CLARE ALUMNI - Key Persons
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- Assistant Professor, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice ( Part IB and
Andrew Holmes held an academic position in Cambridge for 32 years, ultimately as Director of the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis and Professor of Organic and Polymer Chemistry. In 2004 he moved as an ARC Federation Fellow to the University of Melbourne and CSIRO. His research interests involve applications of synthesis to materials science and biology. He has made extensive contributions in the area of light emitting and photovoltaic devices, and co-founded Cambridge Display Technology to exploit the technology. He subsequently became a CSIRO Fellow, a University of Melbourne Laureate Professor, Distinguished Research Fellow at Imperial College and was the Newton Abraham Visiting Professor, University of Oxford in 2011-12. In May, 2000 he was elected FRS. He was elected FAA in March 2006 and FTSE in November 2006. He was President of the Australian Academy of Science (2014-2018).
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- History
- Professor of American History
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- Emeritus Professor of Combinatorial Mathematics
- Mathematics
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- Engineering
- Engineering, Environment and Sustainable Development
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- Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics
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- Research Associate in Economic Geology at the Dept.
Charles Beard is Research Associate in Economic Geology at the Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge. His research centres on the geodynamic and magmatic controls on the mineralisation of raw materials critical for renewable energy infrastructure. Application of a systems approach, and the integration of field, experimental, and theoretical studies aims to streamline exploration efforts, and ultimately facilitate the green transition.
In Cambridge, he works closely with Owen Weller (Sidney Sussex) and Caroline Soderman (Selwyn), as part of the UKRI Future Leader's Fellowship project "A process-based understanding of rare-earth element deposits".
Charlie holds a PhD from McGill University, Canada (2018) and an MSci completed at the University of Bristol, UK, and the University of British Columbia, Canada (2012). He has worked on academic and commercial projects at the British Geological Survey, the Geological Survey of Canada, Université Grenoble Alpes, the University of Brighton and Sisprobe SAS, a French geophysical services company.
Daniel Blaze started playing the organ at All Saints Church where he spent two years as organ scholar accompanying the choir and playing voluntaries on the famous Frobenius organ. He then spent a gap year as the Organ Scholar for both Sherborne Abbey and Sherborne School, playing for services in the Abbey for both the Abbey choir and Sherborne
School's choirs. As Organ Scholar at Clare, he has played for a broadcast Epiphany carol service, and has accompanied the Choir in venues in the Netherlands, the United States, and various locations in England. On top of the organ, Daniel is a keen singer, directing and singing with Lady Clare's Consort, and Cantus Byrdus. He is also a busy horn player, having performed with many orchestras in Cambridge, including the Cambridge University Orchestra, as well as performing chamber music as part of the Instrumental Award Scheme.
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- Director of Studies for Parts IA
Darren is Director of Studies for Parts IA and II Law Tripos and the LLM.
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- Finance & Financial History
- Professor of Financial History
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- Woodwardian Professor of Geology
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- Professor of Land Economy
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- David Rowitch Professor of Paediatrics ( Clinical )
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- Professor of Philosophy at the University
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- Director of Studies
- Classics
Dorothy J. Thompson joined Clare as Lecturer and Director of Studies in Classics in January 1973 and on retirement in 2006 was elected to a Bye-Fellowship. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary President of the International Society of Papyrologists. As an ancient historian, she works mainly on Hellenistic Egypt when, following Alexander's conquest, the country was ruled by Greek pharaohs and papyri illuminate relations between the different sectors of society. She has written several books and other studies on this period. The second edition of her prize-winning Memphis under the Ptolemies was published by Princeton University Press in 2012. Several books later she continues her work, if at a somewhat slower pace than before.
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- Dean
- Douglas Hedley Professor of the Philosophy of Religion
- Professor of the Philosophy of Religion
Dr Qi Guo lectures and supervise students in epidemiology, biostatistics and genetics. She is passionate about health data science and keen to explore new interdisciplinary areas and formulate novel insight into the human biology. Dr Guo is particularly interested in using human genetics and machine learning to inform drug discovery, biomarker development and precision medicine. She actively contributes to the research community by serving as editor and reviewer for a number of peer reviewed journals.
