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I finished my undergraduate studies in Marine Geology at the University of Bremen - a leading institution for marine geosciences. During my studies I had the opportunity to participate in several multinational research projects and sea-going expeditions all over the world dedicated to study past changes of our climate and the ocean. I became passionate about climate research also in the face of its socioeconomic and political importance. I am currently enrolled in the first year of my PhD studies at the Department of Earth Sciences focusing on the global signature of past abrupt climate change recorded in marine sediments. Particular emphasis will be put on changes in biological productivity and the ocean circulation in the South Atlantic Ocean to explain the millennial-scale variability of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The study is supported by analyzing further climate archives as ice cores and cave formations as well as numerical climate simulations.

I am a young researcher in history of music trained at University and Conservatoire in Paris. My research interests are in contemporary history and include music festivals, cultural transfers between France and England and women musicians. In my PhD project ('Cultural Reconstruction? Postwar Music Festivals in the French Regions (1945-1959)'), I investigate how classical music festivals acted as shelters for stage music in the context of a collapse of the traditional opera system and how a “local” focus was used to promote the idea that some towns had been protected from change in the aftermath of the Second World War, through several case studies (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Mai musical de Bordeaux, Festival de Lyon-Fourvière, Festival de Vichy, Festival de Strasbourg).

Previous Education

Ecole Normale Supérieure Musique 2023
Conservatoire de Paris CNSMDP Histoire de la musique 2022
EHESS Musique 2020

Links

https://cambridge.academia.edu/ApollineGouzi
https://cv.hal.science/apolline-gouzi

I have often found myself to be the first and only disabled woman in most academic and professional spaces I have been a part of. These opportunities have been a privilege, but more importantly a huge personal responsibility to build a more equitable and just world for disabled people. This endeavour has shaped my work on disability-inclusive international development. During my MPhil at the University of Cambridge, and later at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, I researched on the multidimensional inequalities experienced by disabled people in accessing education, health, and social protection across diverse contexts. Most recently, at the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report Office, I contributed to the 2025 Human Development Report, focusing on the impact of AI on people with disabilities around the world. Building on this work, my PhD research explores the ways in which the deployment and use of AI is reshaping educational opportunities and disadvantages for young people with disabilities in India. Through this research, I intend to influence education and AI policy to ensure that the design and deployment of AI is inclusive of the disabled community.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Development Studies 2022
University of Dehli (Lady Shri Ram College) Political Science 2020

At Cambridge, my PhD in Physics focuses on Einstein's theory of general relativity and its implications. I am studying the application of Bayesian inference for the detection of gravitational waves. I am also looking into theoretical predictions for primordial gravitational waves as remnants of the Big Bang. This work has potential for opening a new window onto our Universe and providing direct observations of the earliest moments in our Universe's history.

Previous Education

University of Maryland (Baltimore County) BS Physics, BS Mathematics 2008

During my PhD, I investigated how motor areas in the brain respond when we listen to music, even if we stay absolutely still. I also examined how musical training affected neural responses, and how damage to certain motor brain areas affects our perception of musical rhythm.

Links

http://www.jessicagrahn.com
http://linkedin.com/in/jessica-grahn-1978998
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/jessica.grahn

I am grateful for the opportunity to have studied the no longer extant Computer Speech, Text and Information Technology course at Cambridge, which allowed me to explore the interface between mathematics and language. After finishing the MPhil in CSTIT at Cambridge, I spent a year studying a Masters in Medical Statistics at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and worked for many years with LSHTM and World Health Organization in Global Child Health afterwards. Currently, I have completed a PhD in measuring and evaluating women's empowerment in a complex public health trial in rural Nepal. I am conducting postdoctoral work on gender equality, preventing violence against women, engaging communities in collective action and measuring social norms.

