, supervised by Dr. David Aldridge. My project will look cultural and literary panorama: the ‘neoliberal turn’, the 1994 at the ecological impact of an invasive shrimp in the United financial crisis, the democratization process, the Zapatista Kingdom and work towards creating a model that projects uprising and the massive growth of telecommunications. where the shrimp will be most likely to invade in the future. These changes, amplified by the impact of globalisation in Interests: A variety of racket sports (including tennis, Latin America, have been reflected in the novels of several badminton, racquetball, and squash), cooking and (more writers born in the late 1960s. Springing from this concern, so) baking, reading, hiking, running, and (most recently) my current research focuses on notions of spatiality attempting to row. and geographic imagination in contemporary Mexican /uploads/5604/Truhlar, A_thumb.jpg literature. I am looking at the works of Álvaro Enrigue, Ignacio Padilla and Jorge Volpi and the way in which these authors propose new discourses surrounding space, place, identity and belonging. Interests: Writing, literature, art, cinema, philosophy, cultural criticism, travelling and dancing.

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Mrs Nadja Tschentscher Mr Alexander Vail Germany • 2010 Australia • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Biology, Trinity Hall PhD in Zoology, St John’s College previous university previous university University of Munster James Cook University Studying Psychology at the University This past year has certainly been a life of Muenster, Germany, I became very altering and exciting one! It began by excited about fundamental questions of brain functionality. ushering in 2010 while paddling a dugout canoe in remote My PhD concerns the relationship between number Sulawesi, undertaking a self-founded Australian Geographic processing and the cortical motor system. The way in sponsored expedition to raise awareness about living which we process abstract knowledge such as numerical sustainably with fragile environments. After recovering symbols is a highly topical field in current neuroscience. from dengue fever it was off to South America to cycle Research has found that a child’s level of motor skill, such through Patagonia and explore as much of the continent as performing complex finger movements, can predict as possible, partially offsetting the costs by freelancing for arithmetic task performance. It is thought that a sense of Australian Geographic Outdoor magazine. However one numbers might be acquired through finger counting. I of my most significant events of the year has been the would like to expand on this field by investigating whether generosity afforded to me by the Gates Cambridge Trust. there are interactions between brain areas that initiate The scholarship they have awarded me is now allowing movement and those that are involved in performing me to do what I dreamed of: to study a PhD examining simple and complex arithmetic tasks in adults. I believe my cooperative hunting and cognition at Cambridge. This is research will impact upon interventions for people with an immense privilege, and I plan to use what I learn to help problems processing numbers and has theoretical and positively influence public attitudes towards our world’s practical implications for teaching mathematics. imperiled natural environment. Interests: Feminist literature, hiking, sailing Interests: Exploring and conserving the world’s wild places,

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Mrs Danelle Van Zyl Ms Divya Venkatesh South Africa • 2010 India • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in History, St John’s College PhD in Pathology, Queens’ College previous universities In my PhD, I will be exploring Leiden University fundamental aspects of parasite Universität Tübingen biology with Prof Mark Field at the Stellenbosch University Department of Pathology. The focus University of Stellenbosch is on Trypanosomes, which are the causative agents of African sleeping sickness, a disease of significant mortality My PhD at Cambridge focuses on the interaction of identity and morbidity. Trypanosomes are particularly interesting politics, historical consciousness and collective emotion because in spite of being highly ‘visible’, they repeatedly in the period of transition from apartheid to democracy in manage to escape our sophisticated immune responses. South Africa’s recent past. By studying changes in discourse My project will use a combination of cutting edge post- at different level of society and paying specific attention to genomic as well as classical molecular biology techniques the negotiation of power within a rapidly changing political, to study their endocytic and protein/lipid sorting systems, economic and social environment, I seek to gain insight which help them periodically change what they look like into the historical experience of especially Afrikaners during (and hence confuse) our immune system. Apart from this turbulent era. I hope that my PhD research into these deeper insights into the parasite’s mechanisms of immune matters will provide greater insight into developments in evasion and the nature of its evolutionary divergence from post-apartheid South Africa, in this way aiding the ongoing other eukaryotes, it is likely that this study will yield novel transformation process in my country. drug targets for which there is a pressing need. Interests: Classical and contemporary music, hiking, Interests: Books, film, travel, Indian philosophy, yoga. I like cooking, ballroom and modern dancing, student ministry. /uploads/001 Danelle Van Zyl(1).JPG reading and thinking about Science in general and I’m interested in helping raise public awareness of Research. I write the occasional news piece for a life-sciences magazine called Lab Times.

