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I intend to pursue a PhD in Geoarchaeology. My goal is to investigate the landscape history of the Aksum region, northern Ethiopia, and to examine the human-environment relationship through a long-term perspective. I see my research placed within a broader trend which explicitly aims to contribute through the archaeological data to help inform contemporary debates regarding risk assessment and sustainable development in Africa.

I first became interested in the mystery of autism while researching my undergraduate dissertation at Royal Holloway and decided to apply for a PhD to answer some of the questions that my dissertation raised after a year of work experience in London on developmental disorders. I was born in the USA (Seattle), grew up mainly in Colorado, and moved to England with my family when I was 15.

My name is Luning Sun. Lu and Ning stand for the two provinces where my parents come from. I was born in Qingdao, China, a beautiful city along the coast. I stayed in a boarding school for three years, before I was admitted into Chuko Chen Honors College, Zhejiang University. I spent one semester as an exchange student in Germany, and I enjoyed my time there very much. I furthered my study in Munich after college, where I worked as a research assistant at a psychiatric hospital and got involved in various research projects, including both clinical studies on patients and behavioral experiments with normal participants. Based on my interests in psychological testing, I applied for a PhD position at the Psychometrics Center, Cambridge. Fortunately, I got the offer together with the Gates Cambridge Trust. Now I am working as a research associate, working on the ICAR project. I am interested in test development for educational, occupational as well as clinical assessment.

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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

During the fourth year of my undergraduate medical studies in Moscow, I developed an interest in radiology and then undertook two consecutive summer research placements at the Department of Radiology in Cambridge. Coming back to the Department as a PhD student, I will focus my work on facilitating clinical translation of hyperpolarised 13C-pyruvate magnetic resonance spectroscopy by identifying the niche clinical areas where it can revolutionise care for patients with prostate cancer. Moreover, I will continue coordinating the UK-Russia Young Medics Association, a student-led project through which more than 80 clinical and research exchanges between medical students, junior doctors and early career biomedical researchers of the two countries have been arranged over the past two years. Seeing how long-term professional collaborations, friendships and de novo institutional links flourish under the Association, I am strongly convinced that in times of global instability it is science diplomacy that has the unlimited and yet unexplored capacity for bringing people together. Hence, I look forward to making the most of my time in Cambridge to gain skills and establish networks needed to use my scientific prowess to achieve breakthroughs in cancer diagnosis and champion science diplomacy on a global scale.

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Sechenov University General Medicine 2019

Peter graduated with a degree in History from Dartmouth College in 2012. Originally from Slovakia, he has lived and worked in South Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East and in the Balkans. He is the author of 'Visions of Development,' an upcoming monograph on the portrayal of themes of development in documentary films made by the Government of India, as well as 'The Undiscovered Country,' a documentary film on challenges to public education in the Marshall Islands. He has worked with Youth Bridge Global, an organization aiming to bridge ethnic divides in Bosnia and Herzegovina through theater, The Learning Center of Kathmandu, a grassroots NGO in Nepal, and PharmaSecure, a public health social enterprise in New Delhi. Much of Peter's research and professional work revolves around the link between education and international development, and he is excited to join Cambridge's Faculty of Education to pursue this interest further.

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Dartmouth College

Originally from Kherson, Ukraine, I grew up in Montreal, Canada. I hold a B.Sc. in International Studies from Université de Montréal and an M.Sc. in Political Science from the same institution. My research interests focus on nationalism and memory studies, particularly in Eastern Europe. My master's thesis examined Russian historical myths about Ukraine, while my broader work explores nation-building, everyday nationalism, memory and identity politics. As a PhD Candidate in Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, I investigate the interplay between grassroots initiatives of remembrance and state-level memory politics, using Ukraine as a case study. A firm believer in the transformative power of education, I have held various research, teaching, and mentoring positions and collaborated with human rights and cultural preservation organizations in Ukraine.

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Universite de Montreal Political Science 2024
Universite de Montreal International Studies 2022

My Electrical Engineering PhD will focus on tactile feedback devices for ‘smart surface’ applications. Utilizing the piezoelectric nature of Zinc Oxide nanowires, a surface can both sense and give feedback to touch. My research will focus on the fabrication of the devices and the human factors between different types of interactions and the surfaces. The applications for such devices range widely from electronic Braille to heart monitors to dynamic mobile phone interfaces. My 2nd year PhD will be spent under Prof. Akinwande at MIT (US) as a visiting student. My research will be on the same topic but the focus will be on building the devices on flexible substrates.

