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I am from Jamaica, and previously studied law in the Caribbean and at Cambridge. With the Gates scholarship I hope to pursue research leading to the award of a PhD in International Law. More specifically, I will look at the implementation of international human rights through regional mechanisms in the Americas and Africa. Subsequently, I hope to mix an academic career with international law practice.

I arrived at Cambridge in 2012 to pursue an MPhil in Environment, Society and Development to learn how best to negotiate environmental pressures when alleviating poverty through economic growth. I am particularly interested in developing policies that address both extreme poverty and biodiversity loss--two of the most critical challenges of our era. In 2013, I received a second Gates Cambridge Scholarship to pursue a PhD that addresses climate change policy and environmental justice, and received my PhD in 2017. Before Cambridge, I worked for six years directing international development and conservation initiatives for a coffee importing company. In this role, I raised over $4 million for livelihood improvement programs, some of which were featured at the Clinton Global Initiative and in National Geographic's Wild Chronicles series.

Throughout my medical education in Australia, I have been fascinated by the promise of personalised medicine, of moving beyond generic treatment protocols to individualised decision making. Such an approach will make healthcare more effective and improve equity of outcomes across our community. During my specialty training in nephrology, I have had the rewarding experience of providing care to many individuals undergoing kidney transplantation. While this procedure can be life-changing, there is a pressing need for better strategies to individualise transplant immunosuppression to improve long-term outcomes. In my PhD project we will utilise next generation sequencing to study patterns of gene expression in circulating immune cells before and after kidney transplantation and correlate this data with relevant clinical events. This research will improve our understanding of the genetic and molecular basis of variable outcomes in kidney transplant recipients. I am grateful and honoured to be contributing to this field as a member of the Gates Cambridge community.

Previous Education

University of Sydney Public Health 2019
University of New South Wales Medicine 2014

Originally a Literature student from the University of Buenos Aires, I finished an MPhil in Latin American Studies at Cambridge with a Simón Bolívar Scholarship in June 2007. Focusing on guerrilla movements active during the 1970s in Argentina, I am interested in the way children of militants who disappeared during the 1976-1983 dictatorship use visual mediums to reflect on their parents’ political practices. My PhD will examine the links between Politics and Literature from 1969 to 1974. My concern over memory and militancy was fuelled during 2005 when I was invited by the Argentine Ministry of Education to participate in a team promoting discussion over these issues in schools and universities. After finishing my PhD I will continue to work for FLACSO and other institutions,

I have always been mesmerized by the world around me and by how everything seems to fit so perfectly together. During high school I tried to combine as many different courses as I could - from biology to history and from arts to math – in order to try and understand all these connections. My teachers continuously tried to explain to me that those fields would never come together in my future. Close to the registration deadline for universities, however, I was introduced to archaeology and fell instantly in love. Studying archaeology has enabled me to learn a lot about subjects ranging from ecology to geology, from history to biomolecular sciences and from arts to evolutionary processes. After a BA in archaeology at Leiden University, I continued to do a Research Master in Bioarchaeology, focusing on human skeletal remains. I have found the field I belong in and that aims to understand how all sciences interplay with each other. I am therefore thrilled to be starting my PhD in archaeology, researching how leprosy sufferers in medieval England have experienced living with their disease, both socially and biologically. I will do so by taking a multidisciplinary approach combining archaeology, osteology, paleopathology, isotope research, biomolecular approaches and historical sources.

Previous Education

Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (Leiden Univ) Human osteoarchaeology 2018
Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (Leiden Univ) Human Osteoarchaeology 2016

Kofi is an academic, a social entrepreneur and a mentor who is passionate about the development of young people and Africa. He moved to Clare Hall as a Junior Research Fellow after completing his MPhil and PhD at St Edmund’s College. His research takes an interdisciplinary approach to issues of crime and development with particular interest in youth and gender-based violence. Kofi has published widely in high-impact journals in the fields of psychology, law and criminology. He serves on several journal editorial boards. He has been a visiting fellow to universities in the US and Africa, including Cornell University School of Law, State University of New York and University of Ghana. Kofi is the founder of the Oxbridge African Mentorship Programme, a charity that provides mentoring for young talents in Africa. He is also co-founder of the African Institute for Crime, Policy and Governance Research, a think tank based in Ghana that promotes high quality research on crime, justice and governance issues to inform policy in Africa.