Growing up and studying in Jamaica, I double-majored in entrepreneurship and human resource management, which sparked an early fascination with a tension that has since shaped my research: organisations establish rules to operate but can be seen breaking those rules to survive. Working at the Caribbean Policy Research Institute on a comprehensive education policy report, I was able to delve deeper into this paradox and consider its implications in the education sector.With a recent hurricane ravishing western Jamaica, educators in Jamaica's western parishes were abandoning institutional procedures in the face of dire circumstances in order to keep their schools open. Constructive deviance, I realised, was not a failure of organisation. It was a form of resilience that allowed for adaptation and improvisation.As a CJBS PhD student and a Gates Cambridge Scholar, I am creating a theoretical framework that reframes constructive deviance as a mechanism of organisational resilience. This research explores how breaking from traditional norms can help organisations survive and develop. By studying instances from the Global South, notably Jamaica, we may better appreciate how organisations can benefit from constructive deviance.

Previous Education

University of the West Indies, Mona Campus Entrepreneurship 2025
University of the West Indies, Mona Campus Human Resource Management 2025
University of Cambridge ISO

My fascination with the relationship between repatriation and emotion is long-standing but was greatly reinforced by my experience managing the establishment and delivery of restitution initiatives in the Australian university sector. My time as a practitioner prompted me to reconsider the nature, role and impact of non-Indigenous actor emotions on processes of provenance and return: the lingering heartache of setting aside the unprovenanced skeletal remains of a child; the couching of obstructiveness in the language of objectivity; the cautious optimism between researchers and First Nations communities following a handover. By acknowledging and engaging with these emotional registers, I believe that more authentic opportunities for inter-community reconciliation and intra-community empowerment can be identified. With the generous support of Gates Cambridge, I aim to provide practitioners with a nuanced and comprehensive understanding of the emotional dynamics within and between their institutions and the communities they seek to represent.

Previous Education

Australian National University Repatriation: Principles, Policy, Practice 2021
Australian National University Archaeological Practice 2020
Australian National University Arts (History) 2020

I will be working towards a MSc in Pathology with Dr. Nick Coleman. My project involves modeling HPV(Human Papillomavirus)-mediated cervical neoplasia. Specifically, I am interested in those cases which are driven by non-integrated (episomal) HPV. This work will prepare me for a career as a professor and research scientist. In this field, I hope to increase our understanding of cancer and inspire young biologists to pursue this intriguing field.

Links

http://www.jimmunol.org/content/186/11/6091

I am a native of South Africa, but was raised in Canada and the United States. My interests in biology, chemistry, and engineering led me to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where I earned a bachelor of science in Chemical Engineering with a focus on Biochemical Engineering. Since completing the MPhil in Advanced Chemical Engineering at Cambridge, I have continued my education at the Yale University School of Medicine where I am pursuing an MD/PhD in the Medical Scientist Training Program. I hope to translate my medical training into a research career that applies my engineering skills to clinically relevant problems.

Links

https://files.nyu.edu/dlg325/public

In the future, I hope to work in development projects for communities in Muslim Africa. As an undergraduate, I studied development primarily from social and humanitarian perspectives, and I hope that the Cambridge MPhil will help me to better understand development from the point of view of economics. After leaving Cambridge, I plan on becoming involved in development efforts through either the private sector or an international aid agency.

At Cambridge I read for an MPhil in Social & Political Sciences, Modern Society and Global Transformations. My dissertation examined how women respond to genetic information and what this suggests about appropriate policy related to genetic testing. Before and after my year as a Gates Scholar, I worked as a reporter -- in Puerto Rico, New York, London, and New England. I wrote regularly for The New York Times and other publications. I spent 2006-7 on a Fulbright Scholarship in London, then later received a JD from Berkeley Law School in California. I currently work as an attorney in New York City at Cooley LLP, where I represent start-up and technology companies, counseling on corporate matters from initial incorporation to exits to IPOs (and many things in between). Please get in touch if you have a new (or not-so-new) company!

I graduated last May from Mount Holyoke College where I majored in physics. I have a deep passion for optoelectronics research and am currently pursuing a MPhil in Physics. A significant amount of research focusing on light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with polymer semiconductors has taken place recently. My research focuses on creating more efficient organic LEDs. I am working on both the fabrication of polymer LEDs as well as the testing of such devices using various optical techniques.