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I am a historian of Ottoman intellectual and cultural history with a particular interest in the interaction between historical and literary texts. My first book, the Emergence of Public Opinion in the Ottoman Empire, was a result of the strong curiosity that I had developed over the years in the social and political transformations of the Ottoman Empire. As a scholar, I work at the intersection of history and literature. For my next project, I am planning to focus on the reading culture and its transformations throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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University of Cambridge

Jeff Skopek is an Associate Professor in the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law and the Deputy Director of its Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences.

His research explores the normative and conceptual foundations of health law, focusing in particular on controversies about what constitutes a harm/benefit within medical care, the health care system, and biomedical research. He recently completed several projects on privacy and anonymity, and he currently leading a grand-funded project on the use of artificial intelligence in health care.

During 2021-2022, he will be on a fellowship at Harvard Law School, working on a book titled "Three Challenges for Animals Rights: Cows, Zebras, and Painless Mice."

Outside of academia, he serves on the Ethics and Sustainability Board of the cell engineering company bit.bio. In the past, he served on Astra Zeneca's Animal Welfare Ethics Review Board and the Health and Social Care Advisory Panel for the UK government's Centre for Digital Ethics.

Before taking up his position at Cambridge, he held a three-year Academic Fellowship at Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Centre for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Prior to that, he served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Lynch of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

He holds a J.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School, a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, and an A.B. in History (with distinction) from Stanford University. His studies were supported by Truman, Fulbright, Gates Scholarships, for which he is most grateful.

Links

http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/jm-skopek/6144

Originally from Richmond, VA, I completed my BS in Computer Engineering at UMBC, where I conducted research under Dr. Govind Rao at the Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (CAST) on developing biosensor technologies addressing challenges in affordability and sustainability to be used in biomedicine and the bioprocess. At Cambridge, I am exploring the fabrication of a point-of-care technology for screening, diagnosing, and tracking neuromuscular disease progression under Prof. George Malliaras in the Department of Electrical Engineering. After obtaining my Ph.D. I aim to direct my own research center, consult with policymakers, and become a global ambassador for biomedical technologies.

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University of Maryland System Computer Engineering 2023

I started my research work in structural biochemistry in 2006, focusing on solving protein structures using advanced methodologies like NMR and X-Ray diffraction techniques. In 2007 and 2008 I received extensive biological crystallography training at University of Virginia, working on targets of Midwest Center for Structural Genomics. As a graduate student at the University of Cambridge I focused on the application of the knowledge of protein structures to drug design. Currently I continue my work in structural biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried (Germany). I believe that work in this field may be useful to the world community, providing solutions to important health problems.

Some of my earliest childhood memories are of pulling apart my toys, understanding how they worked and trying to put them back together before anyone else realised. I believe this same curiosity (and ambition) led me to study engineering and has continued to open many doors that I would have otherwise never considered. Towards the end of my undergraduate degree, I was fortunate to travel abroad and study wind turbines with Siemens and Vestas (two of the world’s largest manufacturers). Over the following years, I have chosen to learn more about the interaction between the power sector and the environment. I have started to build my career forecasting the development of electricity markets with the express aim of tangibly contributing to their rapid decarbonisation. The Masters that I have now applied to study will further my understanding of the technologies that will govern this future and the targets needed to mitigate existential climate change.

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Queensland University of Technology Mechanical Engineering 2017

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University of Utah MA (History) 2008
Hillsdale College BS (History, Math) 2005

At Cambridge, I plan to research Russian émigré literature in Europe between 1917 and the beginning of World War II, concentrating on the prose of Vladimir Nabokov and the poetry of Vladislav Khodasevich. I am interested in the transformation of frontiers throughout Nabokov’s novels as they relate to the autonomy and mobility of characters within his texts. Born in Western Massachusetts, I graduated from Wellesley College in 2005 with a major in Russian Language and Literature. I spent the following year on a Fulbright grant in northern Russia, where I worked for the Atlantic Salmon Reserve on the Rynda and Kharlovka Rivers and participated in mountaineering expeditions in the Khibini Mountains and the Pre-Polar Urals.

Growing up as a Wiradjuri and Wemba Wemba man on Bunurong Country in Victoria, Australia, I witnessed the gap between how health systems serve Indigenous peoples and how Indigenous communities understand our own wellbeing. This disconnect drew me to psychology, where I completed my Honours at the University of Melbourne and began investigating how cultural practices can heal mental health, not merely as adjuncts to Western clinical models. This led to publications in The Lancet Psychiatry and the Medical Journal of Australia on Indigenous knowledges and evidence-based practice.I currently work within Melbourne University's Medical School to embed culturally safe frameworks into medical education, shaping how future doctors understand and respond to Indigenous health. At Cambridge, my MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society will extend this work, examining how health knowledge is produced and what genuine culturally safe care looks like, with a focus on comparative Indigenous health governance.I then intend to pursue clinical training in psychology and research as an Indigenous clinician-academic to ensure future psychologists and doctors are equipped to deliver care that honours Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies.

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University of Melbourne Psychology 2023
University of Melbourne Psychology and Philosophy 2022
McGill University Philosophy 2022

My research focuses on the intersection of politics and economic reform in the Middle East through an examination of democracy and economic assistance programs funded by the United States to Egypt and Morocco since 1990. I am particularly interested in examining political change, democratization and economic reform broadly and in relation to the Middle East and Asia.

Links

http://www.erinsnider.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-snider-aa82a43

Behind every brain MRI is a person with a unique set of traits, but accessing which brain features contribute to one’s behavior, in health and disorder, is an ongoing challenge. Curious about this, in high school I began developing neuroimaging methods, examining large publicly available fMRI datasets. As an undergraduate at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, the potential of using mathematics to advance brain mapping within these datasets captivated me. I trained with the Geisinger-Bucknell Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, learning how graph theory methods can help understand patterns of brain folding and function that relate to psychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions. Working with labs at the NIH, the University of Miami, and Forschungszentrum Julich exposed me to a variety of imaging methods that can further capture the intricacies of the human brain. In my doctoral studies in psychiatry at Cambridge, I will work in Prof. Ed Bullmore’s lab to study infant and adolescent development, combining graph theory analyses of brain folding and brain networks. I hope to contribute to the growing field of precision medicine, advancing treatments for disorders based on markers in the brain.

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Bucknell University Neuroscience 2021

I grew up in New Delhi, India. At the age of three, I was diagnosed with asthma, and it was then that I developed a deep fascination with how medicines could so easily relieve my symptoms. This fascination led me to the University of Cambridge for an integrated Master's degree in Chemistry, which I could use as a tool to contribute to the development of drugs that could help so many people in need around the world. Thanks to the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, I am one step closer to this goal as I will pursue my PhD in synthesising drugs that could potentially be used to treat cancers resistant to traditional chemotherapy. I am highly grateful to become a part of this community of diverse individuals with one common goal - the betterment of mankind. I look forward to enriching discussions and projects with fellow Gates Cambridge Scholars, which will not only improve my perspective on the wider world but will also have an incredible impact on humanity.

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University of Cambridge Natural Sciences Tripos 2024
University of Cambridge Natural Sciences Tripos 2023

I'm definitely sure that our friendship will last even we will be in different part of the world!