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Alexei Lapkin came to Cambridge University in 2013 as a Professor of Sustainable Reaction Engineering, a group that targets methods to speed-up the development and implementation of new chemical manufacturing processes that support the principles of sustainable development.
Alexei Lapkin studied chemistry at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and obtained a PhD degree at the University of Bath for his work on multifunctional catalytic reactors (under the supervision of late Professor W J Thomas). He joined Cambridge in 2013 as a Professor of Sustainable Reaction Engineering.
Alexei is an associate editor for the Chemical Engineering Journal. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Sustainable Chemistry Collaborative Centre (ISC3) and serves on the Advisory Board of the Global Entrepreneurship Centre (GEC). He is actively involved in Cambridge Centre for Advanced Research and Education in Singapore (CARES) where he runs projects funded by the National Research Foundation and Pharma Innovation Partnership in Singapore (PIPS). In the last few years, Alexei's research group created two start-up companies: Accelerated Materials Ltd and Chemical Data Intelligence (CDI) Ltd.
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Anna M Dempster is a Fellow at ��������. Her career spans both leading academic and cultural institutions, where her research interests in risk and uncertainty, trust and transparency and the creative process have been tried and tested in both theory and in practice.
Anna is a Fellow at �������� and sits on the Fine Arts Committee, informing the College's programme of exhibitions, events and acquisitions. She has regularly curated exhibitions for the College, including both notable solo shows of leading contemporary artists and innovative group exhibitions. She is a member of the College Development Committee and was elected onto College Council in 2019. She is currently working on a book on the cultural history of Memento Mori and Vanitas and their re-interpretation by leading contemporary artists.
She was previously Head of Academic Programmes at the Royal Academy of Arts, London where she developed and led a new and innovative portfolio of educational programmes, including public, private, and professional, short as well as long Courses and Classes, symposia, conferences and workshops - in subjects ranging from art practice (traditional and digital media), cultural and art history, as well as art business and management - with a sustained focus on the role of artists. She was responsible for a range of national and international partnerships including with leading museums, galleries and universities enabling institutional, academic and scholarly engagement, commercial enterprise as well as research - both linked with RA exhibitions and beyond them. In 2018, she became the Founding Programme Director of the Executive Master's in Cultural Leadership, initiating a partnership with Maastricht University and successfully launching the RA's first accredited Master's Degree, to coincide with its 250th anniversary year in 2018.
Prior to joining the RA, Anna was Associate Professor at Sotheby's Institute of Art, responsible for the Art Business, Finance and Management Unit on the flagship MA in Art Business where she taught strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship and research methods and other business subjects, all specially tailored for the art world. Before that, she was Director of Research at the Creative Industries Observatory, University of the Arts London, where with a major HEFCE grant, she oversaw and co-ordinated the analytical activities of a team of researchers tasked with evaluating the social, cultural and economic impact of the Creative Industries in London and collaborating with HE consortium partners in London as well as lead partners in India and China.
She was Founding Director of the MSc/MA in Creative Industries at Birkbeck College, University of London where she taught and supervised on the BA, MA and PhD programmes. She has experience of teaching and research in leading academic institutions including the University of Cambridge, London Business School, Rotterdam School of Management and Maastricht University and she regularly consults for industry and policy-makers.
Anna holds a BA / MA Hons and MPhil degrees in History from the University of Cambridge - with a specialisation in Cultural History - and a PhD in Management Studies, specialising in Strategy, from the Cambridge Judge Business School. Her PhD on The Strategic Use of Announcement Options, which straddles strategy and finance, was supported by the coveted Lloyds Tercentenary Foundation Business Scholarship and won the Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award.
Since her PhD, Anna has been fascinated by Risk and Uncertainty - its definitions, impact, role and management - including in the creative process. She is interested in conditions of extreme uncertainty which characterise industries in times of turbulent change - including finance, hi-tech and the arts. She has written and lectured widely on the relationship between risk and creativity. Her book, Risk and Uncertainty in the Art World (2014) was the first complete overview of risk in the art market and remains a core text in Art Business. It was translated into Mandarin and re-published by Tsinghua University Press in 2018. She publishes in scholarly journals as well as leading industry publications, and her contributions have been reviewed by the national and international press.
