Luke AbbsLink opens in a new window

Residential Fellow (2019-20)

Essex University, UK

Visiting February 2020

Luke is a researcher at the BLG Data Research Centre, based at the University of Essex and Research Fellow at the Department of Government. At the BLG Data Research Centre we deploy applied analytics to inform key policy questions, turning data into knowledge and knowledge into impact.

His expertise is in prediction, using statistical methods and supervised machine learning techniques. His role is two-fold: to inform policy questions from local government and charities and to aid the prediction of political conflict within the academic field of political science.

His policy role involves engagement with stakeholders such as Essex County Council and Essex Police, exploring a range of policy questions and data analysis related to crime, health and economic growth. This also includes providing training provided to stakeholders, which is also provided through the Centre.

Luke's current academic research agenda is focused on developing two important bodies of conflict research. The first focuses on analysing armed violence and the effectiveness of UN peacekeeping. This currently consists of the analysis of political violence, militias and UN peacekeeping across Darfur, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The second explores the emergence and dynamics of nonviolent resistance campai

Elizabeth Ablett

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Sociology

Dr. Elizabeth Ablett's thesis uses a feminist sociological lens to confront some of the most pressing issues in politics. In the contemporary political moment, questions about how politicians behave, what they do, and who they are, are being fiercely and widely debated. There is also a striking rise in the amount of abuse which women and minority ethnic politicians face. Global movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp aim to tackle abuse in workplaces, and increasing attention is being paid to abuse and violence against politicians.

Her doctoral work, funded by the ESRC, uses an ethnographic approach to explore how these issues are manifested in local British politics. To do so, she argues that practicing politics should be considered a form of (gendered) work. Her wider research interests include feminist epistemologies, left politics in Britain, work and organisations, and institutional ethnography. Elizabeth is an active member of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at Warwick, and a former Visiting Researcher in the Center for Feminist Social Sciences at Örebro University, Sweden.  

Ojodomo Achadu

EUTOPIA SIF Fellow 2021

Ojodomu will primarily carry out his research & academic activities at the International Institute for Nanocomposites Manufacturing (IINM) in WMG. His academic and research sojourns over the past few years have included taking up postdoctoral fellowships in South Africa, France, and quite recently in Japan (under the prestigious Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) International Research Fellowship). Ojodomu achieved his PhD in Chemistry from Rhodes University, South Africa, in 2018. His background, amongst others, include hands-on experience and skills in materials chemistry and engineering, including nanomaterials synthesis/characterization, using state-of-the-art nanotechnology techniques and equipment.

Ojodomu's interdisciplinary project will explore the advanced synthesis of 3D magnetic nanostructures with precise sizes and shapes, and their integration with self-healing high performance dielectric elastomeric actuators towards the design of highly efficient 3D nanomagnetic-based nanogenerators/energy harvesting devices. This will result in fabricating functional low-cost devices with unprecedented magnetic noise conversion to electricity.

Ojodomu is keen to collaborate with postgraduate and postdoc colleagues in any of the areas of his expertise. He is based in the IINM building and can be contacted at: Ojodomo.Achadu@warwick.ac.uk.

Sally Adams

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

School of Life Sciences

I obtained my Ph.D. in Plant Epigenetics from Bath University. This led to postdoctoral positions studying various aspects of gene expression regulation in plant systems at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI), Université de Genève, the University of Leicester and the University of Warwick. Whilst in Warwick, I was offered the opportunity to jump Kingdoms to start working with a fascinating new 3 sexed nematode species. This evolutionary enigma has been both fascinating and challenging to work with. It pushed me to build a whole new skill set and taught me the importance of interdisciplinary approaches. My fields of expertise include molecular biology (CRISPR/Cas9 development), bioinformatics, plant genetics, and nematology.

Théo Aiolfi

Early Career Teaching Fellow (2021-22)

Institute of Advanced Teaching & Learning

Théo Aiolfi is an Early Career Teaching Fellow at IATL and IAS. His doctoral research at the intersection of politics and performance studies engaged with the interaction between form and substance through the concept of populism. Comparing the cases of Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen, he more specifically engaged with the links between populism and exclusionary nationalism in the context of representative democracy. His research more generally explores the inherent theatricality of politics and seeks to develop innovative interdisciplinary tools to capture it. In addition to populism, performativity and politics as performance, his research interests also include discourse and visual analysis, semiotics, popular culture, and theories of International Relations.

Baris AriLink opens in a new window

Residential Fellow (2019-20)

Durham University, UK

Visiting February 2020

Barış Arı is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Government and International Relations (SGIA) in Durham University. He is currently the principal investigator of an ESRC funded project ‘Peace Processes in Civil Wars’. He is also Slater Fellow of the University College. Barış completed his PhD in 2018 from the University of Essex under the supervision of Regius Professor Kristian Skrede Gleditsch and Dr Daina Chiba. He previously taught at University College London, the London School of Economics and the University of Essex prior to joining Durham in 2018 as a Teaching Fellow in Comparative Politics and Quantitative Methods. Barış holds a joint Erasmus Mundus degree (MSc in Global Studies) from Roskilde University and Wrocław University and a joint BSc degree in Global Politics and International Affairs from the Middle East Technical University and Binghamton University.

Dr Abimbola Ayorinde

GCRF Fellow

W-CAHRD

6 – 13 April 2020

Nigeria is one of countries with the highest maternal and child mortality and morbidity rates in the world. This funding will support Dr Abimbola Ayorinde and Professor Debra Bick to visit the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in order to establish collaborations, understand local context and undertake some preliminary work for future GCRF proposals relating to perinatal health. The activities will include workshops with service users, clinicians and researchers in order to establish areas of research priorities. Professor Debra Bick will also deliver a seminar on the current state of maternity care in the UK. Literature reviews will be conducted to establish research aims and objectives. This funding will, therefore, greatly facilitate the development of the future GCRF funding proposals.

Josefine Baark

Associate Fellow (2018-20)

Department of History of Art

Josefine Baark is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the History of Art Department. Her research traces how miniature automata combined aesthetically pleasing design with their consumers’ tacit knowledge of the unseen, mechanical interior. Such tactile and beautiful technologies play a major part in how people view and respond to the world, whether it be Chinese automata or other intricately designed devices, such as a smartphone. After receiving her PhD from the University of Cambridge (2015), she was based in Hong Kong. In 2017-2018, she was at the University of Copenhagen, where she produced a documentary (Trailer). In 2019, she will be producing a second film, focused on the clockwork found in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

Sharin Baldwin

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Warwick Medical School

I am a trained nurse, midwife, health visitor, and my research interests are perinatal mental health, and fathers’ mental health particular. I recently completed my PhD at King’s College London as part of a NIHR Clinical Doctoral Fellowship and have joined Warwick Clinical Trials Unit after being awarded the NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement Award in September 2020.
I also work as Clinical Academic Lead in London North West Healthcare Trust. I am a Queen’s Nurse and Fellow of the Institute of Health Visiting. I have published several research papers in reputable professional journals and is on the editorial board for the Journal of Health Visiting.

Sara Bamdad

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Sociology

Infertility treatment clinics are peculiar places. In them, social structures and norms are de-constructed and re-constructed; and complex relations, practices and feelings are negotiated. Assisted conception in Iran is unpredictable and uncertain not only by the virtue of the technology itself, but also in the context of changes to local, national and global social relations. These ongoing changes and different layers of dynamism highlight the importance of conducting other research, particularly on ethnic groups and various identities in Iran, and I plan to pursue as my next research project.

Leonello Bazzuro Gambi

Early Career Fellow (2021-22)

Philosophy and Literature

Leonello completed his PhD in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick in 2021. His thesis explores the work of experimental visual poet Juan Luis Martínez (Chile, 1942 – 1993). By drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the assemblage, Leonello analyses Martínez’s conception of the book as an assembled intermedia artwork (i.e. “artists’ book”) and his use of appropriation methods to critique individual authorship and copyrights. More broadly, Leonello is interested in the political potential of contemporary Latin-American art and literature – in particular, visual poetry, performance art, artists’ books, mail art and digital poetry.

Zofia Bednarowska-Michaiel

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM)

I am a Teaching Fellow in Computational Social Sciences in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM). I have a multidisciplinary background – I graduated from the Political Science, Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Sociology. During PhD I pursued a research project about spatial discrimination in consumption space. This moved me towards Regional Studies that combines economics, geography, and urban studies among others.
I am also a devoted methodologist, with an extensive experience in survey research and data science. I am passionate about exploring spatial dependence in well-established models to account for new explanations. I enjoy teaching my PGT students about methods and data.

Mario Nuno de Matos Berberan e Santos

Residential Fellow (2019-20)

Lisbon University

Visiting 13 - 20 October 2019

Eloïse Bertrand

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Politics & International Studies

Eloïse Bertrand is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, and a PhD Candidate in Politics and International Studies. Her dissertation looked at the role of opposition parties in African hybrid regimes, with a focus on the cases of Uganda and Burkina Faso. Her research addresses a range of issues related to party politics, from party formation processes to the functions of opposition parties within these systems and their contribution to democratisation. She holds an MSc in African Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, and undergraduate degrees in Political Science and Anglophone Studies from the University Lumière Lyon 2 (France). She has produced independent research for development and peacebuilding NGOs and research institutes, including Oxfam International, Freedom House, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, and the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Andrei BespalovLink opens in a new window

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2020-22)

Department of Philosophy, Connecting Cultures GRP

I hold a PhD in political science from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, 2019) and a Candidate of Philosophical Sciences degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University (2004), where I taught philosophy in 2004–2015.

The aim of my current research project is to find the least morally and metaphysically demanding answer to the basic question of political liberalism: How is it possible for free and equal individuals to form a stable political society under the conditions of deep disagreement between them? My solution is centred around the fallibilistic public justification principle: The exercise of political power is legitimate only if it is justified on the grounds of reasons that can be subject to reasonable criticism. I explore general theoretical implications of this principle and its possible policy applications ranging from the accommodation of cultural and religious diversity to maintaining fairness in economic competition and redistribution of wealth.

Amol Bhandare

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

School of Life Sciences

I have a Ph.D. degree in Advanced Medicine from Macquarie University, Sydney. I have three years of postdoctoral experience in in-vivo calcium imaging using head-mounted mini cameras in awake mice at the University of Warwick (School of Life Sciences). Recently, as a Co-PI, I have received the ERUK project funding to investigate the mechanism of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy using in vivo neuronal imaging in freely behaving mice. I want to secure follow-on funding by applying to independent Fellowships to sustain my ongoing research and to become an independent researcher.

Sabera BhayatLink opens in a new window

(Early Career Fellow 2021-22)

Department of History

I am a cultural and social historian of Modern South Asia. My doctoral research intervenes in the history of sexuality in colonial India. I explain why and how different groups framed polygamy as a Muslim problem over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by which the 'problem of Muslim polygamy' was consolidated as a social common sense of Muslim marriage and sexuality. Through a close reading of primary literature in English, Urdu and Hindi, my research examines how 'Muslim polygamy' became a site on which identities were formed and power structures reconfigured through the social governance of bodily practices. My research interests include gender, sexuality, intersectional feminism and Islam in South Asia and Britain.

Roxanne Bibizadeh

Early Career Innovation Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Computer Science

Dr. Roxanne Ellen Bibizadeh’s thesis offers an original contribution to the conceptualisation of freedom within literature of the Iranian and Arab diaspora by drawing on three key theoretical frameworks: feminism, international human rights law and philosophies of freedom. Roxanne won the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for PGR Students (2013-2014). In 2015 she won an Academic Fellowship with IATL to create and deliver a new module ‘Censorship and Society’. In 2016-2018 she took a leading role in an ESRC IAA Digital Wildfire project, designing and conducting workshops with over one hundred secondary school students and teachers to investigate how social media affects the everyday lives of young people. In 2018-2019, in collaboration with Dr Rashmi Varma, she won another Academic Fellowship with IATL to create a new interdisciplinary module ‘Feminist Dissent: Theory, Practice and Resistance’. As an IAS Early Career Innovation Fellow and Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science Roxanne is leading a project entitled ‘Digital Ethics and Online Governance’.

Umber Bin Ibad

International Visiting Fellow (2019-20)

Forman Christian College, Pakistan

15 November 2018 - 22 January 2020

My research draws on three major questions in the context of the sacred spaces in Postcolonial society. The first question is about the social production of the space, particularly in relation to the construction of territory. The second inquires the character of the diasporic engagement in the postcolonial society. The third problematizes the nature of belonging and deterritorialization in the context of sacred spaces. The mode of inquiries would group together highlighting the character of larger engagement of the postcolonial state and society with the enlargement of cosmopolitan ideologies and liberal economy. The focus of inquiry would be on the South Asia, especially around the religious tourist activities on the border such as Kartarpur Corridor on the border of India and Pakistan. My stay in Warwick would help me, among other things, to dwell upon the literature and activities of the diaspora engaged in the activities having direct impact in their homeland of origin.

Jack Binysh

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Institute of Mathematics

Hydrogen is a loop of string. Tie a knot in the loop and you have Helium. Link two loops together, you make a molecule. String, endlessly knotting and linking with itself, weaves the world we see around us. This beautiful idea was proposed by 19th century physicist Lord Kelvin, and though ultimately discarded, recent years have seen its rebirth in the field of 'topological matter', as experimentalists have discovered how to encode knotted structures into liquid crystals, magnets, and even light itself. My current projects are, firstly, to build on the theory of the objects discovered in the above soft matter systems, and secondly to develop further applications of my construction for knotted states.

Helena Duffy

Fernandes Fellow (2022)

Helena Duffy (MSt Oxon, PhD Oxford Brookes) is Fernandes Fellow (Warwick) and Professor of French (Wrocław, Poland). She has taught French language and culture at Royal Holloway, University of Queensland, and Université Blaise-Pascal in France. She has been Marie-Curie Research Fellow and Collegium Researcher at the University of Turku, Finland. She is the author of monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, and book chapters, which deal with cultural representations of World War II and the Holocaust. At Warwick, she is working in ecocritial and comparative perspectives on the figurations of the forest in Holocaust literature and film.

Michelle Devereaux

Associate Fellow (2022-2023)

I received my PhD in Film Studies from the University of Edinburgh in 2017 and have taught at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Birmingham, and the University of Warwick. My monograph, The Stillness of Solitude: Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film, was published in 2019 by Edinburgh University Press, and my recent work features in Screen and the forthcoming volumes The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023) and Television with Stanley Cavell in Mind (University of Exeter Press, 2023). I am a board member of the online journal MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture.

Dr. Sébastien Lapointe

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND) (2022-2024)

Dr. Sébastien Lapointe is a Maria Skłodowska Curie EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND Postdoctoral Fellow working in the Department of Chemistry with Pr. Adrian B. Chaplin. His research aims to repurpose anthropogenic N₂O emissions by establish the science underpinning the activation of N₂O by homogenous transition-metal complexes and translate these findings into impactful catalytic applications.

Dr. Lapointe did his undergraduate studies at the University of Montréal (Montréal, QC, Canada). He then moved across the globe to do his Ph.D with Professor Julia R. Khusnutdinova at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (Okinawa, Japan), where he received his degree in 2020. He did his first postdoc with Professor Viktoria H. Gessner at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Bochum, NRW, Germany).

Yuliia Lysanets

Fernandes Fellow (2022), Poltava State Medical University, Ukraine

Yuliia Lysanets, PhD, is an Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages with Latin and Medical Terminology at Poltava State Medical University (Ukraine). PhD by Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine) with the thesis "The Expressionist Poetics in the Prose by Gustav Meyrink" (2013).

She is the author and co-author of more than 50 research papers on linguistics and world literature, published in international peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Medical Case Reports (Springer Nature); the co-author of 5 textbooks on professional English in healthcare for medical undergraduates, PhD students, and staff.

Her record of scholarships and grants includes the Research Fellowship for young scientists, granted by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (2016-2018), Erasmus+ mobility for staff training at Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France (2017), Erasmus+ mobility for teaching English for Specific Purposes at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2019), and Erasmus+ mobility for staff training at University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain (2022).

The focus of her research interest embraces medical discourse in world literature, narratology and receptive aesthetics, English and Latin medical terminology, teaching English for Specific Purposes (Medicine and Dentistry), issues related to second language acquisition, academic writing, and intercultural communication.

Kieren Johns

Early Career Fellow (2021 -2022)

Kieren completed his PhD in Classics and Ancient History in 2022. His thesis presented a quantitative analysis of the changing use of honorific titles used to represent imperial status in the Latin-speaking west of the Roman Empire, from 180-235 CE. He is currently working on an article exploring the contested reception of the emperor Septimius Severus in modern Libya. He has recently taken up a position with the British Academy, working as an International Programs Officer. He remains interested in the history of the ancient world and making it accessible and enjoyable for different audiences.

Adam Neal

Early Career Fellow (2022- 2024)

Adam Neal is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Warwick, where he also teaches a variety of modules including Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, Applied Ethics and Principles of Political Economy. His Leverhulme Trust funded PhD thesis concerns the social and interpersonal implications of poverty and understanding poverty using the capability approach. He has co-edited a collection on social rights published with Oxford University Press, as well as published on the impact of the UK Government’s COVID-19 response on people who live alone. He has forthcoming publications on the philosophy of work and the ethics of relationships. He has also lectured on the Ethics of Sociability, and is a member of the Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs.

Tailise De Souza Guerreiro Rodrigues

Associate Fellow (2022 - 2023)

Graduated in Biotechnology, with a PhD in cellular ageing and a postdoc in electrophysiology, my passion for science and research has led me to be involved in teaching, grant writing, and science communication. Regarding the latest, I wrote three science communication articles for an established magazine in my home country (Brazil). My goal is to become an independent researcher on the interlinked aspects of ageing and electrophysiology, and the IAS Fellowship and Accolade program will allow me to be part of an international and multidisciplinary community where the nurturing of the innovative research of the future happens.

Charlotte Cooper

Associate Fellow (2022 - 2023)

Starting January 2021 as a PDRA in the School of Life Sciences I'm looking at nutrient uptake and metabolism in the bacteria that causes tuberculosis to understand how it can survive in the nutrient restricted environment during infection. I completed my PhD at University of Birmingham in 2021 exploring remodelling of the cell wall in the same pathogen, a process that is key for successful infection, and a transcriptional regulator that responds to external cues to coordinate this remodelling. I'm hoping to take advantage of everything the IAS fellowship has to offer to develop my career further in academic research.

Ute Oswald

Early Career Fellow (2022-2023)

Department of History

I am a social historian of psychiatry based in the Centre for the History of Medicine, and my recently completed PhD explored the role of leisure in nineteenth-century British asylums. It scrutinised the extent to which confinement, management and therapy could be consolidated through recreational activities, such as concerts, art, sport, educational classes, excursions and plays. I have shared this research at national and international conferences and in a peer-reviewed article for the Medizinhistorisches Journal.

During my IAS fellowship I intend to shift my focus to religion in asylums, an area which my thesis already touched upon, but which deserves its own detailed scholarly investigation. I also plan to turn my thesis into a monograph and publish further articles based on my extended research topic. In exposing the often-positive impact of recreation and religion on asylum patients, I seek to reshape public perceptions of nineteenth-century institutional care and inform future policy making in mental health.

Olatunji Matthew KOLAWOLE

IAS Visiting Professor

Prof. Kolawole conducts research in the areas of infectious diseases and environmental health, related to water surveillance and wastewater reuse. He has published over 150 research articles in peer reviewed journals. He is a member of the Ministerial Expert Advisory Committee on COVID-19; National coordinator Poliovirus Laboratory Containment; Editor in Chief, Nigerian Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences; Member, Institute of Public Analyst of Nigeria, and Fellow for the Society for Environmental and Public Health Professionals. He is also two-time past Head of Department of Microbiology; Fellow, Nigerian Young Academy. His current work focuses on wastewater reuse, water surveillance, treatment and availability of potable water in Nigeria.

Erika Herrera Rosales

Associate Fellow (2022-2023)

I was a former Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies and received my PhD in Sociology at the University of Warwick. My doctoral research looked at the effects of the social relationships between humanitarian organisations and immigrants from Northern Central America. Specifically, I explored NGOs’ roles, and practices which involved punitive actions, mobility deterrence, and ambiguous dynamics with migrants in Mexico. My research interests also include decolonial theory, family and intimacies, critical methodology and feminist poetry.

Aisel Omarova

Fernandes Fellow, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Dr. Aisel Omarova is an Associate Professor of the Department of History of State and Law of Ukraine and Foreign Countries. She has completed her PhD in 2016 in legal history, focusing on the legal status of Ukraine during the perestroika period (1985-1991). Currently she is in the process of habilitation. Habilitation is the procedure to achieve the highest university degree in many European countries, and it follows some years after the initial PhD. Dr Omarova’s area of interest for her habilitation is children's rights and the history of children's rights protection at the national and international levels. Also, she is reviewer and member of editorial board of Ukrainian and American scientific journals.

Maryna Utkina

Visiting Research Fellow

Maryna Utkina, PhD (2018), Senior Lecturer at the Department of Criminal and Legal Sciences and Procedure, Head of the Scientific Association of Students (Audience Members), Postgraduates, Doctoral Students and Young Scientists at Sumy State University (Ukraine). Participant of Academic Mobility Programs (Italy, 2015; Slovak Republic, 2019; Latvia, 2020).

Author and co-author of more than 100 research papers, 15 of which are in journals indexed by Scopus and Web of Sciences

Dr Utkina's research is on financial regulation and criminal law enforcement of illicit proceeds from organised crime - including terrorism, money laundering and corruption.

The main issues that the fellow research are:

• a comparative analysis of theoretic and legal framework: to compare notions or definitions of financial intelligence (monitoring); acts and codes which regulate this question.
• compare financial intelligence duties: the system of such authorities and their duties.
• research in general this activity, its levels, main points and the process at all.
• research financial intelligence in the system of corruption prevention: best practices and others.

Hiromichi Hagihara

Associate Fellow (2022-2023)

Hiromichi is a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Tokyo, Japan, and is currently a Visiting Academic at the University of Warwick. He has been particularly working on investigating young children's language acquisition and applying automated techniques to the developmental psychology field. He completed his Ph.D. at Kyoto University, Japan. He is also a pediatric occupational therapist, engaging in developmental support for children with special needs. His current and future research will be greatly shaped by taking part in the IAS community.

Helen Smith

Early Career Fellow (2022 - 2023)

Helen recently completed her PhD in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research as part of Warwick Medical School and the Department of Chemistry. Following this she joined the IAS as an Early Career Fellow in April 2022. Helen’s research focuses on using mass spectrometry to study bacterial protein-protein interactions involved in the production of antibiotics and other pharmaceutically valuable molecules. During her fellowship she aims to publish her PhD research and continue her outreach work as part of her role as a STEM ambassador.

Dr. Sarah Werner Boada

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND) (2022-2024).

Sarah Werner Boada (PhD) is a Marie Skłodowska–Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND) at the IAS and Department of Sociology. Her current research project examines decisions to remove children from Romani and Traveller families in England and Spain from an intersectional perspective. Previously, she was a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Gender Studies of the Central European University (Vienna, Austria), where she taught at the postgraduate level.

A mother-scholar, qualitative researcher and supporter of feminist pedagogy, her teaching and research interests include Gender Violence, Motherhood studies, Antigypsyism, and other forms of inequality under neoliberal governance. She has also worked in policy advocacy, in collaboration with various intergovernmental and umbrella organisations, in the fields of gender violence and children’s rights.

Sarah's mother tongue is French, but she is also fluent in English, Spanish and German, and has notions of Romanian and Bulgarian.

Dr Emrah Atasoy

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND) (2022-2024)

I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND) of the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), working in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Prior to starting at Warwick, I spent an academic year at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of English Language and Literature as a visiting postdoctoral researcher. I completed a BA and PhD (Joint) in English Language and Literature at Hacettepe University, Türkiye, and taught at Hacettepe and Cappadocia Universities.

My Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship project is entitled Futuristic Narratives in Turkish Literature: 1950-2021: Speculation in the Anthropocene. This project aims to present a detailed discussion of Turkish futuristic narratives and speculation in the Anthropocene, covering the period between 1950 and 2021."

Research Interests

Speculative fiction, utopia, dystopia, critical dystopia, Turkish utopian & dystopian fiction, science fiction, twentieth-century literature, environmental humanities, ecocriticism, Anthropocene studies, cli-fi, posthumanism, comparative literature, world literature, pandemic fiction, apocalyptic fiction

Supervision

I am happy to supervise postgraduate work on speculative fiction, utopia, dystopia, critical dystopia, apocalyptic literature, science fiction, pandemic fiction, cli-fi, posthumanism, Anthropocene fiction, world literature, and comparative literature.

E-mail: Emrah.Atasoy@warwick.ac.uk

Alejandro Veiga-Exposito

Early Career Fellow (2022 - 2024)

Alejandro is an Early Career Research Fellow who recently finished his PhD in Hispanic Studies at Warwick. Under the title Wound Literature: Poetics of Crisis in Spain and Venezuela during the 2010s, his doctoral research focused on contemporary debates about aesthetics and politics in Spanish and Venezuelan contemporary literature. Alejandro is widely interested in contemporary Spanish and Venezuelan short fiction and poetry, critical theory, and psychoanalysis. Currently, Alejandro is developing several outputs from his doctoral research and working on his postdoctoral research on humour, politics, and ethics.

Bing Lu

Early Career Fellow (2022- 2024)

Department of Education Studies

Bing (aka Alice) is a doctoral researcher and Senior Teaching Assistant in the Department for Education Studies at University of Warwick. Her doctoral research investigates how academics who have returned from overseas doctoral study conduct doctoral supervision in their home countries. Her main research expertise is in the transnational flows of academics, doctoral supervision, and post structuralist exploration of research data authenticity. Bing founded the Superb-Vision Network sponsored by Warwick Doctoral college. Bing has been recently funded by Swiss National Foundation (SNF) as an invited speaker in the international symposium on gendered academic mobility in Lausanne University. View my Warwick Profile

Sophie Greenway

Early Career Fellow (2022-24)

Department of History

I am a historian of health and the domestic home and garden in twentieth century Britain, in the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick. I have recently completed my PhD entitled 'Growing Well: Dirt, health, the home and the garden in Britain, 1930-1970'. This project was funded by a Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship (Grant no. 104966/Z/14/Z). I explore the role of hygiene in the construction of ideas of home and garden, and the way these ideas have shaped relationships between humans and the outdoors. Throughout my PhD I developed my public engagement practice, including a year seconded with Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, and am currently working on engagement through social media.

Insiya Antria

IAS Administrator, IAS Programme Coordinator and EA to Pr. Mohan Balasubramanian

Email: ECR@warwick.ac.uk

Insiya joined IAS in May 2022 and is responsible for IAS administration, coordination and development of a range of interdisciplinary research programmes including the Visiting Fellowship and Early Fellowship programmes along with the management and utilisation of Cryfield Grange. Moreover responsible for assisting in efficient delivery of IAS activities, processing funding application and awards, supporting the ECPM in the delivery of the IAS postdoctoral fellowship programmes including the Accolade training programme, and is responsible for disseminating IAS news, producing multimedia, online and other marketing content.

Aiman Aslam

Early Career Fellow (2022-2023)

Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies

Aiman completed her PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick in 2022 funded by Punjab Educational Endowment Fund (PEEF), Pakistan. She is now an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study. Her doctoral project lied at the intersection between the fields of peace and conflict studies, postcolonial and comparative literatures and political philosophy. It examined sovereignty, racialized migration and war in post-9/11 Afghan, Iraqi and Pakistani literatures. It also drew on theories of bio-politics and empire to analyse the post-9/11 conflict in these regions, the literary transformations it brought and how theory and literature mutually configured each other in such circumstances. This project developed a nuanced comparative approach to the analyses of Afghan, Iraqi and Pakistani literatures which was thus far missing from mainstream postcolonial and world-literary theorisations. Aiman’s research interests extend beyond her chosen literary and theoretical corpus into the wider fields of Anglophone literature, empire studies and postcolonial/decolonial studies.

Reza Kashtiban

Associate Fellow (2022 -2023)

Reza is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics. He is an experimental physicist and material scientist with particular interest in the structural and compositional properties of nanomaterials by means of advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy. He had been a visiting academic of UK mide rane electron microscopy facilities at Daresbury Lab (SuperSTEM, 2007-2010) where he used Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) technique in Plasmon and core loss regimes to study compositional properties of nanostructured materials. Reza also specialise in phase restoration by Exit Wave Reconstruction of Focal Series. His current research themes involves growth and compositional characterisation of encapsulated composite nanostrucures, 1D radial heterostructures and 2D materials. He has also expertise on the study of porous materials, functionalised carbon based materials and phase change nanomaterials. Current Interests 2D materials Hybrid photovoltaic nanostructures Encapsulated structures 1D Heterostructures Phase Change Materials Atomic scale local characterisation.

Mohan K Balasubramanian

Director of IAS and Professor Warwick Medical School

Mohan Balasubramanian assumed the role of Director, Institute of Advanced Study, in September 2022. He joined Warwick in October 2013, where he was Professor and Pro-Dean (Research) Warwick Medical School until August 2022. Mohan Balasubramanian is a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator and his research group investigates mechanisms by which molecular scale forces are generated to accomplish cell division.

Onur Agca

Associate Fellow (2022 - 2023)

I have completed my Ph.D. recently in the Behavioural Operations Management field in WMG. Throughout my doctoral study years, I have participated in various industrial projects in topics such as Industry 4, Autonomous Vehicles, Sustainability and Circular Economy. Towards the end of my Ph.D., I worked as a research assistant in Durham Business School for a year and managed a regional project regarding the plastics recycling supply chains. Completing my contract there, In January 2022, I have started my new role in WBS as a teaching fellow, where I currently continue my studies.

Hamidreza Arjmandi

Associate Fellow (2022 - 2023)

I received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2016. I have been served as an assistant professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Yazd University, Iran, from 2016-2021. I was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics hosted by NTNU, Norway 2019-2021 . As a research fellow, I joined the School of Engineering, the University of Warwick in 2021. I have been associate editor of IEEE Transactions on nonobioscience from Summer 2021. I do research in interdisciplinary research areas of information theory in biological systems, molecular communications and nano-bio communication networks.

Gurdev Singh

Associate Fellow (2022 - 2023)

I am a post-doctoral fellow in the department of physics, University of Warwick,
UK. Before joining the University of Warwick, I was Assistant Professor in the
department of production and industrial engineering, Punjab Engineering
College, Chandigarh. I have done my master's and PhD from Indian Institute of
Technology Madras, India in the field of Mechanical Engineering. My area of
research is the fabrication of a fabrication of cemented tungsten carbide and
reacted sintered boride. I am interested in powder metallurgy, freeze casting,
sintering, fabrication of porous and dense materials, additive manufacturing,
composites, and material characterization.

Mantra Mukim

Early Career Fellow (2021 - 2022)

Mantra Mukim joined the English department as a PhD candidate in 2018 and is now an Early Career Fellow (2021-22) at the Institute of Advanced Studies. His doctoral research focused on the poetics of failure in the works of Samuel Beckett. His thesis argued that Beckett’s poetry hosts complex and calamitous interactions between lyrical language, subjectivity, sound and the body, an interaction that adds a new dimension to our understanding of twentieth century poetry. Broadly, his research interests include the lyric, continental philosophy, critical theory and Hindi literature. His current research project focuses on precarity in the context of literary modernism.

Derek Ma

Early Career Fellow (2019 -2022)

Dr Derek Guotao Ma is a researcher in Computational Geomechanics and Data Science at the School of Engineering, University of Warwick. He obtained his PhD in Engineering from University of Warwick, UK, and MSc degree from Southwest Jiaotong University, China, he also visited University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His research focuses on multivariate modelling/AI prediction/probabilistic analysis in geoscience, specifically for failure analysis and risk assessment of granular flows, avalanches, and natural hazards. Derek develops robust statistical numerical algorithms through the integration of Computational Statistics and Data Science to quantitatively evaluate the uncertainties of granular flows in heterogeneous materials that exhibit significant randomness. Currently, he co-authored over 30 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and a h-index equal to 8. Derek is also the corresponding member of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (ISSMGE) TC-309 technical committee on “Machine Learning in Geotechnics”.

Yesim Kakalic

Early Career Fellow (2021-2022)

Yesim has recently completed her PhD in Applied Linguistics. Her research interests include identity construction, social integration, (critical) discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and humour and gender in the broader context of migration. Her PhD research dealt with the identification processes of offspring from German Turkish families in the context of mainstream discourses of social integration. In understanding the sense-making processes of those who are targeted as 'integrators' in dominant discourses, her project aimed to provide further empirical insights into the complex nature of identity in bi/multicultural citizens in Europe. As an Early Career Fellow, she intends to publish papers from her PhD as well as conduct an interdisciplinary study that applies the theoretical and practical insights gained from her research to the UK context.

Anastasia Stavridou

Early Career Fellow (2021 - 2022)

Anastasia Stavridou completed her PhD in Applied Linguistics and joined IAS in April 2022 as an Early Career Fellow. Her thesis, a sociolinguistic case study, explored the discursive construction of leadership and followership in a university basketball team. An SCCRC member, she has participated in projects on coach-athlete communication of boxing coaches and the emergent nature of leadership in a netball team. She has also conducted research on COVID-19 narratives and identity construction on Instagram as well as on othering and discrimination. During her fellowship she aspires to continue her research in the intersection of linguistics, media and politics.

Ian Farnell

Early Career Fellow (2021-2022)

Ian is an IAS Early Career Fellow. His doctoral studies (completed in March 2022) were funded by the Wolfson Foundation and explored how science fiction has recently emerged as a method of socio-political commentary within contemporary British theatre. His work has been published in multiple journals including Studies in Theatre and Performance, Theatre Journal and Contemporary Theatre Review. As part of his ECF, Ian will be developing a monograph based on his thesis. Ian is also a passionate teacher and has twice been a finalist for the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (PGR).

