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My parents immigrated to the United States from Yatzachi el Bajo, Mexico before I was born. I was 3 months old when my parents moved from Oxnard, California to Wichita, KS. Cities and the inequalities within them were always present in my life. As a low-income Latina student in Wichita, KS, I always noticed the disparities that existed for me and my siblings. This frustration and desire for change is what has driven me to dedicate my life to eliminating these inequities. Eventually, I found my way to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where I completed a Bachelors of Science in Urban Studies and Planning and a Masters in City Planning. My training at MIT has taught me how cities can support and hinder its residents, now I want to focus on how education specifically can be viewed as part of urban planning. At the University of Cambridge, I will complete a Masters in Educational Research, where I will focus on the interaction between the neighborhoods students live in and the schools they attend. With this research, I hope to address how we can view education more holistically and improve education equity through policy.

Previous Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Masters in Urban Studies and Planning 2019

Self-driven, versatile and impact-oriented leader in the Pharma industry, with broad experience and expertise across Commercial, Market Access and Strategy functions, as well as background as a management consultant and scientist.

Previous Education

Stuttgart University Diploma Physics 2008

Growing up, I spent every possible moment in or near the ocean—snorkelling, rock-pooling, and watching wildlife for hours on end. I was captivated by the complexity of marine life and originally dreamed of becoming a marine biologist. This early passion for the sea eventually led me to pursue an integrated master’s degree at the University of Glasgow, where I first encountered transmissible cancers. I was immediately drawn to the mystery of these remarkable diseases in bivalves—cancers that defy conventional understanding by spreading not only between individuals but also across species and entire oceans. This phenomenon presents a rare biological system that challenges the boundaries of what we consider an individual organism. To truly understand it requires an interdisciplinary approach spanning anatomy, ecology, and immunology. My own fascination lies in the genomics: how these cancers have evolved from host tissue into parasitic lineages, capable of independent, parallel evolution. It is here—at the intersection of my childhood wonder and scientific inquiry—that I aim to contribute to understanding the nature and evolution of life itself.

Previous Education

University of Glasgow Genetics with Data Science

My studies in modern constitutional history focus on how constitutions develop an independent systemic dynamics directly affecting political reality. After completing a BA in Politics and History at JUB, I read for the MPhil in Historical Studies at Cambridge where I researched the constitutional evolution of the German imperial office. I am also a fellow of the International Max Planck Research School of Comparative Legal History. My PhD explores the comparative federal evolutions of Germany, the U.S. and Switzerland in the 19th century. I hope to deduce patterns of federal constitutional design that can help framing sound constitutional orders on the national and supranational level. My ambition is to overcome disciplinary divides between history and law to treat constitutional developments as holistic historical phenomena that offer us lessons for today’s constitutional problems. Hence, I work on founding a research forum for interdisciplinary constitutional historiography.

Before coming to Cambridge, I studied Chinese and Mongolian Languages and Cultures at Venice University (Italy), and worked in Outer Mongolia for two years following my graduation. During my stay in Mongolia, I often realised how deeply people's everyday life is conditioned by pervasive mistrust. For my PhD I thus study Mongolian ideas of trust, mistrust, and cooperation, how trust is established, maintained, and broken, how and why trust is so often abused and with what consequences, and what role gender plays in the creation of trust and mistrust. I have just come back from a year of fieldwork in a small rural community of Barga Mongols in Inner Mongolia, China, and will now start to write up.

I completed my doctorate at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education in July 2017. I currently work in the Division for Peace at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in Geneva, Switzerland. I am seconded to the UN from the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, as a member of the Swiss Expert Pool for Civilian Peacebuilding. At UNITAR, I advise and design capacity-building programmes in international peacekeeping, peacebuilding, gender & inclusivity, justice reform, youth and women's empowerment, and mental health & psychosocial support (MHPSS). In parallel, I continue to research, publish & teach in my areas of interest.

