Dr Alexander Bryan has been elected to a Career Development Fellowship in Philosophy. He studied for BA and MA degrees in Philosophy and Politics from the University of York before moving to King’s College London for his doctoral research. Since receiving his PhD in 2020, Alex has held postdoctoral fellowships at Tel Aviv University and Harvard University and worked as a Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University. Alex is a political philosopher whose work engages with theories of freedom, questions of economic justice, and democratic theory.

Professor Margaret Kelleher is Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin. She's widely published in Irish women's writings, 19th-century Irish literary studies, modern and contemporary Irish culture, and digital humanities. Her publication, The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life and Death in 19th-Century Ireland, received the Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books in Language and Culture from the American Conference for Irish Studies in 2019. Margaret is a Board Member of the Museum of Literature Ireland and a former Chair of the Irish Film Institute. She's also a member of the Royal Irish Academy and has held visiting scholarships at various institutions, including Boston College, Peking University, and the University of Virginia.

Dr Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh has been elected as Lumley Junior Research Fellowship in History. With a BA in Natural Sciences from Trinity Hall (2018), he won the Jacob Bronowski Prize. His MPhil and PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from Wolfson College (2019) and St Edmund's College (2023) reflect his dedication to scholarship. Gianamar's research explores global history of science and the politics of knowledge production. His postdoctoral project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the Isaac Newton Trust, focuses on early modern Southern Africa. He has held fellowships at prominent institutions and is a BBC AHRC New Generation Thinker nominee.

Dr Maria Ivan, is a pure mathematician, originally from Romanian she has been based in Cambridge for eight years, earning her BA, MMath, and PhD at St John's College. Her expertise lies in extremal combinatorics, specifically poset saturation, Ramsey theory, extremal set theory, and pursuit and evasion. Dr. Ivan's impact is notable, with her 2020 paper on 'Saturation for the Butterfly Poset' marking a significant achievement. She also pioneered a link between Ramsey theory and combinatorics on words. Beyond academia, she serves as a senior examiner at the International Mathematical Olympiad, enjoys salsa dancing, and engages in multilingual conversations in Romanian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Russian.

Miss Niamh Bridson Hubbard pursued her academic journey at Magdalene, beginning with her BA in Geography (2016-2019). She continued her studies at the College, completing her MPhil in Sociology (2019-2020). Her MPhil dissertation, exploring changes in the UK labour market since the 1980s and their impact on worker health and wellbeing, earned her the prestigious Polity Prize. After a year in the public sector, Niamh has returned to Magdalene for an ESRC-funded PhD, examining mental health and wellbeing in the UK labour market, focusing on novel working arrangements like job retention schemes, hybrid work, and the four-day week.

Miss Frances Rigby has been elected to a Bye-Fellowship in Astronomy. She completed her MPhys in Physics and Astronomy at Durham University before pursuing her PhD at the Institute of Astronomy, Magdalene. Frances's research focuses on exoplanet interiors, atmospheres, and habitability, specifically on Hycean worlds, characterized by deep oceans and hydrogen atmospheres. She is a co-investigator on a James Webb Space Telescope proposal, aimed at studying the atmospheres of potential Hycean candidates.

Dr Adriana Pesci, a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge since 2007, primarily focuses on two areas of study. Firstly, her research delves into topological transitions in Fluid Dynamics, a journey that began with her exploration of drop pinching in the late 1990s and now encompasses the reconnection of Plateau borders and the collapse of bounded minimal surfaces in soap films. Secondly, she connects Fluid Mechanics with Biophysics, examining flows generated by swimming organisms and formulating equations to describe slender filament oscillations in living systems.