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The tales about great engineers my mom used to tell me when I was a little girl growing up in El Puerto de Santa María made me want to become an engineer and invent things to help others. During my double degree in Mechanical + Industrial Design & Product Development Engineering in Cadiz University, I developed an interest in sustainability, regarding my future responsibility on consumer products whose manufacturing, usage and end-of-life will impact our ecosystem. For this reason, I use eco-design techniques in my projects, like the design of an ergonomic infant radiant warmer, a ship bulbous bow for Navantia Shipyards or technical help for the blind (national runner up in the James Dyson Award). My work experience in INNANOMAT R&D group has taught me how difficult it is to implement eco-design strategies, as economic profitability often seems to be the only concern. However, I believe it is my duty as an engineer to use my creativity to find solutions that take into consideration the present needs (like the pursuit of social fairness) and problems (such as pollution or resource depletion) in addition to economic profits. Improving people's lives is the aim of engineering, but I think we are not doing it ok if our creations imply negative consequences for people or the ecosystem. During my MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development, I focused my dissertation research to help designers develop effective and sustainable medical devices during health emergencies in the global south. This was inspired by the scarcity of respiratory medical devices during the Covid-19 pandemic. The tool can be accessed here: sher.carlota.armillas.com/ . As Gates alumna, I am focusing my profesional career as engineer in the healthcare sector, looking for the trade-offs between 'good health for all', 'responsible consumption and production' and 'reduced inequalities'.

Previous Education

Universidad de C MechEng, IndDes&ProdDevelopEng 2018

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlotaarmillas
https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlota-armillas-b19427137

Currently working as a research assistant at MIT's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, I will begin a PhD in energy and environmental economics at Harvard University in fall 2016. As a Gates Scholar, I completed the M.Phil. in Economic and Social History at Cambridge, after graduating from Yale University last spring with a B.A. in history.

Previous Education

Duke University Medical School Medicine 2022
University of Washington Education 2018
Bates College Biochemistry and Mathematics 2015

Jeanne-Rose Arn is a Gates Scholar and Ph.D. Candidate in Law and Philosophy. Her research focuses on the legal and moral responsibility of self-deceivers. Self-deception is a critical topic in today’s world and yet remains unexplored in law. Are people who unconsciously acquire false beliefs despite possessing the correct evidence responsible for these false beliefs and the harmful actions they take based on them, and if so, how? Using philosophy of mind, moral psychology, and the law, Jeanne proposed a new model of self-deception and is building a framework to account for the responsibility of self-deceivers. Throughout her studies and legal work, Jeanne has engaged on societal issues surrounding the impact of false beliefs: she has co-authored a handbook on the rights of immigrant women in Switzerland to combat misinformation on the subject in collaboration with the University of Geneva and has defended religious minorities against hate speech in the Swiss courts. Jeanne studied both Law and Philosophy at the University of Geneva and Harvard Law School. She has held research and teaching positions in legal philosophy and in tort law at the University of Geneva and at the University of Fribourg (2018-2020). She is currently an Academic Fellow of the University of Geneva Centre for Philanthropy (2018-present), where she focuses on corporate social responsibility. She is also a practicing lawyer in Switzerland since 2016 and collaborates with law firms in international arbitration.

Previous Education

Harvard University Law 2016
University of Geneva Law 2016
University of Geneva Philosophy 2015

Management of technology will have a pivotal impact on human weal in the developing world. Intricate relationships between several factors need to be analyzed to understand to what extent manufacturing should balance skilling/deskilling, job creation/preservation with increasing productivity. I hope to use what I learn at Cambridge, for furthering my understanding of the interdependencies that exist in matters relating to industrial systems, management of technology and socio economic impact.

Hmmm, well I hope I have lots of fun, meet new people and live life to the full!!

After completing my studies in Cambridge (2005), I spent time in Switzerland and London. After working as an oil trader for a major investment bank in London, I returned to North America in 2008. I currently live and work in Houston, TX with my beautiful wife Annie, our 2 young children, Evie and Jonah as well as our dog Malachy.