During my PhD, I investigated the role of education in promoting peacebuilding and reconciliation following violent inter-group conflict. My study employed a social-ecological methodology to look comparatively at three parallel education systems in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Data collection and analysis combined social-psychological, sociological, and political perspectives. For my MPhil at Cambridge, I conducted a phenomenological study of peace educators in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina, investigating the mediating influence of their personal and social identities on their peace education practice.

Links

http://saraclarkehabibi.weebly.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-clarke-habibi

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Universita Di Camerino

As a young child in Los Angeles, I spent every moment I could in nature. I became a wildlife rehabilitator, tall ship sailor, and Forest Service biological technician. My lifelong religious devotion later led me to study and practice in Jerusalem and the Balkans, two places where faith has a powerful impact on daily life. After my Brigham Young University undergraduate in International Relations and Philosophy, I completed a Cambridge Masters in Muslim-Jewish relations. I then worked in Lebanon and Iraq where I saw the devastating consequences of environmental neglect first hand and realized I could channel my passion for religion and nature toward doing good. During my PhD, I will study the complex dynamic between religion and the environment, particularly how religious action or inaction can change environmental outcomes. Using my own faith background as a starting point, I will seek to understand how theological narratives around ecology are formed, and how they can transform behavior. I hope to advance the cause of unity and peace throughout my career, and am honored to join a community devoted to serving others and creating a healthier world for us all.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Muslim Jewish Relations 2017
Brigham Young University Utah International Relations 2014

I am currently doing an M Phil in Geographical Research, with a focus on Political Ecology. Specifically, I am analyzing adaptive co-management patterns in a Joint Forestry Management project in Tajikistan. My research interests are broadly related to studying variables necessary for transformation in social ecological systems, spurred during my time with the Aga Khan Development Network in Tajikistan and Afghanistan, where I coordinated a Cross Border programme, and later worked as the National Natural Resource Management Programme Coordinator. Also, I am writing a small book “Bo dastoni khud – With our hands”: A Book of Food, and Life, in the Afghan and Tajik Pamirs, which tells the story of a rapidly changing cultural and physical landscape and invokes memory as a platform from which to envision the future.

Links

http://www.stockholmresilience.org/contact-us/staff/2012-11-06-haider.html
https://www.linkedin.com/in/l-jamila-haider
http://twitter.com/#!/jamilahaider

Previous Education

Tel Aviv University Law
Tel Aviv University Anthropology and Sociology
Yale University Law

I was born in Texas, lived for a while in the Deep South, finally settled in Oklahoma, and graduated from Oklahoma State University with degrees in mathematics and history. At Cambridge I studied early modern history, with an emphasis on religion. My PhD recreated puritan religious practice and religious politics during Britain's mid-17th-century "Puritan Revolution". Since my doctorate I have worked at the universities of St Andrews, Cambridge, and East Anglia. I was an assistant editor on "The minutes and papers of the Westminster assembly, 1643-52" (OUP, 2012), and I am currently co-editor of volume 3 of "The letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell" (OUP, forthcoming, 2015). I am currently preparing a monograph on 'The congregational experiment during the puritan revolution'.

At Cambridge, I will develop water pollutant sensors. My pursuit to secure safe global water supplies began while working on the reconstruction of a failing wastewater treatment system in Honduras. I then travelled to Beijing to create a new material that sustainably purifies water when illuminated. Meanwhile, researching biological engineering at UC Berkeley and the University of Missouri gave me an appreciation for the mechanisms that sustained living systems for billions of years at a level of complexity unparalleled by human innovation. The emerging field of synthetic biology harnesses these mechanisms to design new biological systems for useful purposes. I believe synthetic biology is a promising approach to create water pollutant detection technology. At Cambridge I will use synthetic biology to help engineer a microorganism that changes color in the presence of unsafe mercury or arsenic levels, offering afflicted populations a route to identify safe water supplies.

