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After growing up in Golden, Colorado, USA, I completed my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder. During my time at CU Boulder, I focused my research on developing algorithmic tools for the analysis of large data sets, especially fMRI brain scans. At Cambridge, my research will involve creating machine-learning algorithms to solve imaging problems. I hope to investigate applications in medical imaging, using intelligent machines to assist medical practitioners in diagnostics.

Previous Education

University of Colorado at Boulder

I am currently working as a writer and historian of science. I am working part-time as a researcher on the Leverhulme-funded Making Climate History project based at Cambridge, where I am researching the history of climate science in the period 1965-1988. I am also working on a book on the history of computer models and the quest to save the planet. I am the author of Waters of the World (Chicago/Scribe, 2019), a history of climate science in six lives; and The Newton Papers (OUP, 2014), a history of Newton's private manuscripts. From 2016-2021 I was a trustee of the Science Museum Group. I am currently on the board of The Oxford Trust.

My research seeks to rethink state formation in the non-European world by moving away from the dominant inside/outside analytic divide. State formation is forged out of the mutually constitutive relationships between national and global processes. Using Yemen as a case study, I look at the reconfiguration of the Yemeni state in the context of the US-led 'Global War on Terror'. This research has involved considerable fieldwork in Yemen since 2001.

I am a pan-African feminist lawyer, born and raised in Zimbabwe. My interest in international affairs began at the tender age of 6, nurtured by my mother - a community development worker and my father - an educationist. I studied law at the University of Zimbabwe (LLB) and the University of Pretoria (LLM). Before coming to Cambridge for the MPhil in African Studies, I had over a decade of professional experience working in the development sector in Zimbabwe, South Africa, The Gambia, Ethiopia and Egypt with various NGOs, INGOs and IOs, including the African Union and the United Nations. My experiences stoked a desire to deconstruct the context in which Africa’s challenges persist, in particular how the African Union navigates Africa's positioning within a hierarchical global order. On the PhD in Politics and International Studies at Cambridge, I will interrogate the politics of territoriality within the contemporary regional politics of the African Union. The thesis will explore how historical trajectories of international law shape contemporary realities, by examining how the AU addresses questions of territoriality in maritime governance, the border politics of the continent and international criminal justice.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge African Studies 2019
University of Pretoria International Law 2010
University of Zimbabwe Bachelor of Laws 2007

Ryan DuChanois is a Ph.D. Candidate and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University under the supervision of Professor Menachem (Meny) Elimelech. Ryan received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Arkansas summa cum laude and was the top graduate in the College of Engineering. Ryan also was a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where he completed an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development and received the Water Conservators Best Dissertation Prize. Now at Yale, Ryan takes inspiration from biological channels and seeks to develop a synthetic membrane able to selectively remove a single species from water, such as a contaminant or valuable resource.

Previous Education

University of Arkansas

I grew up just outside Boston and studied biomedical engineering at Cornell University. Since graduating two years ago, I’ve been working in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry, where I’ve experienced firsthand the impact that great scientists can have in the lives of patients. I am exited about the potential of entirely new therapeutic modalities to bring step changes in our ability to prevent, treat, and cure disease. At Cambridge, I will undertake a PhD in molecular biology, where I will expand upon the chemistry of DNA and RNA to develop novel synthetic genetic polymers. Through this chemical diversification, I hope to engineer new biopolymers with advantageous properties for therapeutic applications. I am honored to join the diverse, vibrant, and compassionate Gates community.

Previous Education

Cornell University

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I am thrilled to be studying at Cambridge this year. I will be conducting research in the laboratory of Dr. Stuart Clarke in colloid and interface science. At Cambridge I look forward to gaining an international perspective on my study of chemistry and meeting students from around the world. After obtaining a chemistry MPhil from Cambridge I will attend Stanford University to earn a PhD in chemistry. In the future I hope to become a professor as I love to research and teach.

I grew up in British Columbia, Canada and completed my BA in History & Literature at Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude with highest honors in 2019. During my time as a Gates Scholar I received an MPhil in English in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies. My research at Cambridge focused on conceptions of gender relations in English imaginative literature of the 1720's-30's. I am now studying for a J.D. degree at Harvard Law School and hope to pursue a legal career specializing in entertainment, media, and the arts.