Having grown up in sunny, dry India I was exposed early on to issues of sustainability due to severe water shortages in my school and the surrounding regions. The capacity of science to systematically develop sustainable and renewable technologies has become apparent to me through my BSc in Physics at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and my MASt in Physics at Cambridge. One of the most exciting areas of development is that of photovoltaics. We have so far been limited in our capacity to harness energy from the sun due to our inability to control sunlight - solar panels require direct sunlight. Harvesting diffuse light - the kind that bounces of buildings and clouds - is in some sense 'forbidden' due to the Second Law of Thermodynamics - diffuse light is 'disordered', and 'ordering' it means we reduce the entropy of the system. I plan to spend my PhD in the optoelectronics group at the Cavendish exploring ways around this limitation - through the use of Luminescent Solar Concentrators and carrier multiplication photophysics. In order to effectively study these systems and tweak their entropy management, I will explore the fundamental processes of thermalisation and localisation. Through my PhD in Physics I will strive to develop an understanding of the fundamental physics of these systems in order to eventually make a pass at efficient harvesting of diffuse light.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Physics 2019
St. Xavier's College, Mumbai Physics 2018

Previous Education

Brown University
Oxford University

I am interested in the historical evolution of modern racial categories, and the current socioeconomic repurcussions of early western encounters with the racial "other." At Cambridge I hope to explore differences in the imagery used to describe nonwhite peoples accross class lines in the late 18th century. This topic appeals to me both historically and as a way of approaching the unhealthy contemporary intersection of race and class status.

My PhD research will focus on objective measurement of physical activity in an adult Cameroonian population. This work is within the broad area of understanding the determinants of adult obesity, diabetes and related metabolic disorders. I intend to focus my career on alleviating the burden of diabetes on the population and the healthcare system through epidemiological research on primordial and primary prevention of diabetes.

Since 2007 I have been developing an interest in and passion for public policy and governance. My undergraduate studies in law and economics in Australia, combined with my work at the Australian youth-run aid & development organisation The Oaktree Foundation, gave me many opportunities to develop these interests. After graduating I spent 15 months as a solicitor at Freehills, a leading Australian commercial law firm, before moving to The Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm that has a strong public sector practice. My hope is that studying the Cambridge MPhil International Relations with the help of the Cambridge Gates Scholarship will continue to equip me with the knowledge and capability to have a substantial impact for the public good through public policy & governance.

Academically, I am interested in the psychology of social change, which is relatively less studied than the economics or the politics of social change. I completed my PhD in Social Psychology at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health in 2020. My PhD examined the impacts of a community education project run by an Indian NGO called Muktangan (https://www.muktanganedu.org/) on women with a view to understanding how the programme can be scaled.

Motivated by the desire to connect knowledge with practice, I now work as a consultant at Dalberg Advisors. I specialise in supporting public and private sector organisations to measure and report on the social and environmental impacts of their investments.

I am immensely thankful to the Trust for their support, without which I would not have been a part of Cambridge's rich intellectual heritage. I had many mentors on my way to this scholarship and I am passionate about paying it forward. You can follow my work and get in touch with me on LinkedIN or Twitter: @Saloni_Atal

Previous Education

University of Hong Kong
University of Cambridge

After my PhD, I joined a Nairobi based policy think-tank - African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP), - as a Research Knowledge Translation Scientist, leading a Bill & Melinda Gates funded project to map Maternal-Newborn-Child Health, Family Planning, and HIV/AIDS integration framework across four sub-Sahara African countries, to inform the foundation's policy in these areas. I am also helping the Technical University of Kenya develop a number of graduate courses in the areas of global health and international relations.

Previous Education

Moi University BA Hons
University of Cambridge MPhil International Relations
University of Copenhagen MSc International Health

While officially majoring in economics with a minor in applied mathematics, I completed requirements for a BA in philosophy at Princeton. At Cambridge I wrote my Mphil. thesis on the communicative dimension to blame and holding people morally responsible. I was supervised by Simon Blackburn. I am pursuing a JD at Yale Law School. I intend to ultimately pursue a PhD in philosophy to supplement the JD, exploring the role of responsibility and freedom in both criminal law and moral theory

I am excited to be furthering my studies at Cambridge this year with an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development. My research for my honours thesis involved addressing renewable energy options for the State of Victoria. I explored the potential for Victoria to become carbon neutral by harnessing its natural resources, such as wind and solar energy. I presented a paper on my research at the ISPRS/IGU Joint Conference in Hong Kong, 2010. I undertook a student exchange to Lund University, Sweden, where I witnessed a socially and environmentally effective approach to transport and urbanisation. Prior to coming to Cambridge, I was working as an engineer for VicRoads, where I was involved in major infrastructure development including construction of a major bridge, incorporating road, rail and river networks. I seek to help transform trends in urbanisation and transport through sustainable development. I am eager to commence my studies and become involved in life at Cambridge.