A second strand of research focusses on Trust and Transparency. In 2013 she organised a seminal interdisciplinary conference The International Art Industry Forum on Trust and Transparency, and this conference, subsequent symposia at the Royal Academy, meetings and publications, have critically informed the ongoing debate on regulation, trust and transparency in both the commercial and public art world, including effects on public perception, access and engagement. She has academic research and professional interests in the wider field of art business, including issues of valuation, authentication, art market economics, and international trade.
Anna speaks fluent Russian and regularly works with contemporary Russian art and artists and served on the Broad of Trustees for the UK Charity, Russian Arts Help. Anna has curated over 25 exhibitions of contemporary art and in 2010 founded the not-for-profit ArtSpace5-7, specifically to explore ideas central in both arts and sciences and the connections between them. At ��������, she has curated a number of exhibitions including; The Geometry of Light (2015); Dualities: Christopher Le Brun (2018); Waste to Art (2020); Home, Taken (2021) and Kill or Cure (2022).
Currently, she has returned to her academic roots and is working on a book on the cultural history of Memento Mori and Vanitas - investigating artistic reflections on the transience of life and its expressions in material culture - as well as the re-interpretation and treatment of this genre by leading contemporary artists.
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- Board Member of McGill University 's Asia Advisory Group
Carol is a financial veteran, an entrepreneur, and an investor with over 25 years of international banking experience.
Carol has 25 years of international financial experience. She founded the Alpha Grand Group in Hong Kong in 2017. Prior to founding Alpha Grand Group, she held senior positions with a number of international financial institutions including Goldman Sachs, Standard Chartered, Citigroup, and HSBC Group.
Carol has diversified experience in the international financial sector. She has worked in areas including commercial banking; treasury products and structuring in forex, interest rates, commodities, equities; private banking, and investment banking. After having accumulated years of banking experience, Carol further expanded into real estate investments and structuring bespoke life insurance policies for ultra-high net worth clients. She has completed over USD 35 billion worth of transactions in aggregate during her career.
Carol obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University; a Master of Laws degree in Corporate and Financial Law from The University of Hong Kong and a Master of Studies degree in Global History from the University of Cambridge. She was the award recipient of the Corporate Governance and Shareholders Remedies subject from the Faculty of Law at The University of Hong Kong.
Carol is currently a Board Member of McGill University's Asia Advisory Group and the Co-Chair of the Financial Services Committee at The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. She was also a former student representative and committee member of the Master of Studies program at the University of Cambridge and a former Board Member of the Faculty of Law at The University of Hong Kong.
Carol wishes to support the research ideas and initiations by proactively connecting and sharing the commercial field's network, capital, know-how to the academia in ��������. Carol has been actively involved in the �������� Enterprise Society (WES). She was the former Vice-President of WES and a judge on the panel for the 2023 �������� Enterprise Competition.
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- Historian of Central Europe
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Celia is a historian of Central Europe in the twentieth century. Her research seeks to explore the history of socialism, nationalism, gender, and human rights in contemporary Europe from a transnational and global perspective.
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Andrew is a computer scientist who has worked in academia and industry, including serving as Chairman of Microsoft Research. He has a long association with �������� and has played several roles in College.
Andrew retired from the role of Chairman of Microsoft Research EMEA in September 2011. In this role Herbert oversaw Microsoft Research's activities in the region, including technical strategy and policy engagements and wider engagement with politicians, officials, professional and industry bodies and their strategic advisors. Initially joining Microsoft Research in 2001 as an assistant director, he then succeeded founding director, Roger Needham as director of Microsoft's Cambridge laboratory in March 2003, before assuming his wider role in November 2010.
Before joining Microsoft Research in 2001, Andrew was director of Advanced Technology at Citrix Systems Inc., where he was instrumental in steering the company toward Internet thin-client technologies and initiating development of products for Web-based application deployment and for the emerging application service provider market.