Somak Biswas

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of History

Dr Somak Biswas recently completed his PhD in History at Warwick on 'Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the transnational politics of Indophilia'. It looks at how networks of western discipleship were mobilised for a series of representative projects around India and Indians in the early 20th century. As an IAS Early Career Fellow, he will develop his next project on Transnational Hinduism, that will explore at the making of Hinduism as a global culture discourse in the later half of the 20th century.

He is interested in immigration, race and decolonisation, LGBT issues and South Asian politics. He is a founder of the Queer History group at Warwick and is a member of the Global History and Culture Centre, Warwick.

Kathleen Bogart

International Visiting Fellow (2019-20)

Oregon State University, USA

1 September - 31 October 2019

Nominated by Dr John Michael, Philosophy. Kathleen Bogart is Associate Professor of Psychology at Oregon State University. She is a social/health psychologist focusing on ableism, or prejudice towards disability. She studies others’ attitudes toward disability and the way people with disabilities adapt to their conditions, develop identities, and manage stigma. Much of her work focuses on the psychosocial implications of facial paralysis. During her time at Warwick, she will work with Dr. John Michael to develop and test an intervention for people with facial paralysis (i.e. increasing social and communication skills) as well as a training module for people likely to interact with them (i.e. educating to reduce stigmatizing cognitions and behaviors)

Natasha Bondre

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies (YPCCS) and the Department of English and Comparative Literary
Studies

Natasha Bondre submitted her PhD in December 2020, and is currently an Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick, working jointly in the Yesu Persaud Caribbean Centre and the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. Her doctoral thesis examines the ecological nature of petro-capitalism in what has been termed the ‘expanded Caribbean,’ through studying the literatures, in Spanish and English, of specific nation-states in the region. Her general research and teaching interests consist of (but are not limited to): post-colonial literature and theory, eco-criticism, global Anglophone and Hispanophone literatures, world-literature and world-systems theory, disaster studies, cultures of protest in the pan-Caribbean, particularly against commodity frontier complexes, and speculative fiction, particularly Afrofuturism from both sides of the Atlantic.

Stephane Bordas

International Visiting Fellow (2019-20)

University of Luxembourg

visit postponed to a date to be confirmed in 2020

Nina Boy

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2018-20)

Department of Politics & International Studies

My research is based at the intersection of security studies and international political economy, focusing on conceptions of (in)security in global finance. This includes theories of money, debt, value and collateral, informed by a socio-political perspective grounded in the technicalities of modern finance. I hold a PhD in Politics from Lancaster and have worked at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) for 8 years, leading a work package on Financial security in the EU FP7-funded Societal Security Network (SOURCE) and organising interdisciplinary PhD courses at the Research School on Peace and Conflict. My WIRL-COFUND project examines how and with what consequences the value of safety is changing in post-crisis finance, looking at: 1) Historical and theoretical parameters of safe assets; 2) Systemic and systematic risk; 3) Safety in collateral-based finance and 4) Changing valuation frameworks of safety. I am co-editor of the post-disciplinary open-access journal Finance and Society.

Rhiannon Brooks

Early Career Fellow (2021-22)

Department of Chemistry

My doctoral research focussed on elucidating the molecular interactions between highly-curved biological lipid membranes and proteins that sense this curvature. This work is a first step to understanding how the membrane morphology can be a unique target in itself, separate from receptors embedded within, and has implications in industrial biotechnology areas of antimicrobial development and drug transport. As an early career fellow, I intend to publish at least one more paper from my PhD and establish new interdisciplinary collaborations in order to extend my work to in-vivo studies.

Deborah Brotherton

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

School of Life Sciences

I did a Biochemistry degree at the University of Bath, then worked in both academic and biotech labs before doing my PhD in Structural Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. I continued my research in drug development for cancer and inflammation in an industrial setting before returning to academia here at Warwick to do structural studies on membrane channels and secondary transporters, working in Professor Cameron's laboratory here in Life Sciences.

My varied background gives me a range of techniques to tackle the challenges of basic research, and I find sharing these skills with fellow researchers a rewarding experience.

Nicola Brough

Early Career Innovation Fellow (2018-20)

Warwick Medical School - Health Sciences

Nicola is currently researching the market potential of the Warwick Holistic Health Questionnaire (WHHQ), a patient reported outcome measure that evaluates changes in health and wellbeing. Nicola developed and validated the WHHQ for her PhD with Professor Sarah Stewart-Brown and Dr Helen Parsons of Warwick Medical School, Health Sciences Division. Nicola won the 2018 Complementary Therapy Awards Federation of Holistic Therapy Research Award for her work on the WHHQ. Previously, Nicola undertook a Masters by Research at University of Warwick, Health Sciences Division using qualitative methods to explore clients’ experiences of Craniosacral Therapy, a mind-body complementary therapy modality. Nicola was awarded an MPhil for outstanding work on this study.

Nicholas Brown

Early Career Fellowship (2019-20)

Department of Classics and Ancient History

Nick recently completed his PhD thesis in the Classics and Ancient History Department entitled 'A Body of Writing: Inscribed Human Sculptures in Archaic Greece'. His thesis focused on how ancient Greek writing affected the meaning of sculptures and vice versa in the context of ancient Greek religion, and in turn, how this informs our understanding of media at the very beginning of the Greek alphabet's existence.

Nick has a passion for outreach and widening participation and has taught adults and children in both the UK and Greece. Nick's academic interests include theoretical approaches to the study of written and visual ancient sources, as well as how the ancient world informs modern cultural texts and how modern cultural texts can change our understanding of the ancient world's remnants.

Maria Brunetti

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Department of Physics

I obtained my degree in particle physics in Naples, Italy, and my PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK. I am now a postdoctoral researcher at Warwick and study neutrinos, elusive elementary particles that hold the key to profound questions on the evolution of the Universe. My work focuses on the reconstruction of particle interactions in large liquid argon detectors, using state-of-the-art image processing techniques. I am interested in exploring the applicability of these techniques to other fields and am passionate about science communication. I plan to continue developing personal skills and collaborations as a IAS fellow.

John Burden

Research Strategy and Programme Manager

Email: J.P.Burden@warwick.ac.uk
Telephone: 024761 50564
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John is the Research Strategy and Programme Manager for the Institute of Advanced Study and works with the Director to develop and oversee the implementation of a broad-ranging research strategy capable of delivering the Institute’s internal engagement and external funding priorities. He also has overall responsibility for the administrative operations of the IAS and for coordinating the delivery of its diverse portfolio of initiatives

Joe Burton

Fernandes Fellow (2019-20)

Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

1 May - 15 June 2020 & 1 November - 15 December 2020

Dr Joe Burton is a Marie Curie Fellow (MSCA-IF) at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) completing a two-year project on Strategic Cultures of Cyber Warfare (CYBERCULT). This is an interdisciplinary project that draws on computer science, behavioural science, sociology and political science to explain the proliferation of Offensive Cyber Capabilities (OCC) within the international system. He holds a Doctorate in International Relations and a Master of International Studies degree from the University of Otago and an undergraduate degree in International Relations from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is a recipient of the US Department of State SUSI Fellowship, the Taiwan Fellowship, and has been a visiting researcher at the interdisciplinary NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE), Estonia. Joe is the author of NATO's Durability in a Post-Cold War World (SUNY Press, 2018) and his work has been published in Asian Security, Defence Studies, and Political Science.

Louise Campion

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies

My research examines fifteenth-century Middle English religious literature, a great deal of which is translated from earlier Latin sources, and the differences between the source and the translated work. Over the course of my IAS Fellowship, I intend to further examine some of the texts that I encountered during my engagement with fifteenth-century manuscripts.

Xuemeng Cao

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Centre for Education Studies

Xuemeng is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Education Studies, the University of Warwick, funded by China Scholarship Council (CSC). Her PhD research focuses on the employability management of Chinese international students. She is an expert on Capabilities Approach and diary research. Xuemeng is also a co-convenor and the blog editor for Academic Mobilities and Immobilities Network (AMIN) at Warwick. Her research interests include global higher education, graduate employability, academic (im)mobilities, sino-foreign cooperation in education, and innovative research methods.

Byron Carpenter

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

School of Life Sciences

Byron Carpenter is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology centre in the School of Life Sciences. His expertise is in synthetic biology, a multidisciplinary field that aims to harness biological systems to deliver societal benefit in the areas of healthcare, energy production, food security and the environment. His research is focused on redesigning natural cellular signalling pathways to develop a powerful tool for controlling cell behaviour, and will have applications in areas such as regenerative medicine. Membership of the IAS will enable him to raise awareness of synthetic biology and develop collaborations across different disciplines.

Aspa Chalkidou

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2018-20)

Department of Sociology

As a WIRL-COFUND fellow, I will explore the concept of asylum as a contradictory symbol of inclusion within the Nation and Europe. Drawing from social anthropology, feminist philosophy, queer theory and socio-legal studies, my postdoctoral project will examine the meaning and enactment of two central asylum formations in Greek legislation (family asylum and political asylum) in order to map out the entanglements of migrant, kinship and sexual rights, politics, and theories. In 2015, I completed my PhD in the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Aegean, Greece. My thesis consisted of a long term ethnographic study of BDSM social and sexual networks in contemporary Greece. Over the last decade I have participated in several EU funded projects as a postdoc and field researcher, undertaking research on sexual and gender politics, kinship, migration policies along with issues of institutional injustice.

Giulia Champion

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

IATL/IAS EC Teaching Fellow (2020-21)

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Departments of English and Comparative Literary Studies and Hispanic Studies

Dr Giulia Champion undertook a PhD at the University of Warwick. Her research considered how the acceleration and exacerbation of climate change in the Americas can be traced through the history of colonialism, by focusing on extraction as a way to connect slavery, plantation agriculture and neo-liberal practices of extractivism. She currently works on decolonial studies, extractivism and the Blue Humanities.

Joe Chick

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

History

Joe Chick is a historian with an interest in society in English monastic towns, defined as settlements in which a monastery was lord of virtually the whole settlement. These places have traditionally been characterised in terms of robust lordship and violent town–abbey relations, a portrayal that his work re-evaluates. In covering the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, his research crosses the traditional divide between the medieval and early modern eras. His ESRC-funded PhD project consisted of a detailed case study of politics, economics, religion, and culture in Reading. As an early career fellow in the IAS, he is building on this work to produce a more general monograph on monastic towns.

Georgia Clancy

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Department of Sociology

My doctoral research explored women’s childbirth preferences, decisions and outcomes in England today. This mixed-methods research considered different knowledge systems and approaches to risk in maternity care, neoliberal policymaking and the concept and reality of ‘choice’ in healthcare. I currently hold an ESRC Postdoctoral Innovation Fellowship in the Department of Sociology. During this fellowship I will be working with key maternity care stakeholders to create impact and engage non-academic audiences in the findings of my doctoral research. I look forward to developing my research career and engaging with the IAS community during my fellowship.

Daniel Clayton

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Centre for Applied Linguistics

Seeking to understand the transitional experiences of individuals who join sports teams my research answers questions pertinent to language, psychology and socialisation in sporting environments. My thesis maps the experiences of three separate intakes of new players joining a university men’s football team over a three-year period. I place particular focus on exploring how new players are socialised through team narratives and discourses. I am a founding member of the Sports Culture and Communication Research Collective (SCCRC) and my current work involves expanding on the findings of the thesis in addition to investigating the perspectives of Premier League football academy coaches.

Carlotta Cossutta

International Visiting Fellow (2019-20)

Universita degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Italy

Visiting 23 February 2020 and 13 September 2020

Carlotta Cossutta is a researcher in Political Philosophy and Gender Studies. She is part of the research centre PoliTeSse – Politics and Theories of Sexuality and GIFTS – Italian Network of Gender, Intersex, Feminist, Trans-feminist and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on the political construction of the subject "woman" and female bodies both in relation to the history of women's political thought and to the interaction with technosciences and medicine. During her stay, Cossutta will work with Dr. Alberica Bazzoni on developing interdisciplinary conversations and projects on a feminist perspective on the canon of political thought. She will offer a Public lecture on Mary Wollstonecraft and a seminar on Italian feminism, retracing some of its heretical lines.

Marion Coumel

Early Career Fellow (2021-22)

Department of Psychology

Marion Coumel is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies working in the Psychology department at the University of Warwick. She recently submitted her thesis in which she used a phenomenon called "syntactic priming" (i.e., the tendency of speakers to repeat each others' syntax) to examine the psycholinguistic processes supporting the acquisition of second language syntactic knowledge for language production. Her goal is to understand the theoretical psycholinguistic mechanisms underlying bilingual language processing and second language learning and to use this knowledge to inform language learning and teaching practices. Marion has previously studied Cognitive Science at McGill University and at the universities of Vienna and Zagreb.

Sarah Cousins

GCRF Fellow (2019-20)

Centre for Lifelong Learning

22 - 28 March and 26 September - 2 October 2020

This project builds on a scoping visit to Nairobi in 2019. The project focus is on inclusion and the early identification of children with special needs. The visits will involve workshops with teachers and parents at a small infant school run in Kangemi slum by Stadi za Maisha Educational Trust. This work will help the team gain a deeper understanding of the context, establish some research questions and strengthen networks. Measures to gauge the impact of the interventions will be established. The team will visit the Department of Special Education, Kenyatta University, and Kenya Institute of Special Education to establish a research team.

Fabiola Creed

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of History

My doctoral research explored how the sunbed industry, the media, healthcare providers, medical experts and a diverse range of smaller stakeholders created conflicting representations of tanning and both its providers and consumers in England. This exploration of a tanning technology also added to the historical narratives that address class, gender, race, age and sexuality.

More broadly, I am interested in histories of commercial industries, the media and medical experts, and how these stakeholders influence the representations and understandings of 'consumed' technologies and products - particularly those related to health commerce; 'healthy' bodies; 'excess'; moral panic; stereotyping, and stigma.

Nadeen Dakkak

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies

My PhD research examined how migration to the Arab Gulf States is representedin Arabic fiction. I focused on Arabic novels tackling themes of alienation, social exclusion and/or belonging and that are set from around the 1970s onwards, the period which saw an unprecedented increase in migration to the Gulf region. Central to my analysis are the regional transformations brought about by oil and the impact of Gulf migration policies on migrant experiences.

My research interests extend beyond Arabic fiction and cover literature from/about the Gulf in English or in translation as well as literature and popular culture on migration and diaspora more generally. I am currently planning a new project that seeks to situate Arab literature on oil modernity and urbanization within the larger field of world literature.

Irene Dal Poz

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Philosophy

I hold a BA and MA degree in Philosophy from University of Padova (Italy). During my master, I have studied for one year at the philosophy department of Université Paris-Sorbonne IV (France). I have recently completed a joint PhD in Philosophy between Warwick University and Monash University (Australia). I have been teaching assistant for undergraduate modules in both these institutions. My fields of interest are Political Theory, Political Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory. My current research project explores the philosophical critiques of the identification of citizenship with a juridical status held in a nation-state political design.

Eric Danan

International Visiting Fellow (2019-20)

University of Cergy-Pontoise, France

13 April - 11 May 2020

Nominated by Professor Richard Walton , Chemistry. Eric Danan is a CNRS researcher in economics at the University of Cergy-Pontoise. His research focuses on individual and collective decision-making and deals more specifically with the incompleteness or indeterminacy of preferences. While at Warwick, he will be collaborating with Zvi Safra and Tigran Melkonyan from the Warwick Business School on a new research project on "coarse" collective choice problems. These are problems such as climate policy decisions, in which the underlying uncertainty and the welfare of the involved agents can only be partially described. He will also organize a workshop on this topic at the IAS.

Alexander Darlington

Associate Fellow (2021-22)

Engineering

Dr Darlington completed his BA/MSci degrees at University of Cambridge before
joining the University of Warwick as part of the UK’s Synthetic Biology Centre of
Doctoral Training. Graduating with his PhD in 2018, he commenced postdoctoral
research within the School of Engineering. He has also undertaken industrial
projects as a BBSRC-funded Innovation Fellow. He recently won a Royal
Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship. His research lies at the interface
of systems engineering and biotechnology where he uses mathematical and
computational approaches to design genetic control systems which improve
yields of biotechnological processes in light of microbial and industrial
constraints.

Rita Dashwood

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

English & Comparative Literary Studies

I am a tutor at the departments of English and History at the University of Warwick, and a former Early Career Fellow at the IAS. I am an expert on the portrayal of women and property in the British eighteenth- and nineteenth century novel. I have recently completed my PhD on women and property in Jane Austen’s novels at Warwick. As an Associate Fellow at the IAS, I will be working on the publication of my first book project, Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen, as well as my second book project, The Heiress, 17821882.

Sanchari Deb

EUTOPIA SIF Fellow 2021

Sanchari Deb is currently associated with Power and Control Laboratory of School of Engineering, University of Warwick as EUTOPIA SIF Fellow. Earlier, she was associated with Smart e fleet group of VTT Technical Research Centre as ERCIM Fellow. Her research interests broadly cover different aspects of power and energy such as e mobility, charging infrastructure planning, Artificial intelligence applications in power and energy, microgrid planning, distribution network planning, local energy systems with cogeneration, Vehicle Grid integration, optimization, metaheuristics algorithms, tool development for charging station placement, machine learning applications, power system reliability, intelligent transport, autonomous vehicle, quantum computing applications, solar based charging infrastucture for Electric Vehicles (EVs).

Sanchari Deb completed her Bachelors of Engineering (BE) in Electrical Engineering from Assam Engineering College (AEC), Guwahati in the year 2014, Master of Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) Mesra, Ranchi with specialization as Power Systems in the year 2016, and PhD in Energy from Centre for Energy, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati in the year 2020. Post Phd, she joined Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy, New Delhi as Research Associate and worked on a project related to Vehicle Grid Integration in Indian aspect. Later, she was associated with Centre for Advanced Research in Electrified Transportation (CARET) of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) as a postdoctoral researcher for a short duration. In the year 2020, she received European Research Council of Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) fellowship and joined VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland. She has published nearly 30 research articles and co-edited a book on Smart Charging.

Sanchari Deb serves as the reviewer of several peer reviewed journals of Elsevier, IEEE and Springer. She is the recipient of several prestigious fellowships and awards such as ERCIM fellowship, EUTOPIA fellowship, and Anandaram Baruah award. She is also a member of IEEE Power and Energy Society.

Remi Dewiere

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2019-21)

Department of History, Connecting Cultures GRP

Rémi Dewière is a historian interested in Islamic West Africa in the Early Modern and Modern period. In particular, he focuses on State practices, diplomacy and circulations in Central Sahel, with a special focus on the Borno sultanate from the late medieval to the 19^th century. His book, Du lac Tchad à La Mecque. Le sultanat du Borno et son monde (xvi^e-xvii^e siècle) (Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2017), provides a new perspective on the functioning of an Islamic Sahelian state in the Early Modern period and its relationship with the world around it through the trans-Saharan routes.

Nadine Didwischus

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

School of Life Sciences

Dr. Didwischus is an early career neurobiologist focusing on vascular comorbidities in neurodegenerative diseases and their interaction with the immune system. She is experienced in planning and implementation of pre-clinical studies with partners from the pharmaceutical industry and holds editorial commitments in CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics.

Mallory Diggens

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

School of Life Sciences

Postdoctoral Researcher in University of Warwick School of Life Sciences.

Current project is to develop a synthetic signally system to control protein function in cells.

Simona Di Martino

Early Career Fellow (2021-2022)

Italian Department, School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Simona's PhD thesis, entitled ‘From Flesh to Soul: The Dichotomy of the Body in Alfonso Varano, Salomone Fiorentino, and Giacomo Leopardi’, investigates the ways in which late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- Italian poets represented death, dead bodies, and spectral visions in their texts. In her work, she advocates the existence of an Italian Gothic strain, which has always been neglected by critics.

As an IAS Fellow she works on publishing her research, developing an interdisciplinary postdoctoral project, and honing academic profile by collaborating with other peers through publications, workshops, and conferences, as well as teaching. Her other research interests are women’s writing, children’s literature, family novels, in a comparative perspective.

Melina Dobson

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Politics & International Studies

In my research, I examine the idea of a new era of intelligence accountability through whistleblowers, scholars and journalists. My thesis explores the stories of US national security whistleblowers from the Cold-War period to today. I analyse how these stories have been accelerated through the use of the Internet and mass media. I passed my viva in May 2019. Since then, I have been an IAS ECF and started a part-time lectureship in Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham. I am currently working on a publication for a special issue that investigates the unexplored SIGINT strengths of Germany.

Roxanne Douglas

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies

I was an Early Career Fellow with the Institute of Advanced Study, and a PhD candidate with the English and Comparative Literature Department at the University of Warwick. My doctoral research project, 'Stories of Paradox and Exposure: Second Wave Arab Feminist Writing' identifies and characterises what I call the Second Wave of Arab Feminist Activity, or “SWAFA,” focusing on Arab women’s writing in translation, as well as online activism and feminist protest activities in the mashreq region. While my PhD project focuses on Arab feminist writing, my research interests vary widely, including feminisms and international feminisms, postcolonial studies, protest, embodiment, place and space theory, gender and queer theory, Gothic literature, and zombie fiction.

Reem Doukmak

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Reem completed a PhD in English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics from Warwick University. Recently Reem completed an Early Career Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Warwick University. Currently, Reem is working on two research projects. In Coventry Creates project, she is collaborating with Paul O'Donnell, Founder of Shoot Festival on using drama to explore the re-integration experiences of refugees and host community into the social ‘normalities’ under Covid-19. Reem is also leading on Hayat Jamila project, as part of International Changemakers with the British Council and Coventry City of Culture 2021, with the aim to build cultural connections between Coventry and Gaziantep by exploring who we are and how we want to become through music and cooking initiatives. Reem has been assisting with various research projects including Mapping Languages in Coventry.

Cecile Doustaly

Fernandes Fellow (2019-20)

University of Cergy Pontoise

1 February - 30 April 2020

I am a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Cultural Policy and head of the Heritage Research Group (AGORA research lab). Using pluridisciplinary methods, my research now centres on comparative cultural policies and management, questioning how to balance local engagement and Internationalisation, collaborating with ministries, local authorities, cultural institutions and international organisations. Since 2017, I have been involved in our European universities Alliance EUTOPIA. I am co-coordinating the scientific organisation the Paris Seine-Warwick joint workshop on Heritage, Creation and Memory (12-14 November 2019) with Penny Roberts (Chair, Faculty of Arts). During my Fellowship (Feb-April 2020), we plan to publish this session of the 2019 workshop. We also hope to present the results of our joint work at a study day or at the International Congress on Cultural Policy Research / Critical Heritage Studies Congress (both 2020) and publish them.

Špela Drnovšek Zorko

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Department of Sociology

Špela Drnovšek Zorko is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Sociology where her research investigates postsocialist migrants’ articulations of race and geopolitical coevalness. She is a member of the international “Dialoguing Posts” network and has collaborated with the Birmingham-based organisation Centrala Space. Špela obtained her PhD in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London, where she examined intergenerational narratives amongst former Yugoslav migrants. She is interested in developing new collaborative projects with migrant and community organisations and artists exploring the role of migrant memory in public representations; the histories that shape present-day encounters between communities; and anti-racist solidarities.

Scott Dwyer

Early Career Fellow (2021-22)

School of Life Sciences

My PhD research was on the biocontrol of Varroa mite, a small parasite that feeds on honey bees. My main research interests lie within insect pathology, biocontrol and insect behaviour. I am fascinated by the ’little things that run the world’; namely insects. As a scientist, I believe we have a duty to inform the public of misconceptions, inspire the next generation and help pass on our wonder to others beyond our academia bubble. I also deeply care about removing barriers to careers in STEM for under represented groups.

As an early career fellow within the IAS, he plans to publish his research from his PhD thesis, as well as explore potential future research topics within the remit of his interests.

Jason Dymydiuk

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Politics & International Studies

I research UK and US Intelligence agencies. My PhD 'Filling the Information Void: Government Communications Headquarter, the National Security Agency, and Investigative journalism 1971-2012' focused on the role of investigative journalism in uncovering and revealing GCHQ and NSA in the public domain. My current research interests revolve around the role of intelligence in creating legacies of Empire in contemporary UK politics. I am part of the Colonial Hangover team in PAIS conducting Widening Participation events on various legacies of Empire that exist today. I currently lecture in Politics of the USA and teach seminars in Vigilant State - The Politics of Intelligence.

Ahmed Eissa

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Chemistry

PhD and postdoctoral training from Durham University in organic polymer chemistry. In 2014, AME undertook a Monash-Warwick Alliance Fellowship in Biomedical Polymer Materials researcher. In 2018, AME was appointed as a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry. AME works across, Chemistry, Engineering and Life Sciences to develop bioactive and bio-inspired macromolecules and biomaterials. I am keen to explore and develop links with IAS.

Marcos Estrada

Associate Fellow (2018-20) and Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Department of Politics & International Studies

Marcos Estrada holds a PhD in Sociology, and is currently a Tutor in the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) and an editor for ‘Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal’, published by the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) at the University Warwick. His research interests are in everyday life and identities formed within border regions, which does not always fit within a nation-state framework. Marcos is currently working in the book manuscript ‘Transnationalism at the Border: Migration, Politics and Identities’ to be published by Routledge.

Robert Eves

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

Department of Psychology

My research aims to better understand the factors that aid development for individuals born preterm and what factors can lead to difficulties, predominantly in areas surrounding cognitive development. These factors are of particular importance due to their ability to predict a wide range of future outcomes, including success in school, work and relationships. To research this area, I analyse large datasets of both preterm and term born individuals, collected in multiple countries over many years. More information can be found at https://recap-preterm.eu/.

Dr Fabio Faraguna

Fernandes Fellow (2019-20)

Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb

Nominator: Prof. Tony McNally, WMG

Dr Fabio Faraguna is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. His field of expertise is in polymer science, organic synthesis, (nano)composite and nano-fluid preparation, fuel analysis and biofuel synthesis. He was a Visiting Scientist at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany. He has published extensively and collaborated with a range of industry partners. He is an assessor for the Croatian Accreditation Agency for laboratory accreditation (ISO/IEC 17025) and inspection body accreditation (ISO/IEC 17020).

Fiona Farnsworth

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies

Dr Fiona Farnsworth is an early career researcher in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. Her doctoral thesis “Contemporary Literary Foodways Between Sub-Saharan Africa and the USA” explored foodways as both shaped and shaped by the sociopolitical power dynamics within the world-system – more specifically, the world food system. Fiona is interested more broadly in world-systems and environmental humanities approaches to world literature (particularly literatures of Africa and the African diaspora). Her current work focuses on issues of food justice in African literary and cultural production.

Giuseppe Fico

Fernandes Fellow (2018-19)

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

01 March - 30 April 2019 & 01 - 31 October 2019

Nominated by Dr Leandro Pecchia, School of Engineering. With a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Giuseppe is working with healthcare stakeholders in research, innovation, strategic and policy initiatives, such as the European Innovation Parthership on Active and Healthy Ageing, the European Institute for Innovation & Technology on Health, the Health Technology Assessment and Clinical Engineering Divisions of the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering, the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation. He is Technical Manager of two H2020 projects, ACTIVAGE and BD2Decide, Project manager of two EIT Health projects, MiniQ and Product Market Fit. He is lecturer of courses in Biomedical Engineering and Telecomunication Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

Karoline Freeman

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Warwick Medical School

I completed a Doctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Health Research in September 2020 at the University of Warwick. In my PhD research I investigated the real life use of testing to inform referral decisions in general practice and how this compared with the expected use in national recommendations. I am a systematic reviewer by background with a special interest in evaluating diagnostic and screening tests. In particular, I am interested in health data science and routine data for test evaluations for instance in the area of breast screening.

Claire French

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Theatre & Performance Studies

I am a performance-maker and ECR interested in applied, autobiographical and multilingual performance. My interdisciplinary PhD research between sociolinguistics and applied performance praxis extrapolated on methodologies for drawing on the dynamic linguistic resources of actors in South African performance-making processes (Warwick 2019). As an IAS Associate Fellow, I will be working on the publication of my first book project Making multilingual performance: Omission, alignment, disruption (Routledge, forthcoming), as well as developing my next body of research that links multilingual methodologies with Indigenous language revitalisation in Australia, South Africa and the Basque Country.

Will Fysh

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2020-22)

Department of History

I am a historian of modern France, the French empire, and nineteenth and twentieth-century visual culture. My first book manuscript, based on my PhD at the University of Toronto (2019), examines the history of visual witnessing after World War Two in France, French West Africa, Indochina and Algeria. The book asks why people turned to witnessing to make sense of the past and forge new futures in the wake of global war and in the midst of decolonization, and why they saw new radical potential in the still and moving image to make those futures a reality.

At Warwick, I am embarking on a new project about the history of colonial light. I'm currently exploring how scientific and visual attempts to manage the "special intensities" of light in the French empire shaped ideas about race, health, development, and the limits of imperial "radiance."

Angelo Gallo

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Chemistry

I am a Research Fellow in chemistry, currently characterising molecular systems for natural products biosynthesis, in particular antibiotics using a combined structural biology approach since 2015. I completed my PhD in 2011 at the University of Florence, where I elucidate mitochondrial proteins using solution state NMR. Subsequently I continued as a PDRA position at the Magnetic Resonance Centre at the University of Florence for five years, designing new NMR pulse sequences and characterising the early stage of Iron-Sulfur cluster biogenesis. My research interests lie in the field of bio-inorganic chemistry, and physical chemistry and more specifically biomolecular NMR.

Michael Gastegger

Residential Fellow (2019-20)

Technische Universitat Berlin

Visiting 28 October - 8 November 2019

Julia Gauly

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

Warwick Medical School

I am a mixed methods researcher at Warwick Medical School with a keen interest in improving health services delivery. My PhD focussed on the optimisation of pharmacy-based sexual and reproductive health services using two approaches: the exploration of the utilisation and staff and users’ experiences of pharmacy-based sexual and reproductive health services. I am experienced in conducting systematic reviews and scoping reviews, retrospective quantitative studies and qualitative interview studies. As an early career fellow, I aim to further explore some of my PhD findings, e.g. on how to better address privacy in the pharmacy setting. Coming from a multi-disciplinary background in music and management studies, I look forward to meeting and collaborating with researchers from other disciplines in the future.

Martha Gayoye

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

My research interests are generally in courts, constitutionalism and gender in postcolonial contexts– specifically the role that constitutionalism plays in perpetuating or gender inequalities, or addressing gender inequalities, what I refer to as ‘gendered constitutionalism’. In this sense, I see a constitution as a double-edged sword. My PhD project was based on the two-thirds gender quota in Kenya’s 2010 Constitution, titled ‘The role of the courts in constitution making: The two-thirds gender principle in Kenya’. I see the role of courts and women’s movements as crucial in such a gendered constitutionalism, and explore decolonise and subaltern perspectives to constitutionalism.

Eli Gemegah

Early Career Fellow (2021-22)

Centre for Education Studies

Eli Gemegah’s passion and interests lie bringing marginalised voices and experiences to the forefront to make positive changes to students’ lives in school settings and within the wider community. Eli’s research examined Black parents’ lived experiences of autism in the UK, highlighting contextual, experiential and psychological factors that influence parents’ wellbeing.

Eli’s research raises awareness of the intersectionality of autism experiences: contextual and systemic factors such as ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status. Such diversity produced findings that can be transferred and generalised to a wider UK population and begin dialogue that addresses transnational and global issues, while providing a framework to address government policies and funding for services.

Clementina Gentile-Fusillo

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

I am based at the Department of Politics and International Studies and submitted a PhD thesis in political theory in December 2020. My work so far has looked at the truth-related virtues liberal democracy requires of its members and on the role democratic representation plays in fostering the development of such virtues in democratic societies. In particular, I have looked at democratic representation from the standpoint of the representative and therefore configured it as the experience of representing others. I am currently interested in exploring the psychological and sociological aspects involved in such an experience, to gain a better understanding of the ethical transformation representatives undergo and its actual and potential effects on the health of democratic societies.

Seley Gharanei

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Warwick Medical School

Dr. Seley Gharanei is a research scientist at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust, and holds an honorary postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Warwick. Dr. Gharanei completed her PhD in diabetes and neurodegeneration at the University of Birmingham, where she also worked in cancer epigenetics as a research associate. Her current research is focused on metabolic dysfunction, diabetes, obesity, adipose tissue biology and inflammation, as well as on pregnancy complications. Dr. Gharanei has previously worked at the University of Warwick as a postdoctoral researcher in the reproductive health and endocrinology departments.

Nicholas Grant

Early Career Innovation Fellow (2019-20)

School of Engineering

Nicholas studied Physics at the University of Adelaide graduating with Honours in 2007. In 2008 he undertook a PhD in Photovoltaic Engineering at the Australian National University, graduating in 2012. In 2013, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, where he developed wet chemical surface treatments to detect, quantify and annihilate bulk silicon defects for photovoltaic (PV) applications. Since 2016, Nicholas has been a Research Fellow in the School of Engineering where he undertakes research on the development of surface layers by atomic layer deposition to improve interfacial properties in future high efficiency PV devices, terahertz modulators and power devices.

Demet Gulcicek

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Sociology

Research areas: modernisation, nationalism and gender; poststructuralist feminism; feminist movements in Turkey.

Yihan Guo

Associate Fellow (2021-22)

Warwick Manufacturing Group

Dr Yihan Guo is a Teaching Fellow at WMG, University of Warwick. His research focuses on Machine Learning & AI in the context of real estate finance. He holds the BSc in Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics (MORSE) and MSc in Economics, and a PhD in Engineering from the University of Warwick. He is currently leading AI initiatives for high-tech start-up firms through the WMG accelerator.