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60 Ms Halliki Voolma Mr Pongsiri Vorapongse Estonia • 2011 Thailand • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Multi-Disciplinary Gender PhD in Politics and International Studies, King’s College Studies, St John’s College Having just completed the MPhil in previous universities Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies Johns Hopkins University here at Cambridge, I am now Thammasat University starting a PhD in the same field, building on my research I believe that politics profoundly shapes life and democracy to date on domestic violence gainst immigrant women. is an essential part of any genuine development. I am This topic brings together many questions/themes that passionate with Southeast Asia, a region with rich diversity. I am interested in: the public/private divide in relation to In 2008, I was part of the SAIS team that led a cyclone- domestic violence; violence against women as a human relief effort in Burma, in the process learning about various rights violation; immigrants’ human rights; intersectionality. development challenges facing the country. In 2009, I led a I am currently deciding where I will be conducting my team of SAIS students on a data-gathering research mission fieldwork which will involve in-depth interviews with in Indonesia to examine the development impacts created women survivors as well as stakeholders of the problem. I by multinational firms such as Coca-Cola and Unilever. am new to the Gates community and am delighted to be I have worked for the Bank of Thailand and Ministry of part of this amazing group – I have already met many truly Foreign Affairs of Thailand. At Cambridge, my research impressive and genuinely lovely people. Aside from my focuses on the role of contentious politics, particularly mass studies I am continuing training in competitive latin and street protests, in consolidating Southeast Asia’s fledgling ballroom dance and am very excited about competing at democracies. I am a life-long fan of Tottenham Hotspur and the latin formation world championships in December in also play football for St John’s College. Vilnius. Interests: Southeast Asia, travelling and football. Interests: Competitive latin & ballroom dance, painting, /uploads/5658/Pongsiri_Vorapongse_photo_thumb.jpg running, massage, travel.

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Mr Derron Wallace Mr Alexander Walther USA • 2010 Germany • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Education, St John’s College PhD in Biological Science @ MRC CBU, previous university Trinity Hall University of Cambridge Having a background in neuroscience, computer science I am a Jamaican-American educator and psychology, I am particularly interested in the social protection of interested in how neural information processing marginalised populations in the Caribbean and East Africa. properties lead to fundamental perceptual and cognitive The goal of my doctoral studies is to carefully identify and functions. I firmly believe that the elucidation of such creatively counter the barriers that impede the educational processes requires a multimodal approach integrating advancement of disadvantaged groups. complementary scientific techniques such as behavioral Interests: I enjoy singing and arranging gospel music, experiments, neuroimaging and computational modeling. watching Caribbean and Nigerian films, traveling As a byproduct of my research I aim to develop novel throughout Southeast Asia, and laughing until my methodological techniques that I consider necessary for abdomen hurts. /uploads/5552/Gates Pic-DW_thumb.jpg satisfactorily tackling my questions. During my PhD at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBU) I investigate the transformation of population-code representational similarity across the human ventral visual stream. The PhD progam at the CBU gives me the opportunity to deepen my education in both systems neuroscience and methodological development on an outstanding level.

