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University of Notre Dame Bachelor of Architecture 2013

As an undergraduate at Kansas State University double majoring in Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, I worked in the lab of Dr. Kathrin Schrick where I pursued multiple independent projects. I used biophysical tools to characterize direct targets of dietary flavonoids, which are abundantly found in fruits and vegetables and are known to possess anti-cancerous properties. This project emerged from my quest to understand protein-flavonoid interactions. As the only person conducting this research, I had to teach myself a lot of different techniques and face numerous challenges, but in the process I developed a great love and appreciation for the visualization of protein structures. During my PhD in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), I will be using electron cryo-microscopy to uncover new structures of activated states of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). Over 40% of commercially available drugs target GPCRs; therefore, it is important to understand their structures to design new drugs to treat a variety of human diseases. I am very excited to contribute to advances in electron cryo-microscopy, and I am grateful for this opportunity to work alongside and learn from world-class scientists in the LMB. Besides science, I enjoy working towards bridging global health disparities. I have worked with MEDLIFE in Peru and Ecuador, and I also run my own non-profit WE SAVE in India where we are developing technology to connect doctors with underserved patients.

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Kansas State University

It is a great honor for me to be a Gates scholar, to have studied at the University of Cambridge. Bearing in mind that the policy of the trust is to help people, it is also a great responsibility for me in the future. I am very grateful for the help I have received from the trust in the hardship I was going through during my studying at Cambridge.

My interest in International Criminal Law as a field of study grew out of the internship I did at the ICTY, during my second year at the University of Bristol. I was fascinated by the discrepancies in practice of International Criminal Law and what I was being taught. I wanted to further explore this during my LLM at the LSE, where I researched how the ICTY produces a narrative about Bosnia as a gendered and ethnicized “other.” Since graduating from the LSE I have co-authored two books and co-founded the only feminist magazine in Bosnia. I am currently a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths College, where I am working on a feminist critique of the legal discourse surrounding Conflict-Related Sexual Violence. At Cambridge my research will explore ICL as a site of knowledge production through the prisms of Critical Legal Studies, Feminist Legal Scholarship and Third World Approaches to Law. This research is important because it will not merely explore how the ICTY produces knowledges about Bosnia that are ethnicized and gendered, but also at how these knowledges (and the process of their production) produce a certain truth about the wider project of International Criminal Law (ICL). I will seek to explore to what extent the very survival of ICL is contingent on the ascendance of particularly gendered and ethnicized knowledges to the status of truth. I am incredibly humbled to be the first scholar from Bosnia to be joining the Gates Cambridge Community.

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University of Bristol
London School of Economics and Political Science

I am reading Part III Maths (MASt) at the University of Cambridge. I was born in India but have been living in the United States for most of my life. Just recently, I graduated from Harvard University with an AB in maths and an SM in computer science. My main research interests lie in the fields of analysis as well as theoretical computer science, which offers an interesting blend of mathematics and computer science. After completing Part III, I plan to enter a PhD program.

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Harvard University English, South Asian Studies 2021

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Newcastle University MRes Medical and Molecular Biosciences 2008
Bangalore University BSc Biotechnology 2007

My current research mostly relates to microeconomic theory.

I am a researcher, psychologist, and educator passionate about fostering safe, sensitive and playful conditions for learning. I studied Psychology in UCA, Nicaragua and later an MPhil in Psychology and Education at the University of Cambridge with a Chevening scholarship. I have worked as a teacher, therapist, researcher and implementer of educational projects in Latin America, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa. Coming from the Nicaraguan permanent state of emergency, I am confident in the transformative power of education and play to promote collective wellbeing and lasting peace. Instead of a deficit narrative regarding children in emergencies, my research proposal aims to acknowledge the creative ways in which children facing adversity use play. In the midst of pain, play sneaks in to offer not only a moment of joy, but agency over the narrative, control over the uncontrollable. Play offers the possibility to practice the strategies that allow children to overcome the adversity from which we have unjustly failed to protect them.

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University of Cambridge Psychology and Education 2021
Universidad Centroamericana Psychology 2019

I was born in Colombia in 1995. By then, armed conflict in the country was well underway and I was lucky enough to merely be caught up in the margins. Later, studying literature at Los Andes University I became deeply involved in both the history and the literary culture of my country, felt the need to look directly at the wounds scattered in our history. And so I wrote my undergraduate thesis on contemporary Colombian novels and the way in which fear is embedded into language. I chose to specialise in Latin American Horror in my MPhil at Cambridge. My commitment to my culture and Colombia’s past is tangled in my belief in the power of literature when it comes to facing pain, recognising trauma, and processing fear. Throughout my time as a PhD Candidate I plan to dig deeper into that belief. Further research into Latin American horror literature could change our understanding of historical trauma in Latin American countries and the ways in which cultures heal from horror. Perhaps looking directly at our wounds can help heal them; I hope my PhD —focused on contemporary horror novels—can attest to that.