Marco Haenssgen

Associate Fellow (2018-20)

Global Sustainable Development

Dr Marco J Haenssgen is Assistant Professor in Global Sustainable Development. He is a mixed-methods development studies researcher, focusing geographically on Asia and thematically on human behaviour and policy implementation in contexts of marginalisation and socio-technological change. Marco holds a DPhil and MPhil in International Development (Oxford University) and a BSc in General Management (European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel) and has work experience in global health, aid evaluation, management consulting, and intergovernmental policy. The IAS will provide a platform for interdisciplinary exchange and research development as Marco expands his portfolio into precarity and governance as contextual drivers of antimicrobial resistance.

Joseph Haigh

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

Department of Politics and International Studies

Joseph is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and an ESRC-funded Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. His PhD thesis, Vicarious Militarism: Ontological (In)Security and the Politics of Vicarious Subjectivity in British War Commemoration, investigates the identity politics of remembrance. It explores the political and psychological motivations and stakes of attempts by Britons to promote/claim authentic military subjectivity by living vicariously through ancestral military connections. His broader research interests include British defence and security politics and debates at the intersection of International Relations, Critical Military Studies, Critical Security Studies, and Ontological Security Studies.

Natalie Hanley-Smith

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of History

I have recently submitted my thesis in history at Warwick. My doctoral research analyses controversial relationships between men and women in late Georgian England. It examines a range of different attachments, including adulterous affairs, affinal intimacies, cohabiting relationships, and ménages-à-trois. It uses these relationships as a lens through which to explore class, gender, and political issues in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

I intend to use my early career fellowship to start developing my next project (hopefully on social networks) and to explore the different mediums that I could use to communicate my research to enhance its accessibility and impact. The broader public avidly consume history, in the forms of documentaries, historical novels and period dramas, and I would like to explore the roles available for the academic historian in this process.

Sophie Hardy

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Psychology

Dr Sophie Hardy is a postdoctoral research fellow in Psychology Department at the University of Warwick whose research interests and expertise are in understanding sentence processing in speakers of different ages and abilities. She previously completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham in which she investigated the effect of healthy ageing on language production. Her current postdoctoral work, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, examines the processes that support language learning in children and bilingual adults. Sophie plans to use the IAS Associate Fellowship as an opportunity to set up a collaborative network of multi-disciplinary researchers interested in language learning.

Marwa Hassan

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

School of Life Sciences

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK. I work on biofilms of polymicrobial communities and study antimicrobial resistance in cystic fibrosis. I received my PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia, where I worked on developing culture-independent bacterial detection methods for quick identification of bacterial sepsis and antibiotic persistence. I am passionate about microbes, science communication and teaching. Collaborating with the IAS community will advance my future career and increase the impact of my science onto the community. It will help collaborate with researchers to better understand antimicrobial resistance.

Valérie Hayaert

EUTOPIA SIF Fellow 2021

Valérie Hayaert is a cultural historian, specialized in legal iconology and legal symbolism.
She has taught at the University of Cyprus, the University of Tunis and the University of Canterbury. Following her thesis publication, Mens emblematica et humanisme juridique, Droz, THR 438, Geneva, 2008, she has carried a reconstruction of the visual promulgation of law further by examining not only the tradition of juristic emblems but also reviving the analysis of the wide variety of images - trees, diagrams, illustrations, genealogies, devises, schemata and variant images- that are to be found in early modern legal texts. In 2015 appeared Genealogies of Legal Vision, Routledge, a volume co-edited with Pr. Peter Goodrich (Cardozo School of Law, New York). In 2016, she was commissioned expert field work by French legal professionals (Établissement Public du Palais de Justice de Paris) in the context of the discussions about what legal symbolism should be adopted in the recently built Paris Tribunal (Renzo Piano Building Workshop).
In 2017 and 2018, she contributed to two major exhibitions both held in Belgium: at the Groeningen Museum of Bruges : The Art of Law: Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law & Justice in Context from the Middle Ages to the First World War. and at the Museum Hof Van Buysleyden in Mechelen, Call for Justice 23 March-June 24, 2018). Her forthcoming book, Lady Justice: An Anatomy of Allegory (Edimburgh University Press) should be out in 2022.

Nikita Hayden

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research

I am a Research Fellow for a feasibility study entitled: 'REducing the risk of criminal exploitation using multi-SystEmic Therapy'. Prior to this I was an IAS Early Career Fellow and a PhD student at the University of Warwick. My doctoral research examined the outcomes of siblings of people with intellectual (learning) and developmental disabilities, as well as their sibling relationships. This was a collaborative award with the Economic and Social Research Council and the UK charity Sibs, where I volunteer as their Research Associate. Although my thesis mainly drew on statistical analyses of large-scale survey data, I also have experience of using qualitative approaches. My disciplinary background is varied and has included: Psychology, Education, Psychosocial studies, Sociology, and Law. Therefore, I look forward to meeting Fellows from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and engaging with the interdisciplinary nature of the IAS.

Katharina Helming

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Department of Psychology

My research is based at the intersection of philosophy and psychology, with a focus on the development of perspective taking. I have I earned my Ph.D. in Psychology under the supervision of Prof Pierre Jacob (Philosophy, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris) and Prof Nicola Baumann (Psychology, University of Trier, Germany). Subsequently, I have completed a post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology. Currently, I am a research fellow in the interdisciplinary UKRI-funded 'Communicative Mind' project at the University of Warwick. We study how children come to form and express their viewpoints.

Eline C. M. Heppe

Fernandes Fellow (2019-20)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

01 August - 20 September 2019 & 13 January - 24 February 2020

Nominated by Professor Richard Hastings, CEDAR. I am a behavioural scientist with a special interest in research among young people with disabilities and their families. My PhD research on social participation of young people with a visual impairment; social support, mentoring, and psychosocial functioning, explored new ways to support young people with disabilities. In addition, I continued a longitudinal panel study in which the lives of young people with visual disabilities and their families are investigated. My current research interests focus on building links between data science and the field of young people with disabilities and their parents. My focus is on how the target population itself identifies pitfalls and opportunities with the use of this kind of data collection. Alongside this research, I have also started a research project on autonomy development and autonomy supportive parenting of young persons with visual disabilities in the Netherlands and work as a lecturer at the VU Amsterdam.

Erika Herrera-Rosales

Early Career Fellow (2021-22)

Department of Sociology

My doctoral research looked at the implications of the social relationships between humanitarian organisations and migrants from Northern Central America (i.e. Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras). Specifically, my research examined the complex practices, roles and interrelationships of non-governmental organisations in Mexico as they interact and participate directly in migrants’ journeys and experiences. During the IAS fellowship, I intend to explore my broader research interests that include immigration detention, everyday bordering and the racialization of Global South migrants.

Isabelle Heyerick

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2018-20)

Department of Applied Linguistics, Connecting Cultures GRP

My area of expertise is signed language interpreting and my research is situated on the intersection of (applied) linguistics, intercultural studies and language ideologies. I hold a MA in Linguistics and a MA in Interpreting. My PhD is a first exploration of which linguistic interpreting strategies Flemish Sign Language interpreters use and why. During my Fellowship I will investigate how discourses and ideologies about deaf people and signed languages prevalent in both the majority society and in the Deaf communities influence the linguistic decisions signed language interpreters make in their actual practice.

Emily Hill

Associate Fellow (2021-22)

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

School of Life Sciences

I am a newly appointed Race Against Dementia ARUK Research Fellow, sponsored by the Barbara Naylor Foundation. I am based in the School of Life Sciences, Warwick, in collaboration with the University of Gothenburg. This fellowship provides a unique and fantastic opportunity to work alongside Formula One partners who are experts in innovation and problem solving. My project will investigate the role of tau, a protein that disrupts the function of neurons in the brain in the early stages Alzheimer’s disease. I look forward to continuing working with the IAS and RAD to build further collaborations to accelerate research progress.

Charlotte Hills

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Psychology

I am interested in the visual expertise humans use to effortlessly recognise familiar faces and written words, and how this ability may be disrupted. I have worked with subjects with prosopagnosia, or ‘face blindness’, and have supported the development of digital rehabilitation programmes to improve the condition. I also have a broader interest in digital interventions, particularly in the context of healthcare, which improve cognitive function and behaviour change. Following my publications as a Research Assistant in the Human Vision and Eye Movement Laboratory at the University of British Columbia, I completed my PhD in psychology at the University of Warwick under the supervision of Professor Sotaro Kita. I also work as a learning consultant for industry clients to develop digital training programmes for their employees. I am currently using my ECR Fellowship to boost knowledge sharing between industry and academia, in respect to evidence-based digital design practices.

Rachel Hitchcox

IAS Programme Coordinator

Email: IAS@warwick.ac.uk
Telephone: 024761 50565
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Rachel Hitchcox is responsible for the operational management of the schemes offered by the Institute, alongside a suite of activities to support interdisciplinary engagement across academics units at Warwick. Rachel joined the IAS in March 2015.

Oliver Hofmann

Fernandes Fellows (2018-19)

Institute of Solid State Physics, TU Graz

1 July - 16 August 2019 & 1 September - 11 October 2019

Nominated by Dr Reinhard Maurer, Department of Chemistry. Dr. Oliver T. Hofmann is an expert in computational solid state physics with a strong focus on the computational description of adsorption processes on metals and metal oxides. Oliver Hofmann is located in Graz, Austria, where he leads a group of 3 PhD and 1 master student. He has co-authored 52 papers that are cited more than 1400 times, and obtained an h-index of 22. Since his graduation, Hofmann has successfully acquired and headed projects worth more than 2 million euro. In 2018, Oliver Hofmann was awarded the START-price, Austria’s most prestigious award for young scientists.

Hannes Houck

EUTOPIA SIF Fellow 2021

Department of Chemistry

Hannes’ research at the University of Warwick is situated at the interface of organic synthesis and polymer chemistry. He focuses on the development of light- and temperature-responsive chemical building blocks that can be incorporated into polymer materials in order to make them more sustainable. He is particularly devising new conceptual approaches to form, break and reform the chemical bonds that make up many of our daily life plastics, thereby aiding their (re)processing and recycling.

Hannes was awarded a dual PhD degree in Chemistry from Ghent University, Belgium and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (summa cum laude) working on the development of bonding-debonding crosslinking strategies. Following alternating research stays in Belgium, Germany and Australia, he became fascinated about how light is capable of altering the chemical nature of small organic molecules, which in turn can change a material's macroscopic properties such as its strength and colour. As a postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University, he has created new photoresists for 3D laser printing and has been involved in industrial projects in the area of recyclable thermosets, on-demand curable coatings and de-bondable adhesives.

Marije Hristova

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2018-20)

School of Modern Languages & Cultures, Connecting Cultures GRP

My postdoctoral project is entitled Unearthing the Nation: Remembrance, Affiliation and Mass Grave Exhumations in Spain. The project aims to study the narratives of cultural remembrance related to Spanish mass grave exhumations from the Civil War and show how the cultural afterlives of the exhumations portray different modes of meaning making and (national) identification. I was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Language, Literature and Anthropology of the Spanish National Research Council within the H2020 project Unsettling Remembering and Social Cohesion in Transnational Europe (UNREST) and a Marie Curie ITN fellow at the same institute. I hold a PhD (cum laude) from Maastricht University.

Cinzia Imberti

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Chemistry

Cinzia Imberti obtained a M.Sci degree in Chemistry at the University of Padova (Italy) in 2012, she then moved to the UK, to undertake a PhD at King’s College London, working on the development of new radiometal-based radiopharmaceuticals. In 2018 she was awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship and joined the group of Prof. Peter J. Sadler at the University of Warwick in where her research focuses on the mechanism of action of platinum-based anticancer agents. She is the postdoctoral representative on the RSC Dalton Division Council and a member of the Warwick Postdoctoral Society of Chemistry (PSoC) Committee.

Professor Jan de Vries

International Visiting Fellow (2019-20)

Berkeley University, USA

17 - 24 February 2020

Jan de Vries is one of the foremost economic historians currently writing in the field. His most recent publication is The Price of Bread (CUP, 2019). The visiting fellowship at Warwick will serve as an occasion to discuss the implications of this publication for the field with colleagues in History and Economics. De Vries has taken several high-profile administrative roles at the University of California, Berkeley, including Chair of the History Department, interim Dean of Social Sciences, and Vice Provost. He was awarded the Dutch Heineken Prize in 2000. He was President of the Economic History Association (US) 1991-1993 and edited the Journal of Economic History for several years.

Svenja Janke

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2020-22)

Department of Chemistry

I am a WIRL-COFUND fellow in the Chemistry Department where I do computational chemistry. After receiving my PhD from University of Göttingen, I did a postdoc at Duke University, (Durham, NC, USA), first working with the Fritz Haber Institute (Berlin, Germany) and later as a postdoctoral fellow of the German Research Foundation.

The combination of molecules and inorganic materials at the nanoscale offers many design opportunities for new, photovoltaic or light-emitting materials and chemically relevant, catalyzed reactions with improved efficiencies. All of these potential applications have in common that they can involve electronic excitations that can couple to atomic motion. I am looking at these excitations and their coupling to simulate light absorption spectra in hybrid organic-inorganic materials and energy transfer in small molecules at catalytic metal surfaces.

Tina Janssen

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies

I am an early career researcher in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. I have recently submitted my PhD thesis titled ‘’Future Scholars, Future Poets’: The Contemporary Reception of Sir William Jones’s Translations of Oriental Literature, 1770-1835.’ This thesis examines the influence Jones’s translations of Arabic, Persian, and Sanskrit literary texts had on his contemporary European audience, in the contexts of both approaches to language acquisition, and literary development. I undertook this research as part of the project ‘Oriental Scholarship, Latin Poetry, and the European Enlightenment: The Case of William Jones’, funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

Eva Jimenez Mesa

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

Department of Psychology

I recently completed my PhD thesis on the influence of word’s diversity across linguistic contexts on early word acquisition. Specifically, my thesis investigated the relation between the semantic richness in parental speech and language delay. I primarily analysed this relation though computational modelling, NLP, and network analysis. My thesis also examined the relation between some ASD characteristics (e.g., social disinterest) and word acquisition. My interest in language development comes from my experience as a speech therapist and special needs teacher. In future research I intend to integrate other computational approaches to my research, such as neural networks, to further explore early language delay.

Gareth J Johnson

Managing Editor-in-Chief, Exchanges Journal

Email: Gareth.Johnson@warwick.ac.uk
Telephone: 024765 74423
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Gareth is the Managing Editor-in-Chief for the Exchanges interdisciplinary journal. He is a HEA Fellow, and a past Chair of the UK Council for Research Repositories, along with the Forum for Interlending and Information Delivery. He is executive manager of the Mercian CollaborationLink opens in a new window, an academic library coalition and an external examiner at Glyndwr University.

Lorraine Johnson

Early Career Fellow (2020 -2021)

Institute for Employment Research

I research labour market intermediary systems operating in the spaces between job seekers/workers and their work (both paid and unpaid work). My PhD “The Influence of Intermediary Systems on Public Sector Transitions During a Period of Austerity” revealed the complexity of some market based intermediary systems operating in England’s public sector organisations. Examples of types of public sector organisations, involved with such systems, had included schools, hospitals, local councils and Government departments. My current ECR fellowship will enable me to continue investigating the nature and influence of market based intermediary systems, and more particularly how they are adapting to the new Covid-19 context.

Elmira Joldybayeva

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

Department of Politics and International Studies

Elmira is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies and PhD Candidate at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. She is a recipient of the Republic of Kazakhstan's Presidential Scholarship under the Bolashak Programme. Her PhD thesis, ‘Kazakhstan, Nation Branding and National Identity: The Cases of Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Astana Expo-2017’, examines the country's nation branding initiatives and their influence on its evolving identity. Prior to her doctoral study, Elmira was a senior university teacher and coordinator of international projects such as the G-Global Initiative.

Rebekah Jones

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Warwick Medical School

My doctoral research at the University of Warwick has focused on the ability of bacteria to adapt to environmental stressors through changing the properties of their protective cell membrane. I have found that this adaptive process to survive stressful conditions comes with trade-offs in terms of antimicrobial resistance. Becoming a part of the IAS community will promote collaboration with a wider range of researchers and broaden the impact of my particular research into scientific and general communities through developing communication.

Pietari Kääpä

GCRF Fellow (2019-20)

CCMPS

The IAS GCRF Fellowship focusing on Building Capacity for Environmental Communications in Brazil consists of a range of research excursions and exchanges between the University of Warwick and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) with the aim of compiling primary data on environmental communications in Brazil and consolidate research infrastructure for future collaborative projects. The Fellowship facilitates extensive analysis of news coverage of climate change in the Brazilian media, exploration of media production infrastructure, evaluation of diverse environmental value systems in Brazil and the UK, and collaborative academic knowledge exchange on the potential of scholarly research to respond to the climate crisis.

Arjumand Kazmi

Associate Fellow (2018-20) and Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

School of Law

With a lens of hermeneutic phenomenology, in my PhD research, I explore how democratisation is experienced by the internationally funded non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Pakistan. I argue that democratisation does not involve grass-root mobilisation, volunteerism, and ideological struggle. It is ‘projectised’: led by highly paid professionals, it is a depoliticised, bureaucratically managed and skilled activity. My research interests include democratisation, constitutionalism, civil society and phenomenology. I have worked with NGOs in Pakistan and England for over 14 years in areas of democracy promotion and voluntary sector infrastructure. I aim to deepen my research with a focus on the meanings and perceptions of democracy in the global South.

Kimberly Kessler Ferzan

International Visiting Fellow (2019-20)

University of Virginia, USA

17 November- 30 November 2019

Nominated by Professor Victor Tadros , School of Law. Kimberly Kessler Ferzan is Harrison Robertson Professor of Law and Joel. B. Piassick Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. She writes extensively about criminal law theory. During her visit to Warwick, she intends to work primarily on sexual offences. With Warwick faculty, she will host an interdisciplinary, international conference on sexual offences; she will provide a public lecture on the nature of consent; and she will present a work-in-progress at the Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs. These engagements will further her current scholarship on sexual offences as well as inform her role as an advisor for the American Law Institute’s Model Penal Code reform project.

Honorable Mr. Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa

Visiting Fellow (2022-23)

Supreme Court of Pakistan

08 October 2022 - 31 March 2023

Scientists are busy exploring the universe and trying to find out the origin of its creation and the first cause; theologians work under a belief system according to which the first cause is the unseen and ever-existing one supreme creator, sustained and administrator popularly called God who has constantly been communicating with the humankind on our planet earth through his prophets, messengers and guides conveying God’s law, commands and messages to us; and as a lawman I understand that if there is one God creating, sustaining and administering the entire universe then His law, commands and messages delivered to us by different prophets and messengers at different times cannot be conflicting or contradictory to each other. After spending almost half a century in the field of national and international laws I have now decided to try to understand the universal law of God, to find out the common features of different faiths and belief systems of all those who recognize and follow God in their own ways and to establish that the law and message of God to humankind have always remained the same but over time humankind has divided that law and message into different religions and has branded them differently with reference to different messengers. My proposed research is going to be a journey into an uncharted territory being undertaken by a lawman who is neither a theologian nor a religious scholar and with the secular approach of a lawman the conclusion that the proposed research is to lead to is that as a matter of fact all the belief systems inspired by all the prophets and messengers of God, holy scriptures and sacred texts are essentially the same and constitute one faith and, hence, the need of the hour is not inter-faith harmony but intra-faith harmony.

Jennifer Kitchen

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Centre for Education Studies

I am a theatre education scholar and practitioner. My research focuses on social justice, Shakespeare in education and collaborative pedagogies, building on my doctoral study of the social justice implications of theatre-based approaches to teaching Shakespeare (2018, Centre for Education Studies, The University of Warwick). I currently teach on the MA Drama and Theatre in Education at Warwick and am also working with IATL on a range of research and professional projects. As an IAS Associate Fellow I am keen to develop the interdisciplinary elements of my research through research events and peer networking.

Marina Klemenčič

Fernandes Fellow (2019-20)

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

1 - 30 April 2020, 1 - 30 November 2020 & 1 - 30 April 2021

Marina Klemenčič received her PhD in biochemistry in 2013 at the University of Ljubljana under the supervision of Prof. Dr Brigita Lenarčič. Afterwards, she joined the research group of Prof. Dr Marko Dolinar at the same institution, where she was introduced to the new field of biotechnology of algae and cyanobacteria. From 2016 to 2018, Marina was a Post-Doctoral fellow at Umeå University, Sweden, in the laboratory of Prof. Dr Christiane Funk. After returning to University of Ljubljana, she became an Assistant Professor. Her research focuses on structural and functional characterisation of algal and cyanobacterial proteases, enzymes of key importance in maintaining life and executing death in these organisms.

Karol Kurnicki

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2018-20)

Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Sustainable Cities GRP

My project focuses on social practices of car parking in cities. It investigates parking at the intersection of mobility studies and studies on infrastructure in order to discover the role of materiality in today’s mobility and to shed light on how urban infrastructure is produced by various urban actors. My aim is to establish car parking as a subject of study that has import on how we understand everyday social practices, mobility of people, rights to space and urban complexity. In previous years I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where in 2015 I completed my PhD about ideologies in urban space. I was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Conflicts Research at the University of Cambridge (2014) and Culture, Theory, Space research cluster at the University of Plymouth (2012).

Emma Langley

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research

Dr Emma Langley is an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow the Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR) at the University of Warwick. She is currently the lead investigator of an ESRC-funded project which explores the well-being of fathers of children with ID and/or autism and involves consultation and co-production with fathers. Emma’s doctoral research, funded by the ESRC and in collaboration with Cerebra (a charity for families of children with neurological conditions) explored the psychological well-being of family members of children with Intellectual Disability (ID). This involved working on the Cerebra 1000 Families Study, a large-scale quantitative survey of parents of children with a child with ID in the UK and analysing large-scale primary and secondary datasets. Prior to her current role, Emma was a Teaching Fellow in Early Years and Social Studies at the University of Warwick.

Katja Laug

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies

My research considers representations of the human body in the work of Cormac McCarthy. I posit that the geographic and socio-economic location of the body leaves traces on the body, thus creating a recognisable aesthetic that has significant social and political implications. The title of my completed thesis is thus “Mementoes of the Broken Body: Cormac McCarthy’s Aesthetic Politics”. My doctoral work has required me to develop an original theoretical framework in order to address questions of the social body, a project I aim to develop into a book-length study in the near future

Professor Bronwyn Laycock

Visiting Professor 2022-23

WMG

03 October - 18 November 2022

Professor Bronwyn Laycock is a polymer scientist with a focus on plastics sustainability, particularly polymer degradation and lifetime estimation, biopolymer production, polymer conversion chemistries and polymer applications. Some specific application areas in her research program include the synthesis, modification and biodegradation of biopolymers (focussing on polyhydroxyalkanoates), bioderived composites using natural fibres such as wood, controlled release matrixes for pesticide and fertiliser applications, polyurethane chemistry, polymer foams, biodegradable packaging and carbon nanofibre production. She holds a Joint Chairman’s Award for research/commercialization (CRC for Polymers) and an Excellence in Innovation Award (CRC Association) as well as a Joint CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement 2009 for her work on the extended wear contact lens project (within the Vision CRC).

Alice Leonard

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2017-20)

Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Connecting Cultures GRP

My postdoctoral project is entitled: Richard Hakluyt’s The Principal Navigations: Travel, Colonialism, Prose. The project focuses on The Principal Navigations (1598-1600), one of the most important works of English travel literature ever published. I aim to situate The Principal Navigations in the formation of global systems, such as trade, mobility and colonialism. I hypothesise that Hakluyt founded a form of colonial travel discourse which finds its way into the writing of the following century, specifically seventeenth-century prose fiction. I was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, and I am finishing a monograph entitled Shakespeare and Error.

Hsiao-Lei Liu

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

School of Life Sciences

I am an evolutionary biologist working on the interaction between human, environment and other species. My research focuses on using ancient DNA, genomic and population genetic methodology to trace genetic changes over time. These variations could potentially tell us how an agricultural important species in react to the natural selection as well as artificial selection. My doctoral project aims to trace grape evolution at two promising selection events: the artificial selection of grape in Qasr Ibrim, Egypt during cultural replacement, and the genomic variation of European grape before and after the invasion of Phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae). My developing interest lies in the how different environmental conditions influence DNA preservation. This offers a vantage point to consider where the limits of ancient DNA lie.

Rebecca Limb

Early Career Teaching Fellow (2019-20)

School of Law and Institute of Advanced Teaching & Learning

My doctoral research investigates children’s participation in their health care. I conducted an empirical investigation asking, is law and practice successful in enabling and facilitating children’s participation in their health care? More broadly, I am interested in consent to and refusals of therapeutic medical treatment.

Wei Li

International VIsiting Fellow (2019-20)

Chongqing University of Technology, China

06 January - 16 March 2020

Nominated by Professor Qing Wang , WBS. Dr Wei Li is Professor and Director of Centre for Management Case Studies at Chongqing University of Technology. Between 2014 and 2016, Dr Li studied as postdoctoral fellow at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in China, and then as a visiting scholar at University of British Columbia in Canada between 2017 and 2018. As a professor of marketing and entrepreneurship, Dr Li has engaged in research on entrepreneurial marketing and market ambidexterity recently. His current research projects include “The formation and utility mechanisms of market ambidexterity in new ventures under multiple-uncertain environment”, funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, and “Ambidextrous marketing capabilities of new ventures in dynamic environment”, supported by the Chinese Ministry of Education. During his visit to the University of Warwick, he will be collaborating with Prof Qing Wang, and conduct the interdisciplinary research on marketing and entrepreneurship by hosting several events, mainly aiming to advance the research on market ambidexterity of new ventures.

Anthony Lucio

Early Career Innovation Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Chemistry

Anthony is an IAS Early Career Innovation Fellow in the Macpherson research group developing diamond-based electrochemical sensors for: (1) high concentrations of hypochlorite (active component of bleach) and (2) low level free chlorine detection. He completed his PhD in Chemistry in early 2018 at the University of Iowa working on fundamental investigations into the behaviour of ionic liquids at an electrified interface. During his PhD Anthony was awarded a National Science Foundation EAPSI Fellowship that supported a three-month research visit to Monash University. Previously he completed his BS in Chemistry from Saginaw Valley State University where his research focused on the development of glycerine / fuel oil emulsion blends for applications in biofuel by-product recycling. His full, current research profile can be accessed here.

Alessia Maccaro

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2019-21) and Fernandes Fellow (2018-19)

School of Engineering

Alessia Maccaro graduated in Philosophy in 2010, with a thesis on the hermeneutics of the religious in nineteenth century authors, in 2012 she obtained a master's degree in the history of philosophy. In 2017 she finished her PhD in Philosophical Sciences and Bioethics at the same university, during which she gave a practical curvature to her philosophical interests. The choice of the bioethics curriculum has allowed her to investigate the interconnections between medicine and religion with respect to the African cultural tradition. She is now Research Fellow in Bioethics and continues her studies on African cultural traditions.

Jean Marshall

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Warwick Manufacturing Group

I am a Research Fellow at the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG). Following
a PhD in polymer Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, I completed two
postdoctoral positions in aspects of polymer chemistry (with a particular focus
on stimulus-responsive materials) and also worked in a research-based role in
industry for 2 years. At WMG I am involved in a range of projects focusing on
polymeric materials, with particular interests in polymers as smart materials,
furthering the sustainability of polymeric materials, and enhancing their use as
solid electrolytes.

Maryam Masood

Associate Fellow (2018-20)

Warwick Manufacturing Group

I am from a mechanical engineering background and currently working as a Research Fellow in the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick. My research interests are sustainable waste management, decision analysis, circular economy and disaster waste management. I developed expertise in the area of sustainable waste management in Cambridge University during my PhD from 2012 - 2015. I then served as an assistant professor for 2 years in Pakistan. Currently, my research in WMG is focused on developing a multi-criteria decision analysis approach for finding sustainable solutions for the end of life batteries (i.e. Lithium-ion batteries). This research encompasses the environmental, social and economic aspects of the various end of life options for a battery.

Haleema Masud

Early Career Fellow (2021-22)

Warwick Medical School

Haleema is a PhD candidate at the Warwick Medical School funded by the Punjab Education Endowment Fund (PEEF), Pakistan. Her PhD focuses on political economy of using tobacco taxation for tobacco control in Pakistan. Her research is an intersection of the disciplines of Public Health, Economics and Law. As an early career fellow, she is focusing on using interdisciplinary data analysis approach for integration of findings from different aspects of her PhD thesis. She further plans to disseminate her research findings to non-academic audience particularly the policy makers in Pakistan for knowledge translation. Haleema’s research interests include health policy and systems research, tobacco control, non-communicable diseases control, using financial and legal interventions for global health.

Alexander McCormack

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

School of Life Sciences

I am an ECR specialising in sustainable agriculture and food production, with a focus on crop protection and soilborne diseases. My PhD utilised DNA based diagnostic tools to examine the presence of soilborne diseases in UK crops of oilseed rape, and how these diseases reduced plant yield. This is a theme which I continue in my role at the Warwick Crop Centre, examining novel chemical and biological crop protection products for use in vegetable crops. I also investigate how different tools/techniques can be combined to form integrated and sustainable methods for crop protection.

Daniel McKay

International Visiting Fellow (2019-20)

Doshisha University, Kyoto

Visiting 1 - 31 March 2020

Nominated by Prof. Susan Carruthers, Department of History, and by Assoc. Prof. Rashmi Varma, Department of English. Daniel McKay is an American Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and War Studies scholar. His research consistently examines the ways in which twentieth and twenty-first century fiction writers construct marginal narratives of national (un)belonging within / against Anglophone literary traditions. He also teaches and researches the ways in which hegemonic historical narratives (particularly war histories) neglect or occlude stories of ‘minor,’ ‘small’ or ‘outlying’ nations. Prof. McKay’s research has appeared in the journals Common Knowledge, Journal of American Studies, MELUS, and positions, among others.

During his time as an IAS fellow, he will revise key components of his book manuscript, provisionally titled Hostile Islands: Literatures of the Pacific War. The intention is to author the first monograph in the discipline of English Literature that is focused on the Pacific War’s literary legacies.

Daniel Mensah

Early Career Fellow (2021-22)

Warwick Medical School

Daniel is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, working at the Warwick Medical School Division of Health Sciences. He recently completed his PhD thesis which employed a mixed methods design to explore how emerging adults interact with the university food environment and how this in turn shapes food behaviours and the environmental sustainability of their diets.

Daniel’s research interests lie at the intersection of the socio-behavioural aspects of eating, health, and sustainable development. As an Early Career Fellow, he aims to expand on the findings of his PhD thesis and consolidate his research career. Daniel is part of the EATEx study team, a cross-disciplinary group at the University of Warwick developing a digital intervention to improve wellbeing and reduce loneliness among students via social eating.

Trisha Meyer

Fernandes Fellow (2019-20)

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

1 June - 3 July 2020, 24 August - 25 September 2020 & 18 January - 19 February 2021

Trisha Meyer is an Assistant Professor at Vesalius College and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Through her research and teaching, she explores the role and effects of technology and participatory mechanisms in governing societal problems, such as copyright infringement, disinformation and the transition to a sustainable lifestyle. She is a media scholar, with a keen interest and strong track record in interdisciplinary research. Her first output as a postdoctoral researcher was a co-authored European Commission study on building bridges and breaking barriers in multidisciplinary research projects. Her research lies in the intersection between political economy of communication, science, technology and society studies (STS), surveillance studies, (global) governance studies, IT law and computer science.

Trisha has published and presented widely on the regulatory push for online intermediaries to take proactive (automated) measures to tackle public policy problems. She calls for assessments of the impact of technology based solutions on human rights in general, and freedom of expression and media pluralism in particular. She welcomes interactions with policymakers, as demonstrated in her involvement in eleven policy-facing research projects over five years. She regularly speaks at multi-stakeholder events in Brussels, organises policy events and writes explanatory briefs to foster cross-pollination between research and policy.

Stefano Milonia

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2019-21)

School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Connecting Cultures GRP

As a Romance philologist, my main interests are medieval European lyric, manuscript studies, music, and digital humanities. The aim of my research at the University of Warwick is to reveal the translingual and interconnected nature of medieval romance lyric by looking at musical imitations occurring across four different repertoires: Italian, French, Occitan, and Galician-Portuguese lyric. In the Middle Ages melodic imitation was an essential part of artistic creation: old melodies were constantly borrowed by new authors (a practice known as contrafaction). Since poets travelled from court to court, tracing the connections between melodies allows us to walk through their itineraries, creating a map of literary relationships.

Delia Moldovan

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of History of Art

I have completed a PhD in History of Art (Warwick, 2020), on the Renaissance illustrated calendars created in Northern Italy. In 2019 I was awarded an IAS Early Career Fellow to examine the imagery of early-printed agricultural literature. I have gained several short-term fellowships to explore the topic of Renaissance Agriculture, including a post-graduate fellowship at NIKI (Florence) with a project on the representation of olive-oil in sixteenth-century Tuscany (2021), that I would like to expand into a multifaced global study. Given the interdisciplinary approach of my research, my work integrates well within the vibrant environment of the IAS.

Maurizio Monti

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Physics

Maurizio is currently an IAS Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick. His PhD project, undergone at the Warwick Centre for Ultrafast Spectroscopy, consisted in using ultrafast laser spectroscopy techniques to investigate how tuning the composition affects energy loss processes in innovative materials with applications in the photovoltaics and beyond.

His current research interests are the development and use of novel ultrafast techniques to study nonlinear processes in innovative materials within the decades-long quest for materials with functionality beyond that of silicon.

