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I pursued the Mphil in Epidemiology at Cambridge University as a Gates Scholar and I am now doing my MBA at CEU. I am an epidemiologist by training with extensive work experience with the pharmaceutical companies, IQVIA, the World Bank Group, CDC, patient organizations, and NGOs from the U.S., Eastern, and Western Europe.
In the past, I was a consultant with the World Bank Group, the world-leading development organization, and later with IQVIA, the world's leading pharmaceutical consulting firm. Overall, I have ten years of multidisciplinary project management, sales, and marketing experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare fields. I was in charge of leading product development from its official launch to exiting the market. Specialties: strategy development, project management, stakeholder management, financial analysis.

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I am Professor of Politics and Gender and Director of the Gender Institute at Royal Holloway University of London

I am a biologist interested in how technology can be used to create healthier systems. From my experience of growing up in West Africa, I have been concerned about health systems in my country Nigeria and how they operate. More people die every year from preventable and treatable diseases than of terminal illnesses, and a good number of these diseases are hereditary. This influenced my study of genomic medicine in the University of Cambridge where I conducted research on personalised medicine as a more sustainable approach to medicine for developing countries. I now run a startup that provides personalized medicine services in Nigeria.

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https://utogenx.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkpoutopius

For as long as I can remember, my life has been enriched by the study and performance of music. For the past three years I have directed a large high school choral music program in North Carolina. During that time, I have seen the power of choral music to stimulate and transform others. I am dedicated to inspiring my students’ realization of this transformative power, and endeavor to illustrate that music is an improvement on life itself. The M.Mus. in Choral Studies at Cambridge will provide a unique intellectual and musical training—one that will allow me to expand my reach to the global community. Cambridge offers a diverse approach to training choral musicians that will provide me with the experience necessary to more effectively work with students on a global level and to make music of the highest caliber. I am excited to immerse myself in a culture that places such a high value on choral music and music education, steeped in a timeless tradition that has thrived for centuries.

I was born in Warsaw, but grew up in the States. In 2008, I graduated from Princeton where I majored in Operations Research and Financial Engineering.

I was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. As an only child, reading was a crucial source of entertainment, and a uniquely important channel to other cultures and ideas. It was therefore natural for me to study English at university. I completed my BA(Hons) and MA at Victoria University of Wellington. For my Master's thesis I produced a scholarly edition of 'The Urewera Notebook', a diary kept by the writer Katherine Mansfield in 1907, while she was camping in remote parts of New Zealand. For this project I carried out extensive research amongst local Maori communities and my thesis was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2015. For the first time my academic writing reached a broad, international readership. This experience confirmed my desire to produce critical editions and literary criticism relevant to the popular as well as to the academic reader. The name Samuel Butler hovered at the edges of my consciousness as a child; he was a writer who farmed inland from Christchurch from 1859-1864. I became more interested in Butler while studying Mansfield; it struck me that the works of both writers offered perspectives on the cultural ‘pull’ of Empire, albeit through different eras and patterns of emigration and relocation. At Cambridge I aim to study Butler's satirical novel 'Erewhon', in order to consider its indebtedness to Butler's colonial experience, and to shed light on a period of New Zealand literary history that has been obscured in recent decades.

Previous Education

Victoria University of Wellington

I am a trauma therapist and researcher from Toronto, Canada, committed to improving mental health care for underserved and vulnerable populations. I have supported individuals navigating some of the most painful and complex chapters of their lives, including those affected by trauma, loss, and adversity. I hold an MSc in Clinical Psychology from Leiden University, and at Cambridge, my PhD research will focus on developing and evaluating a trauma intervention for very young children with PTSD—a population for whom no clinical guidelines currently exist. By creating scalable, evidence-based treatments, my work aims to close a critical gap in early childhood mental health and make effective care more globally accessible. I believe research can be a force for healing, equity, and systemic change, and I am honoured to join the Gates Cambridge community of scholars working to improve lives through inquiry, compassion, and service.

