Research Interests of Fellows

Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular

Dr Catherine Pears
Research focuses on genetic approaches to understanding the biochemical pathways that lead to changes in cell behaviour in response to extracellular signals.
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Biomedical Sciences (see Biochemistry, Medicine and Psychology)

Chemistry

Professor David Logan
Coulson Professor Theoretical Chemistry
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Professor Edman Tsang
Inorganic Chemistry
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Dr Martin Smith
Synthetic Organic Chemistry (Catalysis, Total Synthesis, Foldamers, Hydrogen Bonding, Electrocyclization)

Classics

Dr William Allan
Particular interests in Greek literature and cultural history, especially Greek tragedy and epic poetry.

Dr Lisa Kallet
Research specialities include Greek historiography, Athens and its empire, Athenian democracy and Attic epigraphy.

Computer Science

Professor A William Roscoe
Research interests involve concurrent (parallel) processes
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Dr Andrew Ker
Area of research is known as steganography
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Professor Jotun Hein
Bioinformatics
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Professor Michael Benedikt
Research interests focus on the exchange and analysis of information in databases
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Dr Standa Zivny
Research interests focus on algorithms and complexity, and constraint satisfaction problems
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Earth Sciences (Geology)

Professor Philip England
Tectonics
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Professor Gideon Henderson
Geochemist with research interests in climate change, oceanography and the environment
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Dr Tamsin Mather
Volcanolgy
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Economics

Professor Sujoy Mukerji
Economics
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Engineering Science

Dr Stephen Collins
Research interests lie in the design of microelectronic circuits.
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Dr Thomas Povey
Research is related to turbomachines, particularly the turbine stages of the large civil turbofan engines
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English

Professor Tiffany Stern
Research specialises in Shakespeare, theatre history from the 16th to 18th century, book history and editing
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Dr Nicholas Halmi
Research specialises in Enlightenment and Romantic literature, philosophy, and science (British and Continental); literary theory and history; the modern reception of classical antiquity; and visual arts and architecture of the 18th and 19th centuries
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History

Dr Catherine Holmes
Research centres on the political and cultural history of the Mediterranean
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Dr Oliver Zimmer
Historian of modern Europe whose current research focuses on religion and identity formation in the German Empire
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Dr Ben Jackson
Historian of modern Britain with research interests in political thought, labour history and the history of social policy
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Law

Mr Angus Johnston
European Union law and private law
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Professor John Gardner
Criminal law, human rights, philosophy of law, ethics
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Dr Andrew Higgins
Civil procedure and tort

Mathematics

Professor Michael Collins
Research interests in algebra, especially group theory and representation theory
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Dr Peter Howell
Research centred on applications of mathematics to real-work problems, particularly ones of concern to industry
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Professor John Wilson
Research is in algebra and especially group theory.
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Medicine

Dr Keith Dorrington
Respiratory physiologist and anaesthetist
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Dr Stephen Golding
Radiologist specialising in modern scanning techniques
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Professor Peter Jezzard
Neuroimaging
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Dr Trevor Sharp
Neuroscientist
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Modern Languages

Dr Mike Nicholson
Research interests lie in late 20th Century Russian literature
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Music

Dr Daniel Grimley
Researches Music and Landscape, with particular reference to Nordic and early twentieth-century British music – special interests in the interdisciplinary connections between Music and Cultural Geography.
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Oriental Studies

Professor Mark Smith
Specialises in Egyptian language and religion
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Professor Tim Brook
The social and cultural history of the Ming, Japanese occupation of China WWII

Philosophy

Dr T William Child
Specialist in philosophy of the mind and in the philosophy of Wittgenstein
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Professor Frank Arntzenius
Philosophy of Physics, Decision Theory
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Dr Cian Dorr
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Physics

Physics

Professor Robin Nicholas
Semiconductor physicist working on new devices and nanoscience
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Dr Patrick Baird
Atomic physicist interested in test of fundamental interactions and discrete symmetries in atoms using lasers
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Dr John Wheater
Theoretician working on the application of quantum field theory and statistical mechanics to a wide variety of physical problems
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Dr Leigh Fletcher
Planetary scientist studying the the origins, composition and meteorology of giant planet atmospheres in our solar system and around other stars
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Politics

Dr Marc Stears
Research specialises in the politics of radicalism and political protest
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Professor Ngaire Woods
Specialises in international relations, especially in global economic governance
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Psychology

Dr Nick Yeung
Cognitive neuroscientist with research interests in the neural mechanisms of attention, memory and decision-making
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Theology

(For which Univ admits graduates but not undergraduates)

Dr Andrew Gregory
Specialises in the New Testament and early Christianity
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