Stuart Morris

Associate Fellow 2021-22

Department of Physics

I am an early career researcher, currently working on a one year post-doc contract in the Warwick physics department while also finishing my PhD. I have published 3 papers (one as main author, 2 as co-author) in the field of plasma physics, and I am interested in pursuing a career in academia. An IAS collaboration would help develop my understanding of academic careers, while also granting me the chance to share my computational skills with researchers in other disciplines.

Lewis Mosby

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

I have recently completed my interdisciplinary PhD project split between the Physics Department at the University of Warwick and the Warwick Medical School, studying the intracellular transport of cargo molecules using end-binding proteins with Professor Anne Straube and Dr Marco Polin. Before that, I completed my MPhys undergraduate masters degree modelling the dynamics of congested train networks with Professor Robin Ball. My research interests are in developing mathematical models to explain complex biological phenomena using the principles of statistical mechanics, and in using computational methods to test the outcomes of these models.

Harry Moyse

Early Career Teaching Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Chemistry and Institute of Advanced Teaching & Learning

Harold Moyse is a Research Fellow at Warwick University, his work focuses are machine learning applied to text datasets, mathematical and biochemical tools for improving transplant outcomes, and wider mathematics and machine learning techniques in protein biochemistry. In one of his previous projects he worked with the New Zeleand Department of Conservation as an applied mathematician to prevent the extinction of the land snail Powelliphanta Augusta.

Jakub Filip Mozaryn

Fernandes Fellow (2019-21)

Warsaw University of Technology

1 - 30 October 2019, 1 - 30 October 2020, 1 - 30 October 2021

and I currently work as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics, where I’m a supervisor of the Laboratory of Automatic Control Systems. I’m focusing on interdisciplinary research on coherent description of human-machine interaction incorporating the control engineering perspective. I’ve visited the University of Warwick twice now, in August 2018 and May 2019. The goal of my visits are to continue and solidify the collaboration that started during my initial visits to Warwick, with Professor Maple (WMG) and Dr. Walasek (Department of Psychology). We will focus on the development of the novel model of coherent models of cognition inspired by models of system dynamics. This modeling approach is well suited for simulating complex interactive (nonlinear) systems that characterise the interplay between people’s behavior, attitudes, beliefs, and preferences. This will be the first attempt at using system dynamics to understand individual-level cognitive processes.

Christopher Nathan

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Politics and International Studies

I am a Research Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group within the Department of Politics and International Relations at Warwick. I work within political theory, covering two areas of interest: (1) policing, and (2) technological risk.

Marta Neves

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2020-22)

Department of Chemistry, Health GRP

Marta received her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Porto (Portugal) in 2012 and her research has been focused on the development of analytical approaches with optical or electrochemical detection. In September 2020, she joined the University of Warwick and the research group of Professor Matthew I. Gibson as an Institute of Advanced Study WIRL-COFUND Fellow. Marta is interested in using advanced biosensing technologies at the materials/biology interface to solve clinical and biomedical unmet challenges. During her fellowship, Marta will study prostate cancer glycobiology for the design and development of a novel multiplexed biosensor with the aim of improving current diagnostic approaches.

Nat Das Neves Rodrigues Lopes

Associate Fellow (2019-20) and Early Career Teaching Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Chemistry

I was awarded my PhD September 2018, having written a thesis titled ‘Ultrafast Photoprotection Mechanisms: Expediting the Molecular Design of Sunscreen Agents’. I then became an IAS/IATL Early Career Fellow. Currently, I am a Research Fellow in chemistry working on BoostCrop, a EU H2020 project which aims to employ sunscreen photophysical mechanisms to channel the energy from solar radiation to heat-generating pathways which may ultimately be used to help crops cope with extremely cold weather. As an Associate Fellow of the IAS, I hope to share BoostCrop outcomes, enhance my career prospects and contribute to the goals of the IAS.

Aidan Norrie

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

Aidan is an interdisciplinary historian of monarchy, religion, and gender whose research focuses on the posthumous legacy of Elizabeth I. In addition to their forthcoming monograph, Elizabeth I and the Old Testament: Biblical Analogies and Providential Rule (Arc Humanities Press), they have written various essays on cinematic and televisual depictions of Elizabeth, Elizabethan royal iconography, and on female kingship more generally. Aidan has co-edited Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe (with Lisa Hopkins; 2019), Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations (with Marina Gerzic; 2020); and New Directions in Early Modern English Drama: Edges, Spaces, Intersections (with Mark Houlahan; 2020).

Ana Raquel Nunes

Associate Fellow (2018-20)

Warwick Medical School

Ana Raquel Nunes is an ambitious academic and researcher with a multidisciplinary background, working in the interface between public health, environmental and social sciences, with an extensive international professional and research profile, including the World Health Organization, scientific publications and an extensive portfolio on teaching. Raquel's special interests include: public health, health promotion and disease prevention; wider determinants of health; relationship between environment & health; vulnerability, resilience & adaptation to environmental change; and mixed methods research. Raquel's research investigates the contribution of assets to adaptation to extreme temperatures, the determinants of general and specified vulnerability and resilience to extreme temperatures, as well as the importance of an integrating framework for achieving the sustainable development goals with a focus on health and well-being. Her current research also focuses on strengthening resilience to heatwaves in the UK and implications for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Isabel Nuñez Salazar

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

Department of Sociology, Centre for the Study of Women and Gender

Isabel is an interdisciplinary sociologist researching families and relationships, focussing on how individuals do family in everyday life. She explores the way in which people in diverse domestic arrangements create family relations and how these relationships are both shaped and constrained by gender, class and sexuality. Isabel’s PhD investigates how far the heteronormative family in Chile is being challenged and the possibilities for building more egalitarian families. Her thesis explores the making of family through everyday practices, how these practices (re)produced heteronormativity and to what extent they sustain the institutional order.

Her doctoral work also examines family practices that challenge gendered power and resist and disrupt heteronormativity in intimate relationships; exploring how these are forms of social change. Isabel uses visual methods and draws her work from feminist thought, family sociology and queer theory. Her wider research interest embraces intimate citizenship, food system, feminist movements and creative methods. Isabel is a member of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender and participates in Anti-Racist Pedagogy learning circle at Warwick.

Farah Omran

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Warwick Medical School

PhD in Medicine - Biomedical Science Division at Warwick Medical School. During my PhD I investigated pro/anti-inflammatory pathways in brown and beige adipocytes, impacted by obese state. The findings can guide subsequent research to develop monitoring biomarkers and novel therapeutic strategies to ameliorate adipocyte dysfunction, and support to ease the medical and socio-economic burden of human obesity and its complications. I look forward to developing my research career and engaging with the IAS community during my fellowship.

Massimiliano Onorato

Residential Fellow (2019-20)

University of Bologna

1 - 10 December 2019

Oyinlola Oyebode

GCRF Fellow (2018-20)

Warwick Medical School

15 - 22 July 2019

The aim of the Global Health Research Unit on Improving Health in Slums, funded by the UK’s National Institute of Health Research is to work collaboratively to improve health service delivery in slums. Through the work of this Unit, data has been collected from 7 slums in 4 countries, 3 of which are in Nigeria. So far, fieldwork constituting over 2,500 household/health facility surveys and more than 25 in-depth interviews and Focus Group Discussions (FGD) have been completed in Nigeria. This IAS funding will support Dr Motunrayo Ajisola, University of Ibadan, to visit Warwick Medical School, where she will contribute to and expand the research output from this project. In addition, we will develop a new project focused on TB health seeking in the Nigerian slums based on needs identified through our Unit’s work.

Gioia Panzarella

Associate Fellow (2018-20) and Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

Global Sustainable Development

In 2018 I completed a PhD in Italian (School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Warwick) on the dissemination of the literary production written by translingual writers in the Italian language. I'm currently Teaching Fellow and Director of Student Experience at the Global Sustainable Development department (Warwick). I have worked in various capacities with the Migration, Identity and Translation network (funded by the Monash-Warwick Alliance) since 2015. I colead the ‘Collaborative translation: a model for inclusion’ project, in collaboration with colleagues in Monash, with a focus on the uses of translation in the language classroom (2016-17). Since 2016, I have co-lead the Identities in Motion project.

Jo Parsons

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Warwick Medical School

I am a Research Fellow in the Unit of Academic Primary Care, with a background in Psychology, Health Psychology and Health Behaviour Change. My research areas of interest and experience include digital health (including development and evaluation of digital health interventions), perceptions of vaccination amongst pregnant women, and digital access to primary care appointments.

I am an Early Career Researcher, keen to strengthen my position as an independent researcher. I see the role of Associate Fellow as being an opportunity to share knowledge and forge new collaborations with the wider research community.

Anisha Patel

Associate Fellow (2018-20)

Warwick Manufacturing Group

I am a postdoctoral researcher in WMG. My expertise lies in electrochemistry and material characterisation. I completed my PhD in 2012 at University of Warwick's Chemistry Department following a 4 year study on the electron transfer kinetics of graphite. After a postdoctoral year, in 2013 I moved to University Paris Diderot for 3.5 years, where I studied single nanoparticle kinetics using in situ 3D optical microscopy, and biocatalysis using in situ AFM with electrochemistry. In 2017 I moved to Ulm University, where I worked on developing multiscale scanning probe microscopy for interfacial characterisation. My current research focuses on characterising Li-ion battery degradation.

Josh Patel

Early Career Teaching Fellow (2021-22)

Department of History and Institute of Advanced Teaching & Learning

Josh is a Early Career Teaching Fellow at IAS and IATL. Josh's doctoral research explored the development and change in how it has been imagined universities contributed to liberal society in the post-war period. Josh is interested in developing his research to consider how students and staff navigated higher education opportunities and the various and distinctive learning outcomes they derived from living and learning in higher education. He is particularly interested in pedagogies of care and the importance of space and community to learning. Josh was part of a WIHEA-funded student co-creation project to develop a Postgraduate Teaching Community at Warwick. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and head swimming coach at UWSWP.

George Pavlich

International Visiting Fellow (2019-20)

University of Alberta, Canada

14 October - 28 October 2019

Nominated by Professor Alan Norrie, Schoolof Law. Professor George Pavlich’s previous work highlights complex and enduring rituals of criminal accusation as the foundations of today’s unequal, individualizing, and vast criminal justice systems. While at the IAS, he aims to develop work on how settler-colonial forms of criminal law emerged through accusatory “theatres of criminalization” in Western Canada (with key roles for the police, Justices of the Peace, Magistrates). In critically addressing the silencing legacies of settler-colonial law as it misappropriated Indigenous legalities, he plans to work with collaborators at Warwick (e.g., Professor Norrie) to better understand the complementarity between the social auspices, and the moral phenomenology, of those who face criminalization.

Melissa Pawelski

Early Career Fellow (2021-22)

School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Melissa’s thesis entitled ‘Languages of Punishment. Translating Michel Foucault’s Surveiller et punir into English and French’ examined one of the French philosopher’s most influential writings in translation. Her research therefore sits at the intersection of modern languages, translation, social theory, and philosophy. Melissa is especially interested in the challenges that arise when translating concepts. As an IAS Early Career Fellow, Melissa works on publishing her research, developing a postdoctoral project, and guest-editing a special issue entitled ‘The Effect of Plurality in Translation’ with Exchanges, Warwick’s peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal based at IAS.

Michael Paye

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2018-20)

Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies, Connecting Cultures GRP

My WIRL-COFUND project outlines the interrelated aesthetics, forms, and affects around literary depictions of inshore fishery crisis, industrial fishery extractivism, and oil shock, with a particular emphasis on Nigeria and the Caribbean. This research will contribute to my monograph, Fishery Fictions and the World-Ecology: Energy, Extractivism, and Environmental Crisis, in which I develop a comparative framework for reading novels based at regional fisheries in relation to Atlantic-wide fishery and oil collapse. I received my PhD from University College Dublin in 2017, where I was an Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholar. In October 2015, I was a Dobbin Scholar at Dalhousie University, and from January–June 2017, a Fulbright–NUI Visiting Researcher at Princeton University. My research has been published in Green Letters, Atlantic Studies and Briarpatch, and I am currently working on a number of articles on fishery culture and the blue humanities, as well as other areas of the environmental humanities and world literature.

Julia Peetz

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Theatre and Performance Studies

Julia Peetz is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Politics and Performance at the University of Warwick. Her work addresses questions of political representation, democracy, and performance, particularly in the context of the US presidency and in Anglo-American relations. Her current project, ‘Performing Anglo-Americans Relations: Exceptionalism, Myth, Identity’, uses a focus on political speech to develop the first major study of the performative dimension of Anglo-American relations. Motivated by the ambition to develop an international relations perspective for the emerging field of politics and performance scholarship, this research will benefit from interdisciplinary collaborations facilitated by the IAS.

Professor Senga Pemba

Residential Fellow (2019-20)

St Frances University College of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania

29 Jan - 1 Feb 2020

Medical Educationalist specialised in work based learning and competence based education for health workers in developing countries. Has worked as a Senior Advisor for Health training in the Government of Uganda for several years supporting the development of human resources for health workforce in the country. Also engaged by Novartis Foundation of Switzerland as the Director of the Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health to strengthen medical education and community health at the Centre. Has conducted several research projects in Low Income Countries to influence policy changes. Has vast experience in Micro research, Implementation research and Digital health research.

Currently leading a research Project in Mobile Consulting in Marginalised Remote Communities in Tanzania. Has recently participated in the development of a course in the use of digital communication in health care as well as the development of Policy Guidelines on Task Shifting/Sharing for health and social workers in Tanzania. Regular EDCTP Research Reviewer for Clinical Trials proposals submitted from various countries.

Has jointly participated in developing a Five Year Strategic Plan for Inuka Rehabilitation Hospital to strengthen the delivery of rehabilitation health services

Other engagements include development of e-learning modules for doctors/associate clinicians, development of international short courses in the areas of community health, maternal health and research.

Also an experienced and active Lecturer, Mentor and Clinician currently working at Saint Francis University College of Health and Allied Sciences (SFUCHAS) and Saint Francis Referral Hospital in Ifakara, Tanzania.

Dr Sarah Penny

IAS Programme Manager

Email: Sarah.Penny@warwick.ac.uk

Sarah leads the portfolio of opportunities for Early Career Researchers at the IAS and is responsible for building and supporting a university-wide community of postdoc researchers through its schemes. She coordinates the online delivery of the Accolade Programme, builds networks of scholars through the Associate Fellowship scheme, and develops the IAS's communications to reach and engage new audiences. Sarah has a background in academic administration, engagement and research holding a PhD in Theatre (University of Warwick) and a double Masters in International Performance Research (University of Amsterdam).

Luca Peretti

Associate Fellow (2021-22)

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2020-22)

Luca Peretti is a WIRL-COFUND Fellow. His project investigates cultural exchange across the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and North Africa, particularly Italy and Algeria, at the end of the colonial era (1960-1966). The core case studies include several collaborative works between Italians and Algerians, including Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1966). Previously he co-edited a volume on terrorism and cinema (in Italian, Postmedia books) and one on Pier Pasolini Pasolini (Bloomsbury Academics). His work has appeared in, among others, Senses of Cinema, The Italianist: Film Issue, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, Historical Materialism, Comunicazioni Sociali, Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History. He is on the editorial board of Zapruder World, Cinema e Storia, L’Avventura and Storiografia. He wrote and coproduced the film Mister Wonderland (dir. Valerio Ciriaci, 2019). He collaborates with newspapers and magazines.

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International Visiting Fellow (2019-20)

University of Strasbourg, France

Visiting 4-23 May 2019 plus a Venice visit in June 2020

Laurent Pernot is a Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the University of Strasbourg, and a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (Paris) and of the Accademia di Archeologia, Lettere e Belle Arti (Napoli). A leading expert in the history of rhetoric, he has published widely on ancient literature, the classical tradition, and rhetoric (especially epideictic rhetoric). During his time at Warwick, he will offer a series of lectures and seminars about new trends in the history of classical literature, philosophy, and rhetoric. His research will focus on ancient rhetoric and its reception.

Nicolas Perrone

Residential Fellow (2019-20)

Universidad Andres Bello, Chile

30 October - 10 November 2019

Goran Petrovic-Lotina

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2019-21)

Department of Theatre & Performance Studies

Goran Petrović-Lotina is a Visiting Professor at Sciences Po Paris, where he teaches on performance and politics, and a founder and co-curator of Fogo Island Film, an annual project concerned with the diversity of relationships between nature and society, taking place on Fogo Island in Canada.

Petrović-Lotina holds a PhD from Ghent University and Master's Degrees from Sciences Po Paris and the University of Belgrade. His research combines performance theory with political philosophy to examine the political dimensions of performances. Petrović-Lotina’s main field of inquiry is to explore how various performance practices contribute to contesting dominant politics and invigorating democracy. He finds inspiration in post-Marxist theories of hegemony, antagonism and strategy, and has published on this subject in various journals and books. His postdoctoral research topic is Performance and Populism.

Dr Mojca M. Plesničar

Fernandes Fellow (2019 - 20)

Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law Ljubljana

Dr Mojca M. Plesničar is a research associate at the Institute of Criminology in Ljubljana and teaches at the University of Ljubljana. She mostly researches on sentencing and penal decision-making, but includes various tangential inquiries, such as the role and impact of AI on criminal justice, questions of marginal groups in criminal justice (women, minors, migrants), prisons etc. She has participated in and headed several research projects funded by the Slovenian national research agency and various other stakeholders in Slovenia, she has published in national and international journals and is an active member of the wider European research community.

Mikhail Poluektov

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Warwick Manufacturing Group

Mikhail Poluektov graduated with honours from the Faculty of Physics and Mechanics at the Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University in 2010. He then obtained his PhD at the Eindhoven University of Technology in 2014. His main research interests are in nonlinear mechanics of materials and multiscale modelling methods.

Fernando Pomiro

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2018-20)

Department of Chemistry, Innovative Manufacturing & Future Materials GRP

Fernando’s research focuses on the structure-property relationship in the area of functional materials. His research straddles the interdisciplinary areas of Solid State Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics and Crystallography. In 2016 he completed his PhD entitle “New materials with potential magnetoelectric properties: Influence of the d and f cations” at National University of Córdoba in Córdoba, Argentina. After his PhD, Fernando diversified his research skills by undertaking a PDRA in surface science at National University of the Litoral in Santa Fe, Argentina. As a WIRL-COFUND fellow, he will be working at the Senn group in a very original and innovative project whose main aim is to provide vital proof that materials with physical properties as complex as magnetoelectricity can be designed using a symmetry based approach.

Manuel Prieto

Residential Fellow (2019-20)

Universidade de Lisboa , Portugal

Visiting 13 - 20 October 2019

Nominated by Dr. Natércia das Neves Rodrigues Lopes. Manuel Prieto is Full Professor of Instituto Superior Técnico of Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal), where he obtained his Degree, PhD (1981) and Habilitation (1993). His work is centered in Molecular and Cell Biophysics, namely on the application of state-of-the art fluorescence methodologies, both in ensemble average and under the microscope, allowing to retrieve topological and dynamic information. Some of research interests are related to membrane biophysics such as the derivation of phase diagrams, detection and study of membrane nanodomains, lipid-protein and lipid-DNA interaction, and amyloid fiber formation. The work obtained international recognition, and has been presented in invited communications including a large number of plenary talks.

Lucy Rayfield

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Centre for the Study of the Renaissance

Lucy is an MHRA Research Fellow at Warwick’s Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. She works on comic drama in sixteenth-century France and Italy, and is especially interested in how French playwrights used Italian models to create theatre which could be used as a propagandist weapon against the Italians themselves. Her first book, Poetics, Performance and Politics in French and Italian Renaissance Comedy, is forthcoming with Legenda. She is looking forward to collaborating with the IAS, and hopes to co-organise a symposium on early modern paradise, as well as a research salon on humour and laughter.

Ursula Renz

International Visiting Fellow (2019-20)

Aplen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt, Austria

24 September - 8 November 2019

Ursula Renz is currently professor of philosophy at the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt (though she is about to move to Graz, where she will take up a chair in the History of Philosophy) and she is nominated by Johannes Rössler, Department of Philosophy. Ursula’s research seeks to analyze insights voiced in the history of philosophy using and to bring them into contact with work in contemporary Epistemology and philosophy of mind. She is most known for her work on Spinoza and the German Neo-Kantians. While at the IAS, she aims to elaborate earlier work on the concept of Socratic self-knowledge, i.e. the sort of self-knowledge about their own character or dispositions people usually regards as improvable and enhancing the moral integrity. As part of her visit, Ursula participated in a workshop on Self-Knowledge and Judgment in Early Modern Philosophy (jointly organized with Johannes Rössler), and she is giving several talks at Warwick and elsewhere in the UK and in Irland.

Ursula Renz holds a PhD from the University of Zurich. 2018 she was visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, 2014-15 she was Alexander-von-Humboldt senior fellow at the University of Konstanz, and in 2013, she was visiting scholar at Harvard University. Her previous appointments were at the University of Zurich, at the ETH Zurich, and at Roskilde University, Denmark, and she absolved post-doc-years at Yale and the ENS Lyon.

Pablo Adriano Rodgríguez-Merino

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Politics & International Studies

Pablo A. Rodríguez-Merino is a doctoral researcher in the Politics and International Studies (PaIS) department at Warwick University. His PhD thesis investigates how and with what consequences violent conflict in Xinjiang, as well as the Uyghur identity, religion, and the region more broadly, have become constituted as a terrorism problem for the Chinese state. He is interested in critical perspectives on security and terrorism, and his work has been published in journals like Critical Studies on Terrorism or Central Asian Survey. Previously, Pablo worked in China as a journalist for the news agencies EFE and Xinhua, and as a trade analyst for the Spanish Economic and Trade Office.

Stefan Roesner

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Chemistry

I received my Diploma in chemistry from Philipps-University Marburg, Germany in 2010. Following this I moved to the UK and completed a PhD in synthetic organic chemistry with Prof. Varinder Aggarwal at the University of Bristol in 2014. After postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Stephen Buchwald I returned in 2016 to the UK to become Senior Research Fellow in the Shipman group in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick. Becoming an Associate Fellow with the IAS and using its resources and professional network will help me to develop my academic career.

Nicola Rogers

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Chemistry

I am a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Chemistry, currently developing molecular systems for applications in medical diagnostics and therapy. I completed my PhD in 2014 at the University of Birmingham, where I designed luminescent nanoparticles for medical imaging, and undertook a short PDRA position at the MRI centre at the University of Nottingham. Following this I worked at Durham University as a PDRA for two years, designing new MRI contrast agents. My research interests lie in the field of inorganic chemistry, and how we can use metal ions to form intricate molecular structures for medical applications; drug-like molecules are designed with specific structural shapes and physical properties in order to interact with the biological molecules in our bodies, and induce a response, whereas diagnostic molecules are designed to give some form of information read-out, ideally with no adverse effects and thus minimal interaction with the chemistry of our body.

Ignazio Roppolo

Fernandes Fellow (2018-20)

Politecnico di Torino

10 June - 10 July 2019, 1 - 28 Febrary 2020

In 2017 I moved to Politecnico di Torino to set up a platform dedicated to 3D printing, specifically focused on light activated reactions. I authored 6 book chapters and 55 publications in indexed peer-reviewed international journals. My overall citations are more than 750, resulting in H-index of 17 (source Scopus). I supervised 1 PhD and 10 Master Students. At present, I’m supervising the scientific activities of 5 Ph.D. students. I would like to extend the scheme that we have developed regarding 3D printing towards new fields, in particular biology-related applications and functional materials based on renewable resources. I would also like to achieve a permanent position as a Professor in order to develop my research and share my experience with other students and researchers to help inspire the next-generation of materials scientists.

Seb Rumsby

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Politics & International Studies

Seb Rumsby is an interdisciplinary researcher whose expertise includes everyday political economy, development and inequality, religious and ethnic politics, undocumented migration, and South East Asian society. Seb first book manuscript “Alternative Routes to Development? Religious Transformation, Resistance and Empowerment on a Neoliberal Frontier in Vietnam’s Highlands”, based on his PhD thesis, is currently under review at University of Wisconsin Press. Seb believes in the importance and potential of research for informing and achieving effective social interventions, and the impact of his collaborations with non-academic partners was recognised by being shortlisted for the ESRC 2020 Celebrating Impact Prize.

Martina Russo

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Classics & Ancient History

My doctoral thesis investigates the discourse of flattery in Seneca’s philosophical texts, and analyses the extent to which Seneca developed a theory of adulation which is ‘put into practice’ in works like the Consolatio ad Polybium. My research has been generously supported by the Wolfson Foundation. As part of my PhD, in 2018, I was a visiting graduate student at the Johns Hopkins University. My second project, which is inherently interdisciplinary, focuses on the dramatic and historiographical representation of Octavia, the first wife of Nero. My publications' record shows an interdisciplinary view on Classics: in my last article, I examine Claudius' speech in the Ad Polybium.

Dr. Md Salauddin

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

School of Engineering

Dr. Md Salauddin is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Warwick. His PhD study was funded by the Chancellor’s International Scholarship awarded by the University of Warwick, focussed on the extreme climatic events at critical coastal infrastructures, e.g. wave-induced overtopping and scouring at sea defences with gravel beaches. He had performed a large number of physical experiments in the wave flume at the University of Warwick, and investigated the wave overtopping and toe scouring characteristics at sea defences e.g. seawalls and sloping dykes with gravel beaches. He holds a first-class MSc in Water Science and Engineering from the IHE-Delft, Netherlands, and a first-class BSc in Civil Engineering from Chittagong Engineering University and Technology, Bangladesh. As an independent researcher at the IAS, he is now working to investigate further aspects of extreme climatic events at sea defences e.g. distribution of extreme wave by wave overtopping volumes which can be hazardous to the people behind the sea defences. "

Michael Samuel

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Film & Television Studies

A module leader and visiting lecturer with the department of Film & TV Studies, I am responsible for a sizeable portion of the undergraduate TV studies provision. I have the exciting opportunity to help students realise that TV, like most disciplines, does not exist in a dimension, and is part of a wider culture with links to other disciplines. Connecting with peers from across disciplinary lines through IAS events would allow me to enrich my own knowledge of wider fields and to apply this knowledge to my teaching and my research.

Dr Marjolein Schepers

Fernandes Fellow (2019-20)

Nominator: Prof. Beat Kumin

Marjolein Schepers is a migration historian. Previous research projects include postcolonial migration and membership regimes in 20th-century Belgium (Leiden University), civic integration policies and practices in post-war Belgium (KU Leuven) and migrants’ access to poor relief in eighteenth-century Flanders and France focusing amongst others on the negotiations of belonging to a place (VUB – Ghent University with a visiting fellowship at Leicester University). Her current FWO post-doc research project focuses on mobility and people passing through cities, using spatial methods to analyse the changing urban infrastructures for transit migration in the late 18th and 19th-century Low Countries. Recent publications include Marjolein Schepers, ‘Regulating Poor Migrants in Border Regions: A Microhistory of Out-Parish Relief in Bulskamp, 1768-96’, Rural History 29, 2 (2018) 145-165; Marjolein Schepers, ‘Should They Stay or Should They Go Now? The Discretionary Character of Poor Relief, Settlement and and Removal in the Low Countries’, BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review 133, 3 (2018) 48-71; Esther Beeckaert et al., ‘The Societal Turn. Historicising Future Society’, TSEG – Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History 15, 2-3 (2018) 113-128.

Timo Schrader

Associate Fellow (2018-20)

Department of History

Dr Timo Schrader is a Fritz Thyssen Foundation Fellow in the Department of History at Warwick. In his PhD project, he examined Puerto Rican community activism in New York since World War II. His postdoctoral project at Warwick (2019 to 2021) will produce the first comprehensive history of US veteran activism and protest in the twentieth century. He will visit archives across the US and conduct interviews with veteran organizations. His first monograph is entitled “Loisaida as Urban Laboratory: Puerto Rican Community Activism in New York” and will be published by the University of Georgia Press in 2020.

Lorenzo Serini

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

IATL/IAS EC Teaching Fellow (2020-21)

Lorenzo is an Early Career Teaching Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) and at the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) at the University of Warwick, where he completed his PhD in Philosophy in 2021. Since 2017 he has taught as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Philosophy Department at the University of Warwick, and since March 2021 he has been a tutor at Eutopia European University. His research focuses on the philosophy of emotions, especially on emotional biases and epistemic emotions, as well as on emotional education and well-being. He is also interested in interdisciplinary issues concerning cultural perspectivism and dynamic interculturalism.

Huayun Shi

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Chemistry

Huayun Shi obtained her BSc degree in Chemistry from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou (China), and was awarded a PhD in 2019 under supervision of Prof. Peter Sadler. Now she is working in Sadler's group as a Research Assistant, and will start an ICURe project in 2020. Her research is focused on the design of novel photoactive platinum complexes with azide ligands for cancer therapy, and elucidation of their mechanism of action.

Sophie Shorland

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies

Sophie is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick. She is currently working on celebrity culture in the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, exploring what celebrity looked like before the newspaper. She has published in Renaissance Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, and is currently editing a special issue of the journal Exchanges on metaphorical and literal cannibalisms. Her other research interests include the performance of premodern power, domestic tragedy, and early modern women’s writing.

Barbora Siposova

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Psychology

Barbora is a cognitive scientist interested in joint attention and joint action. She is currently a Research Fellow working on ERC funded Sense of Commitment project in Psychology department conducting behavioral experiments with children to explore what keeps them committed to a task. Barbora’s research topics include questions about how young children share attention with others and what they understand about eye contact and commitments. She is especially interested in the distinct ways in which humans coordinate their attention and knowledge states with others, and plans to acquire funding to pursue next research project.

Olga Smith

Associate Fellow (2020)

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2017-20)

Department of History of Art, Connecting Cultures GRP

My research expertise lies in the field of contemporary art, and within that I focus specifically on photography and lens-based media. Entitled Aesthetics and Politics of Landscape Representation in Contemporary Photography in Europe, my postdoctoral research project studies representations of natural and built environments in contemporary photographic practices in Europe, with reference to issues such as national identity, urban expansion and anthropogenic climate change. I have previously held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and positions at the University of St Andrews and Tate Gallery, London. My PhD thesis was prepared at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris Ulm) and University of Cambridge, where I also did my undergraduate studies. I am the co-editor of Anamnesia: Private and Public Memory in Modern French Culture (Peter Lang: 2009) and have published in Art History, History of Photography, Fotogeschichte and Nottingham French Studies.

Patrick Smith

Associate Fellow (2021-22)

Film & Television Studies

Patrick Brian Smith is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. He is working on a project entitled Mediated Forensics, which examines how emergent technological and aesthetic forms of media practice are redefining the fields of human rights activism and investigatory journalism. Through the utilisation of new media technologies and open source practices, a range of artists, researchers and media collectives are transforming the roles that the performative, ethico-aesthetic and technological play in the mediation of evidence and its capacity to intervene in forms of humanitarian, political and social violence. The project argues that these emergent forms of practice are creating new ecologies of media practice and collaboration that are yet to be properly examined or theorised. He completed his PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University, Montreal in 2020. His research interests include documentary theory and practice, spatial and political theory, forensic media, and human rights media activism. He has taught courses on visual culture, film and media histories, documentary theory, and activist media cultures. His work has been, or will be, published in journals such as JCMS, Discourse, Media, Culture & Society, NECSUS, and Afterimage.

Mikhail Sokolov

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Warwick Manufacturing Group

Dr Mikhail Sokolov is Research Fellow at Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), University of Warwick. He obtained his D.Sc. from Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, 2015 and worked at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. He has published over 10 research papers. His focus is on laser beam welding, remote laser welding and methods for improving welding efficiency.

Mikhail Spektor

Fernandes Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Economics & Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Mikhail Spektor holds a PhD in Psychology and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and Business at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His main line of research focuses on the cognitive processes underlying individual decision making, in particular when choices violate classical notions of economic rationality. He investigates how individuals learn about the properties of choice alternatives and how value is represented and relies on a combination of experimental, computational, and physiological methods. During his fellowship (in collaboration with Neil Stewart and Łukasz Walasek), he wants to apply his insights to investigate how individuals' portfolio returns affect their trading behaviour.

Rachel Spencer

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Warwick Medical School

I am an academic clinical lecturer and GP researching patient safety in primary care. I have produced prescribing safety indicators used by GP databases and a patient safety toolkit adopted by the Royal College of GPs. My doctoral work focused on safety of communication at the interface of primary and secondary care, I am currently building on this work to improve safety at the interface of primary and secondary care.

Michael Staniforth

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Chemistry

Dr Mick Staniforth is a Senior Research Fellow and facility manager of the Warwick Centre for Ultrafast Spectroscopy, a joint project between the physics and chemistry departments. His research interests are focused on photochemistry and photophysics at ultrafast timescales. He is also the president of the Postdoctoral Society of Chemistry, a group of PDRAs and ECRs inthe department of chemistry which work towards greater development, improved well being and stronger representation of PDRAs and ECRs in the chemistry department and across the university. PSoC hope to work in close conjunction with the IAS in the future.

Leo Steeds

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Politics & International Studies

My work looks critically at the foundations of modern (political) economic thought in light of the contemporary ecological crisis. For my PhD research, I investigated the concept of land in the history of economic thought, thinking in particular about how land’s materiality has been comprehended within economic theory. I maintain a broad interest in issues of contemporary political economy and the environment, as well as the history of political and economic thought.

Corey Stevens

Fernandes Fellow (2018-20)

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

09 June - 06 July 2019 & 29 September - 27 November 2019

Nominated by Professor Matthew Gibson, Chemistry & WMS. Corey Stevens received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada). Currently he is a postdoctoral fellow at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). His research focuses on understand how molecules bind to ice. Using phage display, we attempt to discover new peptides that bind to ice and identify the mechanism of ice binding. Understanding how molecules bind ice would facilitate the development of new materials with enhanced ice-binding activities for use in the cryopreservation of tissues and organs.