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- Insect Ecology and Curator of Insects in Museum of Zoology
Biography
Quentin comes from Toulouse in France where he did a Masters in Fluid Dynamics. He then proceeded to do a PhD in CERFACS, still in Toulouse, on "Analysis and reduction of chemical kinetics for combustion applications", completed in July 2021. This was followed by a first postdoc at the same lab working on the numerical simulation of different fuels such as hydrogen, kerosene, SAF or ammonia.
He arrived in the UK in October 2023 to work under the supervision of Professor Epaminondas Mastorakos on several aspects of combustion numerical simulation, including dual-fuel flames or hydrogen combustion.
His interests are broadly the numerical simulation of the new fuels and combustion systems to allow further mitigation of human-emissions in a context of sustainable energy usage
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- Associate Professor, Manuscript Studies
Eva Koch is an evolutionary biologist interested in the genetic basis and mechanisms of adaptation. She is currently a postdoc in Chris Jiggins' group at the Department of Zoology. Eva obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Zurich, where she investigated the role of gene expression in adaptation to new climate conditions. She was then a postdoc at the University of Sheffield, studying the contribution of chromosomal inversions to ecotype evolution. Her current work focuses on a colour polymorphism in the wood tiger moth and explores how and why it is maintained.
Evie Perfect spent her gap year as Organ Scholar at Hereford Cathedral and is currently studying Music. After starting to learn the organ with Adrian Partington when she was 13, she became the Organist at St George's Church, Brockworth and subsequently was the Junior Organ Scholar at Gloucester Cathedral. At A level she enjoyed studying Maths, Physics and Music, and combined these interests by writing a paper on the development of temperament. Although primarily an organist, Evie also sings regularly and was the inaugural head girl chorister at Gloucester Cathedral. She is also a ‘cellist and played in the Gloucester Youth Chamber Orchestra, during which time she took part in a virtual recording of the Egmont Overture by Beethoven during the pandemic. She currently studies with Gerdi Troskie and enjoys playing a wide range of musical styles from Bach to Hakim. Her ultimate aim is to become a Cathedral organist in the future.
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- Professor of Economics and Public Policy
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- Associate Professor, English ( Part IB )
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- Mathematics & Natural
- Professor of Mathematical Astrophysics
Graham Ross oversees all practical music-making in the College, teaches conducting on the MMus Course and supervises for the Music Tripos. He has established an exceptional reputation as a sought-after conductor and composer of a very broad range of repertoire. His performances around the world and his extensive discography have earned consistently high international praise, including a Diapason d'Or, Le Choix de France Musique and a Gramophone Award nomination. He is Principal Conductor/co-founder of The Dmitri Ensemble, and, since 2010, Fellow and Director of Music at Clare College, Cambridge. In demand as a regular guest conductor in the UK and abroad, his recent collaborations have included the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Aalborg Symfoniorkester, Australian Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Salomon Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra and Haydn Chamber Orchestra. In recent seasons his work has taken him to Sydney Opera House, Washington's Library of Congress, Notre Dame Cathedral, Palestine, Asia and throughout Europe. He has conducted many world première performances and recordings, including works by James MacMillan, Judith Bingham, Giles Swayne, Imogen Holst, Nico Muhly, Brett Dean, Gabriel Jackson, John Rutter, Matthew Martin. He may be contacted on gr267@cam.ac.uk or tel.: +44 (0)1223 333264.
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- Associate Professor, Human Evolutionary Genetics and Bioinformatics
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- Student in New Testament Theology
Hannah Fytche is a PhD student in New Testament Theology, researching the image of ‘the body of Christ' and how this helps us to understand individual and community identities.
Hannah has been a part of the Clare Chapel community since coming up to Cambridge in 2015. Following four years as a student here, Hannah worked full-time for St Andrew's Church, Chesterton, before returning to Clare to begin her PhD in 2021. Chapel life is a constant joy to her, providing beauty, rest and friendship through all the ups and downs of a Cambridge term. She loves that people with different backgrounds and experiences can all come together and make this Chapel their community.
Alongside study, Hannah loves the occasional crafternoon (‘craft afternoon'!), exploring the Cambridgeshire countryside, and reading good books. As Decani Scholar, Hannah is available to students for a chat at any time and can be contacted on hrf24@cam.ac.uk
Harry Elliot is responsible for all the Choir's external engagements.
