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As a Gates Scholar, I received my MPhil in Criminological Research in 2011 from the University of Cambridge. In 2015, I received my Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania.

I am currently an assistant professor in the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. My research examines biological risk factors for antisocial behavior, aggression, and psychopathy. My primary focus is on psychophysiological, nutritional, and hormonal risk factors for antisocial behavior.

While most criminological research is either social or biological, my work contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the development of delinquency that takes into account factors across multiple levels of measurement. This research will help practitioners to develop more effective crime prevention strategies that address multiple risk domains.

Author of the award-winning book, "Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew," freely available here: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0271

Previous Education

University of Chicago

Links

https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-nick-posegay
https://cambridge.academia.edu/NickPosegay

I completed my MPhil in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies at the Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies in 2015/16. My research focused on the ways young women use online technologies to engage in feminist thought and action and explored how these online practices are affecting feminist political progress.

I now work in Australia as Senior Social Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister, the Hon Anthony Albanese MP.

Prior to coming to Cambridge I worked as a Social Policy Advisor at the Australian Treasury, specialising in schools policy, early childhood education and care and parental leave policy.

Previously I worked as research manager for the global food and water security program run at Australian public policy think tank Future Directions International.

Previous Education

University of Western Australia

Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, I majored in Biochemistry with a minor in Data Science at the University of Notre Dame. During my undergraduate research, I became interested in identifying and developing novel cancer therapeutics to improve patient outcomes and quality of life. At the University of Cambridge, I will complete an MPhil in Medical Sciences for Oncology in Dr. Rebecca Fitzgerald’s group at the Early Cancer Institute. My project will use patient-derived organoids to identify key genes and explore potential therapeutic avenues in hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC). This research will provide a further understanding of the key molecular pathways driving this cancer to provide a better idea of how to slow or prevent the progression of HDGC. Engaging in this research, I aspire to contribute significantly to improving the prevention of HDGC and advance my scientific skill set throughout my predoctoral experience. I am honored to enter the esteemed Gates Cambridge Community and look forward to beginning my work.

Previous Education

University of Notre Dame Biochemistry

At Cambridge, I intend to pursue an MPhil in Development Studies, and in so doing return the focus of my career to anti-poverty work in the international arena. Equipped with the deeper knowledge of development theory and practice that I would gain from this interdisciplinary program, I hope to take on a leadership role in a non-governmental or multilateral development institution.

I am currently a Lecturer (assistant professor) Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York, UK. I studied in India, my home country, till 2009, when I completed a BA degree in English at Delhi University, Lady Shri Ram College. The same year I moved to Cambridge to pursue a BA (affiliated) degree in English at Lucy Cavendish College as a Gates Scholar (2009-11). I then completed a PhD in English, specializing in Victorian literature and aesthetics, at Rutgers University, New Jersey, and an MFA in Creative Writing at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Apart from scholarship and teaching, I enjoy reading (and writing) fiction, history, taking long walks, and trying to stuff as many activities in a London day as is possible. I am currently working on my first monograph (on details in Victorian literature and aesthetics) and my first novel.

Previous Education

Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi BA (Hons.) English 2009

Links

https://www.york.ac.uk/english/our-staff/pritikapradhan

I am a journalist in New York who writes on inequality, poverty, and social services. I'm currently a contributing writer to The California Sunday Magazine. I have also reported from Thailand, the Philippines, and Britain. At Cambridge, I studied for a master's in public policy, and previous to that, I graduated from Princeton University. My work has appeared in The California Sunday Magazine, The Guardian, The Independent, Harper’s online, and Politico, among others.

Previous Education

Princeton University Classics 2010

After completing my Ph.D. on the media coverage of DNA research between 1953 and 2003, I returned to medical school, completed a residency in Obstetrics & Gynecology and am currently completing a Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility

I am interested in exploring and identifying the basic principles governing the generation and the behaviour of energy and matter. During my time spent in Cambridge I hope to develop the skills I need to do research in theoretical physics leading to greater understanding of the basic laws of nature. I would also like to be part of the University's ifluential international alumni network and I think that being a Gates Scholar will help to accomplish this ambition.

During my undergraduate studies, I became fascinated by first statistics, and then, after an internship at a medical research institute, by the ability of statistics to contribute to fundamental research in biology. I completed a Bachelor of Science and then a Master of Science (Mathematics and Statistics) both at the University of Melbourne. In my MSc thesis, I critically compared statistical methods for selecting genes that distinguish biological cell-types in single-cell transcriptomics data. In my PhD research, I will aim to improve the statistical methodology used in genetic colocalisation analyses, with a particular focus on the ‘coloc’ software. Colocalisation analysis aims to determine whether multiple observed traits share an underlying genetic cause, with the aim of understanding how traits may mediate each other. By incorporating recent advances in our understanding of genetics into coloc’s statistical methodology, I hope to improve its performance for both fundamental genetics research and in drug discovery pipelines.It is a great honour to be joining the Gates Cambridge community, and I look forward to commencing my research at the MRC Biostatistics Unit, with the ultimate goal of improving the lives of others.

