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I graduated from the University of Magdeburg with a degree in Psychology. Subsequently I worked in a forensic psychiatric hospital for two years and started my further professional education in legal psychology before coming to Cambridge. Last year I started a Master’s programme in Criminology, followed by a PhD. I am especially interested in eyewitness psychology and ways to improve witness performance of older adult witnesses. During my PhD I will look at a new investigative interviewing technique and will conduct a series of experiments with older adults. In future, I hope to contribute to German and international investigative interviewing and help minimize wrongful convictions. After finishing my further professional education I also intend to work for law courts as a chartered forensic psychologist and furthermore, provide training for judges and lawyers concerning the psychological and psychiatric overlap with the legal system.

I am interested in the connection between science, religion, and philosophy and what makes them so opposed to each other in the public eye, especially in the U.S. I am also interested in the parallel development of philosophy and religion in all cultures. Professionally, I have pursued the study of particle astrophysics, in particular ultra-high energy cosmic rays, neutrinos, and their sources. I have worked on the Pierre Auger Observatory, IceCube, EVA, and ARA experiments. I hope that the study of the universe and its laws brings us closer to an understanding of both the divine and human condition. Currently I am working as a Data Scientist helping to develop nuclear technologies that will hopefully help society with problems in the security, medical, and energy fields.

Dr. Julie Pham is the founder and the CEO of CuriosityBased, an organizational development firm based in Seattle. She is the author of the #1 Amazon New Release and Bestseller 7 Forms of Respect: A Guide to Transforming Your Communication and Relationships at Work.

Dr. Pham has been recognized with numerous awards for her community leadership. She has applied her community building approach to building strong, collaborative and curious teams.

She was born in Saigon, Vietnam and raised in Seattle. Dr. Pham earned her PhD in history at Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar and she graduated magna cum laude from University of California, Berkeley as a Haas Scholar. She earned her real life MBA by running her family’s Vietnamese language newspaper during the 2008-2010 recession. She has worked as a journalist, historian, university lecturer, marketer, nonprofit executive, and management consultant.

Previous Education

University of California (Berkeley) BA (History) 2001

Links

http://www.curiositybased.com
https://www.facebook.com/julie.pham.9843
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliepham2

The Gates community is simple awesome!

This taught MPhil program covers the latest advances in biological and medical science, together with business management and the ethical, legal and regulatory issues associated with bringing scientific advances to market.

I am currently studying for Part III of the Mathematical Tripos (MASt Pure Mathematics). My main interests lie in applied and computational analysis, probability theory, and stochastic calculus. I am particularly interested in the design of efficient algorithms for the characterization of multiscale systems.

I came from Ipoh, a small mining town in Malaysia. My father passed away from lung cancer having never smoked in his entire life. His passing motivated me to explore whether certain diseases are caused by urban environmental factors or bad genetics. My experience of delivering food to the single-living, less-abled elderlies during COVID-19 made me realise that many people in Singapore faced similar health difficulties too. This series of events made me question if we could change the way we live, and perform preventive measures to address factors affecting our health outcomes. At the University of Cambridge, I will pursue the MPhil in Human-inspired Artificial Intelligence. My research will create the foundational tools to describe the relationships between urban elements and humans and provide the data infrastructure to investigate causal inference between urban exposures and health outcomes. With the Gates-Cambridge scholarship, I now have the opportunity to make an impact on public health and create a way where we all can live a healthy and prosperous life.

Previous Education

Nanyang Technological University Mechanical Engineering

My background in mechanical engineering has prepared me to tackle diverse problems in the field of engineering. Just after my arrival in Cambridge, I radically changed my research field thanks to the generous support from the Trust. I am now working on the development of a wastewater treatment system to deal with the crucial sanitation issues of refugee camps. I hope to become a professional engineer with a broad background in sustainable development, business economics and human dignity.

For my PhD in Sociology I analyse trends in job quality (work intensity, working time flexibility and job autonomy) across various welfare systems in the EU. My research interests involve broadly various aspects of job and employment quality from the comparative perspective. I researched work-life balance arrangements in Italy; retirement transitions in Poland; professional work environments in the UK; debates and measures of quality of employment from the perspective of a development agenda of Latin America; gender equality and gender norms in the EU.