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kofi-boakye-0788285

I am interested in patterns of threat and extinction due to habitat loss, and the use of quantitative methods to aid in both understanding past and present patterns of species' losses and making future conservation decisions. Particularly I am interested in revisiting the Species Area Relationship and its use in predicting species' extinctions.

My research at Cambridge focuses on the production of hydrogen for fuel cells and carbon capture and storage. I was born in Austria and attended Gymnasium before returning to the US for high school. I graduated from Princeton University in 2006 with a degree in Chemical Engineering.

I was born and raised in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia. I completed my Bachelors studies at the University of Rochester in the USA, exploring a diverse set of disciplines including philosophy, neuroscience, economics, and political science. I rapidly developed a deep interest in brain sciences, fueled by my philosophical fascination about the human mind. I continued my scientific training as a research assistant at Georgetown University, followed by a Research Master’s studies at the Donders Institute in the Netherlands. I gradually realized that Neuroscience offers not only unprecedented tools to answer deepest philosophical puzzles about cognition, but also an opportunity to use the discovered mechanistic understanding of the brain to design effective strategies for improving human abilities. I realized that at the heart of every scientific and intellectual advancement, at the foundation of human progress lies the human ability to learn, create, and solve problems, enabled by the fascinatingly complex underlying neuro-computational processes. With the help of the amazing research community at Cambridge, I aim to uncover the inner workings of the human brain as it learns and remembers, in an effort to contribute to the development of science-based, effective strategies for improving knowledge acquisition and idea generation. I hope that such insights can be used to improve human learning in healthy adults as well as those with neurodegenerative diseases.

Previous Education

University of Rochester
Georgetown University
Radboud University Nijmegen

I completed my MPhil in 2012 and my PhD in 2016, as a two-time Gates recipient. My thesis, entitled "Medicine and Society in Anglo-Saxon England: The Social and Practical Context of Bald’s Leechbook and the Lacnunga," focused on socio-economic factors affecting access to medical knowledge and treatment in early medieval England. A secondary focus of my research was Old English terminology for precious stones, particularly garnet.

Since receiving my PhD, I have been working professionally as an editor of an architecture magazine. I am also the founding editor of For All the Fish, a new online magazine on sustainable food.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge MPhil, Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2011
University of Toronto BA (Hons) Medieval Studies, English 2007

Links

https://www.forallthefish.com
http://cambridge.academia.edu/JuliaBolotina

I grew up in Corbin, Kentucky and attended the University of Kentucky as a biology major and Lewis Honors College member. The impact of cancer on my family and community, which faces the highest incidence and mortality of cancer in the United States, inspired me to seek a career as a physician scientist dedicated to improving cancer care. Throughout my undergraduate career, I conducted research investigating the role of glycogen and glycogen metabolism in glioblastoma and Ewing’s Sarcoma and was awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Astronaut Scholarship for this work. I was selected for MD Anderson’s CPRIT-CURE program where I explored ways to enhance radiotherapy of patients with head and neck cancers by utilizing imaging and bioinformatics. I am elated to pursue a MPhil in Medical Science in the department of Oncology at Cambridge. My project is centered on the hypothesis that competition between oesophageal adenocarcinoma and its precursor lesion, Barrett’s oesophagus, may determine the sensitivity to treatment and affect prognosis. It is a privilege and honor to be selected for the Gates Cambridge Scholarship and work alongside a cohort of inspiring individuals.

Previous Education

University of Kentucky Biology 2023

I recently completed a double major in Political Science and Sociology at Columbia University, and am excited to continue my studies at Cambridge, where I will study for an MPhil in Modern Society and Global Transformations. In particular, my MPhil dissertation will examine one or more of the world's seemingly intractable conflicts, using sociology of globalization as a lens. Certain contemporary conflicts appear insoluble due to their profound complexity and extremely high group animosities. However, even these conflicts are influenced, for better or worse, by recent worldwide societal trends. By researching the nature of this influence, I hope to gain insights that will allow me to work toward peaceful resolution of major world conflicts.

I study security, researching both technical aspects of cryptography and the human element in large systems like the Internet. I've enjoyed learning how security can go wrong, from lock-picking to the difficult economics of privacy online. I'm passionate about using computers as an empowering technology, enabling privacy, free speech, free access to information, and transparency in public authorities. My thesis work focused on the increasing difficulty of establishing identity in an interconnected world of many digital devices. Since my time in Cambridge I've worked at Google and the Electronic Frontier Foundation and been a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University and Princeton University.