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Pandula Athauda-Arachchi

  • Alumni
  • Sri Lanka
  • 2003 PhD Brain Repair
  • Selwyn College
Pandula Athauda-Arachchi

Pandula Athauda-Arachchi

  • Alumni
  • Sri Lanka
  • 2003 PhD Brain Repair
  • Selwyn College

Emad Atiq

  • Alumni
  • Pakistan
  • 2009 MPhil Philosophy
  • Trinity College
Emad Atiq

Emad Atiq

  • Alumni
  • Pakistan
  • 2009 MPhil Philosophy
  • Trinity College

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

Sophie Atkinson

  • Alumni
  • Australia
  • 2011 MPhil Engineering for Sustainable Development
  • Jesus College
Sophie Atkinson

Sophie Atkinson

  • Alumni
  • Australia
  • 2011 MPhil Engineering for Sustainable Development
  • Jesus College

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.

Chiara Avancini

  • Alumni
  • Italy
  • 2014 PhD Psychology
  • Newnham College
Chiara Avancini

Chiara Avancini

  • Alumni
  • Italy
  • 2014 PhD Psychology
  • Newnham College

I was born and raised in a village among the beautiful Dolomiti Mountains near the city of Trento, but I studied at the University of Padova where I obtained a BA in Psychology and an MA in Clinical Psychology. During my studies, I developed an interest in difficulties experienced during schooling and in the electrophysiology of mathematical cognition. My PhD research at the Centre for Neuroscience in Education will be at the confluence of these two interests. I will study the characteristics of the physiological reactions of students experiencing high anxiety in relation to mathematics. In particular, I will focus on gender differences and I will assess whether biofeedback techniques can be used to overcome such a difficulty. At university I taught Italian to immigrants through charities, motivated by the firm belief that learning how to speak the local language is the first step that helps in the process of integration.

Links

https://sites.google.com/site/peelenlab
http://www.cne.psychol.cam.ac.uk

Aliya Bagewadi

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2015 MPhil Land Economy Research
  • St John's College
Aliya Bagewadi

Aliya Bagewadi

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2015 MPhil Land Economy Research
  • St John's College

As a scholar, my research explored the US and EU's divergent regulatory policies on agricultural biotechnologies and its impact on the trade and regulatory schemes of food scarce regions in Southeast Asia. Prior to Cambridge, I worked in Southeast Asia on rural development projects. I am enormously grateful for having had the opportunity to learn from and become friends with generous, hard-working, and dynamic students from around the world through this scholarship. It's always a pleasure to give back to this community, so please feel free to let me know if I can be of any support to you.

Previous Education

University of Chicago

Links

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/aliya-bagewadi-1a954012

Yu Bai

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2019 MPhil Architecture and Urban Studies
  • Hughes Hall
Yu Bai

Yu Bai

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2019 MPhil Architecture and Urban Studies
  • Hughes Hall

I’m a biologist with a deep affinity for design. Growing up in Zhengzhou and Los Angeles, both cities plagued by smog, I became keenly concerned about climate change and those who suffer its numerous consequences. As a student of biology at Georgetown University, I’ve witnessed unprecedented melting of the Greenlandic Ice Sheet and studied thriving microbial communities in the extreme cold of Antarctica. In this era of climate urgency, I’m convinced that knowledge of biology can help us build diverse, productive, and resilient human habitats. I bring this conviction to Cambridge, where I will study how people interact with bio-designed technologies, architecture, and landscapes in order to understand how designers, architects, and planners can create truly sustainable — and dignified — cities.

Previous Education

Georgetown University Scientiae Baccalaureus Biology 2017

Chiraag Bains

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2003 MPhil Criminological Research
  • King's College
Chiraag Bains

Chiraag Bains

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2003 MPhil Criminological Research
  • King's College

Rishabh Bajoria

  • Scholar
  • India
  • 2021 PhD Law
  • King's College
Rishabh Bajoria

Rishabh Bajoria

  • Scholar
  • India
  • 2021 PhD Law
  • King's College

In 2017, I worked with the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), Srinagar, where I drafted an International Law manual on Enforced Disappearances. Participating in APDP’s engagements with the OHCHR taught me about the potential of international legal institutions. However, the everyday experience of observing a state against a society reinforced the explanatory limits of purely doctrinal legal scholarship. This was a transformative experience. These encounters combined with my time at Jindal Law School and the University of Melbourne have motivated and equipped me to pursue a doctoral project interrogating the historical trajectories of international law through the Indus Waters Treaty, 1960. The Treaty, signed by India, Pakistan and the World Bank, divides access to the waters of the lucrative Indus basin flowing through the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir. Both states claim ownership over Kashmir but neither involved Kashmiri voices while dividing waters crucial to socio-cultural lives in the Valley. This project will reflect my continued political and scholarly commitment to interrogating large historiographical questions by taking the lives and aspirations of ordinary people -Kashmiris- seriously.

Michael Baker

  • Scholar
  • United States
  • 2023 MPhil Medical Science (Clinical Neuroscience)
  • Trinity Hall
Michael Baker

Michael Baker

  • Scholar
  • United States
  • 2023 MPhil Medical Science (Clinical Neuroscience)
  • Trinity Hall

After transferring from Schreyer Honors College at PSU to University of Pittsburgh for a neuroscience degree, I helped investigate biomarkers for psychosis by processing auditory evoked potentials and brain imaging. I later conducted biochemical research on synaptic protein interaction in learning and memory formation. These experiences prepared me for the data driven, neurochemical nature of my MPhil with Mr. Adel Helmy, inspired by observing surgeries and volunteering on hospital floors with patients being treated for nervous system injuries of varying severity; I questioned the impact of neuroinflammation on outcomes. Insight into neurotrauma is urgent because of the expected increase in its global incidence and it being one of the most abrupt causes of significant disability despite preventability and treatability. My aims are to use data from the largest cerebral microdialysis-monitored cohort to elucidate post-TBI correlations between brain metabolites and outcomes to guide intervention preventing inflammation and deterioration and to progress resource-stratified clinical guidelines for neurotrauma in low- and middle-income countries where there is threefold the incidence of TBI and associated mortality.

