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I have always been mesmerized by the world around me and by how everything seems to fit so perfectly together. During high school I tried to combine as many different courses as I could - from biology to history and from arts to math – in order to try and understand all these connections. My teachers continuously tried to explain to me that those fields would never come together in my future. Close to the registration deadline for universities, however, I was introduced to archaeology and fell instantly in love. Studying archaeology has enabled me to learn a lot about subjects ranging from ecology to geology, from history to biomolecular sciences and from arts to evolutionary processes. After a BA in archaeology at Leiden University, I continued to do a Research Master in Bioarchaeology, focusing on human skeletal remains. I have found the field I belong in and that aims to understand how all sciences interplay with each other. I am therefore thrilled to be starting my PhD in archaeology, researching how leprosy sufferers in medieval England have experienced living with their disease, both socially and biologically. I will do so by taking a multidisciplinary approach combining archaeology, osteology, paleopathology, isotope research, biomolecular approaches and historical sources.

Previous Education

Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (Leiden Univ) Human osteoarchaeology 2018
Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (Leiden Univ) Human Osteoarchaeology 2016

Kofi is an academic, a social entrepreneur and a mentor who is passionate about the development of young people and Africa. He moved to Clare Hall as a Junior Research Fellow after completing his MPhil and PhD at St Edmund’s College. His research takes an interdisciplinary approach to issues of crime and development with particular interest in youth and gender-based violence. Kofi has published widely in high-impact journals in the fields of psychology, law and criminology. He serves on several journal editorial boards. He has been a visiting fellow to universities in the US and Africa, including Cornell University School of Law, State University of New York and University of Ghana. Kofi is the founder of the Oxbridge African Mentorship Programme, a charity that provides mentoring for young talents in Africa. He is also co-founder of the African Institute for Crime, Policy and Governance Research, a think tank based in Ghana that promotes high quality research on crime, justice and governance issues to inform policy in Africa.

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kofi-boakye-0788285

I am interested in patterns of threat and extinction due to habitat loss, and the use of quantitative methods to aid in both understanding past and present patterns of species' losses and making future conservation decisions. Particularly I am interested in revisiting the Species Area Relationship and its use in predicting species' extinctions.

My research at Cambridge focuses on the production of hydrogen for fuel cells and carbon capture and storage. I was born in Austria and attended Gymnasium before returning to the US for high school. I graduated from Princeton University in 2006 with a degree in Chemical Engineering.

I am particularly interested in multimedia cartography and GIS. At Cambridge, I would like to focus on visualization of spatial data using 3D models and virtual reality for Coastal Zone Management.

Previous Education

Business College of Western Pomerania, Szczecin BA (Economics)
University of Aberdeen Erasmus scholar
University of Szczecin Msc Marine Geography

I was born and raised in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. I completed my Bachelors studies at the University of Rochester in the USA, exploring a diverse set of disciplines including philosophy, neuroscience, economics, and political science. I rapidly developed a deep interest in brain sciences, fueled by my philosophical fascination about the human mind. I continued my scientific training as a research assistant at Georgetown University, followed by a Research Master’s studies at the Donders Institute in the Netherlands. I gradually realized that Neuroscience offers not only unprecedented tools to answer deepest philosophical puzzles about cognition, but also an opportunity to use the discovered mechanistic understanding of the brain to design effective strategies for improving human abilities. I realized that at the heart of every scientific and intellectual advancement, at the foundation of human progress lies the human ability to learn, create, and solve problems, enabled by the fascinatingly complex underlying neuro-computational processes. With the help of the amazing research community at Cambridge, I aim to uncover the inner workings of the human brain as it learns and remembers, in an effort to contribute to the development of science-based, effective strategies for improving knowledge acquisition and idea generation. I hope that such insights can be used to improve human learning in healthy adults as well as those with neurodegenerative diseases.

Previous Education

University of Rochester
Georgetown University
Radboud University Nijmegen

I completed my MPhil in 2012 and my PhD in 2016, as a two-time Gates recipient. My thesis, entitled "Medicine and Society in Anglo-Saxon England: The Social and Practical Context of Bald’s Leechbook and the Lacnunga," focused on socio-economic factors affecting access to medical knowledge and treatment in early medieval England. A secondary focus of my research was Old English terminology for precious stones, particularly garnet.

