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Alex Bremner is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. He researches the history and theory of Victorian architecture, specialising in British imperial and colonial architecture and urbanism. He has published widely on these subjects in a range of scholarly journals, including The Historical Journal, Architectural History, The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Modern Intellectual History, and The Journal of Historical Geography. His first book, Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, c.1840-1870 (Yale UP, 2013) was a ground-breaking study on the significance of ecclesiastical architecture in the formation of colonial society and culture, winning the 2013 Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion from the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.

Links

http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/architecture-landscape-architecture/alex-bremner

An experimental physicist looking at the fundamental quantum mechanics of single quantum emitters in solid state systems (defects in diamond and SiC, InGaAs quantum dots). I teach courses in introductory mechanics and electromagnetism to undergraduates at the U.S. Naval Academy. I am also in the U.S. Navy Reserve where I serve as a Science and Technology liaison and an anti-submarine warfare watch officer.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge PhD 2013
University of Cambridge MA (Cantab) 2005
University of Cambridge BA (affiliated) Natural Science 2003

Links

http://www.usna.edu/Users/physics/brereton
http://quantumengineer.org
http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterbrereton

I am excited about being in Cambridge and I hope to sharpen my skills, to broaden my view, and to meet exciting people. I work on the automated analysis of software and related artifacts. In particular, I like to improve the quality of software systems. I tackle this problem by helping programmers to identify functionality that is spread over a system but could be bundled for improved understanding and maintainability. At Cambridge, I am looking forward to finding mutually inspiring discussions as well as collaboration with people from inside and outside my field.

Links

http://unbtc.ro
http://www.soi-hits.eu

I attended the University of South Carolina where I studied chemical engineering with minors in chemistry and mathematics. My PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechology under Professor Markus Kraft studied inorganic nanoparticle growth in laminar flames using computational fluid dynamics and population balance modelling. Currently, I work for Siemens DISW developing multiphase computational fluid dynamics software for STAR-CCM+.

Previous Education

The University of South Carolina

While studying organismal biology, bioethics, and philosophy at McGill University, I became interested in how scientific knowledge informs and challenges philosophical ideas. Who has credibility in claiming scientific knowledge? What type of science can be claimed as legitimate and worthy of funding? I took a year off to work with a community service organization in Pittsburgh, PA, where I helped homeless clients apply for welfare benefits, Medicaid, and public housing lotteries. The question of resource allocation, of what our money should fund, suddenly appeared on a much larger scale than it had in my bioethics textbook, and propelled me to study critical social theory. I finished my undergraduate studies as a transfer student at The New School in New York City, where I had the opportunity to work as a research assistant for professors in the history and culture and media departments. At Cambridge, my work will focus on how scientific and medical research priorities are often influenced by financial and market forces; I’m interested in how, over time, those interests have shaped our research on and understanding of two processes in particular: reproduction and cognition. I’m excited to work with the Gates and Cambridge communities in examining the intersection of science, ethics, and economic systems to challenge hegemonic scientific ideas and pursue academic interventions needed for a more rigorous understanding of scientific and medical justice.

Previous Education

McGill University
University of Pittsburgh
The New School

I studied at Indiana University in Mathematics and English. At Cambridge, I completed Part III of the Math Tripos at Churchill College. Cambridge afforded me a wonderful experience that I still cherish. I now live and work in Chicago as a high school math teacher.

I was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and earned my B.A. in Media Studies and Public Policy from UC Berkeley. My MPhil dissertation examined how human rights and ethics employees working for “Big Tech” companies seek to institutionalize new norms by accruing or leveraging different forms of capital. I now work as a responsible business consultant and researcher and am based in New York City.

Previous Education

University of California, Berkeley Media Studies 2020

I am currently serving as the Acting Administrator of the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. I previously served as an advisor on Capitol Hill as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Administration and practiced law in the private sector.

Previous Education

Western Michigan University BS Enviromental Studies, Science, Economics 2005

I work in Dr Paul Digard's lab in the Division of Virology studying the role of cellular proteins in Influenza A virus assembly and budding.

I graduated with a BA in History and African Studies from the University of Toronto in 2012, and a MSc in African Studies from the University of Oxford in 2013. I am fascinated by the intersections between history and justice, especially on the African continent. My current research focuses on the prison system in Uganda from the onset of colonial rule to the overthrow of Idi Amin in 1979. I am interested in how prisons became sites of interaction and contestation between the state and society in both the colonial and post-colonial periods; spaces in which questions of power, morality, and identity were negotiated and challenged. My previous research focused on the detention of women during the Mau Mau Rebellion in colonial Kenya, with a particular emphasis on how colonial gendered perceptions of deviancy shaped punishment practices. More broadly, I am interested in the history of crime and punishment in colonial and post-colonial Africa; histories of women's detention and incarceration across the African continent; and the politics of reparations.

Links

http://www.douglasbrumley.com

Marie Brunet qualified as a doctor of veterinary medicine (France) and later completed her PhD in Pharmacology at the University of Cambridge (UK) under a Gates Cambridge scholarship. She did her postdoctoral training in Biochemistry and Functional Genomics at the University of Sherbrooke (Canada) under the co-supervision of Pr Roucou and Pr Cohen. Throughout her cursus, she gained a diverse set of expertise from medicine and fundamental biological sciences to bioinformatics and deep learning. Her research focuses on the secrets still hidden in our genomes. Because in an era where getting a genome sequenced is not a hurdle, we still don’t know the origin of 2 in 5 inherited diseases. This number alone shows we have only explored the shallow waters of our genome and we now need to dig deeper. Marie uses deep learning methods to better explore our data and understand human diseases, focusing on pediatric cancers and rare diseases.
“The outside world is full of wonders and we have much to explore. I like to travel inside our genomes as much as I like to travel the world: exploring, discovering and understanding.”