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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

Yale University Law 2022
Tel Aviv University Anthropology and Sociology 2020
Tel Aviv University Law 2017

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

I graduated from Yale University in 2009 with a B.A. in History. I wrote my senior thesis about a small group of left-wing lawyers who defended anarchists in sedition trials during World War I, and spent a year after graduation working for Professor Beverly Gage on her upcoming biography of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. I am interested in the history of political responses to Communism in the 20th century, and next year I will pursue an MPhil in Historical Studies, focusing on the difference between British and American attitudes towards domestic Communist movements.

Daniel is a Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge (2024-2028). He previously read for a PhD in Classics as a Gates Scholar at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (2019-2023), following a BA and MPhil in Classics and Ancient History (2013-2018) at the University of Sydney (2013-2018). Daniel works on Greek literature, especially of the Hellenistic and imperial periods. His current research, building on his PhD, explores the way(s) in which the Greek authors of the Roman Empire challenged, complicated, and sometimes cooperated with the vision of “empire without end” that featured so prominently in the propaganda of the Augustan (and post-Augustan) empire. He is finishing a book about the seacoast in the imperial Greek geographical imagination and beginning projects on the dynamics of Greek polytheism at the dawn of Christianity, the new vision(s) of the cosmos generated by the Christian intellectuals of late antiquity, and the possibilities and problematics of ecological approaches to the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome.

Previous Education

University of Sydney Ancient History 2019
University of Sydney Ancient History 2017

After an MPhil and PhD in Classics at Queens' College, Cambridge, I joined the Department of Classics at Brown University.

Previous Education

University of California (Berkeley) MA Classics 2006
University of Michigan BA Classics Major/Linguistics Minor 2005

After obtaining a PhD degree at Cambridge University and finishing my paediatric training and fellowship endocrinology at Leiden University Medical Centre I now work as a paediatric endocrinologist at Leiden University Medical Centre and Erasmus MC Rotterdam. I specialise in disorders/differences of sex development, gender dysphoria, Turner syndrome and Klinefelter syndrome.

My research deals with femininity in Japanese culture and cultural expressions. I am especially interested in women as agents of violence - violence towards the self (eating disorders and self-harm) and violence towards others. I work on a wide range of cultural expressions including Murakami Haruki's literary works and Miyazaki Hayao's animations.

At Wake Forest University, where I completed my BS in Physics, the words "Pro Humanitate" or "For Humanity" are present on every school crest and throughout the campus. It was at Wake Forest that I developed my passion for using physics not only as a way to further an understanding of our universe, but also as a means of giving back to the community and our world as a whole. There, I not only worked to develop low cost organic transistors, but helped to create a Women in STEM program at the University and at a local secondary school. At Cambridge, I will continue my work in physics, discovering and modelling materials for energy storage devices in an attempt to create higher capacity, longer lasting batteries. By searching for novel materials from first principles, I hope to reduce experimental resources by computing the most favorable materials and thus limiting the number of experiments necessary. This work will address the urgent need for higher capacity energy storage to fully utilize sources of carbon-free energy such as wind and solar power, and reduce our global reliance on fossil fuels.

Previous Education

Wake Forest University
University of Cambridge

At Auburn University I was an active member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Cupola Engineering Ambassadors, and the University Honors College. I have conducted undergraduate research with biomaterials and in vitro cell culture to help design safer and more effective drug eluting stents. I also participated in two summer programs, including the Summer Institute in Anatomy at Johns Hopkins University and the NSF REU in Cellular Engineering at Rice University. I was named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar in April of 2010. My plans are to eventually pursue a combined M.D./graduate degree and have a career in translational medical research. I am particularly interested in biotechnology and the medical device industry. At Cambridge, I plan to study for an M Phil in Advanced Chemical Engineering to broaden my knowledge of these fields and obtain more experience in research and entrepreneurship.

My research focuses on developing a novel method to detect cellular senescence after cancer therapy. Senescence, a natural cellular response to damage including chemo- and radiotherapy, has been shown to promote tumour growth and cancer recurrence. Therefore, the ability to detect senescence in cancer after treatments can be helpful to improve the prognosis of cancer treatments. In particular, I am interested in exploring nanomaterials to build a stimuli-responsive detection method capable of reporting senescence burden.