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Harvard University History & Literature 2019

With a greater understanding of how new ideas are generated and social innovations operate we can respond to the biggest challenges of our times in more supportive and positive ways. Since completing a BA in International Relations at Dublin City University and an MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Policy at the University of Oxford, I have worked to create impact in the third sector. With Greenpeace, Oxfam International, The Syria Campaign and then as CEO of The Developer Society, a nonprofit cooperative delivering tech for good projects, I have had the chance to support hundreds of leading charities and NGOs to use technology to deliver on their missions. I have seen first hand how the power of innovation can drive immense change. At the Cambridge Judge Business School, my PhD research will build on the work of my MPhil exploring the conception of risk in nonprofit and humanitarian projects using emerging technologies. It is my belief that using innovation and organisational theory to generate knowledge in this area will help create more effective and impactful support for vulnerable people around the world. I am honoured to be a part of the Gates Cambridge community.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge ISO 2023
University of Oxford NSEP 2013
Dublin City University International Relations 2010

Early in my medical training, I was struck by the fact that across my lifetime we may finally come to know the mechanisms causing and perpetuating psychiatric disorders with some clarity, and that with this will come a profound shift in the way these disorders are viewed by the public and managed by medical professionals. I have found the lure of contributing to this transformation in some small way irresistible. At Cambridge, I will use diverse methods to study the long-term effects of early-life stress on behavior, the brain, and the immune system. With the help of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, I am looking forward to a career in which I can help on a daily basis to translate the latest research findings directly into better psychiatric care, both for my patients and more broadly.

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University of Adelaide

When a close family member of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer, I was consumed with fear and concern. As I went through my undergraduate years at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), I started to channel those feelings into the chemistry, biology, and mathematics I had become so familiar with. Through my Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChemBE) degree, I realized I could use the skills I learned to combine my passions in research, engineering, and medicine to design effective chemotherapy delivery methods that can help alleviate cancer patients’ pain. After receiving a master’s degree in ChemBE at JHU, I started medical school at the University of Maryland Medical Scientist Training Program where I continued to expand my interests in not only patient care, but in teaching, mentoring, and medical education as well. For my PhD, I will be working to create novel nanobody-drug conjugates to treat pancreatic cancer in an international collaboration between the Cambridge Department of Chemistry and the National Institutes of Health. I am honored to have been selected as a Gates-Cambridge Scholar and look forward to the support from this multidisciplinary network to help accomplish my goals.

Previous Education

University of Maryland System Medicine 2028
Johns Hopkins University Chemical and Biomolecular Eng 2020
Johns Hopkins University Chemical and Biomolecular Eng 2019

I am currently an Assistant Professor in Jindal Global Law School in India where I teach foundational courses in social sciences and more specialised courses in political science. I completed my doctoral studies in Politics and International Studies in 2020. I have published widely since then in various prominent peer-reviewed journals in the field of gender studies and socio-legal studies such as Feminist Theory, Law and Social Inquiry, and Ethnicities. My research builds upon research builds upon ethnographic fieldwork on working class Muslim women’s activism in contemporary India to deparochialise debates on minority rights, gender, and liberalism in political theory and international relations that are usually explored through the prism of liberal multiculturalism. I am committed to decolonising the disciplines of politics and international relations. Details of my publications can be found in my official website.

Previous Education

University of Calcutta
School of Oriental and African Studies

I am an attending physician in medical genetics at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School and a research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute. I am particularly interested in the genetics of the developmental continuum, especially in the prenatal and neonatal periods. Outside of the hospital and lab, I serve as a guest editor for the Journal of Pediatrics and enjoy activities such as skiing, hiking, traveling, fly-fishing, and cooking.

Dr. Dzeng is a sociologist and hospitalist physician conducting research at the nexus of sociology, medical ethics, palliative and end-of-life care, and human-centered design. She is an Assistant Professor at UCSF in the Division of Palliative Medicine and Social and Behavioral Sciences, Sociology program. She is an affiliated faculty member of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health based at the Global Brain Health Institute at UCSF's Memory and Aging Center. She completed her PhD in Medical Sociology and an MPhil in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge at King’s College as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and was a General Internal Medicine post-doctoral clinical research fellow and palliative care research fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. As an undergraduate and engineering graduate student at Stanford, she participated in the first class of Stanford's Biodesign Innovation program where she co-invented and patented a device to non-invasively cool the heart through the esophagus to prevent myocardial damage during a myocardial infarction (US Patent 7,758,623; 2010). In August, 2019 this patent was licensed to Attune Medical.Her current research examines the influence of neoliberalism and specifically the culture and ethical implications of neoliberalism on an institution's ethical priorities in the United States and United Kingdom and its effects on the provision of non-beneficial high-intensity life-sustaining treatments near the end of life in older adults with dementia and serious illness. This research builds on her doctoral research which explored the influence of institutional cultures and policies on physicians’ ethical beliefs and how that impacts the way they communicate in end of life decision-making conversations. Through a comparative ethnography employing semi-structured in-depth interviews and participant observation, Dr. Dzeng seeks to understanding the macro-, meso-, and micro-sociological factors (and in particular ethical decision-making climate) that contribute to potentially non-beneficial high-intensity care near the end of life. Using this ethnographic data, she will subsequently co-design a systems-level intervention using human-centered design to mitigate the culture of burdensome end-of-life care.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge MPhil in Development Studies 2008
Johns' Hopkins University MPH, Public Health, MD, Medicine 2007
Stanford University BS, Biology, MS, Chemical Engineering 2003

I am a physician and epidemiologist. My clinical practice focuses on cardiometabolic diseases. My principal research interests are diabetes and obesity, and the related cardiovascular outcomes.