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University of Cambridge ELAC 2022
Universidad de Los Andes Literature 2020

I am a lecturer at the University of Sheffield, working on the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. Current projects include natural language generation, automated fact-checking and imitation learning. I have also worked on semantic parsing, language modelling, information extraction, active learning, clustering and biomedical text mining.

I am doing research within the subject of Computer Vision. Our greater aim is to one day build computers that can "see" but so far my research has been focused on extracting 3D shape information from visual data.

My fascination for human evolution grew from my zoological training and a desire to become involved in one of the least objective academic fields-research into our very own origins.My future career goals are to carve a research niche in Anthropology and to become an active educator within the field.I believe it is important for students to develop an appreciation of the time-depth involved in the history of our species.The Gates Scholarship affords me the opportunity to pursue my ambitions.

I was born in Tallinn, Estonia, but at the age of ten moved to Hungary with my family and then to the UK for university. I earned my Bachelors, MPhil and a PhD degree at King's College, Cambridge where I was awarded a Gates scholarship for my PhD. My doctoral research at the Department of Politics and International Studies addressed intimate partner violence against women with insecure immigration status in England and Sweden. The study combined survivor and stakeholder interviews with an analysis of theory and national politics. I have also worked with UN Women on the international women, peace and security agenda, and on gender (in)equality research projects as part of a European Commission grant programme and a European Parliament initiative. After finishing my PhD I directed a Health Estonia Foundation spin-off “Action-Metre” - a collective awareness online platform which provides accessible and evidence-based information on the large-scale societal outcomes of individual everyday micro-actions. I am now working at the European Commission on gender equality policy. Dance is one of my life-long passions and at Cambridge I competed with and captained the Cambridge University Dancesport Team.

My work at Cambridge will focus on using x-ray crystallography to study the ribosome, a macromolecule responsible for synthesizing proteins in all cells across biology. During my last year as an undergraduate I synthesized a novel inhibitor that I hope to co-crystallize with the full ribosome. By determining the structure of this enzyme-inhibitor complex, I hope to address fundamental questions about how the ribosome catalyzes protein synthesis on a molecular level. The Gates Scholarship has given me the incredible opportunity to pursue this collaborative research at Cambridge with some of the world's experts in the field.

In my current role at the Monetary Authority of Singapore's (MAS) Sustainability Group, I leverage finance to catalyze the global net zero transition. I shape policies and build partnerships that support financial institutions’ adoption and implementation of net zero strategies.

I believe the financial industry must demonstrate climate credentials, manage risks, and seize new business opportunities from the low-carbon transition, while making an impact through financing real-world decarbonization and stewardship of portfolio companies.

Throughout my previous works in diplomacy and the corporate sector, I advanced new strategies and drove projects that helped government and business deliver sustainability outcomes. I have made significant contributions on a wide range of issues, such as driving the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Thailand and combatting illegal fishing and trafficking in persons in the Thai seafood supply chains.

A member of St John's College, I graduated with a PhD in Politics and International Studies in 2015. My dissertation on the politics of monetary policy reform in post-1997 Thailand reflects my interdisciplinary interest in macroeconomic policy, finance, and Southeast Asia policy economy.

I hold an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University-SAIS and a BA in Economics (First-class Honours) from Thammasat University.

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Johns Hopkins University MA in International Relations 2009
Thammasat University BA in Economics 2006

As an undergraduate, I became fascinated by the complex biochemical apparatus that controls the immune system and how dysregulations lead to severe diseases like autoimmunity or cancer. Through training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, I soon focused my research on metabolic programs in immune cells, such as T cells, which are essential for a properly functioning immune system. Upon activation, T cells undergo rapid clonal expansion and differentiation, and these energy-expensive processes require lots of iron. Iron is essential for life and activated T cells have to ensure that iron can be rapidly taken up from the circulation and incorporated into enzymes that support metabolism. Although it is well established that dysregulated iron metabolism in T cells results in severe immunological pathologies, we still lack many mechanistical insights. With my PhD project, I hope to shed more light into these poorly understood mechanisms and ultimately provide new genetic factors that can be explored for therapeutic intervention of T cell-driven pathologies. It is a great honor to be joining the Gates Cambridge community and I look forward to working with fellow scholars to unlock the potential of future science-driven innovations.

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Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen Biochemistry 2022
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Biochemistry/Molecular Biology 2019