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Previous Education

University of Pennsylvania BA English and Comparative Literature 2001

I received my PhD from the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge in 2024. I am currently a postdoctoral scholar at the Criminal Justice Research Center at the Pennsylvania State University, working with the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing,

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Criminological Research 2021
Williams College Political Science and Math 2020

I graduated in 2010 from Duke University with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. After receiving my degree, I was commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy, where I served on USS STERETT (DDG 104) for nearly two years as the Electrical and Auxiliary Systems Officer. I then worked as an engineer for Access Midstream, a natural gas midstream company, where I helped design pipelines and facilities for natural gas in the Utica shale in Ohio. Both my experience on a ship and time in the energy industry made me appreciate how important energy is, and inspired me to pursue ways to reduce energy requirements and usage. While at Duke, I did research on smart materials, which piqued my interest in their applications. I combined these two interests while pursuing my MPhil in Engineering, which focused on how materials can be used to improve energy efficiency and reduce both usage and costs.

After finishing my degree, I became employed as a test engineer at SpaceX. I deeply believe in SpaceX's mission of sending humans to live on Mars - my energy research at Cambridge make me increasingly concerned about the dire effects of global warming on our planet. We need to tackle the problems here, but also need to spread out as much as we can. I am currently living and working in Los Angeles, at SpaceX's headquarters. As a test engineer, I make sure that the hardware sent into space can survive launch conditions by physically testing it before it is installed on the rocket.

After undergraduate work at North Carolina State University in Biomedical Engineering, the Gates-Cambridge Scholarship allowed me to perform magnetic resonance imaging research towards an M.Phil. in the Herchel Smith Laboratory for Medicinal Chemistry. Afterwards, I returned to the US to attend Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. I graduated in 2009 and have remained at Hopkins as a general surgery resident.

I completed an MPhil in Public Health in 2009 and a PhD in Epidemiology (MRC Epidemiology Unit) at Cambridge in 2014 as a Gates Scholar.
Subsequently, I started to work as a medical doctor in several hospitals in the East of England and am now an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow and Specialty Registrar in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge. I am passionate about the prevention and treatment of cardiometabolic disorders and believe that through my research and clinical practice I can contribute to a reduction of the global burden of these disorders.
I also have a keen interest in teaching and provide clinical supervisions for Cambridge medical students and teach research methods for a variety of audiences.
I have been serving as a Deputy Lead of the Global Innovation Panel of the Need for Nutrition Education Global Centre in Cambridge and working on applied projects focused on nutrition education.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge MPhil Public Health and Primary Care 2008
University of Zagreb MD 2005

I was born in Colombia, where I pursued a BSc in Physics at Universidad de los Andes. During my undergraduate studies, I developed a strong interest in statistical mechanics and condensed matter, and became fascinated by systems where disorder drives emergent behavior, such as spin glasses. What captivates me is understanding how macroscopic properties arise from microscopic rules, and exploring the role of probability and randomness in our description of nature. To me, probability is not merely a tool but a lens for making sense of uncertainty and uncovering hidden structure in physical reality. For my PhD at Cambridge, I aim to extend this fascination to quantum materials, studying how disorder shapes their magnetic properties and collective behavior. Beyond academia, I am committed to strengthening the deep tech ecosystem in Latin America, bridging fundamental science with technological impact.

Previous Education

Universidad de Los Andes Physics; Minor in Mathematics 2023

My main academic interests are in algebraic geometry and differential topology. Most recently, I have been working on a research project about the cyclic cohomologies of finitely generated, torsion free subgroups of GL_2(R). I also enjoy teaching mathematics; I have done this as a grader at the Math Olympiad Program, and also as a leader for the United States team to the Girls’ Math Olympiad. In addition, I coordinated at the Math Olympiad of Central America and the Caribbean when it was held in my home island of Puerto Rico. I intend to attend graduate school and obtain a Ph.D. in mathematics with a concentration in algebraic geometry. After this, I would like to pursue a career as a mathematician and engage in research and teaching. As a preparation for these career plans, I would like to study algebraic geometry at Cambridge. There, I also hope to gain a broader view of mathematics, which would allow me to become both a greater researcher and a more effective teacher.

I feel really humbled to be here and to get the opportunity to study with such brilliant people from a plethora from different backrounds. While, I will be studying Engineering for Sustainable development officially, I look forward to learning my greatest lessons from all the people I will interact with along the way. I also look forward to traveling and seeing all the exciting places and things that this region of the world has to offer. I look forward to the time when I can give back to a world that has blessed me with so much.

Carlos Gonzalez Sierra recently graduated with a Juris Doctor and Master in Public Policy from Harvard University. He is currently a practicing attorney in Washington, DC. Carlos previously worked as a congressional staffer, policy advocate, and nonprofit executive.

My name is Grecia Gonzalez. I grew up in La Puente, CA, USA, the youngest of five children to immigrant parents from Nicaragua. I have just earned my B.A. degree in Chemical and Physical Biology at Harvard University. I will pursue my PhD in Biochemistry at Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Ben Luisi. Beyond my coursework I am an avid researcher and educator. I have been very fortunate to work with amazing researchers in many top-ranked research institutions, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the University of Cambridge. I am a published author and my thesis research at Harvard is on the cutting edge of RNA NMR spectroscopy and of great importance to current HIV research. In the future, I hope to one day work at the crossroads of science and education policy. Teaching and thinking of new ways to help others understand science are great passions of mine.

I have always liked Biology and everything related to it, especially Molecular Biology, Genetics, Immunology and Biotechnology, since they possess, to some extent, the answer to many of the problems we are facing at the moment. I would like to contribute as much as I can in improving the lives of others, dedicating myself to a very rewarding field of science: edible vaccines. My PhD, in particular, focuses on an AIDS edible vaccine.

I will be specialising in international law and human rights as part of my LLM at Cambridge. My particular interest in international law and human rights stems from studies in these areas of law on exchange at the University of Vienna as part of my undergraduate degree and internships with the Red Cross (IFRC) in Geneva. More recently I have been working as the Legal Research Officer at the High Court of Australia and tutoring at the Australian National University.

I am an economist with 7 years of experience in the field. I have worked in the UK, Pakistan and several countries in the Middle East. I am currently based in Canada.

I will be working with the Semiconductor Physics (SP) group at Cavendish Laboratory. My research focuses on nanostructures and their quantum behaviour at low temperatures. I’m particularly interested in electrical transport through these structures, and their interaction with electromagnetic radiation. Throughout my involvement with cutting-edge research, my primary goal has been to simply become a better scientist everyday. Cambridge, being a world-class institution, provides a stimulating environment to do precisely this. The faculty and facilities in the SP group will enable me to carry out sound physics research, and build a strong foundation for a succcessful scientific career. In the future I would like to continue working with low-dimensional systems, which are a storehouse of a variety of intriguing quantum phenomena. I hope to make a significant contribution to this area.

In 2010 I started the first year of my PhD in the Atomic, Mesoscopic and Optical Physics group in the Cavendish Laboratory. My research will concentrate on studying novel aspects of Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) - dense atomic clouds at extremely cold temperatures unmatched anywhere in the universe. While creating BECs is a significant experimental challenge, they exhibit many properties found in other complex systems, e.g. superfluidity. Studying BECs ultimately leads to better understanding of superfluids, superconductors and collective phenomena in general.