Alexander Stingl

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2019-21)

Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies

Affiliate of Global Legal Studies Network (Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris) and Paris Institute for Critical Thinking. Author of Care Power Information (2020, Routledge) The Digital Coloniality of Power (2016, Lexington/Row­­man), Between Discursivity and Sensus Communis (2010, OPUS), and Aufklärung als Flaschenpost (2009, VDM), as well as co-author with S.Weiss and S.Restivo of Worlds of ScienceCraft (1st 2014, Ashgate, 2nd 2016, Routledge). In 2019, he was named the chair of the scientific committee for “Juridifying the Anthropocene” (directed by G.Lhuilier&B.Parance which is contributing ideas and expertise for the Agence Developpmente Française and the Court de Cassation [French High Court of Appellations]). He is the managing editor of the book series Decolonial Options for the Social Sciences [Lexington/Rowman]. Formerly with the University Erlangen-Nürnberg, University Kassel, Drexel University, College of Leuphana University. Awarded various fellowships and grants, including most recently the 2018/19 Independent Scholar Fellowship (ISF4) of the Independent Social Research Foundation. In 2017, he worked under the direction of Olivier Bouin and Marc Fleurbaey on the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP).

Daniela Sueldo

Associate Fellow (2018-20)

School of Life Sciences

I obtained my MSc in Biology in Argentina, and then carried out my PhD in Molecular Plant Pathology at Wageningen University. After my PhD, my interest in plant immunity drove me to join the University of Oxford for my first postdoc. Finally, I have recently started as postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Life Sciences at Warwick University. Through the last ten years in the field of plant immunity, I have gained understanding of the molecular mechanisms that plants deploy during stress adaptation. My fields of expertise include activitybased proteomics, mass spectrometry and disease assays in various plantpathogen systems.

Patrick Szell

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Department of Physics

Patrick obtained his PhD at the University of Ottawa (Canada) in the field of solid-state NMR spectroscopy. During his PhD, Patrick performed research in Italy and France, and is now working as part of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between the University of Warwick and AstraZeneca.

Alessandra Tafaro

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

Alessandra recently completed her PhD, ‘Inscribing Flavian Rome: Epigraphic Strategies in Martial’s Epigrams’, in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Warwick.
Her research investigated the multifaceted interaction between epigrammatic and epigraphic poetry in early imperial Rome. Situated at the juncture between literary criticism and studies in material culture, her project challenged traditional scholarly understandings of writing culture in ancient empire.
During the IAS Fellowship, Alessandra shall develop her new project on anonymous/pseudonymous poetry in ancient Rome and investigate how it relates to questions of status, gender and class.

Shing Kwan (Avis) Tam

Early Career Fellow 2021-22

Warwick Business School

Avis recently completed her PhD, ‘Impact of Leader Identity on Leadership Development:

the Role of Leader Future Work Self (LFWS), Implicit Self Theories (IST)/Implicit Leadership Theories (ILT) Congruence and Gender’, at Warwick Business School. Investigating this topic from comparisons of the self with a future and ideal leader perspective, her research fills the gap in understanding the role of leader identity in individuals’ pursuit of leadership development and leadership more broadly. Going forwards, her plan is to further extend the research of LFWS in different national context and industries (such as entrepreneurship and healthcare sectors).

Luana Tavano Garcia

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

School of Theatre & Performance Studies

My research interests are related to the intersections of music, theatre and performances of national identity. My PhD thesis focused on the Brazilian context and traced how modern Brazil framed itself as a nation both through a particular postcolonial discourse and through embodied practices. It also explored the ways in which contemporary artists negotiate the conception of ‘Brazilian identity’ in present-day performances. Utilizing an interdisciplinary perspective, I highlighted the contradictions and juxtapositions of diverse ‘identities’ included in the Brazilian national consciousness and the challenges that artists face when exposing such ambivalences in an ever-changing socio-political environment.

Christiaan Tempelman

Fernandes Fellow (2019-20)

Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (RUAS)

03 February - 27 March 2020 (TBC)

Nominated by Dr Volkan Degirmenci, Department of Engineering. Dr. Ir. Christiaan Tempelman received his PhD in 2014 from Eindhoven University of Technology in Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis group, on the conversion of hydrocarbons over zeolites. Next, he worked as a Post-doc on the catalytic conversion of glucose based biomass in the same institution. Afterwards, he moved to industry and worked at DAF Trucks for the development of novel heavy-duty catalytic converter systems. He has recently joined Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences as a lecturer in 2016 and his research focusses on the application of catalyst technology for the valorization of agricultural biomass waste into high value chemicals.

Reinaldo Teofilo

International VIsiting Fellow (2019-20)

Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Brazil

04 November- 08 December 2019

Nominated by Professor Richard Walton , Chemistry. Reinaldo Teofilo holds a bachelor's degree in Chemistry (2001) and a Master's degree in Agrochemistry (2003) from the Federal University of Viçosa and a Ph.D. in Sciences from the State University of Campinas (2007). He is currently Associate Professor of the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV). He is an active member of the Brazilian Chemical Society and the Mineira of Chemistry Network, coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry at UFV and local coordinator at the UFV of the Multicentric Program in Chemistry of Minas Gerais. He is a reviewer of several national and international indexed journals. Today he has 47 papers published in specialized journals with selective editorial policy, and a factor h equal to 17. He has three patents deposited and one software registry. He concluded, as an advisor, two theses, 11 dissertations, 13 scientific initiation reports, and 22 undergraduate theses. He is currently orienting five doctoral students, two masters, one scientific initiation fellow. In 2012, he was granted by the Arthur Bernardes Foundation (FUNARBE) with a scholarship of excellence in research for a young researcher. He was a fellow productivity level in research-level 2 of the CNPq from 2013 to 2018

Federico Testa

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Philosophy

I obtained my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Warwick and Monash University. I have been a Postgraduate Fellow at the EUI (Italy), an ECF at the IAS, and a Research Fellow at PUC-Rio (Brazil). My current research focuses on twentieth-century French philosophy (especially Foucault and Canguilhem), and the revival of Hellenistic tradition within modern and contemporary philosophy. As an Associate Fellow I will be working on the publication of my monograph “On the Politics of the Living”, a well as developing a new research project on Georges Canguilhem and the “Struggle Against Indifference”.

Anjali Thomas

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

Anjali Thomas is a PhD candidate at the Department of Education Studies at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. Her PhD is being funded by the Fair Chance Foundation and the University of Warwick. Her PhD research has informed the Fair Chance for Education Project on gendered pathways to educational success in Haryana, India. Her doctoral research explores the role of families in the gendered educational trajectories of undergraduates accessing Higher Education in Haryana. She has also worked with CORD (Collaborative Research and Dissemination) and ICRW on a qualitative research project. She is interested in exploring researching gender and educational choices.

Simon Thorpe

Early Career Fellow (2020-21)

School of Law

My research tackles the intersections of political philosophy, constitutional theory, prefigurative democracy and social movements. In the case of my PhD thesis, this constellation of theoretical and practical concerns was read through the case study of Ahora Madrid, a municipalist movement-party active from 2015-19 that formed as a confluence of diverse political traditions (including, inter alia, left populism, autonomism, asamblearismo and libertarian municipalism).

As an Early Career Fellow I plan to investigate potential lessons for the constitution of radical democracy from diverse fields such as process philosophy, systems and complexity theories and organisational cybernetics.

As an associate tutor at Warwick I have taught a range of topics in both law and politics.

Jo Tierney

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of History

My doctoral research examined the export of British printed and dyed textiles to West Africa from 1850-1914. It considered how methodologies from design history and object-based research could contribute to understandings of trade within the Empire, Britain’s industrial decline from the late nineteenth century and the potential agency of West African consumers. More broadly, I am interested in consumption and the global circulation of design in the nineteenth century. I am also interested in the presentation of history in museums and cultural institutions and the relationship between curators and academics.

Manuela Trejo

Associate Fellow (2021-22)

School of Engineering

Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Researcher at the School of Engineering, working in the EPSRC funded project "A sensorimotor PROsthesis for the upper LIMB (PROLIMB)". The project aims to model, design, fabricate and validate an affordable body-powered prosthetic fingertip digit with integrated mechanical haptic feedback. She obtained her PhD at Sheffield Hallam University with a project investigating the biomechanical effects of football shoes on the ankle joint, focusing primarily on preventing injuries and enhancing players' performance.

Manuela has a BSc in Mechatronics engineering from the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Leon in Mexico. After graduation she obtained a DAAD Scholarship for her Masters studies in Biomedical Engineering in Germany at the University of Lubeck. Manuela spent one year working as an intern and Master Thesis student at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Cologne. Her project 'Improvement, completion and verification of an artificial muscle biomechanical rack (AMBR)' was aimed to build a test rig to deepen the understanding of the muscle-bone mechanics of the lower leg with the objective of reducing the effects of microgravity in astronauts' bones, preventing and counteracting osteoporosis.

Prior to her PhD, Manuela worked as a full-time lecturer at the Tecnologico de Monterrey at the Engineering and Sciences Division, teaching a wide range of lectures from basic sciences to specialized topics in Mechatronics. She oriented her work to education innovation for engineers, social service and impact of students of Mechatronics and collaborating in the development of community projects involving patients with muscular dystrophy and people in need of upper-limb prosthetics. The most important accomplishments were the foundation of the student-led group Robomedic which provides low-cost 3D-printed hand prostheses, as well as being named honorary youth member of the Academy of Engineering in Mexico.

Fuk-Ying Tse

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Warwick Business School

My research interests broadly cover industrial relations, HRM and the sociology of work, particularly in the areas of pay determination, communication and contestation. I am keen on adopting a qualitative and pluralist-radical approach in understanding pay from a sociological perspective complementing economic, psychological and legal ones. Departing from my current research focus on China, I seek to develop a comparative research project in examining pay-related practices and the accumulation of pay knowledge in different industrial relations systems. Born and bred in Hong Kong and being fluent in Mandarin, I am also interested in further exploring fieldwork challenges in politically sensitive contexts (e.g. China).

Daniel Vanello

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Philosophy

Before joining the Warwick Philosophy Department as Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, I was Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department at University College Dublin (2018-2020). And before that, I was Research Fellow in the Philosophy Department and Affective Sciences Research Centre of the University of Geneva (2017-2018). I received my BA in Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin (2007-2011), and both my MPhil (2011-2013) and PhD (2013-2017) from Warwick University.

Esther van Raamsdonk

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

Centre for the Study of the Renaissance

I am a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-23) at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. This project examines the politics of seventeenth-century biblical adaptations in the Dutch Republic and England.Previously, I was an AHRC-funded postdoctoral researcher on the digital humanities project ‘Networking Archives’ at Queen Mary University, London. The IAS programme will help me to build interdisciplinary networks and collaborations. The facilities of the IAS will also allow the creation of a digital humanities network, encouraged through salons and Accolade Workshops, leading to a potential course on some of the techniques that Digital Humanities has to offer.

Christian Velasco-Reyes

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of History

I am an economic historian focused on banking and business history in Africa. My research interests are on the field of business and financial history with a transnational and comparative perspective. My objective for the next years of my research career is to disclose the role of the financial institutions. First, as instruments of imperial domination and, second, as a tool to expand the capitalist and free market values of local populations, influencing the subsequent policies of the newly sovereign states, comparing the experience on diverse geographical areas.

Freya Verlander

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

English and Comparative Literary Studies

My PhD thesis “(Skin)Aesthetics: A Study of Skin(s) in Spectatorship” combined conceptual modes in the analysis of skin in theatre and performance, from psychoanalytic theories, to philosophical ideas, to dermatological research, and contemporary neuroscience. Wider research interests beyond this project include related enquiries in the field of medical humanities, specifically the intersections between the humanities and dermatology, and the olfactory senses (including taste) in theatre.

Dr Matija Vidmar

Fernandes Fellow (2019-20)

Nominated by Dr Jon Warren, Statistics, Matija Vidmar is a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Ljubljana, where he has been ever since being awarded his PhD in Statistics from the University of Warwick in 2014. Before that, he obtained a Master's equivalent degree in Physics, followed by a Bachelor's in Financial Mathematics, both from the University of Ljubljana. His research focuses on the theory of fluctuations of stochastic processes (especially those with stationary independent increments) and the more fundamental measure-theoretic aspects of probability theory (in particular the theory of stochastic noises).

Vitaly Voloshin

Associate Fellow (2019-20)

School of Engineering

I have a diverse research experience in applied mathematics, mechanics, data analytics and engineering. Pretty much all of my research career is devoted to interdisciplinary research.

I was working on a wide range of disciplines and topics including applied mathematics (asymptotic analysis of complex vibration problems), biomechanics (human blood vessels modelling), aerospace engineering (airship based transportation system, design methods for civil aircrafts).

Currently, I am working on two major projects: methods for all stages of data analysis for large scale mosquito tracking; and trait and external factors modelling and prediction based on epigenome (combined with other omics data).

Ioana Vrabiescu

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2019-21)

School of Law

My current project DispoCIT: Policing and Deporting EU citizens: A Comparative Study of Romanian Police Collaboration in France and in the UK interrogates how transnational police cooperation in targeting Romanian citizens for deportation impacts state sovereignty and citizenship dispossession. Previously, I conducted multi-sited fieldwork alongside the deportation apparatus in France and in Romania (ERC project SOLIDERE: The Social Life of State Deportation Regimes, University of Amsterdam), I studied the implementation of the European Cohesion Policy at the local level (H2020 project RELOCAL: Resituating the Local in Cohesion and Territorial Development), and I conducted research with social services and institutions for migration management in Spain.

Chris Weber

Residential Fellow (2019-20)

Santa Clara University, CA, USA

Visiting 20 - 24 January 2020

Chris Weber is an associate professor of physics at Santa Clara University. He received his B.A. and his Ph.D. from the U.C. Berkeley department of physics, where he was a Hertz Fellow and studied in the group of Joe Orenstein. He measured the motion of electrons' spin in semiconductors, making the first observations of the spin Coulomb drag effect and of the persistent spin helix. He was a postdoctoral researcher with Roger Falcone at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he studied warm dense matter. Since arriving at SCU in 2008 he has built an ultrafast optics laboratory that has studied ferromagnetic semiconductors and Dirac semimetals.

Katie Weetman

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Warwick Medical School

My research examines clinical communication with a particular focus on investigating and improving NHS written discharge communications. It is a well-established practice that written discharge communication should take place between the discharging physician and follow-up physician. However, whilst in the UK patients receiving letters is considered to be ‘good practice’, it is not standardised; the result is that patients may or may not receive these letters. My PhD research centred on processes of patients receiving discharge letters and comprised a mixed methods design which triangulated discharge communication experiences of patients, GPs, and hospital professionals alongside a corresponding discharge letter sample.

Leanne Weston

Early Career Fellow (2021-22)

Department of Film and Television Studies

Dr Leanne Weston is an IAS Early Career Fellow. She holds BA, MA, and PhD in Film and Television Studies, all undertaken at Warwick. Her CADRE-funded doctoral research, supervised by Professor Rachel Moseley explored music programming, memory, and materiality in post-broadcast screen culture. She is currently working to turn this into a monograph, while expanding her research on television memory and the biopic.

Leanne is a member of the Centre for Television Histories, the Midlands Television Research Group, and the Songwriting Studies Research Network. She is also co-convenor of the BAFTSS Performance and Stardom Special Interest Group with Julie Lobalzo Wright.

Doro Wiese

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2019-21)

School of Modern Languages & Cultures, Connecting Cultures GRP

Doro Wiese’s current research project, titled Side by Side: Reading Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Literature, asks which epistemological, formal, and thematic distinctions and connections are present in post-war fiction on Native North America on both sides of the Atlantic. This study helps to develop cross-cultural and cross-epistemological research fields in literary, historical, and cultural studies. Doro Wiese evinces a strong commitment to the study of colonialism, transcultural epistemology, and the relationship between literature and historiography, and is inspired by insights formulated in Indigenous Studies. Facilitated by various grants such as a Marie Skłodowska Curie scholarship of the European Union, she was trained in literature, film, and cultural studies at the University of Hamburg and Utrecht University.

Anjana Wijesekara

Early Career Fellow (2021-2022)

Department of Chemistry

I recently submitted my PhD thesis on “Electrode and Interface Materials for Tin Perovskite Photovoltaics” supervised by Prof. Ross Hatton in the Department of Chemistry. My work is based on fabricating low-cost, air stable solar cells using highly abundant low-cost materials. Prior to my doctoral studies I completed my undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Sri Lanka. I have published 4 papers during my PhD in respected journals with 2 first author papers. I have also taught in the Department of Chemistry in Warwick and in Sri Lanka. My current work is focused on enhancing the stability of tin based perovskite photovoltaics towards oxidation in air.

Amanda Wilson

Associate Fellow (2020-21)

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2018-20)

School of Law, Connecting Cultures GRP

Dr Amanda Wilson is a Leverhulme Trust Fellow at the University of Warwick’s Law School. Amanda has been researching and writing about alternative justice mechanisms for over a decade and has collaborated with a number of leading experts from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. She works closely with key policy and practice organisations such as Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service’s Restorative Practice Hub, the European Forum for Restorative Justice, and Restorative Justice for All. Her Leverhulme project pursues a rational reconstruction of restorative justice through critical ethics and moral psychology.

Paul Wilson

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Warwick Manufacturing Group

My PhD research focused on bringing together a disparate array of subjects to examine the potential effectiveness and user requirements of tangible 3D printed replicas within museums and in wider cultural heritage. The research remit was diverse, combining methods from Palaeontology, Cultural Heritage and Engineering with rigorous enquiry from the social sciences to better ascertain the role that tangible models fabricated using 3D printing have on the experiences of museum visitors in the exhibition hall. The outcomes of this research project represent the earliest forays into understanding the visitor experience with cutting-edge display technologies and ideally will enable positive change towards the visitor-centred museum."

Esther Wright

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of History

My work explores the representation of American history by developer Rockstar Games. More specifically, my PhD research has examined the way Rockstar marketed popular historical video games such as Red Dead Redemption (2010) and L.A. Noire (2011), and in doing so, sought to perform the role of historian. By constructing and curating historical narratives intended to legitimise gameplay and narrative design choices, Rockstar – like many developers of historical games – stake a claim for the ‘authenticity’ of their products, and commodify their engagements with historical research and evidence. I am also interested in the marketing and branding of games and media texts more broadly, as well as the representation of America’s past in other kinds of visual media.

Dee Wu

Early Career Fellow (2019-20)

Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies

Dee has just submitted her PhD thesis September 2019. Her project, The Cultural Legace of Oscar Wilde in Modern China and Beyond (1909-2019) examines the reception of British queer icon Oscar Wilde's works and the uses of his personas in China, Japan and South Korea, from the early 20th century to the present, which reveals aspects of China’s and East Asia's interpretation of modernity. Her research aims to address this gap in Wildean study, arguing that his works and his performance as a dandy have particular relevance to countries like China that are struggling with neoliberal globalization. After her PhD project, she is currently moving towards an area that juxtaposes 19th century Western European literature with contemporary high-end (male) fashion.

Xiaocui Wu

EUTOPIA SIF Fellow 2021

My research at university of Warwick under the EUTOPIA-SIF fellowship focuses on the characterisation of conjugated polymers by using the ultimate spatial resolution of scanning probe microscopy to provide images and local electronic properties of molecules with sub-monomer precision. Based on a recent breakthrough of the host lab in submolecular resolution imaging of conjugated polymers, this project intends to achieve an unprecedented insight into the composition, structure and electronic properties of these functional macromolecules. Following this approach, conjugated polymers will be sequenced by simple visual inspection of their images, revealing details inaccessible to standard characterisations method such as the structure of polymerisation defects and the spatial distribution of their molecular orbitals.

Magdalena Zajaczowska

Associate Fellow (2018-20) and Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

Warwick Manufacturing Group

I am a mathematician and my PhD was in the area of tropical mathematics. In my research I combined combinatorial methods and ideas with coding to study algebraic objects. My thesis was on classification of tropical polynomial ideals. My current research is with Cyber Security Centre in WMG and focuses on developing and implementing techniques from tropical mathematics to network security.

Dr Salah H. Alzaroo

Residential Fellow (2015-16)

Hebron University, Palestine

Visiting 12 - 19 March 2016

Nominated by: Emeritus Professor, Gillian Hundt & Professor Frances Griffiths, Warwick Medical School. Dr Salah Alzaroo is President of Hebron University and an Associate Professor of Continuing Education. As a Residential Fellow he explored opportunities for collaboration with Warwick Medical School and Wariwck Law School in relation to research on educational and health provision in Palestine and elsewhere in the region. Dr Alzaroo also discussed future research bids in relation to access to health for marginal and mobile groups in Europe and Middle East through European Commission funding with his collaborators at Warwick.

Yiluyi Zeng

Early Career Fellow (2020-2021)
 
Warwick Business School

Once a freelancer, I have developed an interest in understanding the phenomenon of flexible employment, such as freelance and platform work, from the perspective of sociology of work. My research topics regarding flexible employment include work meaningfulness, labour process, contracting behaviours, and cross-cultural comparison. My plan is to develop research projects that examine the impact of flexible employment, such as workers’ career trajectory and psychological well-being.

I am also interested in exploring, learning, and applying creative research methods, and I value facilitating knowledge transfer between academia and industry.

Valentina Abbatelli

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

School of Modern Languages & Cultures

My PhD thesis, ‘Producing and Marketing Translations in Fascist Italy: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Women’, examines the sociological, cultural and ideological contexts affecting the production and marketing of two these long sellers of the American literature which addressed different target audiences. Tracing the history of publishing of these two novels, my research intends to gain insight into the continuities and discontinuities between Liberal and Fascist Italy and into the Fascist representation of race and gender. I am also part-time teaching assistant of Italian and I contributed to outreach schools events to raise awareness in the importance of languages. I joined Warwick in 2013, after completing a PhD in History of Italian Language at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’. In March 2018 I took up a Teaching Fellowship at Warwick.

Serhan Ada

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey

22 June - 22 July 2019

I will be engaging in a research collaboration with Dr Jonathan Vickery on several fronts: I will be co-writing a journal article for the current Special Issue of the Journal of Law, Social Justice and Global Development (on Development, Democracy and Culture) and engaging with members of the GRP-International Development, and also contributing to the design of his projects on ‘UNESCO and the UK’, and ‘Cultural Rights and the City’. My expertise in urban cultural policy (in cities) will also allow me to participate in Dr Vickery’s contribution to Coventry’s Positive Images Festival (June 2019), as well as a seminar at the Warwick Offices in Brussels -- on the future of cultural policies for cultural diversity (particularly in relation to the UNESCO managed UN 2005 Convention on cultural diversity).

Maria Adobes VIdal

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Department of Chemistry

Maria’s research focuses on the development of novel theoretical and experimental analytical methodologies for surface analysis and its application to study the dissolution of crystals. Crystal dissolution is important in many areas, from the administration of pharmaceuticals to certain medical conditions involving the formation of stones, to practical applications such as scale removal. Her work is highly multidisciplinary and has been carried out in close collaboration with AstraZeneca and New York University where she did a three month placement as part of her Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher fellowship. She has interests outside chemistry - in arts and sports, and has done charity work while at Warwick. Maria also contributes significantly to outreach and public understanding of science events. In January 2018 I began a postdoctoral position at ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

Soroosh Afyouni

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Institute of Digital Healthcare, Warwick Manufacturing Group

Soroosh’s research focuses on functional connectivity of the human brain. Using neuroimaging techniques and statistical methods, he develops frameworks aiming to facilitate group inference to gain a better understanding into changes in the human brain due to neuropsychiatric disorders. He completed his PhD in 2016 at the Institute of Digital Healthcare, University of Warwick. His thesis was focused on developing network statistical methods to describe the human ‘connectomics’ in healthy and disordered subjects. Prior to his PhD, in 2012, he graduated in Electronic Engineering from the University of Birmingham. Since October 2016, he has undertaken a fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), University of Warwick. His research at IAS is focused on the novel area of ‘population connectomics’ which aims to integrate topological features of the brain with other available phenotypes through large-scale data-sets to explore the interaction between the human brain, demographics, behaviour and lifestyle.

Professor Igor Aharonovich

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

University of Technology Sydney Ultimo, Australia  

Visiting 13 June - 2 July 2016

Nominated by Professor Mark Newton, Department of Physics. Professor Igor Aharonovich is leader of the Nanophotonics Group from the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. His research is focused on spectroscopy of single defects in wide bandgap semiconductors for nanophotonics and sensing applications. The purpose of his visit was two-fold. Firstly, he engaged with the scientific community at Warwick, and in particular with early career researchers to expand collaborative activities in the field of diamond materials science, sensing and photonics. Secondly, he gained knowledge and expertise from the scholarly community in Warwick on the topic of electron paramagnetic resonance in diamond. Both goals resulted in mutual knowledge exchange, training for researchers and the opening up new opportunities for high impact research in the physical sciences.

Mohammed Al-Amin

GCRF Fellow (2018-19)

Warwick Manufacturing Group

20 - 28 July, 7 - 15 September 2019

Collaborating with Professor Mohammad Ziaur Rahman Khan, BUET, Bangladesh, Mr Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Rahimafrooz Group, Bangladesh and Md. Wahidur Rahman, Infrastructure Development Company, Bangladesh. The public transport for short-distance travel in Bangladesh vastly depends on electric rickshaws (known as easy-bikes) which suffers due to inefficient energy storage. In this research networking project, we conducted seminars to investigate the second-life application of lithium-ion battery as a replacement for the commonly used lead-acid battery. The possibility of further research grant and possible collaborative researches are also discussed. The lead collaborator from Bangladesh will visit WMG to seek further collaborative research opportunities.

Richard Aldrich

Director (2011-14)

Richard J. Aldrich is a Professor of International Security at the University of Warwick and joined PAIS in September 2007. His main research interests lie in the area of intelligence and security communities. His most recent book is The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers, co-authored with Rory Cormac which explores the interaction between intelligence and the UK core executive. This will be published by Collins on 21 April 2016. From 2011 to 2014 Professor Aldrich was Director of the IAS.

Dr Bálint Aradi

Residential Fellow (2017-18)

University of Bremen, Germany

20 - 25 November 2017

Nominated by Dr Reinhard Maurer, Department of Chemistry. Dr Bálint Aradi is a senior scientist at the Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science of the University of Bremen. Dr Aradi is an expert in large-scale, computationally efficient electronic structure methods. He has made pivotal contributions to the development of the Density-Functional Tight Binding method and is the main developer of the widely-used software package DFTB+. His current research efforts target the computational modelling of chemical reactions at oxide surfaces as relevant for the water splitting reaction and photovoltaic energy generation. Dr Aradi has published more than 50 publications in the field of condensed matter simulation and continues to be a leading expert in predictive materials modelling.

Desiree Arbo

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Department of Classics

My PhD thesis explored the functions of classical learning in colonial Paraguay between 1750 and 1815. My research centred primarily on the legacy of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) as authors of Latin literature, as educators, and as missionaries to the Guarani Indians. I argued that a focus on classical learning shed light on broader intellectual trends in the transition from the colonial to independent periods, which help explain the initial construction of national identities. In Spring 2016 I was a visiting graduate student at Johns Hopkins University as part of the project ‘Antiquity and its Uses’ between Hopkins and the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at Warwick. As an Early Career Fellow at the IAS, I am keen to continue forging links between students and academics interested in the reception of antiquity across disciplines. In April 2018 I began a short-term fellowship at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Neo-Latin Studies, Austria.

Professor Steven Aschheim

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

Hebrew University, Israel

30 October - 11 November 2016

Nominated by Dr Christine Achinger and Dr James Hodkinson, School of Modern Languages & Cultures. Professor Aschheim is a renowned scholar of European Cultural and Intellectual History and German-Jewish and Modern Jewish History. His publications include At the Edges of Liberalism: Junctions of European, German and Jewish History (2012); Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad (2007); In Times of Crisis: Essays on European Culture, Germans and Jews (2001); Scholem, Arendt, Klemperer: Intimate Chronicles in Turbulent Times (2001); the edited volume Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem (2001).

Suzanne Aussems

Associate Fellow (2018-19) and Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

Department of Psychology

Dr Suzanne Aussems is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick. In her PhD research, she examined how hand gestures produced by adults influence event memory and word learning in 3-year-old children. In her current postdoc (2017-2018), she studies how the gestures that 1-year-olds produce may reveal whether such young babies already understand language a system of reference. During her ESRC fellowship (2018-2019), Suzanne will visit two internationally leading research labs in the US and in Germany to set up a collaborative research project that involves comparative studies of the role of gesture in social interactions between mothers and children in humans and great apes.

Carlo Avilio

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Department of History of Art

My PhD thesis, "Naturalism and the Picaresque in the work of Jusepe de Ribera (1592-1652)", focuses on one of the most prominent painters of Spanish Naples and one of the most innovative interpreters of Caravaggio’s painting in Europe. The aim of my current research is to show that the emergence of scientific experimentalism in Naples in the wake of Galileo’s new science and developed first in Rome, then in Florence and other Italian cities, is paramount for our understanding of both some crucial elements of Ribera’s painting commonly categorized as "naturalistic" and some parodic aspects of his comedic vein. In July 2017 I took up a teaching position at Warwick.

Carlo Avilio

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Department of History of Art

My PhD thesis, "Naturalism and the Picaresque in the work of Jusepe de Ribera (1592-1652)", focuses on one of the most prominent painters of Spanish Naples and one of the most innovative interpreters of Caravaggio’s painting in Europe. The aim of my current research is to show that the emergence of scientific experimentalism in Naples in the wake of Galileo’s new science and developed first in Rome, then in Florence and other Italian cities, is paramount for our understanding of both some crucial elements of Ribera’s painting commonly categorized as "naturalistic" and some parodic aspects of his comedic vein. In July 2017 I took up a teaching position at Warwick.

Thomasin Bailey

Programme Manager (2018-19) and Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

Thomasin was part of the team managing the Early Career and WIRL-COFUND Fellowship schemes, and facilitating the Institute's Accolade training programme. Thomasin joined the IAS in 2018 with a background in teaching and research.

Professor Carlo Bajetta

Residential Fellow (2017-18)

Università Della Valle D’Aosta, Italy

18 - 22 June 2018

Nominated by Dr Teresa Grant, Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies. Carlo Bajetta is Professor of English Literature, Vice Head of the Department of Social and Human Sciences, and Head of the Postgraduate Degree in Languages, Culture, and the Promotion of Mountain Areas at Università della Valle d'Aosta, Italy. He is a contributor to The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, the Oxford Online Bibliographies, and a member of the Advisory Board of EJES: The European Journal of English Studies (Routledge). He is the author of about 80 publications, including Sir Walter Ralegh (1998); Whole volumes in folio (2000); Some notes on Printing and Publishing in Renaissance Venice (2000), and, with Luisa Camaiora, Shakespearean Readings: Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley (2004).

Tabitha Baker

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of History

I am interested in the consumption, production and retailing of luxury products, employing a range of methodologies drawn from the fields of economic history and material culture studies. My next research project will examine the international dissemination of fashionable ‘taste’ in luxury goods through formal and informal networks of consumers, designers and merchants in the early modern period.

Dr Rafael Barkan

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

Holon Institute of Technology, Israel

Visiting 22 - 27 May & 4 - 9 September 2016

Nominated by Professor Christopher James, Department of Engineering. Dr Refael Barkan is head of Research and Development at Holon Institute of Technology, specialising in all avenues of technological progress: scientific, professional, social and cultural. His current areas of interest are: ICT platforms for detection and intervention (neurocognitive training) in early stages of dementia, medical informatics, medical data mining and process mining, clinical decision support tools and telemedicine.

Professor Upendra Baxi

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

University of Delhi, India

Visiting 19 April - 13 May 2016

Nominated by Dr Sam Adelman, School of Law. Professor Upendra Baxi, currently Professor of Law in Development at Warwick, served as Professor of Law at the University of Delhi (1973-1996) and as its Vice Chancellor (1990-1994). He has also served as: Vice Chancellor, University of South Gujarat, Surat (1982-1985); Honorary Director (Research) The Indian Law Institute (1885-1988). He was the President of the Indian Society of International Law (1992-1995). Professor Baxi has taught various courses in law and science, comparative constitutionalism and social theory of human rights. During his fellowship Professor Baxi consulted with researchers in the School of law, spoke at several seminars to Warwick staff and students. He, along with Profes Shivji, also participated in Beyond Development: New Imaginaries in Social Justice, the highly successful international symposium.

Dr Margherita Belgioioso

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

Brunel University, UK

11 January - 14 January 2019

Nominated by Dr Jessica Di Salvatore, Department of Politics & International Studies. Dr Belgioioso is Lecturer in International Relations and International Security in the Department of Politics and History at Brunel University London and a Research Fellow at the Michael Nicholson Centre for Conflict and Cooperation at the University of Essex. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Essex. She was recently awarded the Cedric Smith Prize 2018 by the Conflict Research Society for her article named Going Underground: Resort to Terrorism in Mass Mobilization Dissident Campaigns published by the Journal of Peace Research. Her current main research interests include the relationship between socio-economic relative deprivation and radicalization in developed democracies as well as the dynamics and outcomes of terrorism, nonviolent civil resistance and, armed conflict.

Dr Alessandro Belmonte

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

IMT School for Advanced Studies, Italy

3 – 21 October 2016

Nominated by Dr Vincenzo Bove, Department of Politics and International Studies. Dr Belmonte is an Assistant Professor of Economics at IMT Alti Studi Lucca. He obtained a PhD in Economics from IMT Alti Studi Lucca in 2014 and an MSc in Economics from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 2010. His recent activities include teaching and research appointments at the Invalsi Research Institute (2014/2015) and at Rome’s City Hall (2015). His main research interest is political economy and public economics, with a special focus on the interaction between formal and informal institutions, such as norms, attitudes, and beliefs, from both an analytic and empirical perspective. He is also interested in educational economics and in the frictions that generate inequalities among Italian students.