As a child, I was found taking photos next to my train track creations, being enthralled by my father’s construction projects, and fiddling with computers. As I got older I never lost the adrenaline rush from the magic done with my own two hands. I would be an engineer, and the type became clear through my spinal fusion surgery at twelve–biomedical engineering. Through the guidance of incredible mentors, I have conducted neuroscience research at Johns Hopkins and Harvard Medical School, as well as regenerative medicine at my undergraduate institution, University at Buffalo. At the University of Cambridge I will combine neuroscience and biomedical engineering to create a device that involves flexible electronics and tissue to restore sensory perception after peripheral nerve injuries; a treatment we hope to adapt for after strokes, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord injury. Additionally, coming from a small rural town, I will continue to advocate for educational equity gaining a global perspective on the disparities within the system. Afterwards, I plan to go to medical school working towards creating innovative solutions to the world’s most devastating healthcare issues, and starting my own biotechnology company.

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University at Buffalo Biomedical Engineering 2024
Schenectady Community College Science 2022

My work explores the emergence of an alternative geography of trade, focusing on giants Brazil and India and the capacity of large developing nations to realize south-south economic integration. This Southerner hails from Atlanta, trade terminus, pecan and hip-hop hub. Experience spans work in international agencies, public schools, radio journalism, international legal research and municipal administration. I hope through my doctorate studies to illuminate trends in economic development.

Through my PhD on the conceptualisation of 'cultural heritage' in 19th century France, Germany and Britain I wish to contribute to an understanding of one of the key concepts of modern societies shaping both national identity and intercultural relations.

As an undergraduate in cello and literature at Northwestern, I studied new approaches to concert programming and integrated theories of literary translation into performance practice. I later worked as a teaching artist, designing educational workshops and community concerts throughout the Chicagoland area. I saw firsthand the powerful experiences listeners of many ages and backgrounds can have when engaging with unfamiliar types of music. I love to play and study modern and contemporary repertoire, but this music tends to be particularly challenging for audiences. At Cambridge, my research will focus on helping listeners to grapple with these less familiar musical languages. I will combine methods in music analysis and cognitive psychology to explore stylistic translations - pieces of music that bridge the gaps between musical styles and lead the ear from more familiar sound worlds to less familiar ones. I will draw on the literature on analogy and structure mapping in education to investigate how music learning relates to learning in other domains. I hope to deepen ties between music researchers and concert practitioners, developing new ways of presenting the extraordinary music written in the last 100 years.

Previous Education

The University of Sheffield Psychology of Music 2019
Northwestern University Cello Performance and Comparative Literature 2016

First and foremost, I’m a Hellenophile – that is, I’m fascinated by the archaeology, art and history of Ancient Greece. Whilst in Cambridge I will study the material remains of Greek settlements in the Black Sea area. I’m particularly interested in the nature of the relations between the Greeks and the indigenous peoples inhabiting this region.

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My curiosity for physics began in a high school classroom in California with a simple question: how can I describe the natural world? The quest to answer this has led me first to Switzerland to complete a BSc in Physics at ETH Zurich, and then to Cambridge for an MPhil in Scientific Computing with the support of the DeepMind Scholarship. Along the way, I’ve leveraged the power of computational physics, which is a vital tool for understanding physical phenomena that are otherwise difficult or even impossible to study. During my PhD, I will focus on the design of nuclear fusion reactors. Using high power computing to generate state of the art numerical simulations will enable me to explore both the stability of the plasma within the reactor as well as to optimise the design of the reactor itself. Through this project I will join the global and interdisciplinary effort to accelerate the path towards harnessing the power of nuclear fusion and providing a clean and economic energy source.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Scientific Computing 2024
ETH Zurich Physics 2023

Bart M.J. Szewczyk (SHEF-chick) is an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School. Previously, he was a senior associate at WilmerHale and an adjunct professor of international law at George Washington University Law School. He is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations, member of the Executive Council at the American Society of International Law and fellow at the Truman National Security Project. Bart clerked for President (then Vice-President) Peter Tomka and Judge Christopher Greenwood at the International Court of Justice and for Judge Leonard Garth at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was a visiting fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies and a consultant in the UN Office of Strategic Planning. He has published in the American Journal of International Law, Harvard International Law Journal, Columbia Journal of European Law, Polish Yearbook of International Law, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and International Herald Tribune.

As a member of Hungary's burgeoning green movement, I've sought to contribute to ecological groups' insistent (many times desperate) efforts to demonstrate environmentalism's ability to provide politically viable and morally acceptable solutions to the banes of modern societies. As an academic I will strive to make evident that there is much more to environmentalism than its politics - in that it seeks to address some of the most fundamental problems of our modern culture and Weltanschaung.