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Previous Education

Stanford University M.S. Biology 2009
Stanford University B.A. Human Biology 2009

I studied for a degree in Nutrition as I wanted to help people improve their diets to maintain good health and prevent non-communicable diseases driven by diet and lifestyle. When I worked as a community nutritionist in Malaysia, I learnt that commercial approaches in nutrition, while having their advantages, have their limitations when it comes to improving population health. This sparked my academic interest in Epidemiology, where population-based data is used to investigate the determinants of health and disease to develop population-level preventive strategies. Previously, I have worked on Nutritional Epidemiology projects on ultra-processed foods and obesity, sugar-sweetened beverages and stature loss, as well as vegetarian diets and cancer risk at King's College London, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Oxford, respectively. My PhD research at the MRC Epidemiology Unit will investigate the dietary factors linked to type 2 diabetes with a focus on multi-ethnic Asian populations. Ultimately, I want to work in epidemiology research in Southeast Asia, where I come from, as it is a highly populated and ethnically diverse region that is underrepresented in the scientific literature. I hope that my work could support the development of region-specific population health interventions in Southeast Asia and beyond.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Population Health Sciences 2022
King's College London (University of London) Nutrition 2021

Links

https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/people/jia-yi-lee
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiayilee6

I grew up in Vancouver, Canada, and attended Johns Hopkins University where I earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science, minored in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and pursued premedical coursework. This multidisciplinary training was motivated by my desire to work at the intersection of computational analysis and medicine in translational clinical research, with a focus in paediatric neurology. During my Ph.D. in Paediatrics, I will study the relationship between sleep and newborn brain development using high-density diffuse optical tomography and electroencephalography. Specifically, my project strives to shed light on preterm infant brain development and the emergence of neural networks during sleep. Beyond data collection, my project will leverage novel machine learning approaches to dynamic functional connectivity analysis and examine differences between preterm and term infant sleep. Comparing these cohorts will deepen our understanding of the preterm infant brain and contribute to global efforts aimed at improving neurocognitive outcomes for very preterm infants. Ultimately, I hope to clarify the importance of sleep in order to inform future hospital policies and practices that protect quality sleep for infants everywhere.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Medical Science (Paediatrics) 2023
Johns Hopkins University Computer Science 2022

I received my undergraduate and master degrees in architecture from MIT. At Cambridge under the MPhil program in environmental design, I investigated the relationship between buildings' ability to resist long and short term hazards. I am continuing my research as a PhD student. There is still a large gap in our understanding of the correlation between how well a building can resist earthquakes and how effectively it can protect its occupants from climatic elements such as hurricanes and cold winters. Yet over half of the world’s population lives in places where such an understanding can greatly increase the quality of life, if not the odds between death and survival. In the future I hope to apply what I learn from my research to reduce risks in the built environment of disaster-prone areas.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge
Ecole Normale Supérieure / Paris-IV Sorbonne

My doctoral research is focused on integrating cognitive- and interpersonal-vulnerability models of depression amongst British adolescents. The study explores the validity of the relevant theories and the practical applicability of the adjacent therapeutic options for prevention and intervention of adolescent mental illness during times of significant transition. Preliminary results suggest the significance of rumination, stable attribution styles and parental support mechanisms. Qualitative data has highlighted the need for, and inadequacies of, current health promotion and maintenance strategies, and the potential for reformation of policy and practice. My career objectives are to gain further research and practical experience in the field of adolescent mental health so that I may progress towards establishing a best practice model for adolescent depression which is reflected in disseminated prevention and intervention strategies.

Raphaël is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on Sunni Islamist movements in Lebanon. A Gates Scholar and a doctoral candidate in politics and international relations at the University of Cambridge, Lefèvre is also an associate at the university’s Center for the Study of the International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa. Lefèvre is the author of Ashes of Hama: The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria (Oxford University Press, 2013) and co-author of State and Islam in Baathist Syria: Confrontation or Co-Optation? (Lynne Rienner, 2012). His publications on Islamist movements in the Middle East and North Africa have appeared in the Guardian, the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Sada, and the Journal of North African Studies.

I am a Canadian studying a Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery at Wolfson College. I improve the design of vaccines by studying pathogen evolution.

I grew up in a Navy family, moving around five different states before attending high school. As a student in the 5-year Computer Science BS/MS program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (with a minor in Russian language!), I became interested in computational analysis of diffusion MRIs of the brain as a means of detecting neurological disorders. This research took me to laboratories in St. Petersburg and London, as well as many hours on Linux machines at the UNC medical school. At Cambridge, I will pursue a PhD in Psychiatry, modeling structural and functional MRI data in infants using a neural connectome. I hope to establish a practical and theoretical basis for a new approach to neural connectomes that focuses on analyzing circuitous connections in the brain, as a way to predict mental illness and neurological disorders in children. In the future, I would like to found a research-based company that develops diagnostic image analysis techniques, focusing on both developing this technology and delivering it to the hands of medical doctors that can use it to directly impact the lives of others.

Previous Education

University of North Carolina

As an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, I developed an interest in death and dying. This interest alone does not make me unusual. People have always been interested in, if not concerned by, death. Mortality, after all, is something which all humans share. It is also something which has important consequences for how we live and think about our lives. Considering death involves considering what it is to live, and considering whether death can be a harm involves determining how to live a good life. As a PhD candidate in Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge, I will focus my research on Lucretius’ treatment of death and poetic immortality. With Lucretius as my guide, I plan to address the following questions: To what extent does a sustained reflection on mortality direct one’s philosophical and practical activities? In what sense does such an examination influence how we understand the shape or structure of human life? How might thinking about the nature and value of death shed light on questions of well-being, metaphysical and personal identity, and prudential reasoning? In thinking through the issues involved in these discussions it is my goal not only to illuminate Lucretius’ own views, but also offer some assistance in our own engagement with the same questions.

Previous Education

Dartmouth College
University of Cambridge

My PhD uses the cultural significance of blood in the Middle Ages to interpret the substance's role in the works of Dante.

Anke completed her PhD at Cambridge University in 2006. She is an environmental and natural resource economist and is particularly interested in problems of optimal natural resource use and conservation under conditions of risk, uncertainty and irreversibility. She has applied her research on climate change adaptation to inform policy in the areas of optimal land use, biodiversity conservation, invasive species, salt marsh conservation and water management. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and an Associate Editor of Environmental Conservation, Cambridge University Press.

Previous Education

University of Melbourne BA Environmental Studies/Japanese, Hon Environmental Economics, B.Com. Economics 1998
University of Cambridge MPhil Environmental Policy

Links

http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/eco/staff/#academic
https://sites.google.com/a/monash.edu/anke-leroux/Home

Prof. Hilary Levey Friedman is a sociologist and expert on beauty pageants, childhood and parenting, competitive afterschool activities, and popular culture who teaches in the Department of American Studies at Brown University.
Her book, Playing to Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture, follows families with elementary school-age children involved in chess, dance, and soccer covering the history of the activities, what they mean to parents and children, and implications for inequality and gender in the educational system.
She is also the Book Review editor at Brain, Child Magazine and an advisor with the National Council on Youth Sports Safety.
Dr. Levey Friedman can intelligently comment on stories about topics including afterschool activities, the American family, beauty pageants, competition, competitive sports, dance competitions, reality television, parenting, scholastic chess, working children, and youth sports injuries. She holds degrees from Harvard University, Princeton University, and the University of Cambridge.