Liliya Bakiyeva

  • Alumni
  • Kazakhstan
  • 2001 MSc Surgery
  • Murray Edwards College (New Hall)
Liliya Bakiyeva

Liliya Bakiyeva

  • Alumni
  • Kazakhstan
  • 2001 MSc Surgery
  • Murray Edwards College (New Hall)

Louis Ballezzi

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2003 MPhil BioScience Enterprise
  • Churchill College
Louis Ballezzi

Louis Ballezzi

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2003 MPhil BioScience Enterprise
  • Churchill College

Justin Bangs

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2006 MPhil Social Environmental Development
  • St Catharine's College
Justin Bangs

Justin Bangs

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2006 MPhil Social Environmental Development
  • St Catharine's College

Felix Barber

  • Alumni
  • New Zealand
  • 2013 MASt Applied Mathematics
  • Trinity Hall
Felix Barber

Felix Barber

  • Alumni
  • New Zealand
  • 2013 MASt Applied Mathematics
  • Trinity Hall

I was raised in New Zealand, and studied science at university with the goal of doing research in condensed matter physics. During my time at Cambridge I completed part iii of the mathematics tripos, and exposure to a broad range of research topics led me to pursue a career studying living systems from a physics based perspective. For my doctoral work I am studying microbial growth, and am excited to be a part of the burgeoning field of quantitative biology.

Nicholas Barber

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2018 PhD Earth Sciences
  • Churchill College
Nicholas Barber

Nicholas Barber

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2018 PhD Earth Sciences
  • Churchill College

I spent my childhood outdoors, digging up every rock I could find and exploring the mountains of south-eastern Pennsylvania. These experiences grew into a lifelong desire to understand the most basic processes that shape the earth. As an undergraduate, I have conducted research on a variety of related topics, from sea level rise to a more recent gas monitoring study of geothermal features at Yellowstone National Park. As a 2016-18 Hollings Scholar, I interned with a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research team to model seafloor deformation leading up the 2015 eruption of Axial Seamount in the Northeast Pacific. From 2015 through 2018, I have worked to reassess the structure, scale, and environmental impact of the Deccan Traps, an extinct volcanic province in western India. During my PhD I will seek to explain the systematic behaviour of trace metals in active volcanic systems. This model will synthesize existing trace metal emissions data with novel field and laboratory techniques. The aim of this project is to further our understanding of ore body development and the impact of volcanic emissions on human health. This work also has the potential to provide new tools monitoring agencies can use to forecast eruptions. I am incredibly honoured to receive the prestigious Gates Cambridge scholarship, and I look forward to drawing on the diverse perspectives of my fellow scholars as I work to safeguard volcanically-threatened populations.

Previous Education

Drexel University

Daniel Barcia

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2015 MPhil International Relations & Pols
  • Sidney Sussex College
Daniel Barcia

Daniel Barcia

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2015 MPhil International Relations & Pols
  • Sidney Sussex College

Previous Education

Harvard University

David Bard

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2003 MPhil Economics & Development
  • Christ's College
David Bard

David Bard

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2003 MPhil Economics & Development
  • Christ's College

Previous Education

University of Pennsylvania BAS Int'l Econ & Fin Systems Engineering, BSE Finance Statistics 2002

Anis Barmada

  • Alumni
  • Syrian Arab Republic, Canada
  • 2020 MPhil Genomic Medicine
  • Clare College
Anis Barmada

Anis Barmada

  • Alumni
  • Syrian Arab Republic, Canada
  • 2020 MPhil Genomic Medicine
  • Clare College

Growing up in Damascus, Syria, I immigrated to the United States when I was seventeen in September 2015. Completing my senior year at Wheeling High School in the U.S., I enrolled at UIC pursuing a bachelor's degree with a double major in biology and chemistry and minor in mathematics. I was fascinated by the immense potential in developing novel analytical chemical and mathematical tools to solve pressing biomedical problems. Starting my first year of college, I have conducted research on diabetic eye disease while volunteering at an ophthalmology clinic to serve patients of the same life-changing, blindness-causing disease conditions. Through these experiences, I found an articulation of my interests in patient-driven research that considers both the biochemical and socioeconomic lenses. Through the MPhil in Genomic Medicine at Cambridge, I hope to visualize the molecular, analytical, statistical, social, and clinical challenges facing the use of omics-based personalized medicine across everyday clinics. Professionally, I intend to pursue an M.D./Ph.D. advancing biochemical and computational technologies to address currently incurable diseases, and contributing to the crafting of a new era of healthcare without disparities.

Previous Education

University of Illinois-Chicago Biology and Chemistry 2020

Lina Barrera

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2002 MPhil Environment & Development
  • Trinity Hall
Lina Barrera

Lina Barrera

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2002 MPhil Environment & Development
  • Trinity Hall

My experiences travelling between my native country of Colombia and the United States have made me distinctly aware of the inequalities among different countries. These experiences combined with my interest in the natural environment have formed the foundation of my interest in the field of development and environment. I hope that my research at Cambridge will provide me with the tools to influence development patterns so that they become more environmentally and socially responsible.