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At Cambridge, I pursued an MPhil studying the parasite responsible for the tropical disease known as human African trypanosomiasis. Since then, I have attended medical school at Johns Hopkins and am now a resident in ocular surgery at Harvard. I remain passionate about global health, with current research involving trachoma (a potentially blinding disease seen primarily in African and Asia) and cataract surgery in India.

Previous Education

Virginia Military Institute

Marlen is a technical expert at the United Nation's International Labour Organization (ILO). Her work focuses on sustainable growth and decent work in SMEs. For the past 10 years, Marlen has been committed to promoting sustainable entrepreneurship and enterprise development as a researcher and practitioner. Prior to joining the ILO, she held positions with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the German Government, and as a researcher and instructor at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlen-de-la-chaux-11479b67

My studies in modern constitutional history focus on how constitutions develop an independent systemic dynamics directly affecting political reality. After completing a BA in Politics and History at JUB, I read for the MPhil in Historical Studies at Cambridge where I researched the constitutional evolution of the German imperial office. I am also a fellow of the International Max Planck Research School of Comparative Legal History. My PhD explores the comparative federal evolutions of Germany, the U.S. and Switzerland in the 19th century. I hope to deduce patterns of federal constitutional design that can help framing sound constitutional orders on the national and supranational level. My ambition is to overcome disciplinary divides between history and law to treat constitutional developments as holistic historical phenomena that offer us lessons for today’s constitutional problems. Hence, I work on founding a research forum for interdisciplinary constitutional historiography.

Since completing my Gates Trust supported PhD in 2014 I have continued to research issues around education inequality. Currently I lead a portfolio of research evaluating interventions designed to address socio-economic gaps in school attainment and higher education access and participation. I am an associate professor at the Faculty of Education University a Cambridge. I hold a Fellowship at Hughes Hall, and am Director of Studies in Education and Fitzwilliam in Cambridge.

Links

https://fairlab.co.uk

I recently graduated from the University of Virginia with concentrations in physics and computational materials science. At Cambridge I will be applying computational methods to the study of molecular recognition and multicomponent mixtures in Professor Daan Frenkel's theoretical chemistry group.

Previous Education

Jacobs University Biochemistry and Cell Biology 2019