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Mr Stan Wang Mr Jeffrey Watumull USA • 2011 USA • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Surgery, Trinity College PhD in Linguistics, Christ’s College previous universities previous university Northeast Ohio Medical University University of Cambridge University of Akron “Philosophy is written in this vast Originally from Solon, Ohio, I graduated book, which continuously lies upon from the University of Akron, where I undertook my honours before our eyes (I mean the universe). But it cannot be thesis in stem cell biology at the Cleveland Clinic. I have served understood unless you have first learned to understand on the board of two non-profits and been recognized by the the language and recognize the characters in which it U.S. Department of State, UNESCO, and Global Health Council is written. It is written in the language of mathematics” for a programme I began to improve maternal-child health (Galileo). The Galilean ideal that the beauty of nature is in rural Ghana. For my PhD, I am pioneering an affordable definable mathematically is empirically verifiable in the method of generating large quantities of patient-tailored uniquely human capacity for language. We are genetically pluripotent stem cells for study & therapy, without the endowed with the mental (computational) algorithms destruction or even utilization of human embryos, effectively to generate linguistic expressions of technically infinite bypassing the on-going embryonic stem cell debate. After complexity (explicable in terms of set theory and algebra). returning to the U.S. to finish medical school, I envision serving To discover the mathematical laws that emerged in our as a surgeon-scientist at the interface of medicine, science, evolution to govern the generative power of language is and entrepreneurship. Through advances in stem cells, I the desideratum of my research--research that would be aim to found a biotech company capable of innovating at impossible for me to conduct but for the Gates Scholarship the leading edge of translational regenerative medicine to with its audacity to suppose with me that pure science (pure improve health and quality of life of patients around the world. mathematics) will ultimately redound to the good of nature. Interests: An avid traveller, I have explored more than twenty Interests: The nature of the universe, subsuming human different countries across five continents. I also enjoy playing nature: Mathematics, language, computation, evolution, piano and composing music, participating in triathlons, and ethology (entomology), the brain sciences, philosophy. learning new languages while trekking the globe. Mental exaltation: Stimulating discussion with fine wine/ /uploads/5600/wang_thumb.jpg food. Physical excellence: Cycling.

/uploads/001 Jeffrey Watumull(1).JPG Ms Chelan Weaver Mr Orian Welling USA • 2009 USA • 2009 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Biological Science, PhD in Engineering, Trinity College Wolfson College previous university previous universities Massachusetts Institute of Technology St Andrews University My interest in alternative transport University of Oregon technologies started when I was Vassar College only seven years old and I took my first ride in an all electric At Cambridge University, I am pursuing my Ph.D. at the car. Now, 20 years later, I spend my days turning bolts and Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences running tests on engines that I hope will power tomorrows Unit. My research has focused on understanding how most efficient vehicles. people control their behavior. Because the capacity to stop Interests: Gates scholars, transport, long distance bicycle undesirable responses is related to positive life outcomes touring, traveling, tinkering. such as academic achievement and health, I hope to /uploads/5417/orian2_thumb.jpg make both theoretical and practical contributions. For my dissertation, I have tested whether two superficially different types of responses, thoughts and actions, are stopped using the same cognitive processes. I have also been investigating to what extent different types of stopping rely on common brain regions, and whether individual differences in ability to prevent unwanted actions is related to differing brain structure or connectivity. Interests: I am passionate about increasing public understanding of science, and enjoy participating in outreach activities with people of all ages and backgrounds. Outside of science, I spend most of my time cooking, baking, reading, hiking and traveling.