Professor Jane Bennett

International Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

Johns Hopkins University, USA

13 - 22 May 2018

Nominated by Professor Stuart Elden, Departments of Politics & International Studies. Professor Bennett’s major books include Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Duke University Press, 2010) and The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics (Princeton University Press, 2001). She was one of the founders of the journal Theory & Event and is currently editor of Political Theory.

Professor Caryn Bern

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

University of California, USA

5 – 14 May 2017

Nominated by Dr Orin Courtenay, School of Life Sciences. Professor Bern is a medical epidemiologist whose current areas of interest include transmission dynamics and control of visceral leishmaniasis and Chagas disease, conditions ranking among the most important tropical diseases in mortality and morbidity. Nevertheless, gaps in current knowledge hinder control and elimination efforts. For both diseases, an interdisciplinary approach, combining biology, medicine, mathematics and social sciences, can help to develop strategies for better control. During her stay at Warwick University, she worked with faculty, student and post-doctoral collaborators in the Zeeman Institute and Neglected Tropical Disease Modelling Consortium, Life Sciences, and the Centre for Complexity Science, Mathematics on projects related to both diseases.

Professor Lorena Betancor

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

Universidad ORT, Uruguay

1 April - 6 April 2019

Nominated by Dr Manuela Tosin, Department of Chemistry. Dr Betancor has focused her scientific career working in enzymology, enzyme technology and biocatalysis with diverse biotechnological applications: food industry, fine chemistry, pharmaceuticals, etc. She is a PhD from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and has worked as a postdoc at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA and the University of Cambridge. She is co-author of 56 articles in international journals, 8 book chapters and 4 patents. She is now a Professor at the Department of Biotechnology of University ORT Uruguay where she focusses her scientific interests in in vitro use of enzymes and multi-enzymatic systems and improvement of bioconversions via immobilization techniques.

Sourit Bhattacharya

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies

I recently submitted a doctoral thesis on crisis, catastrophe, and literary form in the postcolonial Indian novel. For postdoctoral research, I am interested in these projects: disasters, neo-imperialism, and literary representations in the postcolonial world; little magazine movements in post-independence India; and Mahasweta Devi. My research has appeared in such journals as ARIEL, Textual Practice, Interventions, South Asian History and Culture, and in edited books (Postcolonial Urban Outcasts [Routledge], and Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger [Palgrave]). I am a founding co-editor of Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry. In March 2018 I took up a lectureship in India.

Dr Andreas Birkbak

Residential Fellow (2017-18)

Aalborg University, Denmark

7 - 11 May 2018

Nominated by Dr Noortje Marres, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies. Andreas Birkbak is an Assistant Professor in the Techno-Anthropology Research Group in the Department of Learning and Philosophy at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. His research focuses on digital publics but he engages broadly with science and technology studies and related fields. Andreas completed his PhD in 2016 on the topic of how (digital) publicity media contribute to issue politics. He also holds an MSc in Social Science of the Internet (University of Oxford), and an MSc+BSc in Sociology (University of Copenhagen). He has published in journals such as Science as Culture, Computational Culture, Techné, and Design Issues, and also has a book out in Danish on digital methods with Anders Munk (2017).

Dr Sebastian Bitar

International Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

Universidad de Ios, Colombia

9 - 27 July 2018

Nominated by Dr Tom Long, Department of Politics & International Studies. Dr Bitar is a leading scholar in the area of Colombian international relations, regional security and foreign policy. He is the author of the books US Military Bases, Quasi-bases, and Domestic Politics in Latin America and The First Steps of Human Rights Colombia (in Spanish), and is co-editor of New approaches for studying Colombian International Relations (in Spanish). His articles and book chapters include studies about the Colombian security sector, Colombia’s international trade and foreign investments, energy sector reform and investment in Colombia, among others. At Warwick, Dr. Bitar continued to study the politics of the Western Hemisphere, particularly the current challenges to the international liberal order in the Americas.

Professor Alastair Blanshard

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

University of Queensland

Visiting 11 January – 6 February 2016

Nominated by Dr Michael Scott, Classics and Ancient History. Professor Blanchard’s research examines how modern perceptions of 'ancient Greece' came into being. During his time in Warwick, he considered how the ancient world is constructed in various media such as film and drama as well as how it resonated during various time periods, especially during the early modern period. He also researched how the idea of Romanticism changed attitudes towards Greece. Pre-Romantic Greece was a difficult concept to love. He interrogated the strategies employed by the first generation of 18th-century European travellers to Ottoman Greece to see how they made sense of this landscape and culture that they often saw as wild, barbaric, and degenerate.

Professor Johanna Bockman

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

George Mason University, USA

6 - 13 May 2017

Nominated by Professor Gurminder Bhambra, Department of Sociology. Professor Bockman works in economic sociology, urban sociology, sociology of globalization, and East European Studies. Her book Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism was published by Stanford University Press. In her research, Bockman uses comparative and historical methods, moving beyond studies of nation states to explorations of transnational trends, such as neoliberalism and the non-aligned movement.

Professor Pamela Bombarda

International visiting Fellow (2018-19)

University of Cergy-Pontoise, France

21 May - 1 June 2019

Nominated by Dr Dennis Novy, Department of Economics. Pamela Bombarda is interested in topics linking the fields of international trade, multinational firms, integration, and development economics. Some of her existing works consider the different organizational choices: export and foreign direct investment. More recently, she focuses on the relationship between trade and labour market. Lastly, she is currently examining the impact of the relaxation of the potential constraining role of rules of origin on global sourcing decisions in Europe. While at the University of Warwick, she worked closely with the faculty and students to develop collaboration in order to study other aspects of the relationship between international trade, competitiveness and labor markets.

Dr Maria Mut Bosque

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

University of Catalunya, Spain

16 June – 5 July 2017

Nominated by Dr Christopher Browning, Department of Politics and International Studies. Dr Bosque is Lecturer in International and European Law at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (Barcelona) and Deputy Dean of postgraduate studies and international relations of the Faculty of Law. In 2009 she was granted with a predoctoral scholarship and obtained a Doctor of Law degree from the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, within the framework of the European PhD Programme. Since 2009 she has been Research Fellow of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London. Her research interests are International Organisations, particularly the Commonwealth and the European Union, and the role of the UK in both organisations. Moreover, she has a long running interest in international subjectivity and how different territories can obtain it. In this sense, her work is focused on overseas territories and crown dependencies, particularly in Gibraltar. Her research stay at the Political and International Studies Department of the University of Warwick gave her the chance to deepen the study of the new post-Brexit International scenario for the United Kingdom and its overseas territories.

Shrikant Botre

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

Department of History

Shrikant is currently working on sexual modernity in colonial western India. Interested in colonial histories of sexuality his ongoing work focuses on the caste analysis of modern Marathi publishing about sex and related topics. While this study is broadly structured in the context of the antipolitics of modernity, his other particular areas of interest are colonial Marathi print networks, archival politics, and food cultures. He has recently co-authored two articles with Douglas Haynes. First among these entitled “Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Anxieties: Middle-Class Males in Western India and the Correspondence in Samaj Swasthya, 1927–1953,” is published in Modern Asian Studies. The second article “Understanding R.D. Karve: Brahmacharya, Modernity, and the Appropriation of Global Sexual Science in Western India, 1927-1953” will be published in Douglas Haynes, Veronika Fuechtner and Ryan Jones, eds., A Global History of Sexual Science, University of California Press. (Forthcoming)

Axel Boursier

Rutherford Strategic International Fellow (2018-19)

Universtiy of Cergy-Pontoise, France

15 September - 15 December 2018

Nominated by Professor Johannes Angermuller, Centre for Applied Linguitics. Axel Boursier got his PhD in Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Cergy-Pontoise in 2017. He worked on exile discourses and seeks to understand how migrants and expatriates negotiate their place in discourse. He has also worked on the ways in which a European image is negotiated in media discourses. This fellowship permitted him to consolidate his formation in discourse analysis and to get in touch with English and international scholars.

Adam Bowditch

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

Department of Statistics

Adam's research addresses asymptotic properties of random motions in disordered media. His main focus is on models of biased random walks which experience trapping due to random perturbations in the environment. This includes mathematical models such as the Bouchaud trap model, random walks on Galton-Watson trees and random walks on percolation clusters; however, a large driving force in this area has been due to a variety of probabilistic models originating from physical sciences including condensed matter physics, reaction kinetics and polymer dynamics where diffusion in inhomogeneous media is of considerable interest. He aims to work on to a wider range of dynamic, stochastic models including activated random walks. In April 2018 I took up a postdoctoral research fellowship at National University of Singapore.

Professor Elizabeth Brake

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

Arizona State University, USA

20 May - 27 June 2019

Nominated by Professor Kimberley Brownlee, Department of Philosophy. Professor Brake's research has focused on rights to the legal frameworks and social structures which support caring relationships. She has argued that citizens have claims of justice to such supports, claims which provide a rationale for marriage-like law supporting a variety of relationship types, including friendships, as well as social policies aimed at promoting care. In more recent work she has extended this to consider care for the elderly and the special vulnerabilities faced by paid care workers. During her time at Warwick, Professor Brake extended this to consider support for caring relationships and connections to communities for the displaced.

Birgit Breidenback

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies

My research focuses on literary theory, affect and modern European fiction. In my PhD thesis, “Stimmung and Modernity: The Aesthetic Philosophy of Mood in Dostoevsky, Beckett and Bernhard”, I explored the aesthetic concept of Stimmung (mood) through the lens of the modern philosophy of the subject and in nineteenth- and twentieth-century European literature. I am currently working on an edited volume based on an interdisciplinary conference on mood, which I co-organised in 2016, and am looking to expand my research on the affective dimension of aesthetic experience in my postdoctoral research. In January 2018 I took up a Teaching Fellowship at Queen Mary, University of London.

Deboarah Brewis

Early Carer Fellow (2015-16)

Warwick Business School

Dr Brewis is a researcher of management and organisation, with a focus in critical diversity studies. Her interests lie in various issues relating to management of the ‘self’, experiences of work, and inequalities. During her Fellowship Dr Brewis worked on an artistic collaborative project and further developing her doctoral research on diversity practitioners. Her plans for future work are in the areas of new media work, in particular the emergent occupation of ‘Social Talent’. Specifically, the relationship between work and life, and of authenticity when the self is ‘brand’. In May 2016 Dr Brewis was appointed Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at Kingston Business School, London.

Greg Brown

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Department of Physics

My research in astronomy focuses on the study of transient events occurring within the central regions of their host galaxies. These include supernovae, gamma-ray bursts and tidal disruption flares, the latter representing the shredding and accretion of a star by a supermassive black hole. These have the power to provide insights into black hole growth and thus galaxy formation and evolution. I also have a passion for outreach, organising trips to local schools with the Astronomy Group's planetarium and providing contributions to on-campus events such as the XMaS Gala and visits in association with Coventry City Council's LACES scheme. InAugust 2017 I was appointed Royal Lead Astronomy Education Officer at the Observatory Greenwich, London.

Dr Nathan Brown

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

Concordia University, Canada

28 April - 12 May 2019

Nominated By Daniel Katz, Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies. Dr Nathan Brown is Canada Research Chair and Director of the Centre for Expanded Poetics (CEP). The Centre is on the cutting-edge internationally of interdisciplinary research in poetry and poetics. Dr Brown is one of the leading scholars of poetry and poetics of his generation. His path-breaking monograph, The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics (Fordham UP, 2017), is an extraordinarily broad-ranging and truly interdisciplinary work, taking the venerable idea of the poet as “maker” and colliding it with an analysis of Western philosophy’s investigations of the concept of matter and materialism, and what’s more, with the new discipline of Materials Science. Brown’s work here not only cuts across the literature/philosophy divide, but also that between the “human” and “hard” sciences. The CEP, which Dr Brown has founded, is explicitly devoted to interdisciplinary expansion of “poetics” as conventionally understood.

Dr Andrea Brunello

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

Compagnia Arditodesìo - Jet Propulsion Theatre, Italy  

Visiting 17 - 27 January 2016

Nominated by Prof. Simon A. Gilson and Dr Anna Pegoretti, School of Modern Languages and Cultures. Dr Andrea Brunello is a Physics research fellow turned professional actor. In recent years he has founded Jet Propulsion Theatre, a project which aims to narrate science through theatre, and to enhance the general public’s understanding of both science and the people of science in a whole new way.

Andrew Burchell

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of History

I am a historian of twentieth-century Britain interested in the intersecting histories of medicine and childhood. My research focuses on the ways in which medicine and the social sciences have a porous boundary with each other, with neighbouring disciplines, and exert an influence on everyday practices for people in the past. My doctoral project examined adolescent children and discipline in schools. More specifically, I looked at how teachers came to understand their pupils' behaviour through the prism of different (inter-related) methodological approaches which shifted over the course of the century (from psychology to sociology and back again). Meanwhile, my developing interest lies in the history of speech therapy as a theory and practice in twentieth-century Britain. This was a similarly diverse and inter-allied profession, and one which provides a vantage point from which to consider several research areas: social attitudes towards the voice; speech's relationship to class and gender; and where the limits of the 'medical' actually lie.

Dr James Burford

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

La Trobe University, Australia

08 June - 29 June 2019

Nominated by Dr Emily Henderson, Centre for Education Studies. Dr James Burford is Lecturer in Research Education and Development at the Graduate Research School of La Trobe University. His research field is higher education, with a particular focus on doctoral education, the academic profession and researcher development. While at the University of Warwick, James collaborated with Dr Emily Henderson to prepare a research funding bid on the diversity decisions taken by academic conference organisers, and completed editorial work on a journal special issue they co-edited on conferences as gendered events. James also participated in speaking engagements on the topics of academic mobility to the Global South, Southern theory in academic knowledge production and diversity in the academic profession.

Professor Susanna Burghartz

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

University of Basel, Switzerland

19 – 26 May 2017

Nominated by Professor Maxine Berg, Department of History. Professor Burghartz is a leading European historian of matrimony, sexuality and the Reformation. She has engaged recently with the debate on the veil in Europe, and published an article on the Veil in Early Modern Europe in History Workshop Journal. She is now working on connected histories of places, processes and objects in Europe and beyond.

Professor Andrew Burke

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

University of Winnipeg, Canada

04 July - 10 July 2019

Nominated by Dr Helen Wheatley, Department of Film & Television Studies. Andrew Burke is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. His book, Hinterland Remixed: Media, Memory, and the Canadian 1970s, is forthcoming from McGill-Queen’s University Press in fall 2019. At Warwick, he will extend his research on television, memory, and archives, focusing specifically on the interstitial material – from station identifications to public service announcements – that usually gets left out of official archives but sticks in popular memory. This work on what we remember from television’s past complements his current major research project, Cinema and the Object World of Modernity, which examines how the cinema of the 1960s and 70s preserves a history of graphic and industrial design in the objects that appear onscreen.

Dr Prue Burns

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

Monash University, Australia

14 - 19 June 2019

Nominated by Professor Graeme Currie, Warwick Business School. Dr Prue Burns is a research fellow at Monash Business School. She is a high-potential early career researcher at Monash University who has been collaborating with several Warwick Business School academics since 2015. A large-scale, Australian Research Council-funded project on scaling and sustaining healthcare improvement, for which Prof Graeme Currie is the International Partner Investigator, provided the initial platform for collaboration. Professores Ian McLoughlin, Amrik Sohal (both Monash Business School) and Helena Teede (Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation) are the Australian-based Chief Investigators of this project; Prue is the lead research fellow for this project.

Dr Talita Calitz

Residential Fellow (2015-16)

University of the Free State, South Africa

Visiting 19 - 25 June 2016

Nominated by Dr Emily Henderson, Centre for Education Studies . Dr Talita Calitz is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Centre for Research on Higher Education and Development, University of the Free State, South Africa. She is involved in a number of funded research projects related to equality, human development and social justice in higher education. While at Warwick Dr Calitz began the preparation of several postdoctoral fellowship applications to be hosted at Warwick, co-wrote a journal article with Dr Henderson and widened her network of collaborators at significantly.

Rossana Castaldo

Associate Fellow (2018-19) and Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

School of Engineering

Dr Rossana Castaldo is a Postdoc Researcher in the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick. In her PhD research, she examined how the shift of healthcare monitoring techniques from laboratories into real-life scenarios can be achieved. In her current postdoc (2018-2019), she investigates the use of wearable devices for monitoring circadian rhythms in oncological patients. In fact, due to circadian rhythms, the efficacy and side effects of chemotherapy change throughout the day. Chemotherapy in turn alters circadian rhythm. Therefore, being able to monitor in real-time circadian rhythms could lead to the development of personalised treatment to achieve better efficacy and reduce side effects of the oncological therapy.

Dr Luca Cattani

International Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

University of Bologna, Italy

7 - 27 July 2018

Nominated by Dr Daria Luchinskaya, Institute for Employment Research. During the IAS fellowship Dr Cattani investigated early labour markets outcomes of graduates who graduated either in Italy and in the UK after the recession that followed the financial crisis in 2007, aiming at a comparison between transitions into work taking place simultaneously but in different labour market regimes. From a broader perspective, the research tries to shed light on the specific effectiveness and relevance of training and internships during the studies in terms of early careers’ development and labour market outcomes. The research was carried out in collaboration with Dr Giulio Pedrini, IAS Visiting Fellow during the same period, Dr Daria Luchinskaya from the Institute for Employment Research, and Dr Charoula Tzanakou, from the Faculty of Social Sciences. During the fellowship he also organized interdisciplinary events with the hosting departments, and planned future collaborative research activity using this study as a springboard for further projects.

Professor Arunava Chakrabarti

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

University of Kalyani, India

1 - 27 June 2019

Nominated by Professor Rudolf Roemer, Department of Physics. There is an ongoing research collaboration between the University of Warwick (UK Lead: Professor Rudolf A. Roemer), and University of Kalyani (India Lead: Professor Arunava Chakrabarti) since April 2017 under the prestigious UKIERI (UK-India Education and Research Initiative) grant. We have already exchanged visits in 2018, and have produced several exciting results related to spin filtering in periodic, quasiperiodic and disordered systems. An exhaustive ongoing work on the robustness of spin filtering effect in randomly disordered systems, and another joint publication of the University of Kalyani and the Quantum Disordered Systems Group led by Professor Roemer at UoW is about to see the daylight.

Ms Lesley Chamberlain

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

London, UK

Visiting 11 January - 10 February 2016

Nominated by Dr David James, Department of Philosophy. Lesley Chamberlain is an independent scholar and writer with a special interest in philosophy and German intellectual history. During her Fellowship Ms Chamberlain looked at key works in philosophy and the history of ideas written in the time of Hitler and considered their lasting impact. Topics included Husserl’s ideas of self-responsibility and the experience of the other and the controversy surrounding Heidegger. In particular she focussed on five key texts: Ernst Cassirer’s The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (1932) Edmund Husserl’s Philosophy and the Crisis of European Man (1935-37), Martin Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics (1929), The Origin of the Work of Art (1936), Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility (1936) and Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). She presented this work in several talks to the academic community at Warwick.

Nefeli Chatzistefani

Ealry Career Teaching Fellow (2016-17)

School of Engineering and Institute of Advanced Teaching & Learning

As an IATL/IAS early career fellow, one of my main current interests is to develop an interdisciplinary pedagogy that will teach students the mechanics of the human body through learning about human movement and exploring the relationship between mechanics and fun activities such as sports. This idea sprung from my PhD project titled ‘Mathematical modelling and simulation of the foot with specific application to the Achilles tendon’. The basic aim of my PhD research has been to develop a mathematical/mechanical musculoskeletal model of the Achilles tendon – gastrocnemius muscle that gives as an outcome specific parameters for any individual studied and provides an integral component in the ultimate creation of a dynamic model of the human body. To accomplish this, human gait (the manner of walking) and other everyday movements were studied in the Gait Laboratory of the University of Warwick. Prior to my PhD I completed an M.Sc. in Applied Mechanics and a Diploma (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) in Applied Mathematics and Physics at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).

Lara Choksey

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies

Lara’s research focuses on representations of biological heredity and evolutionary theory in culture (literature, cinema, media and policy). Her research interests include science and literature, critical and cultural theory, and biosemiotics. Her PhD focused on the writing of ‘epigenetic’ forms of change in Doris Lessing’s science fiction in relation to the themes of governance, labour and resistance. Her postdoctoral project will take the interdisciplinary framework developed in the thesis to a broader context, looking at intersections between cultural narratives of heredity and forms of governance, alongside systems of uneven healthcare distribution in a post-genomic context.

Marco Cinelli

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Warwick Manufacturing Group

Dr Cinelli focuses on the integration of sustainability assessment with decision support methods. His current research includes: use of Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding to perform sustainability assessments of products/process systems; creation of a network of sustainability and decision support analysts to advance the scientifically meaningful use of MCDA for sustainability research; and development of life cycle sustainability assessment capabilities.

Rachel Clifton

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

School of Life Sciences

My PhD research focused on footrot, a bacterial disease which causes lameness in sheep. My research combined the use of molecular approaches and epidemiology to investigate reservoirs of the bacterium Fusobacterium necrophorum in sheep and their environment, and included the development a novel strain typing method for Fusobacterium necrophorum. My current research is related to the education of agriculture students and veterinary students about lameness in sheep. I am using qualitative methods to understand current beliefs and preferred learning methods, with the ultimate aim being to develop a freely available, online learning resource for students. This will allow students to access the most up-to-date evidence regarding lameness management. In April 2018 I took up a full-time postdoctoral position at the University of Warwick

David Coates

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

Department of Theatre & Performance Studies

David is a theatre historian and historiographer, interested in British theatre in the long nineteenth century. His doctoral research focussed on the development of amateur theatre in Britain between 1789 and 1914. David is currently preparing a proposal to publish this work as a monograph and is crafting a series of journal articles relating to his methodology and findings. The first of these considers grave hunting as part of a theatre historian's research methodology, and a second grapples with queer subcultures in nineteenth century amateur theatre. Alongside this work, David is preparing an application for Heritage Lottery Funding to support a larger community-led project investigating the legacy and cultural heritage of the Shelley family in Dorset.

Dr Thomas Collas

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

4 March - 16 March 2019

Nominated by Dr Philippe Blanchard, Department of Politics & International Studies. Thomas Collas received a PhD in sociology from Sciences Po (Paris, France) and is now Chargé de recherches F.R.S.-FNRS (Postdoctoral research fellow) at UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). His research interests lie in the sociology of occupations, economic sociology, political sociology, processual sociology and methods of social science. He is currently involved in research projects on the interplay between occupational groups, firms and politics in food industries and on the careers of collaborators in French ministerial offices. He is also researching on quantitative description for social science, especially on sequence analysis.

Giacomo Comiati

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

School of Modern Languages & Cultures

Dr Comiati’s PhD thesis focuses on the influence of the Latin poet Horace on sixteenth-century Italy, taking into consideration works composed in several different genres both in Latin and Italian between 1498 and 1600. His current research incorporates his interests in Renaissance reception of Latin antiquity, Italian Petrarchism, and Renaissance Neo-Latin poetry. Along with writing two articles in which he develop important aspects of my thesis, Dr Comiati organised a one-day conference devoted to Aldus Manutius’s works at the Galilean School of Excellence in Padua (Italy). In September 2016 Dr Comiati took up a postdoctoral fellowship at Freie University, Germany.

Dr Erin Connelly

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

Schoenberg University of Pennsylvania, USA

5 – 15 June 2017

Nominated by Dr Freya Harrison, School of Life Sciences. Dr Connelly is the CLIR-Mellon Fellow for Data Curation in Medieval Studies in the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. She holds a Ph.D. in Medieval English from the University of Nottingham with a special interest in medieval medical texts and the relevance of medieval medicine for modern infections (Ancientbiotics). Her doctoral project was the first edition of the 15th-century Middle English translation of Bernard of Gordon's Lilium medicinae.

Professor William Connolly

International Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

Johns Hopkins University, USA

13 - 22 May 2019

Nominated by Professor Stuart Elden, Departments of Politics & International Studies. Professor Connolly is the author of fifteen books, many with Duke University Press, including Capitalism and Christianity: American Style (2008), A World of Becoming (2010) and The Fragility of Things (2013). Facing the Planetary is forthcoming in 2017. In 2010 he was ranked as the fourth most influential political theorist of the last twenty years, after Rawls, Habermas and Foucault.

Jack Copley

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Politics & International Studies

Why did the British state propel the expansion of the financial sector in the 1970s and 1980s? While most accounts emphasise the role of financial lobbyists and the power of neoliberal ideas, my PhD research offered a different explanation. By examining declassified government documents, I argued that the British state acted to liberalise the City of London as a desperate, ad hoc strategy to govern both the global profitability crisis of the period and the immediate demands of the British electorate. More broadly, my work is concerned with the political governance of capitalism and theories of economic value.

Professor Drucilla Cornell

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

Rutgers University, USA

7 – 17 November 2016

Nominated by Dr Claire Blencowe, Department of Sociology. Professor Cornell is Distinguished Professor in Political Science at Rutgers, before which she was Professor of Law at Cardozo and Rutgers-Newark Law Schools. She has been an important interlocutor of Jacques Derrida and before entering academia, she was a union organizer for many years.

Joseph Cunningham

Ealy Career Fellow (2015-16)

Department of Philosophy

Dr Cunningham’s doctoral thesis is entitled The Remit of Reasons and focuses on the question of what it is to act, believe, desire, intend, and so on, for reasons. Other research interests include the philosophy of action as well as metaphysical and epistemological aspects of perception. At the IAS he undertook interdisciplinary research on the nature belief, delusion and rationality, informed his doctoral work.

Dr Sourin Das

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, India

17 - 26 June 2019

Nominated by Professor Rudolf Roemer, Department of Physics. Dr Sourin Das is a young and very promising researcher in the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, and an expert in mesoscopic physics, field theory and topological systems. He got interested in the preliminary results from the collaboration of Professor Roemer and Professor Chakrabarti involving the decorated lattices. He put forward an exciting idea that the set of decorated lattices proposed by Professors Roemer and Chakrabarti might just be a geometrical analogue of “Supersymmetric Partner Potentials” – a concept lying at the heart of Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics.

Professor Riccardo Del Punta

International Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

University of Florence, Italy

23 May - 6 June 2018

Nominated by Professor Ralf Rogowski, School of Law. Professor Del Punta is currently Professor of Labour Law at the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Florence. During his time at the IAS he had the opportunity to collaborate with a number of Warwick colleagues and to give talks at seminars organised by Warwick Law School and Warwick Business School. He delivered a paper at the IAS workshop “Labour Market Policy and Labour Law Reforms: Tensions and Opportunities” on 25th May 2018, organised by Professor Ralf Rogowski on the occasion of his visit. The stay at the IAS allowed him to work on publications resulting from his project on applying the Capability Approach to Labour Law.

Matthew Dennis

Early Career Innovation Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Philsophy

When self-development companies program apps to encourage us to cultivate ourselves they are currently guided by positive psychologists and self-help gurus, both of who primarily understand human flourishing in terms of physical and emotional well-being. Although the importance of well-being should never be underestimated, my PhD research offers an original theory of how we can cultivate flourishing. This moves beyond a standard conception of well-being to emphasise the importance of those activities that give our lives purpose and meaning. By understanding human flourishing more comprehensively, I believe that self-development companies can significantly enhance the first-wave of app-based technologies that aim to improve our practical lives. My Early Career Innovation Fellowship allowed me to share my research with companies in the self-development app market to enrich the conception of flourishing with which they develop their products.

Jasmine Desmond

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Department of Chemistry

Dr Desmond researches biomolecular adsorption at the interface between solid silica and aqueous electrolytes, which is extremely important to many areas including: surgical science, e.g. the successful merger of prosthetic limbs to bone tissue; the oil industry, for increasing oil yields from sandstone reservoirs; and biology and engineering, where the intricate silica-based skeletal structure of Radiolarians, a small marine creature, inspires the design of novel materials. During her fellowship Dr Desmond strategically expanded on the work of her PhD, increasing understanding of biomolecular interactions at this important interface. In September 2016 Dr Desmond began an INTEGRATE AMR Early Career Fellowship based Wariwck.

Dr Nathan DeYonker

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

University of Memphis, USA

4 – 17 June 2017

Nominated by Dr Scott Habershon, Department of Chemistry. Dr DeYonker received his B.Sc. in Chemistry with a minor in Astrophysics from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 2001. His PhD studies in computational and theoretical chemistry were completed in 2005 at the University of Georgia, under the direction of Professor Henry F. Schaefer III. He then worked as a postdoctoral associate under the joint direction of Professors Angela K. Wilson and Thomas R. Cundari at the University of North Texas. After a long stint as a staff research scientist at the University of Memphis, he was re-hired there as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Fall 2016. His research interests are broad, but primarily focus on electronic structure theory. Current research thrusts in his lab involve modelling the gas phase spectroscopy of inorganic astrochemicals, and improving visualization, reproducibility, and workflow in mechanistic studies of enzymes and inorganic/organometallic catalysts.

Professor Mark Drumbl

Residential Fellow (2017-18)

Washington and Lee University, USA

13 - 17 November 2017

Nominated by Ms Solange Mouthaan, School of Law. Mark Drumbl serves as Director of the Transnational Law Institute at at Washington & Lee University. He also held visiting appointments on several law faculties, including Oxford University, Université de Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), University of Melbourne, Masaryk University, University of Sydney, Vanderbilt University, Free University of Amsterdam, University of Ottawa and Trinity College-Dublin. Drumbl's book, Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2007) has won commendations from the International Association of Criminal Law (U.S. national section) and the American Society of International Law. In 2012, Drumbl published Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy (Oxford University Press), which has been widely reviewed and critically acclaimed. He has authored roughly 100 journal articles, commentaries, and book chapters, and has delivered lectures and seminars world-wide. He is co-editing the Research Handbook on Child Soldiers (with Dr Jastine Barrett).

Mara Duer

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

Department of Politics & International Studies

Mara's research focuses on the formation of the modern countryside under the advancement of extractive capitalism and its resistance by rural indigenous communities. Through a critical take on Western philosophy, her PhD questions approaches based on an understanding of land as a relation of exclusive ownership. She is particularly interested in critical analysis of spatialized enclosures from the perspective of modern-colonial relations which are characterized by a system of racialized hierarchies of domination. She will continue looking at power, land relations and resistance in the Rural South. Mara joined Warwick in 2013, after completing a BA in Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires and an MA at the Christian University of Tokyo as a Rotary Peace Fellow.

Professor Basil Dufallo

Internatiuonal Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

University of Michigan, USA

25 February - 3 March 2018

Nominated by Dr Victoria Rimell, Department of Classics & Ancient History. Professor Dufallo’s current research focuses on Latin poetry of the Roman Republic (from about 240 to 27 BCE). He is writing a book about the theme of getting lost in these poetic texts and how this theme expresses an ambivalent attitude toward Rome’s rapid imperial expansion in this period. During his time at Warwick he developed this work primarily by giving a research paper on current theoretical understandings of disorientation as it relates to notions of identity and empire, and arguing for the applicability of these ideas to his material. He also gave a public lecture with an overview of the book project, which helped him articulate his argument in its full scope.

Dr Kirsty Duncanson

Residential Fellow (2017-18)

La Trobe University, Australia

23 October - 1 November 2017

Nominated by Professor Vanessa Munro, Department of Law. Kirsty Duncanson is a Lecturer in Law at La Trobe University in Melbourne. While maintaining a central focus on the intersections of law, crime and the social world, her work is strongly interdisciplinary. In her research and teaching she draws on theory and methods from across the fields of cultural legal studies, socio-legal studies, criminology, political science, gender studies, visual culture, cinema and media studies. Her key areas of interest include the implications of courtroom design; jury decision-making in rape trials; and popular engagements with the philosophies of law and sovereignty as they take place in the production and consumption of visual culture.

Professor Sven Dupre

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

University of Utrecht, Netherlands

6 – 10 March 2017

Nominated by Professor Anne Gerritsen, Department of History. Professor Dupre is currently working on two projects. The first project (in collaboration with Christine Göttler) studies the material possessions of a Portuguese merchant-banker Emmanuel Ximenez in early seventeenth-century Antwerp as a window onto the global connections of this individual and the early modern city. The second project (ARTECHNE, supported by an ERC Consolidator Grant) investigates the long-term history of the concepts and practices of technique in the arts between 1500 and 1950. He used his time at the IAS to engage in a conversation on these projects with the interdisciplinary intellectual community at Warwick. Also, together with Michael Bycroft, he worked on the edited book coming out of a multi-year project, Gems in the Early Modern World: Materials, Values and Knowledge.

Serena Dyer

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Department of History

My research examines the figure of the consumer in eighteenth-century Britain, focusing in particular on the female consumer of dress. My PhD, entitled ‘Trained to Consume: Dress and the Female Consumer in England, 1720-1820’ was submitted in September 2016, and was funded by the ESRC. Alongside the IAS ECF I also hold a Teaching Fellowship in Early Modern European History in the Department of History. I previously worked in curatorial roles within museums – most recently as Assistant Curator at the National Portrait Gallery – and I am keen to forge further connections between academics and curators. In July 2017 I wsas appointed Curator of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MoDA) at Middlesex University.

Wendy Eades

Early Career Fellow (2918-19)

School of Law

My doctoral research looked at how the recent UK welfare reform policies combined with substantial cuts to public sector funding have had multiple impacts on people living in Coventry, significantly affecting their human rights. Using the Capability Approach (a theoretical framework devised by Amartya Sen about wellbeing, development and justice), I interviewed people to find out how their experiences of welfare reform and austerity affected their daily lives, not just in terms of income, but on their physical and emotional lives and how much agency they had over their own lives. Collaborating with Coventry City Council and local advice agencies, I found that, far from encouraging them to flourish, the current welfare system often resulted in vulnerable individuals floundering and struggling to survive. My future research interests lie in exploring the increasing contribution of these ‘experts by experience’ in challenging and shaping welfare reforms and the intersection of the concept of Civil Society with economic and social rights in the UK in the 21st century.