Since receiving my PhD, I have been working professionally as an editor of an architecture magazine. I am also the founding editor of For All the Fish, a new online magazine on sustainable food.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge MPhil, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2011
University of Toronto BA (Hons) Medieval Studies, English 2007

Links

https://www.forallthefish.com
http://cambridge.academia.edu/JuliaBolotina

I grew up in Corbin, Kentucky and attended the University of Kentucky as a biology major and Lewis Honors College member. The impact of cancer on my family and community, which faces the highest incidence and mortality of cancer in the United States, inspired me to seek a career as a physician scientist dedicated to improving cancer care. Throughout my undergraduate career, I conducted research investigating the role of glycogen and glycogen metabolism in glioblastoma and Ewing’s Sarcoma and was awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Astronaut Scholarship for this work. I was selected for MD Anderson’s CPRIT-CURE program where I explored ways to enhance radiotherapy of patients with head and neck cancers by utilizing imaging and bioinformatics. I am elated to pursue a MPhil in Medical Science in the department of Oncology at Cambridge. My project is centered on the hypothesis that competition between oesophageal adenocarcinoma and its precursor lesion, Barrett’s oesophagus, may determine the sensitivity to treatment and affect prognosis. It is a privilege and honor to be selected for the Gates Cambridge Scholarship and work alongside a cohort of inspiring individuals.

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University of Kentucky Biology 2023

I recently completed a double major in Political Science and Sociology at Columbia University, and am excited to continue my studies at Cambridge, where I will study for an MPhil in Modern Society and Global Transformations. In particular, my MPhil dissertation will examine one or more of the world's seemingly intractable conflicts, using sociology of globalization as a lens. Certain contemporary conflicts appear insoluble due to their profound complexity and extremely high group animosities. However, even these conflicts are influenced, for better or worse, by recent worldwide societal trends. By researching the nature of this influence, I hope to gain insights that will allow me to work toward peaceful resolution of major world conflicts.

I study security, researching both technical aspects of cryptography and the human element in large systems like the Internet. I've enjoyed learning how security can go wrong, from lock-picking to the difficult economics of privacy online. I'm passionate about using computers as an empowering technology, enabling privacy, free speech, free access to information, and transparency in public authorities. My thesis work focused on the increasing difficulty of establishing identity in an interconnected world of many digital devices. Since my time in Cambridge I've worked at Google and the Electronic Frontier Foundation and been a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University and Princeton University.

I am currently an assistant professor of History at the University of Michigan.

Born in Montréal, Québec and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, I have always been aware of language and its role in identity. As an undergraduate at Swarthmore College studying Biology and Linguistics, I became interested in endangered languages and their conservation. My research and senior thesis explored the endangered Papua New Guinean language of Yokoim, and my study of Arabic led me to love Semitic languages. Language is an incredibly complex system, and the sheer diversity of language is testimony to humanity’s creativity and the breadth of perspectives on our world. As a repository of knowledge, history, and memory, it is also a key component of personal and communal identity. Yet about half of the world’s ~7,000 languages are classified as endangered, at risk of dying out and becoming lost to their communities and the wider world. I am grateful to the Gates Cambridge Trust for the opportunity to pursue an M.Phil. in Linguistics at Cambridge. There, I aim to build a foundation for my future work in the classroom and field with these languages and their speaking communities.

Interests: Cooking, origami, knitting, traveling

Previous Education

Swarthmore College

Links

http://www.linkedin.com/in/madeleine-booth

Growing up, I had an uneasy feeling that some day I would have to make a choice between being a musician and a scientist. So far, that day has not yet arrived. As a music technology major at Northwestern University, I researched connections between video games and musical aptitude, and developed software to model spatial reverberation for multichannel audio systems. At Cambridge I studied for an MPhil in Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, building acoustical models of Renaissance Venetian Churches. I later did my PhD in the Music Technology program at New York University, and I'm now a postdoctoral researcher in the 3D Audio and Applied Acoustics Laboratory at Princeton University.

I believe in a future where youngsters are the champions of extraordinary change in conserving landscapes, wildlife, and human livelihoods. My late father would take my mother, siblings, and me on adventures in nature during my childhood years. These curiosity-filled escapades led to the incidental discovery of a camel spider unknown to science at age 17. At that moment, I realized my career would involve wildlife conservation and the promotion of sustainable human livelihoods. My passion landed me a full scholarship to Catawba College for my Environmental and Sustainability undergrad studies. I secured several National Geographic, Woodspring Trust, and St. Luke's Episcopal Foundation grants to conduct impactful conservation projects in Marsabit and Athi River, Kenya. Earning the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship will empower me to pursue the MPhil in Conservation Leadership at Cambridge. My ultimate goal is to set up a Wilderness Conservation Centre in northern Kenya. To explore, research, and conserve its unique ecosystems through context-specific community-oriented programs. It will serve as a vital springboard for youth to learn and launch sustainable ventures, thus improving human lives and the natural world.

Previous Education

Catawba College Environment and Sustainability 2021

Previous Education

University of Chicago BA Biological Sciences/Philosophy 2001