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62 Miss Tara Jane Westover Mr Noham Wolpe USA • 2008 Israel • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in History, Trinity College PhD in Clinical Neurosciences, previous university Wolfson College Brigham Young University previous university (University I am interested in the collective College London) aspects of liberal thought. Classical liberal thought is often associated with the \”individualism\” My interest in neuroscience research was awakened while of thinkers of John Stuart Mill; however, when writing on doing pre-clinical medical studies at the Hebrew University morality, ethics, and religion, even Mill seems to include in Jerusalem, prompting me to take an MSc course at elements of collective thought that are comparable to University College London. My main scientific interests are traditional religion. My project explores the similarities related to the conscious experience of voluntary action, an between religious communalism and liberal individualism, experience which is very different from that accompanying two movements of thought that are often considered involuntary or reflex movements. This mainly arises from incompatible. the natural perception that our actions occur as a result Interests: Cooking, folk music, dinner parties, guitar, politics, of our volition, which is embedded within our stream of philosophy. consciousness. My research focuses on these aspects, and /uploads/5218/Westover, Tara 12_thumb.jpg aims to further characterise the distinct behavioural features that are unique to voluntary action, and to further delineate its neural mechanisms. Interests: I spend most of my spare time listening to music, learning languages, and enjoying various sport activities like football and tennis.

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Miss Wang Ivy Wong Mr Jordan Woods Hong Kong • 2009 USA • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Social and Developmental PhD in Criminology, King’s College Psychology, St John’s College previous university previous universities University of California (Los Angeles) University of Cambridge I grew up in the snowy Catskill University of Hong Kong Mountains of Upstate New York. At I previously studied behavioural masculinisation in patients Cambridge, my PhD research will explore how the British with a hormone-related genetic disorder. I am now police handle hate crimes, with an emphasis on hate crimes interested in when and how sex differences in preferences against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. I for pink and blue emerge, as well as the consequence of intend on using my research to improve hate crime policing such colour preferences on toy choice. These differences within North America and the European Union. In 2012- are robust, linked to sex stereotypes, and manipulated 13, I will take a year off from Cambridge to brush up on to influence choices of clothing, toys, etc. Asking these my country-western dance moves in Texas and serve as questions will tell us whether these taken-for-granted sex a judicial clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth differences are only artifacts. Circuit. After graduate school, I hope to enter academia and Interests: Oil painting, piano playing, pop-jazz, yoga, tea, be involved in making public policy on criminal sentencing, documentaries, culture criminal procedure, and law enforcement related issues.

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Mr Surgeon Xolo Mr Zhen Yang South Africa • 2007 China • 2010 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Education, Hughes Hall PhD in Engineering, Trinity College previous university previous university University of Warwick University of The Gates Cambridge Scholarship Have graduated from Electrical, enables me to pursue my intellectual Electronic and Computer Science aspirations at an internationally renowned university. In Department, the University of Birmingham as a top student, Cambridge I have an opportunity to meet leading scholars, I am now a PhD student in the field of Photonic Systems. from all over the world. This will allow me to explore global Before this, I did 2 years study at Fudan University, Shanghai, trends in mathematics education with a critical reflection with a top result in the major of Optical Science and on how the best of these may be incorporated into Technology. I am interested in the project on superradiant curriculum practice in South Africa. In my PhD study I seek emission from a semiconductor structure, which would be a to investigate South African teachers’ practice in terms of promising technology for LASER development. the opportunities offered for the South African students to Interests: Badminton, swimming, photography learn mathematics. /uploads/001 Zhen Yang(1).JPG Interests: My interests include travelling the world, reading, creative writing and engaging in philosophical and educational issues.

