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After graduating from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2012 with a Bsc degree in Physics, I decided to switch to mathematical biology on the international Erasmus Mundus Masters in Complex Systems Science programme. My research here focused on epidemiological modelling, with applications on Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease and human influenza, both fundamentally influenced by the dynamics of genetically different strains. During my PhD, I aim to create a spatially explicit population genetics framework to explore how different selection across the species range can affect the spread of beneficial traits, using recent genetic data. Aside from applications, such as shaping efforts in conservation ecology or searching for genes of medical importance by distinguishing between effects of demographic events and selection, it will also help us reconstruct human demographic history and understand how species can rapidly adapt to changing environmental conditions.

Previous Education

University of Warwick 2013
University of Gothenburg 2012
Budapest University of Technology and Economics 2009

I am from Moscow, Russia. I got my first degree in Medical Physics in Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics. Doing my graduate research which was connected with brain injuries I decided to do my further studies in the field of neuroscience. Moreover cellular and molecular mechanisms of brain damage and regeneration became my main topic of interest. The project I am working on is connected with regeneration of glial cells of the brain. Our main goal is to figure out key molecules of this process to promote regeneration in the damaged nervous system. It will definitely lead to new approaches of treatment currently incurable diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, Spastic cerebral palsy and others.

I was born and raised in the heart of Vienna. In 2008, I started the BSc in Mechanical Engineering at Vienna University of Technology. I continued my studies abroad by enrolling in the TIME Double Degree programme at Ecole Centrale Paris. In Paris I developed my interest in energy-related research and, in particular, in combustion science. In 2013, I completed the MPhil in Energy Technologies at the University of Cambridge, where I researched spark ignition simulations. I then returned home to Vienna to complete the MSc in Mechanical Engineering. This included an external research project in the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, where I studied the onset of turbulence experimentally. My PhD will focus on gas turbine combustion modelling. Understanding the physical phenomena related to engine ignition, flame extinction and self-excited oscillations is crucial to allow for the implementation of future combustor designs that operate lean so as to achieve very low emissions.

Previous Education

Ecole Centrale Paris Diplôme d'Ingénieur 2014
Vienna University of Technology MSc Mechanical Engineering 2014
University of Cambridge MPhil Energy Technologies 2013

I grew up in North Vancouver, Canada and completed a BSc in Honours Microbiology & Immunology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Having worked in a variety of immunology-related fields throughout my undergraduate degree, my fascination of our immune system and the potential of immunotherapeutics grew thanks to the mentorship of my supervisors. I am interested in understanding the complex interactions between our immune system and foreign agents like donor organs in order to design therapies that utilize our incredible defence system. For my PhD in Surgery, I will be investigating how mixed chimerism, or the coexistence of donor and recipient blood cells, can induce transplant tolerance between the host and recipient. This ability to induce tolerance could counteract the risk of organ rejection while eliminating the need for lifelong immunosuppression drugs. I hope my research contributes to future improvements in bone-marrow and solid-organ transplantations, and I look forward to joining the Cambridge and Gates community.

Previous Education

University of British Columbia

I grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and moved to Melbourne, Australia for my tertiary education. I graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2010, earning a BEng in Civil Engineering. I have now completed my PhD and am working in a think tank to develop new and improved social impact initiatives across Malaysia.

I am a historian of Ottoman intellectual and cultural history with a particular interest in the interaction between historical and literary texts. My first book, the Emergence of Public Opinion in the Ottoman Empire, was a result of the strong curiosity that I had developed over the years in the social and political transformations of the Ottoman Empire. As a scholar, I work at the intersection of history and literature. For my next project, I am planning to focus on the reading culture and its transformations throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge

Jeff Skopek is an Associate Professor in the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law and the Deputy Director of its Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences.

His research explores the normative and conceptual foundations of health law, focusing in particular on controversies about what constitutes a harm/benefit within medical care, the health care system, and biomedical research. He recently completed several projects on privacy and anonymity, and he currently leading a grand-funded project on the use of artificial intelligence in health care.

During 2021-2022, he will be on a fellowship at Harvard Law School, working on a book titled "Three Challenges for Animals Rights: Cows, Zebras, and Painless Mice."

Outside of academia, he serves on the Ethics and Sustainability Board of the cell engineering company bit.bio. In the past, he served on Astra Zeneca's Animal Welfare Ethics Review Board and the Health and Social Care Advisory Panel for the UK government's Centre for Digital Ethics.

Before taking up his position at Cambridge, he held a three-year Academic Fellowship at Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Centre for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Prior to that, he served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Lynch of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

He holds a J.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School, a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, and an A.B. in History (with distinction) from Stanford University. His studies were supported by Truman, Fulbright, Gates Scholarships, for which he is most grateful.

Links

http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/jm-skopek/6144

Originally from Richmond, VA, I completed my BS in Computer Engineering at UMBC, where I conducted research under Dr. Govind Rao at the Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (CAST) on developing biosensor technologies addressing challenges in affordability and sustainability to be used in biomedicine and the bioprocess. At Cambridge, I am exploring the fabrication of a point-of-care technology for screening, diagnosing, and tracking neuromuscular disease progression under Prof. George Malliaras in the Department of Electrical Engineering. After obtaining my Ph.D. I aim to direct my own research center, consult with policymakers, and become a global ambassador for biomedical technologies.

Previous Education

University of Maryland System Computer Engineering 2023

I started my research work in structural biochemistry in 2006, focusing on solving protein structures using advanced methodologies like NMR and X-Ray diffraction techniques. In 2007 and 2008 I received extensive biological crystallography training at University of Virginia, working on targets of Midwest Center for Structural Genomics. As a graduate student at the University of Cambridge I focused on the application of the knowledge of protein structures to drug design. Currently I continue my work in structural biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried (Germany). I believe that work in this field may be useful to the world community, providing solutions to important health problems.

Some of my earliest childhood memories are of pulling apart my toys, understanding how they worked and trying to put them back together before anyone else realised. I believe this same curiosity (and ambition) led me to study engineering and has continued to open many doors that I would have otherwise never considered. Towards the end of my undergraduate degree, I was fortunate to travel abroad and study wind turbines with Siemens and Vestas (two of the world’s largest manufacturers). Over the following years, I have chosen to learn more about the interaction between the power sector and the environment. I have started to build my career forecasting the development of electricity markets with the express aim of tangibly contributing to their rapid decarbonisation. The Masters that I have now applied to study will further my understanding of the technologies that will govern this future and the targets needed to mitigate existential climate change.

Previous Education

Queensland University of Technology Mechanical Engineering 2017

Previous Education

University of Utah MA (History) 2008
Hillsdale College BS (History, Math) 2005

At Cambridge, I plan to research Russian émigré literature in Europe between 1917 and the beginning of World War II, concentrating on the prose of Vladimir Nabokov and the poetry of Vladislav Khodasevich. I am interested in the transformation of frontiers throughout Nabokov’s novels as they relate to the autonomy and mobility of characters within his texts. Born in Western Massachusetts, I graduated from Wellesley College in 2005 with a major in Russian Language and Literature. I spent the following year on a Fulbright grant in northern Russia, where I worked for the Atlantic Salmon Reserve on the Rynda and Kharlovka Rivers and participated in mountaineering expeditions in the Khibini Mountains and the Pre-Polar Urals.

My research focuses on the intersection of politics and economic reform in the Middle East through an examination of democracy and economic assistance programs funded by the United States to Egypt and Morocco since 1990. I am particularly interested in examining political change, democratization and economic reform broadly and in relation to the Middle East and Asia.

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http://www.erinsnider.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-snider-aa82a43