Dr Sasha-Mae Eccleston

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

Brown University, USA

29 April - 10 May 2019

Nominated by Dr Elena Giusti, Classics & Ancient History. Dr Sasha-Mae Eccleston is Assistant Professor of Classics at Brown University where she is also affiliated with the Initiative for Environmental Humanities. Her research examines the interstices between moral philosophy, ecocriticism, and literature from the Roman Empire; Classical reception (especially in contemporary poetry and African diasporic texts); and critical race theory, Classics, and educational reform. As the co-organizer of Racing the Classics and co-founder of the scholarly society Eos: Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome, Dr Eccleston hopes to meet students from underrepresented backgrounds in pre-modern fields to support their projects inside and outside of the academy.

Alice Eden

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Department of History of Art

My PhD research examined the works of three ‘forgotten’ British artists in the period 1880-1920 whose paintings attest to the rich and varied experience of modernity. I contribute to current scholarship which seeks to redefine modernity in a more inclusive way. A central concern of the thesis has been to bring women, their increased presence in the public sphere and visual culture in this period, into the frame. Contemporary women imagined invigorating movements, from the confines of the domestic interior into the airy heights of mountain tops, using languages of righteousness and joyous expectancy. The artworks examined provide visual analogues and commentaries on these feminist possibilities. I would like to connect with scholars working across different disciplines on themes including womanhood, representation, spirituality, modernity.

Jenifer Philippa Eggert

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

Department of Politics & International Studies

Jennifer’s research focuses on women and political violence. In her PhD (which she did in the Department of Politics and International Studies), she conducted a comparative analysis of women’s inclusion in the militias involved in the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990). Jennifer has also published on women’s roles in IS and Al-Qaeda in Iraq. In addition to her doctoral studies at the University of Warwick, she studied and conducted research at Princeton University, the LSE, Sciences Po Paris and the European University Viadrina. Jennifer speaks regularly on women and extremism, the prevention of terrorism and intercultural relations. She works as a counter-extremism and community engagement trainer. She tweets as @j_p_eggert.

Dr Naomi Ekas

Residential Fellow (2017-18)

Texas Christian University, ISA

24 - 28 September 2018

Nominated by Dr Vaso Totsika, Centre for Education Studies. Dr Naomi Ekas is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Texas Christian University. Dr Ekas’ research focuses on the psychological well-being of parents of children with autism spectrum disorder. Using principles of positive psychology, her research seeks to discover factors that promote positive adaptation in this population. These protective factors include characteristics of the parent (hopeful thinking, optimism, benefit finding) and characteristics of the environment (social support, family functioning). Using advanced quantitative methodologies (e.g., dyadic data analysis and daily diary methods), she also studies how the marital relationship is impacted in the context of raising a child with autism.

Tomas Engelthaler

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Psychology

I am a cognitive psychologist with a passion for education and technology. My research explores the possibility to quantify human psychology through observing our language. How does humour work? Can we predict the GDP of a country based on which books are published? How do we quantify and predict the change of meaning over time? My work answers these questions using an overlap of psychology, software engineering and linguistics.

Emine Erdogan

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Department of Sociology

Dr Erdogan’s research is about gender in global food production and is based on an extensive ethnography of tomato production and processing in Turkey. During her fellowship, she expanded her focus on the relation between production and reproduction to include consumption as an inseparable part of global commodity chains. Through straddling two interdisciplinary areas: gender and food studies, she looks at how the identities of workers, consumers and the products themselves are shaped by and shape each stage of the global food chain.

María Estrada-Fuentes

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Department of Theatre & Performance Studies

María is an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick. Her research interests are conflict transformation, peace-building, applied theatre, politics and performance. She has worked with government institutions and NGOs implementing theatre, dance and performance practice in the social reintegration of ex-combatants in Colombia. Her publications include 'Affective Labors: Love, Care, Solidarity in the Social Reintegration of Female Ex-combatants in Colombia’ (in ‘Leveraging Justice’ a special issue for Lateral, online journal of the American Cultural Studies Association. Co-edited with Janelle Reinelt, 2016); ‘Performing Bogotá: Memories of an Urban Bombing’ (in Performing Cities, ed. Nicolas Whybrow, 2014); and ‘Becoming Citizens: Loss and Desire in the Social Reintegration of Ex-combatants in Colombia’ (in Gendered Citizenship: Manifestations and Performance, eds. Bishnupriya Dutt, Janelle Reinelt and Shrinkhla Sahai, forthcoming 2017).

Daniel Fairbrother

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

Department of Sociology

I am a philosopher of history and historical social science. I am working on arguments showing that possibilities are the basic semantic units in historical descriptions. My research explores different versions of this claim in action-explanations, theories of historiography, and analyses of sociological concepts. I studied philosophy at York and Cambridge before coming to Warwick to work with a Max Weber specialist. My PhD thesis combined textual commentary with analytical theory to reveal the importance of implicit claims about possibilities in Montaillou by Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie. I have developed this into two broader projects. One demonstrates the virtues of using period-specific (medieval) examples in analytical philosophy of history. Another investigates the relationship between historical sensitivity and moderate political thought. In April 2018 I took up a research fellowship at Oulu University, Finland.

Professor Grant Farred

Residential Fellow (2015-16)

Cornell University, USA

Visiting 22 - 26 May 2016

Nominated by Professor Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, School of Modern Languages. Professor Farred, from Africana Studies and Research Centre at Cornell University, has published in a range of areas, including postcolonial theory, race, formation of intellectuals, sport's theory, and cultural studies and literary studies. During his fellowship Professor Farred gave several talks on James Baldwin’s Notion of the “Negro”, began drafting a research network funding proposal and prepared a large paper on Translating African Thought and Literature.

Dr Heide Fasnacht

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

NY Albert and Vera List Academic Center, USA

17 – 24 May 2017

Nominated by Dr Charlotte Heath-Kelly. Since her first one-person show at P.S. 1 in 1979, artist Dr Fasnacht has exhibited her work worldwide, including at MOMA, The Aldrich Museum for Contemporary Art, RAM Galerie, Rotterdam and Galeria Trama in Barcelona, and is in many permanent collections. Dr Fasnacht is also the recipient of numerous awards, including The Guggenheim Fellowship, several National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, The Gottlieb Foundation Grant, and two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowships. She has most recently exhibited large scale, works at Preview Berlin, Qbox Gallery and Art Athina in Athens Greece, Kent Gallery, Socrates Sculpture Park, Smack Mellon, and the American Academy of Arts & Letters in NYC.

Dr Fatima Festic

Residential Fellow (2015-16)

University of Zagreb, Croatia

Visiting 5 - 16 June 2016

Nominated by Professor Marianna Fotaki, Warwick Business School. Fatima Festic has worked as a Professor, Lecturer and Research Fellow in the humanities and comparative literature at various universities in USA, Western and Eastern Europe, South Africa and Turkey. Her literary works pertain to psychoanalytic and feminist theory and criticism, semiotics and cultural studies. During her visit Dr Festic spoke about her research to scholars at Warwick Business School and began drafting a research fellowship application with Professor Fotaki, with a view to Warwick being the host institution.

Professor Paula Findlen

International Visiting Fellow 92017-18)

Stanford University, USA

14 - 20 May 2018

Nominated by Professor Maxine Berg, Department of History. Paula Findlen is Ulbaido Pierotti Professor of Italian History at Stanford University and one of the best known early modern historians in the world. She was Chair of the History Department at Stanford in 2008-11 and 2014-17, Director of the Suppes Center for the Study of Science and Technology 2012-15, and Co-Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 2006-10.

Margot Finn

Director (2007-09)

Professor Margot Finn was the founding Director of the IAS, alongside being Head of Department in History (2006-2009). After her tenure as IAS director professor Finn was Pro-Vice Chancellor of Access, Development & Widening Participation (2011-2012) before joining University College London in July 2012 as Chair in Modern British History, and is an historian of Britain and the British colonial world in the 'very long 19th century', c. 1750-1914. Margot is currently Principal Investigator on the project 'East India Company at Home, 1757-1857' as well as being a Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum and a REF History Sub-panel member, and also recently served as Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society. Margot recently curated an exhibition at Osterley House and Park (a National Trust property in Hounslow) entitled 'The Trappings of Trade: A Domestic Story of the East India Company'.

Dr Emine Fişek

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

Boğaziçi University, Turkey

4 February - 15 April 2019

Nominated by Dr Milija Gluhovic, School of Theatre & Performance Studies. Emine Fişek is Assistant Professor in the Department of Western Languages and Literatures at Boğaziçi University. A scholar of theatre and performance studies, her research has focused on the relationship between theatre, immigration and civil society in contemporary France, as well as the historical background and theoretical limits of the idea of theatrical community. While at the University of Warwick, she collaborated with colleagues from across the university to develop her interdisciplinary research project on the impact that cultural memory, urban transformation and international migration have had on Turkish theatre in the twenty-first century.

Dr Piermarco Fonda

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

Leiden University, Netherlands

10 - 21 June 2019

Professor Matthew Turner, Department of Physics. Professor Turner and I are collaborating on the study of linear fluctuations of multi-component lipid membranes, which builds up on an earlier work of mine (Fonda et al. PRE 2018). More specifically, the project deals with multi-component lipid membranes which can be attached onto 3D-printed substrates while retaining their liquid nature. Once attached, these lipids form coexistent phase domains, whose linear boundary can fluctuate. The spectrum of these fluctuations is directly influenced by basic physical properties of the different phase domains; as such, a measure of this spectrum can provide a new way of estimating one a few key mechanical properties of lipid membranes; in particular, the saddle splay modulus. This has been particularly elusive to estimate using other techniques.

Professor Gunlög Fur

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

Linnaeus University, Sweden  

Visiting 15 - 28 February 2016

Nominated by Professor Gurminder Bhambra, Department of Sociology. Professor Fur is an internationally renowned historian and Director of Concurrences Centre of Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden. She works on the themes of borders and margins across the substantive areas of Swedish contact with the Lenape Indians in mid-17th century US, relations between the Saami people and the Swedish Crown and on historiographical issues related to gender, and postcolonial perspectives. Her scholarship on the themes of colonialism, cultural encounters and gender examines what happens when people meet and draw lines that differentiate, create, and alter relations between collectives and individuals. During Professor Fur’s visit to Warwick’s Department of Sociology she participated in a range of academic and public events co-organised with the Social Theory Centre, the Global History and Culture Centre, the Department of History, and the Global Research Priorities in Connecting Cultures and International Development. She also completed a new book chapter on European Cosmopolitanisms in collaboration with Professor Bhambra during her visit.

Professor Kathleen Gallagher

Residential Fellow (2015-16)

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada

22 June - 1 July 2016

Nominated by: Dr Rachel King, Centre for Education Studies. Professor Gallagher is a leading Canadian education scholar who invokes the power of theatre to educate students in elementary and high schools about complex social issues. Professor Gallagher’s Fellowship allowed her to participate in the ethnographic research and conduct face-to-face interviews with participants and collaborators on a longitudinal collaborative intercultural investigation of drama pedagogy, performance and civic engagement with Dr King, co-funded by the Institute of Advanced Teaching and Learning.

Nicola Galley

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

School of Life Sciences

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is dramatically reducing the effectiveness of drugs that we have come to rely on for common medical practice. Dr Galley’s research focuses on the penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs), which are responsible for the final steps in the biosynthesis of the bacterial cell wall. PBPs are excellent targets for antimicrobial drugs as they are essential for cell viability. To date, she has identified a critical PBP substrate recognition phenomenon in Streptococcus pneumonia that has led to advances in understanding the cell wall synthesis process, and characterised two novel carbohydrate based inhibitors of these targets. In March 2016 Dr Galley took up a position as Research Associate at Sheffield University.

Craig Gent

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies

My research investigates the politics of algorithmically-managed workplaces, primarily scrutinizing the managerial techniques and technologies found in logistics work. In particular, I am interested in the effects of algorithmic management on the social and political dimensions of the work process and the capacity for workers to organize, struggle or otherwise maximize their interests in algorithmically-dependent forms of work. Drawing on the politically 'interested' methodologies of Italian operaismo, my research adopts a distinctive approach spanning labour studies, media theory, organization studies, the philosophy of technology, and activist discourses; while bridging elements of critical management studies, cybernetics, political economy, phenomenology, architecture and design.

Ritika Ghosal

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

School of Life Sciences

I am interested in understanding the comparative development of the vertebrate pharynx by lineage tracing the migratory fates of a set of highly conserved transient embryonic cell population called the neural crest cells, which organise the craniofacial development across vertebrate species. I am currently attempting to reconstruct the comparative pharyngeal fate maps in various vertebrate species like zebrafish, chick and mouse. I am also interested in understanding how an abnormal migration of these cells during development can cause various craniofacial diseases using mouse as the model organism.

Professor Pamela Gilbert

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

University of Florida, USA  

Visiting 9 - 20 May 2016

Nominated by Dr Ross Forman, English & Comparative Literary Studies. Pamela K. Gilbert is Albert Brick Professor of English at the University of Florida. She is a former chair of the English Department there and a recent recipient of a prestigious Guggenheim fellowship. She received her PhD in English from the University of Southern California in 1994. Her current monograph project is on skin in the nineteenth century. Her research interests include gender, the Victorian novel, the body, Victorian cultural and medical history, and medical humanities. During her Fellowship Professor Gilbert worked on her current project on skin and surface in the nineteenth century, a project on the history of the body and cultural representation. As she works at the nexus of the history of science and literature, she enjoyed productive interaction with Warwick's faculty and postgrads in several areas of scholarship. She also gave the keynote at Warwick's conference on Victorian Worlds in Comparison, thinking about current conflicts and opportunities in the ways scholars approach our past and imagine a future, both as "Victorianists" and as humanists more broadly.

Professor Jennifer Gillan

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

Bentley University, USA

Visiting 26 June - 6 July 2016

Nominated by Dr Joanne Garde-Hansen, Centre for Cultural Policy Studies. Professor Gillan focuses upon fandom, gender and audiences is important for developing research priorities that address cultural, national and personal memory in terms of popular culture, citizenship and communication research. It is the transnational cultural memory aspects of television and its renewed circulation in consumer markets of nostalgia and nation that provide cogent areas of enquiry.

Professor Jeff Gill

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

American University, USA

4 February - 13 February 2019

Nominated by Dr Andreas Murr, Department of Politics & International Studies. I have done extensive work in the development of Bayesian hierarchical models, elicited prior development from expert interviews, as well in fundamental issues in statistical inference. I have extensive expertise in statistical computing, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) tools in particular. Most sophisticated Bayesian models for the social or medical sciences require complex, computer-intensive tools such as MCMC to efficiently estimate parameters of interest. I am an expert these statistical and computational techniques and use them to contribute to empirical knowledge in the biomedical and social sciences. Current theoretical work builds logically on my prior applied work and adds opportunities to develop new hybrid algorithms for statistical estimation with multilevel specifications and complex time-series and spatial relationships. Current applied work includes: finding clusters of terrorist organizations, blood and circulation, long-term mental health outcomes from children's exposure to war, pediatric head trauma, terrorism studies, and trauma physiology.

Professor Christine Göttler

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

Bern University, Switzerland

6 – 10 March 2017

Nominated by Professor Anne Gerritsen, Department of History. Prof. Dr. Göttler is Professor of Art History at the University of Bern. Before joining the University of Bern in 2009, she was Professor of Art History at the University of Washington at Seattle (1998-2009). She obtained a PhD in art history from the University of Zurich and the Harburg Institute in London. Her main research interests are collecting practices, collection spaces, and the interplay between the various arts in early modern Europe-especially the Netherlands-and the visual and spatial imagery of interiority and the imagination. During her fellowship, Professor Goettler continued the collaboration between Dupré and Gerritsen on the book project Reading the Inventory and contributed to a new strand of research Technology, Science and Environment in a Global Perspective.

Dr Gunes Gokmen

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

Lund University, Sweden

15 - 31 March 2019

Nominated by Dr Vincenzo Bove, Department of Politics & International Studies. Gunes Gokmen is Senior Lecturer at the University of Lund and one of the most promising young political economists in Europe. With a background in both political science and economics, he works at the cutting-edge of the two disciplines and he regularly publishes in well-known academic outlets of both social sciences. Gunes brings about an interdisciplinary perspective that crosses political economics, development economics, international political economy and quantitative economic history. Gunes has previously worked on the effect of cultural differences on trading behaviour, conflict, and development. He also studies the influence of ethno-religious minorities on human capital spillovers and their legacy on development.

Dr Elizabeth Goldring

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

Private Scholar & Associate Fellow of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance  

Visiting 11 July - 15 July 2016

Nominated by Dr Teresa Grant, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and the Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies. Dr Goldring, is a private scholar and an Associate Fellow of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick. Her work is interdisciplinary, often straddling the boundaries between literature, history, and art history, with research interests from the circle of Sir Philip Sidney and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, to festival studies, the history of patronage and collecting and the reception of Elizabethan art and literature in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. She is currently working on a new book on the life and art of Nicholas Hilliard.

Flavio Goncalves

Rutherford Strategic International Fellow (2017-18)

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Visiting 30 April - 18 May 2018

Nominated by Dr Murray Pollock, Department of Statistics. Dr Goncalves has a PhD in Statistics and since 2012 has been an Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses and supervises both MSc and PhD students. To date, he has supervised 2 PhD theses to completion and is currently supervising 4 PhD Students. He has recently published in a number of prestigious journals in Statistics - including, in the past 12 months tthe Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B and Series C - and is renowned as a leading expert in modelling and methodology for continuous-time stochastic processes. He is looking forward to being fully immersed in the Warwick research environment over the course of the year.

Paul Goring

Early Career Innovation Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Chemistry

Paul is working on surface-responsive polymers for interfacial applications. He previously completed a PhD with Professor Peter Scott in collaboration with Infineum UK Ltd developing a novel 2-step synthesis for polyethylene-polar monomer diblock copolymers and investigating an application as a wax crystal modifier in diesel. He was then employed at Warwick as an Innovate UK-funded postdoctoral researcher working with Interface Polymers Ltd to operationalise this technology on a multi-Kg scale and to develop an application in agricultural film. Before he started at Warwick, Paul completed his MChem degree at Loughborough University working on synthetic models of particulate Methane Monooxygenase.

Professor Jonathan Gray

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Visiting 1 - 9 July 2016

Nominated by Dr Joanne Garde-Hansen, Centre for Cultural Policy Studies. Professor Gray offered Warwick a wide and connective approach that was productive across a wide range of Warwick departments, centres and groups that currently may not be in conversation with one another. He presented Warwick an important perspective on transmedia culture that allowed the Centre for TVHHM to network effectively inside and outside the university along new pathways.

Dr Kylie Gray

Residential Fellow (2015-16 2016-17)

Monash University, Australia

22 June - 1 July 2016 and 13 September - 8 October 2016

Nominated by Professor Richard Hastings, Centre for Educational Development. Associate Professor Gray has an extensive expertise in the area of developmental disorders and disability in children and young people. This has included addressing issues around diagnosis and assessment, development of assessment tools, mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of children and their parents, and the development and evaluation of treatments. She has published research in, for example, the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders and Journal of the American Medical Association.

Daniel Griffiths

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Molecular Organisation & Assembly in Cells Doctoral Training Centre

Daniel’s research focuses on the biosynthesis of bioactive natural products, such as antibiotics and fungicides. The increasing emergence of antibiotic resistant ‘super-bugs’, represents a global healthcare problem. However, the discovery of new anti-microbial agents is in decline. Daniel’s PhD thesis explores the genomics-based discovery of novel antibiotic compounds, and protein interactions during their biosynthesis. His findings enable the development of new hybrid-bioactive molecules that were previously intractable, to combat the challenge of multi-drug resistance pathogens. Prior to his PhD, Daniel completed a Masters in Mathematical Biology and Biophysical Chemistry, and a Master’s degree in Mathematics and Physics at Warwick.

Professor Roy Grundmann

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

Boston University, USA

Visiting 9 - 17 October 2015

Nominated by: Dr J. E. Smyth, School of Comparative American Studies. Roy Grundmann is director of the Film Studies Programme at Boston University and a leading scholar of contemporary German cinema and criticism. Grundmann has curated several landmark film series at the Museum of Modern Art and Boston University on the work of Haneke, Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann’s acclaimed ‘Labor in a Single Shot’, a global film project. He is also currently completing a monograph on director Michael Haneke. While at Warwick, Professor Grundmann held two public events, delivering a lecture on an aspect of his current research on Haneke and a workshop with on issues in contemporary film criticism and efforts to combine academic and popular work on film and media. These initiatives were envisioned in part to develop the existing network between Boston University and the Warwick. Professor Grundmann also developed a panel on film criticism, canonicity, and curatorship of European retrospectives in the US.

Professor Xiwen Guan

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science, China  

Visiting 28 May - 7 June 2016

Nominated by Professor Rudolf Roemer, Department of Physics and Centre for Scientific Computing. Professor Guan is a senior professor at the Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, a research institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a world leader in the field of interacting quantum manybody systems and their applications to the field of atomic gases and ultracold atoms. Professor Guan’s expertise in the applications of cold atoms benefitted several research groups from Warwick’s department of Physics.

Dr Kamal Gulati

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

All India Institute of Medical Science, India

31 May - 30 June 2019

Nominated by Professor Ian Kirkpatrick, Warwick Business School. My doctoral research on Medical Leadership revealed significant leadership competency gaps amongst doctors in India. It established the need for medical leadership development programmes across all career stages of doctors and across all healthcare organizations in the country. Several healthcare leadership models exist in the West viz. NHS, CanMeds, Duke, etc. However, there are fundamental differences in these models and therefore, it is important to ensure that the leadership models and frameworks are contextualized to the economic and socio-political context of each country.

Theodora Hadjimichael

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2017-19)

Department of Classics, Connecting Cultures GRP

Ms Alexandra Hall Colorado

Residential Fellow (2017-18)

Department of Labor and Employment, USA

3 - 10 February 2018

Nominated by Professor Rob Wilson, Institute of Employment Research. Alexandra Hall, was appointed as director of the Colorado Division of Labor Standards and Statistics in January 2016 after an 8 month stint as acting director. As Division Director, Alex oversees administration of Colorado’s wage and hour and workplace conditions laws, Labor Peace Act, and the state’s contribution to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics economic series on Colorado labor markets. She also serves as the Chief Economist of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, a role she has held since May 2002. Alex is a member of the National Association of Government Labor Officials and was appointed by the US Secretary of Labor to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Data User’s Advisory Committee, where she is a subject matter expert on the nation’s employment statistics infrastructure and local data user needs. Over the course of her career she has served on various US labor statistics policy councils.

Professor Ian Hall

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

Griffith University, Australia

9 – 20 January 2017

Nominated by Dr Juanita Elias, Department of Politics & International Studies. Professor Hall’s research focuses on India’s foreign policy, interpretive approaches to the study of politics, and the evolution of thought about international relations. He is currently engaged in an Australian Research Council-funded Discovery project on Indian thinking about international relations after 1964 and a wider project on India’s engagement with liberal conceptions of international order in the post-Cold War period. At Warwick, he worked with collaborators in Politics and International Studies on an initiative exploring Asian state responses to Western norms in international relations and the emergence of new normative agendas in that region.

Professor Nicholas Hall

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

Fisher College of Business, USA

26 September – 6 October 2016

Nominated by Professor Bo Chen, Warwick Business School. Nicholas Hall is Professor of Management Sciences and Integrated Systems Engineering at The Ohio State University. He holds a Ph.D. (Management Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1986), and B.A., M.A. (Economics, University of Cambridge). His research and teaching interests include project management, scheduling, and pricing. He has published 82 articles in Operations Research, Management Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Games and Economic Behaviour, Interfaces, and other journals. He has served as Associate Editor of Operations Research (1991–) and Management Science (1993–2008). He is the owner of a consulting business, CDOR, which provides solutions to project companies, and advises New York law firms on intellectual property issues. He was a candidate for President in the 2016 INFORMS election.

Lucy Hatton

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Department of Politics & International Studies

Dr Hatton’s research considers issues of democracy and legitimacy in the European Union. The focus of her doctoral research was the recently launched European Citizens' Initiative, a mechanism by which the citizens of the EU can propose new EU legislation, and asked to what extent this can impact upon the democratic legitimacy of the EU. Her interests therefore include democratic theory, particularly participatory and deliberative democracy; legitimacy; representation and popular participation; citizenship; mechanisms of direct democracy; the EU's democratic deficit, and Euroscepticism, particularly in the UK. In October 2016 Dr Hatton began a Teaching Fellowship at Warwick.

Professor Mary Hawkesworth

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

Rutgers University, USA

28 April - 8 May 2019

Nominated by Professor Shirin Rai, Department of Politics & International Studies. At a moment when increasingly racist forms of ethno-nationalism are surfacing around the globe, it is important to analyze how academic disciplines and state practices contribute to the production of inequities and injustices. In contrast to received views in political science that depict sex, gender, and race as natural modes of embodiment, my recent work challenges the illusion that bodies exist outside politics and beyond the reach of the state. Drawing insights from critical race, feminist, decolonial, postcolonial, queer, and trans* theory, I show how accredited conceptions of embodiment, gender, liberty, public/private, and the nation-state relegate women, people of color, sexual minorities, and gender-variant people to inferior status despite constitutional guarantees of equality before the law. While at Warwick, I worked with scholars and students to theorize conceptual practices of power and envisioned strategies to make racialized gendering visible and actionable.

Guillaume Hedir

Early Career Fellow (2016-17) sponsored by Materials GRP

Department of Chemistry

Guillaume is currently an IAS Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick. In July 2016, he completed a PhD in Chemistry with a thesis entitled “Functional degradable polymers via RAFT/MADIX mediated polymerization of cyclic ketene acetals and vinyl monomers” which was based in the Dove and O’Reilly research groups (Department of Chemistry) and industrially sponsored by BP. After completion of his PhD, he undertook a three month placement at the International Centre for Business and Technology (ICBT) at BP, Sunbury, working in the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) team where he investigated the effect of polymer degradation under reservoir conditions. During his time as an IAS Early Career Fellow, Guillaume will extend the work of his PhD on “smart” degradable polymers whose properties can be altered by temperature changes, and will also assess their biocompatibility and toxicity.

Lewis Herrington

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Department of Politics & International Studies

Dr Herrington’s central research areas include intelligence, ‘Islamic Terrorism’ in the UK, cyber terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, extremism, Islamic jihad and counter terrorism strategy. During his Fellowship Dr Herrington examined operations of the Islamic State also known as ISIS, concurrent with transforming his PhD into a book. Based in London, Dr Herrington has extensive public engagement experience having appeared live as an expert witness several times on Sky News, Arise News, LBC and BBC Radio 4. In October 2016 Dr Herrington took up a Teaching Fellowship at the University of Loughborough.

Lewis Herrington

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Department of Politics & International Studies

Dr Herrington’s central research areas include intelligence, ‘Islamic Terrorism’ in the UK, cyber terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, extremism, Islamic jihad and counter terrorism strategy. During his Fellowship Dr Herrington examined operations of the Islamic State also known as ISIS, concurrent with transforming his PhD into a book. Based in London, Dr Herrington has extensive public engagement experience having appeared live as an expert witness several times on Sky News, Arise News, LBC and BBC Radio 4. In October 2016 Dr Herrington took up a Teaching Fellowship at the University of Loughborough.

Dr Håkon Hoel

Residential Fellow (2015-16)

University of Oslo, Norway  

Visiting 4 - 15 December 2015

Nominated by Dr Matteo Icardi, Mathematics Institute. Håkon Hoel is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo. His main research interests are adaptive numerical integration methods for stochastic differential equations, and analysis and development of multilevel Monte Carlo methods for various kinds of stochastic filtering and differential equation problems. During his visit Dr Hoel finalised a paper with Dr Icardi and explored extensions to ongoing joint research projects and prepared a scientific paper for publication.

Professor Jennifer Holmes

Residential Fellow (2016-18)

Whittier College, USA

3 – 13 July 2017 and 2 - 12 July 2018

Nominated by Professor Michael Hulse, Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies. Jennifer Holmes has directed more than 70 productions and projects, and led numerous workshops, in Los Angeles, Chicago and Milwaukee in the US; Barranquilla, Colombia; and Smolyan, Bulgaria. Her background includes a PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. Jennifer also studied acting for three years in New York City, and Shakespeare at the British American Drama Academy, and was an artist in residence at the Leon Katz Rodolphi International Theatre Laboratory. She serves on the Board for the Kennedy Center American Theatre Festival, and is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Jennifer is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre and Communication Arts at Whittier College (in Southern California) where she directs and teaches Directing, Performing Non-Fiction, and World Theatre.

Dr Matthew Hughey

International Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

University of Connecticut, USA

9 April - 10 June 2018

Nominated by Professor John Solomos, Department of Sociology. Dr Matthew W. Hughey is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Professor Hughey’s research concentrates on (1) white racial identity; (2) racialized organizations; (3) mass media; (4) political engagements; (5) science and technology, and; (6) public advocacy with racism and discrimination.

Anja Humpert

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Department of Physics

Dr Humpert’s research focuses on the study of liquid crystals, which are commonly used as displays in phones and television. Throughout her PhD she investigated the static and dynamical properties for different liquid crystalline materials using simulations. More recent work involves nanoparticles in liquid crystals. Due to their shape the nanoparticle distorts the order of the liquid crystal. This can be utilised to design novel materials as well as to assemble nanoparticles in a controllable fashion. Dr Humpert moved to Renshaw in September 2016, where she works as a software engineer.

Karolina Hutkova

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Department of History

Dr Hutkova’s research draws on economic and business history to explore issues key to economic development, in particular the role of institutions, organization and governance for creating conditions for entrepreneurship and business activity. Her PhD thesis, entitled “The British Silk Connection: The English East India Company’s Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1757-1812” analysed the English East India Company’s silk manufacturing activities in Bengal in the late eighteenth century. Her research relied on economic history approaches to the study of the transfer of Italian technologies to Bengal. It attempted to bridge the gap in current debates about the importance of technologies and technological transfers in global history.

Francesca Iezzi

Early Career Teaching Fellow (2015-16)

Mathematics Institute and Institute of Advanced Teaching & Learning

Dr Iezzi was awarded the first joint early career teaching fellow in IAS and the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning. Her Mathematical research is in low dimensional Topology and Geometric Group Theory. The latter is a relatively recent area in pure Mathematics, whose main focus is using techniques coming from Geometry and Topology to understand properties of some algebraic objects: groups. She is also working on a project investigating the link between teaching and research in academic practice.

Dr Luce Irigaray

International Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

5 - 19 June 2018

Nominated by Dr Stephen Seely, Institute of Advanced Study. Luce Irigaray is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris). Widely recognised as one of the key influential thinkers of our times, her work focuses on the development of a culture of sexuate and cultural difference - particularly through the construction of a feminine subjectivity - something she explores in a range of forms, from the philosophical to the scientific, the political and the poetic. The recipient of four honorary doctorates, she is the author of over forty books, translated into many languages, including Speculum of the Other Woman (1974), This Sex Which Is Not One (1977), and most recently Through Vegetal Being (co-authored with Michael Marder, 2016) and To Be Born (2017). While at Warwick, she conducted an interdisciplinary seminar for local and international researchers addressing themes related to her work.

Dr Srividya Iyer

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

McGill University, Canada

18 March - 31 March and 1 July - 14 July 2019

Nominated by Dr Max Birchwood, Warwick Medical School. Srividya Iyer’s interests are in youth mental health and early intervention, including for serious mental illnesses such as psychosis, in Canada and beyond. A member of faculty at McGill University, she is the Scientific-Clinical Director of ACCESS Open Minds, a pan-Canadian youth mental health services research network. Srividya is involved in various mental health capacity building and research projects in India, including in partnership with researchers at Warwick University. Through her visit, Iyer strengthened existing collaborations and built new ones with Warwick researchers whose interests include youth well-being, early intervention and global health.

Iwona Janicka

Associate Fellow (2018-19) and Early Career Innovation Fellow (2018-19)

School of Modern Languages & Cultures

Iwona joined IAS in September 2018 as Early Career Innovation Fellow. In 2015-2018 she was British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (French Studies) at Warwick. She held postdoctoral fellowships with the Hannover Institute for Philosophical Research ( Germany) and the Posthuman Aesthetics research group at Aarhus University (Denmark). As Gates Scholar she completed her PhD in French at the University of Cambridge, Trinity Hall, in 2014. She is the author of Theorizing Contemporary Anarchism. Solidarity, Mimesis and Radical Social Change (Bloomsbury, 2017). Her current book project deals with the question of nonhumans and politics.

Professor Renee Jeffery

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

Griffith University, Australia

9 – 20 January 2017

Nominated by Dr Juanita Elias, Department of Politics & International Studies. Professor Jeffery’s main research interests lie in the areas of human rights and post-conflict justice in the Asia-Pacific. Her work focuses on the various ways in which states and other actors address past human rights violations, through granting amnesties, instituting reconciliation processes, offering apologies, awarding reparations, building memorials and pursuing criminal prosecutions. She has conducted research and published articles on transitional and post-conflict justice processes in Nepal, the Philippines, Aceh, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, China and Japan. While at Warwick she worked on an ongoing project on the uptake of human rights accountability norms in Asia.