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Mr Edward Yapp Mr Xuesheng You Brunei • 2011 China • 2008 course in cambridge course in cambridge PhD in Chemical Engineering, PhD in Economics, Wolfson College Churchill College previous universities previous university University of Cambridge University of Adelaide University of Manchester ‘In everything give thanks’, and all I obtained my MPhil in Economic the more so for the generosity of the Bill & Melinda Gates (Option B) in Cambridge after graduating from the Foundation and the work of the Gates Cambridge Trust. My University of Manchester with a first class degree in project involves developing surrogate models – cheaper Economic Science and Manchester School Prize. Having and faster to run than detailed computational models – spent a year on the programme of PhD Economic in for certain transportation fuels. The aim is to reproduce a Cambridge, I switched my academic interest to economic number of key physical and chemical characteristics, which history. Now my research area is the occupational structure is of great value to both fuel producers (oil refiners) and of British female employment during the second half of the manufacturers of combustion devices (engines, turbines, nineteenth century. etc). Interests: Painting, Chinese calligraphy, art history, Greek Interests: Cycling, jogging, table-tennis and basketball; jazz tragedy, Chinese literature with focused interests in Qin and and mainstream music; origami and tying knots Han Dynasty, philosophy. /uploads/5648/Yapp, Edward_thumb.jpg /uploads/5279/you_thumb.jpg

64 Mr Michael Young Miss Amy Zhang USA • 2011 USA • 2011 course in cambridge course in cambridge MPhil in Philosophy, Trinity College MPhil in Advanced Computer Science, previous universities Trinity College University of Maryland, Baltimore previous university County Rutgers University Yeshiva University I am a current scholar at Trinity College, pursuing an MPhil I have begun my M.Phil studies in the Faculty of Philosophy, in Advanced Computer Science. My research interests where I will be focusing on philosophical issues related are in social media, data mining, and natural language to medicine and the mind. Cambridge has been an processing. I hope to use the vast amounts of data we outstanding place to be for my academic and nonacademic have through social media to learn more about people interests. I look forward to exploring more of the and how they interact, communicate, and identify with opportunities available in Cambridge during the coming others. This year, I plan on joining the NetOS group at the year. Computer Laboratory to study geo-social trends and how Interests: Fencing, philosophy of mind, music, creative our locations and distances in the physical world affect how writing, tea. and with whom we communicate online. My thesis as an /uploads/5601/young_thumb.jpg undergraduate was on Twitter and finding terms with daily periodicity in different communities to learn how people go about their days and how this differs depending on location. Interests: I’m on the Blues team for tennis, and also plan to take part in singing and radio DJing while at Cambridge. I love music, movies, traveling, and photography.

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65 Gates Cambridge Scholarship Year Book

Table of Gates Scholars in residence 2011–12 by country

Argentina 2 Hong Kong 1 Romania 2 Australia 16 India 17 Russia 4 Austria 3 Iran 1 Serbia 1 Bangladesh 1 Ireland 3 Singapore 4 Belgium 1 Israel 1 South Africa 3 Bolivia 1 Italy 5 Spain 1 Brunei 1 Kenya 2 Sweden 4 Bulgaria 1 Malaysia 1 Switzerland 1 Canada 17 Mexico 3 Taiwan 1 China 9 Mongolia 1 Tanzania 1 Croatia 2 Montenegro 1 Thailand 1 Cyprus 1 Netherlands 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1 Denmark 1 New Zealand 2 Turkey 1 El Salvador 2 Nigeria 2 Ukraine 2 Estonia 2 Norway 1 USA 84 France 3 Pakistan 1 Zambia 1 Germany 14 Peru 1 Zimbabwe 1 Ghana 1 Poland 4

Total countries: 53. Total scholars in residence 2011–12: 239.

Table of Gates Scholars in residence 2011–12 by college

Christ's College 5 Lucy Cavendish College 3 Churchill College 13 Murray Edwards College (New Hall) 4 Clare College 7 Newnham College 3 Clare Hall 4 Pembroke College 7 Corpus Christi College 4 Peterhouse 5 Darwin College 6 Queens' College 17 Downing College 6 Robinson College 1 Emmanuel College 6 Selwyn College 7 Fitzwilliam College 4 Sidney Sussex College 5 Girton College 1 St Catharine's College 4 Gonville and Caius College 3 St Edmund's College 8 Homerton College 4 St John's College 28 Hughes Hall 4 Trinity College 34 Jesus College 12 Trinity Hall 10 King's College 13 Wolfson College 12

Total colleges: 29.

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