Andrew joined Citrix in 1998 from Digitivity Inc., which he founded in 1996 to develop a product to enable secure deployment of Java clients for business-to-business applications. Digitivity was a spinoff from APM Ltd., a research and consulting company Herbert founded in 1985. APM managed ANSA, an industry-sponsored program of research and advanced development into the use of distributed systems technology to support applications integration in enterprise wide systems. ANSA's work included research on support for interactive multimedia services, object technology for World Wide Web applications, distributed systems management, mobile object systems and security for electronic commerce. Andrew led ANSA's technical program, built up its team, created its architecture, and made ANSA known and respected in the industry. ANSA-based technology was used by many organizations ahead of the widespread availability of commercial CORBA-based products. Notable successes included the NASA Astrophysics Data System, a European radio pager system and the online customer service system for a major U.K. utility. As part of his ANSA work, Andrew played an active role in many standards and consortia for distributed computing including the Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Consortium (TINA-C), ISO/ITU ODP, the Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing Environment (OSF DCE) and Object Management Group (OMG) CORBA.
Before starting ANSA in 1985, Andrew was a faculty member in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in England, where he worked with Roger Needham and Maurice Wilkes on seminal developments in local area networks (LANs) and distributed computing. In 1979 Herbert helped Needham and Wilkes edit The Cambridge CAP Compute r and Its Operating System, and in 1982 he co-authored The Cambridge Distributed Computing System with Needham. In 2003, Herbert co-edited a monograph of papers written in tribute to Needham, Computer Systems: Theory, Technology and Applications, with Karen Spärck Jones.
In the 2010 honours list Andrew was awarded an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for services to computer science. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the British Computer Society, a fellow of �������� Cambridge, a visiting professor at University College London, a member of St. John's College Cambridge, and a liveryman of the City of London Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. In 1975 he graduated from the University of Leeds with a B.Sc. in computational science and in 1978 with a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in computer science.
Andrew has played various roles in his time with the College, including Secretary of the Bredon Society and chairman of the Finance Committee.
Now retired, since 2017 Andrew has been the Chairman of Trustees for the National Museum of Computing on Bletchley Park, where he is also leading a project to build a working reconstruction of EDSAC, Cambridge University's first computer, originally constructed in 1947-1949. Andrew is also an enthusiastic pilot, mostly flying vintage aircraft including a 1935 de Havilland Hornet Moth, 1940s de Havilland Tiger Moth and 1950s de Havilland Chipmunk aircraft.
A Historian of twentieth century South Asia, Anjali's research focuses on transnational histories of migration, decolonisation, gender and urbanisation. Her current research which is jointly funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and the Leverhulme Trust investigates a history of gendered informality in Modern South Asia.
Anjali obtained her PhD as a Gates Scholar in History from Trinity College, Cambridge. Her thesis was awarded the prestigious Ellen MacArthur Prize in Economic History by the Faculty of History. After that she joined the Centre of South Asian Studies, Department of POLIS, as an Early Career Fellow, where her research is jointly funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and the Leverhulme Trust.
As a World Historian at Cambridge, she is particularly interested in modern and contemporary socio-economic history, urban history and gender history. She is currently finishing a book manuscript, War, Migration and Decolonisation in India, c. 1939-1965 and has two other ongoing projects. One is the Leverhulme project on Gendered informality and urban change in South Asia, and the other is a new international collaboration on women, feminism and nation-building. She advises students on different aspects of World History and South Asian History, is a College Mentor, and Co-convenor of �������� Humanities Society. She is deeply engaged with ‘decolonising the curriculum' and women's rights movement in India and beyond. She has two forthcoming articles in early 2019 in Modern Asian Studies and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.
Anna's research interests focus on methodological innovation in the social sciences, qualitative and creative methods for the study of people's lives and identities. She supports �������� students as a Tutor and is Director of studies for Human Social and Political Sciences.
Anna's doctoral training as a student of �������� and Marie Curie Fellow was at the Centre for Family Research of the University of Cambridge, with the Narratives of Identity and Migration project. She has had research posts at the National Research Council in Rome, the LSE Gender Institute, the DG IV of the European Parliament in Brussels, the University of Leeds, and the University of Cambridge.
A qualitative research specialist and keen visual researcher, she teaches qualitative, visual and creative methods, supervises undergraduate and postgraduate qualitative projects, and lectures on Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis for the MPhil in Sociology at Cambridge.
Anna's research blends a substantive focus on the complexities of identity processes at different stages in the life-course with an emphasis on methodological innovation and crossover between the social sciences and the arts. Her current research work, for which she carried out in-depth interviews in three regions of Italy, looks at identities and suffering in people's lives in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis.