Harry is a bass-baritone who grew up in North London and discovered his passion for choral music at Highgate School. After completing his ARSM Diploma in Singing, he went on to gain a Choral Scholarship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he also read maths as an undergraduate for three years, graduating last June.
During this time, he performed with various ensembles alongside Caius Choir-including Caius Men and the University Chamber Choir-in addition to singing principal roles in a variety of opera productions. From the Baroque passion of Handel's Rodelinda to the quaint comedy of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, Harry's stage experience has afforded him myriad opportunities to develop his performance skills.
Among these ensembles, one stood out particularly for Harry, namely the Cambridge Early Music Consort. There, he discovered a passion for early music-one which he has explored further this year with the Bruegel Consort, a Cambridge-based early music vocal ensemble.
However, Harry has not eschewed his Anglican choral pursuits, and enjoys singing regular services with both Clare Choir and St. John's Voices. He also enjoys playing piano, flute and clarinet in his spare time.
Harry can be contacted at he287@cam.
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- Professor of Cellular and Molecular Biology
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- Professor of Political Economy
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- Professor of Italian, History of Linguistics, and Women 's Studies ( Part II and Year Abroad )
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- Professor of Molecular Pharmacology
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- Emeritus Professor of Plant Ecology
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- Emeritus Professor of the History of Russia and the Caucasus ( Part II )
- History
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- Engineering
- Professor of Control Engineering, Engineering ( Part IIA and IIB )
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- Senior Tutor and Professor of Medieval English and Scots
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- Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise
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- Member of the International Reformed / Anglican Dialogue
Biography
The Reverend Dr Jamie Hawkey is Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey, and Chair of the Westminster Abbey Institute. He is a Chaplain to HM The King, having first been appointed a Chaplain to HM Queen Elizabeth II in 2017. Canon Hawkey is also a Bye-Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and a Visiting Professor in Theology at King's College, London. Born and educated in Sussex, he read theology at Cambridge, before proceeding to the MPhil and PhD degrees as a Gosden Scholar of Selwyn College.
Ordained deacon in 2007, and priest in 2008, much of his current teaching and research is in ecclesiology and ecumenical theology. He trained for the priesthood at Westcott House, spent a semester at the Angelicum University in Rome, and served his curacy in inner-city Portsmouth, at St Mary's Portsea. He was appointed Minor Canon and Sacrist of Westminster Abbey in 2010, becoming Precentor in December 2013. In 2015, he was appointed Dean and Director of Studies in Theology at Clare College, Cambridge, where he taught both undergraduates and postgraduates for the Cambridge Divinity Faculty and Theological Federation. Alongside work in Cambridge, he became assistant Director of Ordinands for the Diocese of Ely in 2016.
Dr Hawkey has been a member of the International Reformed/Anglican Dialogue, and continues to work with the Malines Conversations Group. His commentary on the latest agreed statement of the Anglican/Roman Catholic International Commission was published by SPCK in 2018, and current projects include further writing on ecclesiology and ecumenism. Amongst other commitments, Dr Hawkey is a member of the Church of England's Faith and Order Commission, a Governor of the Anglican Centre in Rome, an advisor to the Center for Empathy in International Affairs, a member of the Church of England's Estates Theology Group, and of the Editorial Advisory Board for the International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church. For the academic year 2022/23, he will be a Professore Invitato in the Faculty of Theology at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana in Rome.
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- Professor of Molecular Oncology ( Biological: IA, IB )
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- Professor of Pathophysiology ( Pre - Clinical ) Nicola Holdstock
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- Elizabeth Foyster College Lecturer ( Prelims and Part I )
- History
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- Professor of Law and Environmental Policy / Law
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- Associate Professor, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
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- Associate Professor, Public Law
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- Associate Professor, Phonetics
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- Emeritus Professor of Computational Logic
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- Mathematics
- Professor of Mathematical Physics Senior College Teaching Officer
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- Dean
- Douglas Hedley Professor of the Philosophy of Religion
The Rev'd Dr Mark Smith is responsible for the life of the College Chapel, and has a pastoral role among all members of the College community. He is also Clare's Director of Studies in Theology, and a College Tutor. Mark is a priest of the Church of England and was himself a student at Cambridge, reading History at Peterhouse. He lectures in patristics at the Faculty of Divinity, and his academic research focuses on the history and doctrine of the fourth and fifth centuries. Mark is married to Phillippa, and they have two young daughters. In his spare time, Mark enjoys playing cricket, snooker and pool. His rooms are in E3 (Old Court), and he can be contacted on mss53@cam.