Previous Education

York University Psychology
Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (Leiden Univ) Psychology

In addition to all the others, the challenge of generating accessible and ecologically sustainable energy is paramount in today's world. Developing economically scalable solar cell technology is the ideal answer to this challenge. This year, I plan on studying crystals of small organic molecules in the hope of creating a new, efficient and cheap photovoltaic. I want to take the best of both currently active areas of solar energy research: the stability and efficiency of traditional crystal technology, and the low cost and flexibility of organics.

With increasing global food demands, chronic hunger and coinciding crop damages, food security is an important issue that requires the attention from all corners of the world. Crop availability is constantly being challenged by multiple factors, including, but not limited to, environmental impact, pests, and pathogens. My current interest in promoting food security largely developed out of my MSc work on cassava, a staple food for Sub-Saharan Africans. As I pursue my PhD studies at Cambridge, I aim to better understand how plants could increase their resistance to pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, and fungi. Plants have defence mechanisms that counter the attacks imposed by the aforementioned pathogens. However, the exact methods employed by various plants are not entirely known up to date. Additionally, I hope to work at the interface between the scientific community and the public, by using my scientific knowledge and bridging the gap between the two communities.

Since completing my B.A. in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, my research and nonprofit work has focused on developing ecosystem-based solutions that address environmental, economic, and sociocultural issues in tandem while promoting the well-being of the environment and Indigenous communities. At Cambridge, I will work with the BEFTA Programme to investigate management strategies that support biodiversity and ecosystem processes in Malaysian oil palm plantations. Working alongside local farmers, we aim to develop oil palm agricultural management systems that are the most effective in buffering pollination services against potential climate fluctuations brought about by climate change. The resulting management solutions will provide the greatest economic and social benefits for these local communities while minimizing environmental costs. I am incredibly grateful and privileged to become part of the Gates Cambridge Network and join a community of inspiring scholars who are dedicated to improving the lives of others. I look forward to collaborating with fellow Gates scholars to develop innovative, cross-disciplinary strategies that address the greatest environmental and social issues facing our world today.

Previous Education

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Evolutionary Biology 2015
Universite de Montpellier II - ISIM Evolutionary Biology 2015
Harvard University

In Cambridge I read for the Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics (Part III). Having studied theoretical physics in Ukraine and the Netherlands, and worked as a Marie-Curie researcher in Orsay, France, I plan to expand my knowledge in probability theory, which became especially important for physicists with the invention of Stochastic Loewner Evolution (SLE, Fields Medal 2006 to W. Werner).

I grew up in Ogbomoso, Nigeria and attended Ladoke Akintola University of Technology where I completed a BTech degree in Chemistry. As an undergraduate in Prof Olugbenga Bello’s lab, I synthesized activated carbon from agricultural wastes to remove endocrine disrupting chemicals from wastewater. I also developed a machine learning model that predicts the adsorption efficiency of activated carbon. My passion to solve real-world problem made climate change a fascinating topic for my MPhil degree in Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. For this degree, I was awarded Mastercard Foundation scholarship to study the properties of materials for carbon capture at atomic scale in Prof Angelos Michaelides’ group. In my PhD research, I will use state-of-the-art computer simulation approaches to discover and understand the properties of next-generation materials for carbon capture. This work will contribute to climate change mitigation and clean energy transition. I am immensely grateful to have been selected for this prestigious scholarship. With the enriching networks and the opportunities that the scholarship provides, I hope to make a valuable contribution to the Gates Cambridge community and the world at large.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Chemistry 2023
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Chemistry 2020

It is an honor to have received a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Pursuing a PhD at Cambridge is a wonderful experience and it was a joy to meet and work with such a diverse and passionate group of people. My doctoral dissertation involved using a range of techniques, from classical anatomy to finite element modeling, to better understand diet and feeding in early plant-eating dinosaurs. My research identified key evolutionary changes in skull and tooth shape among early dinosaurs that allowed them to exploit new food sources and fueled their extraordinary success.

After a series of postdoctoral positions, I am now a lecturer in anatomy at UCL, teaching first and second year medical students and carrying out research in evolutionary biomechanics, investigating the link between form, function and large-scale evolutionary patterns in vertebrates.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge MPhil Earth Sciences 2005
University of Illinois at Chicago