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I feel really humbled to be here and to get the opportunity to study with such brilliant people from a plethora from different backrounds. While, I will be studying Engineering for Sustainable development officially, I look forward to learning my greatest lessons from all the people I will interact with along the way. I also look forward to traveling and seeing all the exciting places and things that this region of the world has to offer. I look forward to the time when I can give back to a world that has blessed me with so much.

Carlos Gonzalez Sierra recently graduated with a Juris Doctor and Master in Public Policy from Harvard University. He is currently a practicing attorney in Washington, DC. Carlos previously worked as a congressional staffer, policy advocate, and nonprofit executive.

My name is Grecia Gonzalez. I grew up in La Puente, CA, USA, the youngest of five children to immigrant parents from Nicaragua. I have just earned my B.A. degree in Chemical and Physical Biology at Harvard University. I will pursue my PhD in Biochemistry at Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Ben Luisi. Beyond my coursework I am an avid researcher and educator. I have been very fortunate to work with amazing researchers in many top-ranked research institutions, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the University of Cambridge. I am a published author and my thesis research at Harvard is on the cutting edge of RNA NMR spectroscopy and of great importance to current HIV research. In the future, I hope to one day work at the crossroads of science and education policy. Teaching and thinking of new ways to help others understand science are great passions of mine.

I have always liked Biology and everything related to it, especially Molecular Biology, Genetics, Immunology and Biotechnology, since they possess, to some extent, the answer to many of the problems we are facing at the moment. I would like to contribute as much as I can in improving the lives of others, dedicating myself to a very rewarding field of science: edible vaccines. My PhD, in particular, focuses on an AIDS edible vaccine.

I will be specialising in international law and human rights as part of my LLM at Cambridge. My particular interest in international law and human rights stems from studies in these areas of law on exchange at the University of Vienna as part of my undergraduate degree and internships with the Red Cross (IFRC) in Geneva. More recently I have been working as the Legal Research Officer at the High Court of Australia and tutoring at the Australian National University.

I am an economist with 7 years of experience in the field. I have worked in the UK, Pakistan and several countries in the Middle East. I am currently based in Canada.

I will be working with the Semiconductor Physics (SP) group at Cavendish Laboratory. My research focuses on nanostructures and their quantum behaviour at low temperatures. I’m particularly interested in electrical transport through these structures, and their interaction with electromagnetic radiation. Throughout my involvement with cutting-edge research, my primary goal has been to simply become a better scientist everyday. Cambridge, being a world-class institution, provides a stimulating environment to do precisely this. The faculty and facilities in the SP group will enable me to carry out sound physics research, and build a strong foundation for a succcessful scientific career. In the future I would like to continue working with low-dimensional systems, which are a storehouse of a variety of intriguing quantum phenomena. I hope to make a significant contribution to this area.

In 2010 I started the first year of my PhD in the Atomic, Mesoscopic and Optical Physics group in the Cavendish Laboratory. My research will concentrate on studying novel aspects of Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) - dense atomic clouds at extremely cold temperatures unmatched anywhere in the universe. While creating BECs is a significant experimental challenge, they exhibit many properties found in other complex systems, e.g. superfluidity. Studying BECs ultimately leads to better understanding of superfluids, superconductors and collective phenomena in general.

I finished my undergraduate studies in Marine Geology at the University of Bremen - a leading institution for marine geosciences. During my studies I had the opportunity to participate in several multinational research projects and sea-going expeditions all over the world dedicated to study past changes of our climate and the ocean. I became passionate about climate research also in the face of its socioeconomic and political importance. I am currently enrolled in the first year of my PhD studies at the Department of Earth Sciences focusing on the global signature of past abrupt climate change recorded in marine sediments. Particular emphasis will be put on changes in biological productivity and the ocean circulation in the South Atlantic Ocean to explain the millennial-scale variability of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The study is supported by analyzing further climate archives as ice cores and cave formations as well as numerical climate simulations.

I am a young researcher in history of music trained in France (Paris Conservatoire, ENS de Paris, EHESS). My research interests are in contemporary history and include music festivals, cultural transfers between France and England and women musicians.My PhD at Cambridge is untitled « Music festivals in post-war France: International competition, decentralisation and cultural regionalism (1945-1975) ». I will investigate how classical music festivals acted as shelters for stage music in the context of a collapse of the traditional opera system and how a “local” focus was used to promote the idea that some towns had been protected from change in the aftermath of the Second World War, through several case studies (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Mai musical de Bordeaux, Festival de Royan, Théâtre des Nations).

Previous Education

Ecole Normale Supérieure Musique 2023
Conservatoire de Paris CNSMDP Histoire de la musique 2022
EHESS Musique 2020

At Cambridge, my PhD in Physics focuses on Einstein's theory of general relativity and its implications. I am studying the application of Bayesian inference for the detection of gravitational waves. I am also looking into theoretical predictions for primordial gravitational waves as remnants of the Big Bang. This work has potential for opening a new window onto our Universe and providing direct observations of the earliest moments in our Universe's history.

Previous Education

University of Maryland (Baltimore County) BS Physics, BS Mathematics 2008

During my PhD, I investigated how motor areas in the brain respond when we listen to music, even if we stay absolutely still. I also examined how musical training affected neural responses, and how damage to certain motor brain areas affects our perception of musical rhythm.

Links

http://www.jessicagrahn.com
http://linkedin.com/in/jessica-grahn-1978998
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/jessica.grahn

I am grateful for the opportunity to have studied the no longer extant Computer Speech, Text and Information Technology course at Cambridge, which allowed me to explore the interface between mathematics and language. After finishing the MPhil in CSTIT at Cambridge, I spent a year studying a Masters in Medical Statistics at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and worked for many years with LSHTM and World Health Organization in Global Child Health afterwards. Currently, I have completed a PhD in measuring and evaluating women's empowerment in a complex public health trial in rural Nepal. I am conducting postdoctoral work on gender equality, preventing violence against women, engaging communities in collective action and measuring social norms.

My fascination with the relationship between repatriation and emotion is long-standing but was greatly reinforced by my experience managing the establishment and delivery of restitution initiatives in the Australian university sector. My time as a practitioner prompted me to reconsider the nature, role and impact of non-Indigenous actor emotions on processes of provenance and return: the lingering heartache of setting aside the unprovenanced skeletal remains of a child; the couching of obstructiveness in the language of objectivity; the cautious optimism between researchers and First Nations communities following a handover. By acknowledging and engaging with these emotional registers, I believe that more authentic opportunities for inter-community reconciliation and intra-community empowerment can be identified. With the generous support of Gates Cambridge, I aim to provide practitioners with a nuanced and comprehensive understanding of the emotional dynamics within and between their institutions and the communities they seek to represent.

Previous Education

Australian National University Repatriation: Principles, Poli 2021
Australian National University Archaeological Practice 2020

I will be working towards a MSc in Pathology with Dr. Nick Coleman. My project involves modeling HPV(Human Papillomavirus)-mediated cervical neoplasia. Specifically, I am interested in those cases which are driven by non-integrated (episomal) HPV. This work will prepare me for a career as a professor and research scientist. In this field, I hope to increase our understanding of cancer and inspire young biologists to pursue this intriguing field.

Links

http://www.jimmunol.org/content/186/11/6091