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Magdalene welcomes new Fellows
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Magdalene welcomes new Fellows

With the start of the new academic year just around the corner, we are pleased to announce the admission of new Fellows. A warm welcome to the Magdalene community!

Dr Ali Meghji (2011)

Official Fellow | Subject: HSPS, Sociology

Dr Ali MeghjiDr Ali Meghji is a Lecturer in Social Inequalities at the Department of Sociology, and Official Fellow in HSPS at Magdalene. Before starting his lectureship, Dr Meghji worked as a Research Fellow in Sociology at Sidney Sussex College, and held a Visiting Fellowship at the Weatherhead Centre, Harvard University. He studied for his BA, MPhil, and PhD (all in Sociology) at the University of Cambridge. Ali’s predominant research interests lie in Critical Race Theory and decolonial thought.

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Ms Sara Caputo (2019)

Junior Research Fellow | Subject: History

Ms Sara CaputoMs Sarah Caputo is a Junior Research Fellow, she completed her BA at Cardiff University, MSc at The University of Edinburgh, and a PhD at Robinson College, University of Cambridge. Her thesis, entitled ‘Foreign Seamen and the British Navy, 1793-1815’, looks at foreign sailors in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It examines the legal, social, cultural and diplomatic context of these men’s recruitment and service, using sources from British, Italian, Maltese and Dutch archives. Ms Caputo is particularly interested in the tension between the efficiency needs of states during wartime and the practical workings of cultural, social and legal difference.

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Ms Lisa Kreusser (2019)

Junior Research Fellow | Subject: Mathematics

Ms Lisa KreusserMs Lisa Maria Kreusser is a Junior Research Fellow in Mathematics. After studying Mathematics at the University of Kaiserslautern with research visits at the National University of Singapore and at Imperial College London, Ms Kreusser came to Cambridge for her PhD. Her research focuses on mathematical models in biology, industry and data science, combining her desire to extend the boundaries of mathematical knowledge with advancing the understanding of real-world problems of practical importance. For this work, she has been awarded the Smith-Knight & Rayleigh-Knight Prizes and has been selected as a TakeAIM Prize Winner 2018 by the Smith Institute.

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Mr Dylan Gaffney (2017)

Bye-Fellow | Subject: Archaeology

Mr Dylan GaffneyMr Dylan Gaffney is a Bye-Fellowship in Archaeology, he holds a BA (2012) in Classical Studies and Anthropology, and a BA Honours (2013) and MA (2016) in Anthropology from the University of Otago, where he was later Research Coordinator at Southern Pacific Archaeological Research (2016-2017). Mr Gaffney is currently studying towards a PhD, directing a field project in an archaeologically uncharted island group off the western coast of New Guinea. This work seeks to unlock the dynamics of how Stone Age seafarers dispersed from Southeast Asia to the Pacific, as our species moved out of Africa and into new and challenging environments such as equatorial rainforests and small islands for the first time. 

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Mr Jonny Bodey (2013)

Bye-Fellow | Subject: Natural Sciences, Physics

Mr Jonny BodeyMr Jonny Bodey is a Bye-Fellow, he originally came to Magdalene to study Natural Sciences as an undergraduate in 2013. He continued his studies starting as a PhD student in experimental quantum physics. Mr Bodey is a member of the Cambridge Quantum Optimal Materials and Systems Group and his research interests include, spin physics, quantum control, solid-state quantum coherence, many-body physics and collective phenomena.

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Mr Fintan O'Toole (2019)

Visiting Fellow | Subject: Irish Studies

Mr Fintan O'TooleMr Fintan O'Toole is the Parnell Fellow for Michalmas Term 2019. Born in Dublin in 1958. Has been a columnist with The Irish Times since 1988. Writes regularly also for The Guardian and New York Review of Books. Winner Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2017, European Press Prize 2017. Irish columnist of the year award Irish National Newspaper Awards 2017 Has been Leonard L. Milberg Visiting Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton since 2012. Has published 20 books. Currently researching the official biography of Seamus Heaney.

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Dr Meng-Shan Tan (2019)

Visiting Fellow | Subject: Medical Sciences

Dr Meng-Shan TanDr Meng-Shan Tan is the Yip Visiting Fellow for Michaelmas Term 2019. Dr Tan is focusing on the genetics, biomarkers, preventions and therapies for Alzheimer’s disease, and is the recipient of the 2014 International Scholarship Award from American Academy of Neurology. In past six years, Dr Tan has published 20 peer-reviewed articles concerning Alzheimer’s disease in the international journals including Trends in Molecular Medicine, Cell Death Disease, Molecular Neurobiology, Neurobiology of Aging, and Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.

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Professor Allan Pring (2019)

Visiting Fellow | Subject Chemical Mineralogy, Earth Sciences

Professor Allan PringProfessor Allan Pring is a Visiting Fellow, he is Distinguished Professor of Chemical Mineralogy at Flinders University in Adelaide South Australia. He spent most of his career at the South Australian Museum as Head of Earth Sciences and left the museum in 2014 to join Flinders University. Professor Pring's research interests focus on the physics and chemistry of ore deposit formation and his group has pioneered the development methods to study hydrothermal mineral forming reactions at high temperatures and pressures.

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A warm welcome to our new Fellows!