Previous Education

University of Melbourne Maths 2021
University of Melbourne Science 2019

As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago majoring in Chemistry, I identified art conservation as a field that brings together may love of scientific research and knowledge of art history. The work of conservation scientists often goes unseen, but is crucial to understanding and preserving works of art and culture for future generations. At Cambridge, I will work in Dr. Stephen Elliott's lab on the application of Raman Spectroscopy to non-destructive analysis of paint pigments. The goal of this work is to further our understanding of the technical and aesthetic choices of artists as well as the effects of previous restoration work done on paintings. In the course of my work, I hope to use the Hamilton Kerr Institute of easel painting conservation at Cambridge to learn more about the art historical side of this field as well. I also plan to explore the great hiking and used bookstore scene around Cambridge.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Physical chemistry 2020
University of Chicago Chemistry 2019

The ability to determine the detailed structures of macromolecules has always amazed me. In 7th grade, I was invited to participate in Project CRYSTAL, a program that pairs middle school students with PhD candidates to solve a protein structure using X-ray crystallography. I fell in love with X-ray crystallography again as an undergraduate student at Boston University and decided to specialize in structure-based drug discovery to contribute to the advancement of medicine. Outside of the lab, I also enjoyed sharing my passion for science with my community in the Greater Boston area. My experiences tutoring math and science in jails and prisons brought me out of the academia bubble and forced me to confront the impact of my research on marginalized groups. In the United States, high drug prices often prevent people from receiving their prescribed medications. During my PhD in Biochemistry, I plan to use protein structures to design novel therapeutics that restore muscle mass in patients with muscle atrophy disorders. My ultimate goal is to start my own pharmaceutical company modeled after Distributed Bio, which was launched without venture capital and can thus set affordable drug prices while remaining profitable.

Previous Education

Boston University Biotechnology 2021

My research spans architectural and urban studies with a focus on cities in the Global South. I am particularly interested in how urban space consolidates as a site of conflict during periods of political and cultural transformation.

My PhD dissertation 'Post-Arab Spring Tunis: Materializing Revolution in the City' was supervised by Prof Wendy Pullan. The work foregrounded the city, and not the state, in understanding revolutionary trajectories. Drawing on fieldwork in Tunis, it demonstrated how political and cultural sites of power in the city become contested as revolution continues and evolves. These contestations do not constitute a break from history, but rather its problematization, as imperial and colonial urban legacies are considered in a new light.

Prior to my PhD, I worked in architecture, planning and higher education in New York, London, ‫ Palestine and Doha.

Previous Education

University of Texas Austin
University College London

I am a researcher with interests in disaster management, sustainable architecture, accessible design, and disability justice. I completed my undergraduate education at Williams College (class of 2025), where I majored in geosciences with a concentration in coastal and ocean studies. My academic career is guided by a deep curiosity about design in extreme environments, including both physical extremes (climate change, natural hazards, resource scarcity, and geographic isolation) and social extremes (crisis and conflict zones, cultural marginalization, and economic disparity). My undergraduate thesis mapped the effects of inundation on critical infrastructure in hurricane-prone coastal Louisiana, raising questions about infrastructure resilience (or lack thereof) in disaster zones. My MPhil research will investigate the architectural evidence of disability in protracted displacement, focusing on how displaced disabled individuals adapt to “temporary” residences and resist spatial violence.As a Deaf and multiply disabled researcher, my lived experiences profoundly inform my work and my commitment to adaptive design solutions that challenge structural inaccessibility and disability exclusion.

Previous Education

Williams College Geosciences

After graduating from UCLA with an MA in Iranian Studies, I will be heading to Cambridge to work on Premodern Persian Literature. With my time as PhD student in Cambridge, I hope to examine the surprisingly diverse body of Persian and Arabic Medieval texts that deal with women's positions and capabilities within the field of Islamic mysticism, or Sufism. I am particularly interested in female "saint"-type figures (awliya), who find some parallels in the Christian tradition. I began studying Persian informally in 2005 and formally in 2007.

Functioning memory is one of the most crucial cognitive competences that shape who we as human beings are. This sparks my general interest in (long term) memory. Specifically, I am keen to know what aspects of a situation as well as of the past and future determine what we will remember later. I also want to understand what the mechanism(s) is/are behind this. This knowledge could help to develop interventions for those with problems in that domain. I completed my Bachelor’s and Master’s studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, with a semester abroad at the University of Nebraska – Omaha, USA, and a research visit at the University of California – Davis, USA, where I started my Master’s project on the tag-and-capture theory as the mechanism behind the memory enhancing effect of post-learning stress and reward anticipation. During my PhD at Cambridge University, UK, at the MRC CBU I plan to study the effect of schema-inconsistency (e.g. evoked by objects at unexpected locations) on memory performance and how this modulatory effect might change in the course of ageing. I am interested to know what forms of memory (e.g. associative or single item memory) are modulated by schema-inconsistency and how brain regions in the medial temporal lobe and medial prefrontal cortex interact in this context.

Previous Education

Ruhr-University Bochum

Links

https://jaquent.me