I am currently a visiting scholar at the Fondation Brocher in Switzerland, and will be beginning law school at McGill University in the fall of 2016. I have recently submitted my PhD in Sociology which I undertook with the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at the University of Cambridge. I am an Embryo Project fellow and visiting scholar at the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University, and visiting researcher of the Marine Biological History Project in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. My research interests are in medical and legal sociology, ethics, public health, and gender. My work explores infertility, and assisted reproductive technologies, and their resulting markets and regulation. I am an ongoing research intern of the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organization in Geneva, where I was involved with organizing, and participated in the consultation for the WHO’s first ever glossary and guidelines on infertility. I am an expert advisor to the sexual and reproductive health stream of Cambridge-based global health policy group Polygeia, convenor of the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Reproductive Forum, and member of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society, and am active in the media on issues surrounding reproduction and motherhood. I am a peer reviewer for Reproductive Biomedicine Online, and New Genetics & Society, among other periodicals. I hold an MPhil in Gender studies (also cantab) and BA Hons in Legal Studies (Carleton University). I am passionate about education, the accessibility of knowledge and research collaboration. I have worked as a lecturer, supervisor, and mentor in numerous capacities, and have served as a chair and founder of a number of conferences and symposiums, including as a former executive director (’14, previously director ’13) of the Global Scholars Symposium, an annual conference bringing together scholars and world leaders to engage with global issues.

My interest in North Korea's unification policy started in 2012 when I was serving in the South Korean military, analysing and translating various news stories related to North Korea. I was intrigued by the extent to which North Korea's understanding of unification was different from that of South Korea, which triggered me to wonder how such a gap could be narrowed. My curiosity in North Korea's strategic thinking about unification has deepened throughout my experience as Korea Program Manager at Relational Peacebuilding Initiatives (RPI), an international NGO which facilitates behind the scenes high-level discussions between policymakers, diplomats and academics from South Korea, North Korea and the US. Through my PhD research on North Korea's unification policy, I hope to further knowledge of Pyongyang's strategic thinking around unification, ultimately contributing not only to the immediate peace process in the Korean Peninsula but also to other conflict-ridden areas of the world. I am most grateful to join Gates Cambridge community because I believe life is not just about what you know, but who you know; I look forward to contributing to this global network of future leaders who wish to change the world for the better.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge MPhil Land Economy 2018
University of Hong Kong BA American Studies 2017

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Health Sciences at Northeastern University. Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow in Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, mentored by Professor Sharon-Lise Normand. Before that, I obtained my PhD in biostatistics at Harvard University working with Professor Tianxi Cai. My research focuses on developing novel statistical and machine learning methods for real-world data. At Cambridge, I completed an MPhil in healthcare operations and examined the drivers of the weekend mortality effect in NHS emergency departments. Before that, I was part of the inaugural class of Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, completing a MA in global affairs. Previously, I focused my undergraduate studies in biostatistics and infectious diseases at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. I co-lead an NIH-funded randomized controlled trial to improve sexual health delivery in China and studied the efficacy of the RTS,S malaria vaccine among children in Malawi. In the future, I aim to collaborate with global institutions to advance the field of biostatistics and health policy and develop tools to improve healthcare delivery.

Interests: Golf, basketball, tennis, reading history, debating politics

Previous Education

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Links

https://larrylehan.github.io

Gazing at the night sky, it is difficult not to wonder what worlds might exist around each star and whether they might even host life. Over the past two decades, exoplanetary science has revealed to us the great diversity of planets outside the solar system, presenting the possibility of understanding their evolution, habitability and presence of biosignatures. A crucial piece in the puzzle of characterising full planetary systems requires the study of debris disks, which provide crucial constraints on the architecture and history of the system. My research uses high-resolution imaging and dynamical modelling to understand how planets and debris disks interact, what the structures of debris disks tell us about the architecture of planetary systems and their implications on theories of planetary formation and evolution. I completed my undergraduate degree with majors in Physics and Neuroscience at the University of Sydney, which provided valuable opportunities for me to explore and pursue my interests. I am excited to be part of the Gates Cambridge community and to commence research at the Institute of Astronomy.

Previous Education

University of Sydney Physics 2019

Links

https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/people/Yinuo.Han
https://yinuohan.github.io