This year at the University of Cambridge, I will be receiving an MPhil in Social and Developmental Psychology under the supervision of Dr. Claire Hughes. During my time in Cambridge I will be working on Dr. Hughes' "Toddlers and Up" project, a longitudinal study that examines young children's learning profiles. By looking at young children with high levels of inhibition and social anxiety, I hope to compare their performance on executive function tasks to their more outgoing peers.

It was during my BSc in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, NL, that I became interested in how social, cultural and environmental factors present in the immediate environment can bring about individual differences between people. It became clear that brain development and neuroplasticity play a crucial role in contributing to these individual differences and I developed a deep interest in developmental neuroscience. For this reason, I completed an MRes in Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, UK, focusing on adolescent socio-cognitive development. I am especially interested in the period of adolescence (defined as 10 to 24 years) because 75% of socio-emotional disorders first appear during this period of life, highlighting the urgent need to better understand how the social environment contributes to the development of the brain and cognition. In a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and the Institute of Global Health in Barcelona, I will carry out an interdisciplinary PhD project that will assess how sociocultural and environmental factors contribute to self- and socio-cognitive processing in adolescence, and how these may be associated with risk and resilience to mental health problems.

Previous Education

University College London Cognitive Neuroscience 2019
University of Amsterdam PPLE - Psychology Major 2018

I graduated first in my faculty, in 2011, with a BA in History and Political Science, a combination which incorporated my passion for both research and activism. This year I completed my master’s thesis on the framing of female sanctity in Early Irish hagiography. My proposed doctoral research expands upon this project, to interrogate the role of vernacular saints’ lives in identity formation. I am particularly excited about the opportunities for interdisciplinary research afforded by my Cambridge department. The experiences and challenges encountered, in returning to education as a mature learner, have been among the most difficult and rewarding of my life. The professional validation and personal fulfilment arising from my studies have been, and continue to be, an immense privilege and I am confident that in my future career I will aid other mature students negotiate their university years.

I earned a BSc in Evolutionary Anthropology and Paleoecology from Rutgers University in 2008 and a MPhil in Archaeological Science from Cambridge in 2009. I completed my PhD in Archaeology at Cambridge in 2012. My PhD combined zooarchaeology and stable isotope analysis to identify changes in human diet and seasonal mobility in response to environmental change from the Pleistocene/Holocene transition to the introduction of domestic animals and agriculture (11,000-7,000 years BP) in the Eastern Adriatic.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge PhD Archaeology 2012
University of Cambridge MPhil Archaeological Science 2009
Rutgers University Evolutionary Anthropology, Paleoecology 2008

Links

http://research.franklin.uga.edu/quaternary
https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanne-pilaar-birch-96408579

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, where I am supervised by Ryan and Simone. At the moment, I am mainly interested in information theory and its application to the study of machine learning models and linguistics. To this end, I have recently been dabbling in information-theoretic linguistics and probing.
I believe that by improving our knowledge of how NLP methods work, we can improve their performance in non-mainstream languages, empowering the communities that speak them.

I enjoy the few sunny days I get in the UK and I am always looking forward to summer.

Previous Education

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Computer Science 2018
Universidade de Brasilia Mechatronics Engineering 2015

Hannah completed her PhD in the Department of Experimental Psychology under the supervision of Dr Denes Szucs. Following her time in Cambridge, Hannah worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Anna Freud Centre and University College London. Hannah completed medical training at The University of Sydney in 2018 and is further specialising in Psychiatry. She is a Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry (conjoint) at the University of New South Wales.

I am a versatile physicist with a PhD from the University of Cambridge, skilled in advanced data analysis, modeling, and simulations. With expertise in Python, C++, MATLAB, and SQL, I have a proven track record in software development, project management, and leading research teams. My background includes significant contributions to the aerospace industry, as well as experience in mentoring and academic publishing. I am eager to transition into roles in data science, quantitative finance, or continue in the aerospace sector, leveraging my analytical skills and problem-solving abilities to drive innovation and success. Open to opportunities in the Los Angeles area or remotely.

Previous Education

University of Oxford
University of Pennsylvania
University of Cambridge

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arazi-pinhas