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- Fellow of the Royal Society
Brian is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Acoustical Society of America, The Audio Engineering Society, and the Association for Psychological Science, and an Honorary Fellow of the Belgian Society of Audiology and the British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists. He is an honorary Life Member of the British Society of Audiology. He is President of the Association of Independent Hearing Healthcare Professionals (UK).
Dr Brian Cox was the Praelector of �������� for 22 years until 1 October 2019.
Brian Cox has been involved in research allied to medicine during his entire academic career. Firstly, he was researching diabetes at Guy's Hospital, which continued following his appointment as University Lecturer at Cambridge. His interests broadened to look at the relationship of lifestyle behaviours to other diseases, including cardio-vascular disease and cancer. In 1984/5 he became Director of the Health & Lifestyle Survey, the first representative nationwide survey in the UK, a position that he still holds as records of death and cancer of the survey respondents continue to be received.
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- Assistant Professor in Ancient History at the University of Gdańsk
Cezary is an Assistant Professor in Ancient History at the University of Gdańsk and Bye-Fellow at ��������.
Cezary completed his doctoral research in History at University College London. His thesis, supervised by Professor Hans van Wees, concerned the social history of Archaic Athens. He also holds a BA in Ancient History and Social Anthropology (University College London) and MA in Ancient History (Cardiff University). He is the author of The Treatment of the War Dead in Archaic Athens: An Ancestral Custom (Bloomsbury 2021), which won the Early Career Researcher prize awarded by the Polish Academy of Sciences (). He is also one of the editors of the Brill's Companion to Greek Land Warfare Beyond the Phalanx (Brill 2021). He was a Junior Research Fellow at �������� from April 2019 until September 2022. Since September 2022, Cezary acts as Chair of the �������� .
When he is not reading Homer or looking at black-figure vases, Cezary can be found at local basketball courts, representing Cambourne Raptors (Cambridge Basketball League) and �������� (College League). He is also a Level 2 Basketball England referee and coach. Cezary is a native of Gdańsk, Poland - the birthplace of Solidarity - and he warmly recommends it for a visit!
Research Interests
Cezary's research interests concern the social, cultural and military history of ancient Greece. He is currently conducting his second postdoctoral research project on the decorated hoplite shield-bands from the Peloponnese, funded by the National Science Centre in Poland. His work moves across different academic disciplines, such as Classics, History, Archaeology and Art; it engages with a variety of sources, including literature (poetry, drama, political speeches, philosophy) and visual art (pottery, sculpture, decorated weapons, monuments). In addition to academic publishing, Cezary regularly disseminates his research to the general public, writing articles for popular magazines and websites (Ancient Warfare, Antike Welt, Bad Ancient) and taking part in podcasts (The History Network). In summer 2020, he hosted a series of webinars called �������� (Ancient) Warfare Wednesdays, available to watch .
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- Historian
- Emeritus Fellow
Charles Jones is a historian and Emeritus Reader in International Relations with interests in International Relations, war, Argentina, and Victorian radical feminism. He has sung with the �������� choir since his return to Cambridge in 1998.
Charles left Cambridge in 1973 with a BA in Moral Sciences and History and a doctorate on Anglo-Argentine commercial relations. He later took an MA in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Reader in International Relations successively at Warwick and Cambridge, he has been a member of SLAS, BISA, the ISA, and the PSA. He served for several years as Director of the University's Centre of Latin American Studies.
Charles was briefly SPS DoS at ��������, sings with the college choir and chamber singers, and is currently Secretary of the Society of Emeritus Fellows. He is an active researcher, working on Victorian radical feminism and, in collaboration with Canning House, on the material and cultural vestiges of the UK's past relations with Latin America.
Research interests
Charles initially worked on relations between Britain and temperate-zone exporting countries before 1914, especially on Argentina. This went hand-in-hand with an interest in the broader development of multinational firms. At Warwick, he pioneered the teaching of International Political Economy, with particular emphasis on relations between developed industrial economies and the global south. Studies of Kenneth Waltz and E H Carr led to his appointment at Cambridge to teach International Relations Theory, which facilitated his work on the ethics and representation of war. Cambridge also renewed his interest in Latin America, the distinctive features of relations between polities in the Americas, and the history of Argentina. He is currently studying a family of radical middle-class metropolitan Victorian feminists.
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- Teacher, Scientist, Feminist. the Soundtrack of My Life
Professor Jane Clarke will be stepping down as President of �������� in September, but what was her journey to get here?
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