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- Sheila Kohring Manager of the Material Culture Laboratory, Division of Archaeology
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- Associate Professor, Economics ( Part IIB )
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- David Rowitch Professor of Paediatrics ( Clinical )
Biography
Nazia is a cognitive neuroscientist interested in how humans perceive, learn, and make decisions in different environmental contexts, and how this may relate to mental health in different populations.
She is based at Professor Rebecca Lawson's Prediction and Learning Lab at the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. In 2022, Nazia was awarded a Parke-Davis Fellowship to visit the Psychiatry, Embodiment, and Cognition Lab headed by Professor Frederike Petzschner at the Carney Institute of Brain Sciences, Brown University, USA.
Prior this, she completed a PhD (2022) on the neuroscience of visual perception in autism at the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, with Professor John Suckling and Professor Simon Baron-Cohen. Her PhD was funded by the April Trust Studentship at Newnham College.
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- Emeritus Professor of Civil Justice and Private Law
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- Director of Studies for Architecture
- Research Associate in Architectural Fluid Dynamics at the Department of Engineering
Nick is a Research Associate in Architectural Fluid Dynamics at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.
Nicholas is Director of Studies for Architecture and an Affiliate Lecturer in the Department of Architecture. He is Chair of History and Theory at the Architectural Association and was formerly Assistant Professor of Global Urban Studies in Cambridge. He is an ethnographer and architect who combines economic anthropology and legal geography to understand how people repurpose planned cities, with a focus on property rights and citizenship. He has extensive field work experience in Cairo and Medellin, as well as in Mexico City, Doha, and Beirut. Nicholas develops original research methods to assess the plausibility of experimental planning policies, combining social science and speculative design.
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- Professor of Comparative Cognition Psychology / Theology
- Psychology
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- Professor of Pathophysiology ( Pre - Clinical ) Nicola Holdstock
Ole Nielsen received his PhD from MIT in Electrical Engineering in 2006. Since then, he has been working as a Research Engineer at Bose Corporation, specialising in Active Noise Reduction (ANR), at the intersection of Controls and Acoustics. Since 2016 he has been an Embedded Researcher at the Department of Engineering, working on collaborative projects between Bose and the Department. He has been supervising first year Electrical and Information Engineering at Clare since 2018.
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- Professor of Natural Philosophy
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- Regius Professor of Botany
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- History & Philosophy of Science
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- Professor of Health Neuroscience ( Pre - Clinical, Parts IB and II )
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- Professor of Cancer Development ( Part IA )
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- Senior Language Teaching Officer in Arabic
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- Professor of Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry
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- Physics
- Professor of Quantum Physics
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- Professor of the Spanish Golden Age and Colonial Studies ( Part IB )
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- Professor of Computational and Molecular Biophysics ( Physical: IA, IB )
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- Professor of Optoelectronics, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
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- Assistant Professor, Centre for Development Studies
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- Mathematics
- Professor of Mathematical Physics ( Part IA )
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- Sheila Kohring Manager of the Material Culture Laboratory, Division of Archaeology
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- Professor of Social Anthropology ( Social Anthropology Part IIA and Part IIB )
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- Senior College Teaching Officer ( Part II )
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- Professor of Philosophy of Science
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- Associate Professor, French
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- Teaching Associate in Philosophy of Science
Psychological and Behavioural Sciences (PBS)
Rebecca Lawson Professor of Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry
Nicola Clayton Professor of Comparative Cognition Psychology
Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion
Mark Smith Dean
Douglas Hedley Professor of the Philosophy of Religion
Veterinary Medicine
John Gibson Professor of Pathophysiology (Pre-clinical)
Nicola Holdstock Associate Professor, Veterinary Science (Clinical)
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- Engineering
- Professor of Information Engineering ( Part IA )
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- Emeritus Professor of Anatomy