Michelle Joseph

GCRF Fellow (2018-19)

Warwick Medical School

15 - 29 July, 9 - 23 September 2019

Collaborating with Dr Paul Toussaint, Hopital Convention Baptiste d’Haiti, Dr Dudley Ambroise, Hopital Convention Baptiste d’Haiti, Dr Myriam Gousse, Haitian Association of Surgeons, Dr Jean Coq, Justinien Hospital, Prof. John Meara, Harvard University. Taruma is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in low and middle income countries, accounting for 16% of the global burden of disease. There is a large discrepancy between trauma care provided in well-resourced countries and those of lesser incomes, resulting in poorer outcomes and grerater burdens of disease in low resource countries. In Haiti, there is currently no established trauma training standards or mandatory courses for health care professionals treating trauma patients in the Northern region. The implimentation of a trauma care course has the potential to improve patient care, and as a result reduce preventable death rates.

Nike Jung

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Department of Film & Television Studies

Dr Jung’s thesis is titled: The (In)visibilities of Torture. Political torture and visual evidence in U.S. and Chilean Fiction Cinema (2004 – 2014). She has published a book, Narrating Violence in Post-9/11 Action Cinema, and a number of articles. In 2014 she organised a conference on Voice and Silence: Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain, which generated a book proposal currently under review with Routledge.

Kyunghye Kim

Rutherford Strategic International Fellow (2017-18)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

20 March - 20 June 2018

Nominated by Professor Johannes Angermuller, Centre for Applied Linguistics. Kyunghye Kim is a lecturer in Translation studies at the School of Foreign Languages, SJTU and a member of Jiao Tong Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies. She holds a PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies from the University of Manchester, UK. Her principal research interests are in translation studies, corpus-based critical discourse analysis, and the application of narrative theory to translation and interpreting. Her publications include ‘Examining US News Media discourses about North Korea’ (Discourse and Society 2014), ‘Renarrating the Victims of WWII through Translation: So Far from the Bamboo Grove and Yoko Iyagi’ (Target 2017), ‘Newsweek discourses on China and their Korean translations: A corpus-based approach’ (Discourse, Context and Media 2017).

Dr Roland Knorr

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

University of Tokyo, Japan

18 March - 5 April and 9 - 12 July 2019

Nominated by Professor Lorenzo Frigerio, School of Life Sciences. Dr Roland Knorr is an expert in the dynamics of biomembranes. Recently, he studied contact sites between biomolecular fluids and biomembranes. Using a combination of experiment and theory, he discovered three distinct states of wetting and provided the first experimental evidence for the novel concept of intracellular wetting. His results suggest that physical contacts between proteinaceous droplets and conventional, membrane-bound organelles may function as an organizational principle in cells. Intracellular wetting phenomena are not well understood - either in cell biology, or in soft matter physics and interfacial sciences. The Fellowship contributed to crosslinking these fields further. Together they may help to understand a multitude of biological processes in cells better. His visit provided us with an alternative view on the biology of modern cells as well as on the Origin of life, and thus, offered a significant contribution to link his research with multiple sections of the University.

Joachim Koops

Rutherford Strategic International Fllow (2017-18)

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Visiting 1 June - 1 September 2018

Nominated by Dr Oz Hassan, Department of Politics & International Studies. Dr Joachim Koops is Research Professor of International Security at the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dean of Vesalius College, affiliated with the VUB and Director of the Executive Course in Global Risk Analysis and Crisis Management. His research focuses on EU, NATO and UN Approaches to Global Security Governance, Inter-organizational Relations in Global Governance as well as European Foreign Policy and Diplomacy. He is also interested in experiential learning and academic reform. During his time at Warwick, Joachim will collaborate with colleagues in PAIS, the GRG-GG and other researchers on interdisciplinary approaches to the future of global security governance. During his fellowship, he will cooperate intensely with Oz Hassan and a wide range of colleagues to develop research and teaching collaborations between PAIS and the VUB.

Violeta Kovacheva

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Systems Biology

Recent developments in multiplex immunofluorescence and digital pathology have resulted in an increased demand for methods to perform qualitative analysis on the obtained image data. As part of her PhD, Dr Kovacheva developed a new algorithmic approach that analyses the large amounts of multi-tag bioimage data (also known as localised proteomic or toponomic data) from cancerous and normal tissue specimen in order to begin to infer protein networks and unravel the cellular heterogeneity at molecular level. In addition to this, she worked on developing a spatial model for the healthy and cancerous colonic crypt architecture, which can be used to validate and objectively compare a wide variety of image analysis frameworks for both multiplex immunofluorescence imaging and digital histopathology. In May 2016 Dr Kovacheva took up a Research Fellowship at the Institute of Cancer Research.

Alexandra Kviat

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Sociology

My current research interests focus on placemaking projects and initiatives blurring the boundaries between home, work and leisure (e.g., supper clubs, co-living housing, hoffices). Before joining the Sociology Department, I worked as a communication and media studies teacher and researcher at the Omsk State University, Russia (2007–2014) and a Fulbright fellow in the Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2013–2014).

Alexandra Kviat

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Sociology

My PhD research, Placemaking in the Post-Functionalist and Post-Digital City: the Case Study of Ziferblat, funded by the Chancellor’s International Scholarship, explored a new form of urban public place—multifunctional venues called ‘pay-per-minute cafes’, ‘public living rooms’, or ‘anti-cafes’. This project employed an interdisciplinary theoretical framework combining urban sociology, human geography, cultural anthropology, media studies, and consumer and service research to investigate why such places are becoming increasingly popular and what it tells us about the contemporary city. My current research interests focus on placemaking projects and initiatives blurring the boundaries between home, work and leisure (e.g., supper clubs, co-living housing, hoffices). Before joining the Sociology Department, I worked as a communication and media studies teacher and researcher at Omsk State University, Russia (2007–2014) and a Fulbright Fellow in the Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2013–2014).

Jennifer Lander

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

School of Law

My research broadly focuses on questions of democratic legitimacy and accountability in the governance of the global economy, particularly in natural resource-based sectors (i.e., mining). I am especially interested in the way that national states and domestic law enable global economic integration, and the internal contradictions that said integration can produce within democratically constituted states. This research interest is animated by a concern about the potentially anti-democratic effects of economic globalisation in relation to capital-importing, commodity-producing states in the Global South, as well as the way global processes are transforming the terms of local and national conflicts over natural resources. My PhD research developed an extended case study of Mongolia's integration into the global minerals economy as a process of state transformation and de facto constitutionalism, using a socio-legal methodology. I provided empirical evidence that natural resource-based development under global conditions produces significant reordering effects on state-society relations. Following on from my PhD research, I plan to engage with the political and legal ramifications of new economic regionalism in East and Central Asia.

Professor Chung-Yee Lee

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

28 May – 10 June 2017

Nominated by Professor Bo Chen, Warwick Business School. Professor Lee has an extensive expertise both in academia and in engaging business. He also has an outstanding record of attracting research funding from both funding agencies and industries. Professor Lee visited Warwick to conduct research exchanges with his nominators, explore opportunities for extended research collaborations, including a joint application for business co-sponsored research project, and participated in various activities of the interdisciplinary cross-departmental Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications.

Professor Dana Leibsohn

Residential Fellow (2017-18)

Smith College, USA

15 - 20 May 2018

Nominated by Professor Ann Gerritsen, Department of History. Dana Leibsohn's current research taps the insights of anthropology and art history, focusing on both indigenous visual culture in colonial Latin America and trans-Pacific trade in the early modern period. She has published on indigenous maps and manuscripts, hybridity in colonial visual culture, the trade between China and Mexico, and the early modern history of Manila. She visited Warwick for a second time, the first being in 2013, to set up a collaboration with the Global History and Culture Centre.

Maëline Le Lay

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

6 – 11 May 2017

Nominated by Professor Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, School of Modern Language and Cultures. Maëline Le Lay is a research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Bordeaux. Her research focuses on theatre, performing arts and literature in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the African Great Lakes Region. She has published La Parole construit le pays, Théâtre, langues et didactisme au Katanga (RDC), (Paris, Honoré Champion, 2014) and, together with Dominique Malaquais and Nadine Siegert, she co-edited Archive (re)mix. Vues d’Afrique (2015), a collective transdisciplinary book. She is the Review editor of the peer-reviewed journal Etudes Littéraires Africaines.

Etienne Le Masson

Rutherford Strategic International Fellow (2018-19)

Universtiy of Cergy-Pontoise, France

1 September - 30 November 2018

Nominated by Professor Mark Pollicott, Mathematics Institute. Dr Etienne Le Masson is an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Cergy-Pontoise. He is an expert in the field of quantum chaos, which aims to understand how high-frequency waves behave in chaotic environments. He obtained his PhD in 2013 at Paris-Sud University (France), showing that waves on some large networks present delocalisation properties similar to high-frequency waves in continuous chaotic settings. Since then he has been building a new approach to study waves on large scale structures, discrete and continuous. In 2018 he was appointed Maître de Conférences at the University of Cergy-Pontoise. The goal of this fellowship was to deepen the mathematical understanding of waves on large structures by collaborating with experts in chaotic dynamical systems at the University of Warwick.

Professor Carole Levin

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Visiting 6 July - 12 August 2016

Nominated by Dr Teresa Grant, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and the Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies. Professor Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska where she specializes in early modern English women's and cultural history. She has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities long-term fellowships. She is the past president of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, the co-founder and president of the Queen Elizabeth I Society, and is Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Mark Levine

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

Mc Master University, Canada

17 October – 11 November 2016

Nominated by Professor Annie Young, Warwick Medical School. Dr Levine is a medical oncologist who has been in clinical practice and conducting clinical research for the past 35 years. His areas of interest are cancer clinical trials and health services research. In June 2016, he received the Order of Canada which recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation for his research which has changed care. While at Warwick University he pursued research in patterns of practice in locally advanced breast cancer, and treatment of cancer patients with venous thrombosis. For the former he collaborated with oncologists and surgeons in the Warwick/Birmingham region and for the latter with scientists in the Warwick Clinical Trials Unit.

Dr Hadas Lewy

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

Maccabi Health Services, Israel

Visiting 22 - 27 May & 4 - 9 September 2016

Nominated by Professor Christopher James, Department of Engineering. Dr Hadas Lewy is Director of the International Centre for Research & Development at Maccabi Healthcare Services, and the CEO of Nevet Ltd. Maccabi is the second largest Health Maintenance Organisation in Israel and is known for its advanced technological systems and expertise in developing and implementing technological solutions in healthcare services in the community. Dr Lewy's academic and industrial experience includes development of non-invasive medical devices, developing a telemedicine services, behavioural and clinical patterns analyses, research and development of health technologies.

Yiqing Ling

Rutherford Strategic Internatiuonal Fellow (2017-18)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

15 June - 14 September 2018

Nominated by Dr Gechun Liang, Department of Statistics. Dr Yiqing Lin is currently an associate professor in the Department of Statistics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research focuses on stochastic analysis and mathematical finance. He is interested in the study and development of mathematical tools dedicated to robust financial valuation techniques. Dr Lin will collborate with his colleagues in the Department of Statistics, in particular, Dr Gechun Liang, to develop the theory of backward stochastic differential equations, in the context of nonlinear expectations and their applications to behavioural decision making in asset allocation problems.

Professor Hai-Qing Lin

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China

Visiting 28 May - 7 June 2016

Nominated by Professor Rudolf Roemer, Department of Physics and Centre for Scientific Computing. Professor Lin is Division Head Simulation of Physical Systems at Beijing Computational Science Research Centre, a multidisciplinary fundamental research centre of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research areas are mainly in Condensed Matter Physics and Computational Physics including plasmonics, high pressure studies, entanglement and quantum phase transition, magnetism and supersconductivity, electron spins in semiconductor quantum dots as well as numerical technique development. The University of Warwick, via CSC, has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with CSRC on joint research, teaching and facilities activities. Professor Lin’s Fellowship was the first visit of a representative of the CSRC at Warwick. His research and general academic experience and expertise will therefore by beneficial to the CSC, the Physics department and the Warwick GRP Materials as exemplified by the breadth of the nominations.

Professor Nian Lin

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

15 October - 07 December 2018

Nominated by Professor Giovanni Costantini, Department of Chemistry. My research focuses on the following three areas: (1) to understand the self assembly phenomena of suparmolecular systems on surfaces; (2) to characterize charge transport and energy conversion at single molecules; and (3) to design organic-based two-dimensional structures exhibiting novel quantum phases. While at the University of Warwick, I collaborated with Professor Costantini and Professor Steven Tait on various research and educational activities. In particular, we explored charge transfer in metal-organic systems at surfaces. We organized an international symposium on this topic during my fellowship.

Professor Franklyn Lisk

GCRF Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Politics & International Studies

2018-19

This award will be used to support policy-orientated research on harnessing Africa's digital potential for sustainable economic development and transformation. This is following on from a March 2018 GRP International Development sponsored international seminar on 'Responding to opportunities for using mobile and digital money to achieve a pathway out of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)'. By 2015 it is predicted that 50% of the total value of the global economy will be generated digitally; it is therefore important and necessary for the SSA to be ready and capable to benefit from this development. In this regard, research on the use of mobile and e-money and the digitisation of financial transactions will support the efforts of African governments and their development partners in ensuring active & beneficial participation of SSA in a global digital economy. We hope to promote an interdisciplinary research approach through cooperation with the newly establish Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) and the Institute of African Studies, both at the University of Ghana. If successful, it will further research networking with both these and other relevant institutions in the country for long-term collaboration building, as well as support activities by the wider Warwick community for enhancing research and policy analysis capabilities at the University of Ghana and beyond. Collaboration with ISSER (Ghana)will also serve as a basis for engagement on policy issues on the subject, specifically through direct cooperation with two relevant West African inter-governmental financial institutions; West African Money Institute (WAMI, Accra) and the West African Monetary Agency (WAMA, Freetown). These collaborations will go toward supporting the co-development and implementation of a longer term GCRF research proposal on the digitisation of financial transactions for sustainable development and poverty reduction.

Waiyee Loh

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies

Waiyee is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. Her dissertation compared representations of Victorian Britain in British historical fiction and Japanese girls’ comics (shōjo manga) (1980 – present) to demonstrate how the flow of goods and ideas from Britain to Japan in the nineteenth century informs the heightened interest in cultural commodity production and export in Britain and Japan today. Her work has appeared in Mechademia and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. She is working on a new project, tentatively titled “East-West Romance: Popular Culture in East Asia and the Formation of Transnational Communities.”

Professor Cynthia Lucia

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

Rider University USA  

Visiting 9 - 17 October 2015

Nominated by: Dr J. E. Smyth, School of Comparative American Studies. Cynthia Lucia is associate professor of English and director of the Film and Media Studies Program at the Department of English, Rider University. Professor Lucia’s current project, “Hollywood History and Its Final Child,” examines the career of Natalie Wood—a child star in the 1940s and early 1950s, when a thriving studio system trained its actors, moulded their professional lives, and shaped their public personae. Emerging into adult stardom in the early 1960s, Wood’s sexual maturation sparked onscreen tensions reflective not only of cultural anxieties but also of a system in serious decline. During her visit Professor Lucia discussed Wood as an actress whose roles and career allegorize dramatic transitions in the Hollywood industry and American society. She also conducted further archival research at the BFI. Alongside this her continued collaboration with Dr Smyth and Visiting Fellow Professor Grundmann was strengthened, preparing both written pieces and funding applications.

Thomas Machon

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Department of Physics and Centre for Complexity Science

Dr Machon works in theoretical physics, applying ideas from geometry and topology to problems in soft condensed matter physics. His PhD work extended the homotopy theory of defects in nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals to a give a global understanding of exotic structures in these systems, such as knots and links, as well as establishing a more general theory of defects in chiral systems. During his fellowship Dr Machon worked on extending many of these results and on understanding singularities and solitons on minimal surfaces. In May 2016 Dr Machon took up a postdoctoral position at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr Peter Maguire

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

Fainting Robin Foundation, USA

25 January - 3 February 2019

Nominated by Dr Benjamin Smith, Department of History. Peter Maguire is an independent scholar, activist, historian and journalist, who has been working on bringing history to the U.S. public since the 1990s. Over the past two decades, he has written widely on twentieth century warfare, war crimes, and the U.S. empire in South-East Asia. At his brief stay in Warwick, he collaborated on a variety of workshops and an academic article.

Dr Haibo Ma

Residential Fellow (2015-16)

Nanjing University, China

Visiting 6 January - 18 February 2016

Nominated by Professor Allesandro Troisi, Department of Chemistry. Dr Ma is an expert in electronic structure calculations. Dr Ma previously visited Warwick in 2013 supported by China Scholarship Council. This visit lead to three peer reviewed publications in the top journals in material science. During his fellowship Dr Ma will be worked with Professor Troisi and his research students, gave lectures to students from the Centre of Scientific Computing and the Department of Chemistry, and co-wrote three research bids with his Warwick collaborators.

Chams Bicalho Maluf

Rutherford Strategic International Fellow (2018-19)

Universidad Federal de Minais Gerais, Brazil

1 Dececember - 1 March 2019

Nominated by: Dr Michelle Miller, Warwick Medical School. Dr Maluf holds a medical degree from Federal Universidad of Minas Gerais (UFMG) (1994), and medical residency in clinical pathology (1997), a MD (2011) and a PhD (2015) by the Postgraduate Program in Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, UFMG. She currently works in research projects related to laboratory management and epidemiology of chronic diseases. She is Assistant Professor, and Vice-Head of the Department of Clinical Pathology of the Medical School at UFMG, Brazil. Member of the Research Group on the Epidemiology of Non communicable Diseases, CNPq. Coordinator of the Clinical Laboratory of ELSA-Brasil in Minas Gerais.

Professor Daniele Marchisio

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

Politecnicio di Torino, Italy

12 – 19 February 2017

Nominated by Dr Matteo Icardi, Mathematics Institute. Professor Marchisio graduated in Chemical Engineering in 1997 from Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and obtained his PhD from the same institution in 2001 (with a stay at Iowa State University as visiting scholar). After a postdoctoral position at Iowa State University (2001-2003) and a short permanence as visiting guest at ETH Zurich (2004) he became assistant professor at Politecnico di Torino (2004), where he was then promoted to associate (2010) and full professor (2016). He has also been visiting professor at ULC (summers of 2007 and 2008), visiting scientist at CSIRO (2013) and has been appointed adjunct visiting professor at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology (2016). He has co-authored a book on computational models for multiphase flows (Cambridge University Press) and more than 100 papers published on international journals.

Professor Jean-Michel Marin

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

Université de Montpellier, France

6 – 10 March 2017

Nominated by Professor Christian Robert, Department of Statistics. Professor Marin is a researcher in the field of Statistics. He began his career with a PhD thesis on the optimality properties of some small sample sizes estimates. For the past 15 years, he has focused on two main areas: Bayesian statistics and computational statistics. In the past 10 years, his main application field has been population genetics. He has written two books and 57 papers. These works contain some important contributions on Bayesian inference, and some of them have impacted other scientific fields. He participated to the production of the DIYABC software, a reference software for population genetics analysis. Typically using DIYABC it is possible to infer population history using microsatellite, DNA sequence and SNP data. He is is the head of the Alexander Grothendieck Montpellier Institute which hosts over 150 researchers.

Professor Andrei Markovits

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

The University of Michigan, USA

Visiting 13 May - 18 May 2019

Nominated by: Professor Ulf Liebe, Department of Sociology. Andrei S. Markovits is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is also Professor of Political Science, Professor of Sociology and Professor of German Languages and Literatures at that university. Markovits's many books, articles and reviews on topics as diverse as German social democracy and trade unions; new social movements and the Greens; German-Jewish relations; the politics of scandal; European anti-Americanism; the politics of compassion and dog rescue; and comparative sports have appeared in 15 languages. In 2007, the Leuphana University of Lueneburg in Germany awarded Markovits an honorary doctorate. In 2012, the Federal Republic of Germany awarded Markovits the Cross of the Order of Merit, First Class, one of the highest civilian distinctions that this country rewards is own citizens and those of foreign countries.

Hilary Marland

Director (2009-11)

Professor Hilary Marland served as IAS director from 2009 to 2011. Currently Marland is a Principal Investigator on a new Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award (2014-19), 'Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000'. Her research interests lie particularly with the mental health of prisoners, the impact of prisons on mental wellbeing, and the health of women prisoners. Prior to her directorship of IAS Professor marland was Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine, a role which she has held for a second time since 2015.

Alex Marsden

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Department of Physics

Technology is in a relentless rush to get smaller, a fact that we can see in many devices that we use in our daily lives. However, the materials we have used places limits to this shrinking. Recently materials that are only a single atom thick have been discovered, isolated and measured. Dr Marsden’s research investigates how one of these 2D materials, graphene, interacted with metals, atoms and molecules to support its incorporation into the next generation of technologies. More generally now, my research is focussing on the production and incorporation of the wider family of 2D materials that have since been discovered. To do this. Dr Marsden recently took up a postdoctoral position at the University of Manchester.

Ellie Martus

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2017-19)

Department of Sociology and Department of Politics & International Studies

Chris Maughan

Early Career fellow (2015-16)

Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies

Dr Maughan’s doctoral research focused on the cultural representation of environmental activism in contemporary literature, film, and journalism, with a particular emphasis on food systems. Since submitting his thesis he have been working to increase this focus by conducting research into how local food systems, especially community gardens and other forms of community supported agriculture, are understood in times of environmental and social crisis. Alongside his academic work, Dr Maughan has 6 years’ experience organising and participating in community gardens, across the UK. In June 2016 Dr Maughan took up a freelance position at the University of Coventry.

Professor J. R. McNeill

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

Georgetown University, USA

Visiting 23 - 26 May 2016

Nominated by Professor Daniel Branch, Department of History. Professor McNeill’s current project is a global environmental history of the Industrial Revolution. This entails the local pollution effects of industrialisation in Britain, a topic on which a good deal of strong research has been published already. But it also entails the ecological consequences of mobilising all the fibres, ores, lubricants, dyes and other products essential to industrial production. They all came from somewhere, often from distant continents (or the high seas), they came in mounting quantities in the decades after 1815, and the ecosystem from which they came were changed in the process.

Professor Peter McNeil

Residential Fellow (2015-16)

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

27 – 30 June 2016

Nominated by: Professor Qing Wang, Warwick Business School. Professor McNeil is a major figure in art, fashion and design history with an extensive record of publishing and public speaking. He is an expert on 18th-century men’s dress and design culture from 1700 to the present day. While at Warwick he contributed seminars, discussion and the generation of future collaborative research projects with his colleagues in the Leverhulme funded Luxury Network.

Kathryn Medien

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

Department of Sociology

Kathryn’s research is situated at the intersections of political sociology, social theory, feminist and gender studies, and (post)colonialism. Her PhD thesis examined the sexual and reproductive politics of the state of Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Bringing together the works of Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon, she examined the relations between reproductive justice, settler colonial occupation, and racializing productions of the human. During her ESRC-funded doctoral studies in the Sociology Department (Warwick), she was a Visiting Research Fellow in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University and holds an MSc in Gender Studies (LSE).

Madhu Mehra

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

Partners for Law in Development, New Delhi, India  

Visiting 20 April - 5 May 2016

Nominated by Professor Ann Stewart, School of Law. Madhu Mahra is a founding member and Executive Director of Partners for Law in Development, A legal resource group on social justice and women’s rights in India. Through seminars and workshops, she will contribute to knowledge and add depth to a number of courses, to enrich interdisciplinary gender, human rights and development scholarship; and enhance methodological expertise in action oriented gender and development research. During the period of the fellowship, she shared her expertise on reform of sexual violence laws and its intersections with sexuality rights, contemporary trends in witch hunting, and on international lobbying on gender and rights issues via her work with and on the UN human rights institutions.

Professor Eduardo Mario Mendiondo

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

2 – 12 July 2017

Nominated by Dr Joao Porto de Albuquerque, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies. Dr Mendiondo is an Argentine water resources engineer engaged in international water security practice and research in the past 25 years. Some areas of interest are socio-hydrological security for resilient communities. In 2016, he received the Sao Paulo State Medal for outstanding civil service during his R&D Chair iolo at the National Centre of Monitoring & Alerts of Disasters in Brazil. While at The University of Warwick he shared lessons learnt from funding interdisciplinary initiatives on: Water-Adaptive Design & Innovation (WADI) for smart/sustainable cities, solutions of Human-in-the-Loop for water risk reduction, and Sustainable Cities and Humanitarian Engineering, with UW students, faculty and researchers and with experts of the British Geological Service, the Environmental Protection Agency and NGOs.

Dr Charlie Michael

Residential Fellow (2017-18)

Georgia State University, USA

28 February - 3 March 2018

Nominated by Dr Mary Harrod, School of Modern Languages and Cultures. Charlie Michael has held posts in French and Film Studies at various US institutions, including most recently Lecturer in Film and Video at Georgia State, and is currently Visiting Scholar at l’Institut National de l'Audiovisuel in Paris. His research focuses on contemporary media industries with particular interests in French and Francophone cinema, cultural politics and theories of globalization. He co-edited the Directory of World Cinema: France (Intellect Press, 2013) and is currently completing a book entitled French Film in the Blockbuster Era: Globalization and the Cultural Politics of a Popular Cinema (under contract with Edinburgh UP). His articles have appeared in SubStance, The Velvet Light Trap, Quebec Studies, French Politics, Culture & Society and A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema.

Alevtina Mikhaylina

Early Career Fellow

Department of Chemistry

I graduated from the Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University investigating interactions of microorganisms with a selection of technogenic radionuclides. I worked as a research assistant at the Department of Surgery, University of Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Later I moved to the United Kingdom where I was lucky to be admitted for a PhD program at the department of Chemistry, University of Warwick. My study was funded by the Chancellor international scholarship. And my PhD project was dedicated to investigation of zinc regulation of an open-ocean cyanobacterium under supervision of Dr. Claudia Blindauer and Prof. David Scanlan.

Dr Graeme Moad

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16 and 2017-18)

Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation, Australia

22 November - 10 December 2015 and 13 - 20 April 2018

Nominated by Professor David Haddleton & Professor Peter Scott, Department of Chemistry. Graeme Moad research interests lie in polymer design and synthesis and in polymerisation kinetics and mechanism. Dr Moad is a co-inventor of RAFT polymerisation and has played a key role in the further development of RAFT and commercial exploitation in a range of fields. The technique is now recognised as one of the most significant developments in polymer synthesis. It is an enabling technology that has been adopted by many companies and has a wide range of applications, from solar cells and paints to sunscreens and improved drug delivery systems.

Pedro Monteiro

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

Warwick Business School

I am an ethnographer of work and organizations with a particular interest for classic themes in management and organization studies. I am trained as a qualitative sociologist and progressed towards organizational topics since the beginning of my postgraduate studies. My research agenda centers on collaboration across expertise domains: I examine how individuals from distinct knowledge backgrounds are able to overcome differences and successfully work together. I focus on the interplay between these processes and formal structures, and I have a specific interest in investigating the role of bureaucratic arrangements in contemporary knowledge work. In July 2018 I was awarded a postdoctoral postition at EMLyon Business School, France.

Javier Moreno Zacares

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Politics & International Studies

The differential impact of the global financial crisis across the world has left a trail of unanswered questions in its wake. Whereas most accounts insist on global explanations and universal remedies, my PhD thesis employs an innovative interdisciplinary approach to demonstrate the historical specificity of the Spanish housing crash. Tracing the genealogies of a number of institutions and practices – including urban planning, homeownership, banking governance, and political corruption – I argue that the Spanish experience ought to be seen as the culmination of its domestic form of residential capitalism, one that binds together the interests of political parties to those of real estate actors. Overall, my work lies at the intersection between two fields, political economy and historical sociology. My next project seeks to expand my analysis of residential capitalism in a comparative direction, putting the Spanish case in dialogue with the British and German experiences.

Dr Audrey Msimanga

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

14 – 19 August 2017

Nominated by Dr Sue Johnston-Wilder, Centre for Education Studies. Dr Audrey Msimanga a Senior Lecturer of science education in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Her interest is in the teaching and learning of science in contexts of teacher and student diversity as well as in constrained learning environments. The diversity of contexts includes under preparation for the level, language, literacies, alternative worldviews, understandings of the nature of science and the development of reasoning. She is a holder of several research grants, one of which is a collaborative research project on the role of learners’ home language in science teaching and learning which includes researchers from five countries: South Africa, Rwanda, India, the UK and Brazil.

Mr Moses Mulumba

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

Centre for Health, Human Rights and Development, Uganda

3 – 25 April 2017

Nominated by Dr Sharifah Sekalala, Department of Law. Mr Mulumba’s fellowship at Warwick achieved two major objectives: building his own capacity through exposure to Warwick’s experts in the fields of Global Health Law and International Human Rights, and contributing to the research and teaching processes at Warwick drawing from his expertise and activism experience. During the fellowship, he worked with his nominator to explore opportunities of establishing collaborative research between Warwick and the Center for Health, Human Rights and Development drawing from their shared and common interest in Global Health Governance and International Human Rights Law. The fellowship also gave him the opportunity to shape his doctoral research on health governance by drawing from the expertise at Warwick.

Marie Murphy

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

Warwick Medical School

My research focuses on the role of ethnicity in childhood obesity, which developed out of a practical need to explore childhood obesity in the ethnically diverse population of Coventry, in order to enhance the design local obesity services. I have used a mixed methods study design to identify ethnic disparities in childhood obesity and understand the cultural and contextual contributors to these disparities. My research has benefitted from use of a child-centred methodology that privileged children’s perspectives, and from the design of a novel mixed methods analytical integration, producing a greater ‘yield’ than stand alone quantitative and qualitative methods.

Professor Violet Naanyu

International Visitng Fellow (2017-18)

Moi University, Kenya

10 - 21 June 2018

Nominated by Professor Frances Griffiths, Warwick Medical School. Professor Naanyu has a long track record of research on medical and health-related issues in Kenya especially research that explores individual and socio-cultural factors around illness, health and healthcare. She has undertaken research that identifies and explores the experience of health care delivery and how it is received by patients. Her research also includes a number of evaluations of interventions designed to improve health care and health care delivery in resource-limited settings. She is passionate about ethics, both the ethics of research and of health care delivery – especially in the context of developing countries. She has extensive experience in qualitative research methodologies.

Elisabetta Nadalutti

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2017-18)

Department of Politics & International Studies, Behavioural Science GRP

Professor Helen Nesadurai

International Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

Monash University, Australia

9 - 19 October 2017

Nominated by Professor Shaun Breslin, Department of Politics & International Studies. Professor Nesadurai’s research examines the origins of new sustainability norms through studying palm oil sustainability governance. Palm oil, a major global commodity, has gained notoriety as a driver of deforestation, carbon emissions and social conflict, as seen in its principle producing countries, namely Malaysia and Indonesia. While at Warwick, she discussed three social mechanisms explaining the emergence and diffusion of hybrid norms addressing environmental and developmental concerns - contestation, traceability practices, and brokerage - and their potential to legitimise the more encompassing global sustainability norms advanced by non-state actors (NGOs and corporations). The study is located within IR’s “agentic constructivist” approach that emphasises agents and their practices in the origins and consolidation of new norms.

Philip Newall

Associate Fellow (2018-19)

Warwick Manufacturing Group

Philip Newall, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher in Applied Psychology at WMG, the University of Warwick. Philip completed a PhD at Stirling’s Behavioural Science Centre in 2016, and was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich. Philip’s main research focus is on the “behavioural science of gambling.” Gambling is a domain where profitmaximizing firms interact with boundedly-rational consumers. Philip’s research on this topic documents how: bookmakers target specific behavioural biases in their advertising, how this advertising has become more sophisticated over time, and how exploitative gambling products have spread throughout the industry.

Max Newbert

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

School of Life Sciences

Dr Newbert’s area of research is the investigation of Turnip yellows virus (TuYV) and its interactions with Brassica napus (oilseed rape) along with wild reservoir plants. TuYV can reduce Brassica crop yields by up to 65% without any obvious symptoms. During the course of his research Dr Newbert uncovered many novel hosts, interactions and several distinct TuYV species within Europe. Information gained from this work will be instrumental in producing durable TuYV resistance in turn increasing yields and food security. In September 2016 Dr Newbert secured the position of Senior Field Technical Manager at Syngenta.

Dr Mark Newton

Residential Fellow (2015-16)

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France

Visiting 11 - 25 January 2016

Nominated by Dr Thomas Hase, Department of Physics. Dr Newton is a researcher in catalysis and the behaviour of metal nanoparticles engaged in catalytic processes. He is currently a visiting scientist at the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick collaborating in the development of X-ray spectroscopy at the UK CRG, XMaS beamline at the ESRF in Grenoble. Whilst at Warwick Mark compiled the scientific case for a submission of an ESPRC fellowship to be held at Warwick. He also developed new research contacts within the Departments of Chemistry and Physics along with the Materials GRP to use state-of-the art characterisation tools and applying them to the latest generation of materials in operando.

Professor Dennis Nickson

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

University of Strathclyde, UK

12 – 19 September 2016

Nominated by Professor Christopher Warhurst, Institute for Employment Research. Professor Nickson’s primary research interests centre on work and employment issues in interactive service work, with a particular concentration on the retail and hospitality industries. He has extensively researched labour market, skills and employability and human resource issues in entry-level work in these industries. He is one of the team, along with Professor Chris Warhurst and the late Professor Anne Wtiz, who developed the concept of aesthetic labour. While at Warwick, he and his nominator worked on a jointly-authored book based on their research on aesthetic labour for Sage, eligible for submission to REF 2021.

Dr Z Nicolazzo

Residential Fellow (2015-16)

Northern Illinois University, USA

Visiting 5 - 11 June 2016

Nominated by: Dr Emily Henderson, Centre for Education Studies. Dr Nicolazzo is an Assistant Professor in the Adult and Higher Education programme and a faculty associate in the Centre for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, at Northern Illinois University. Dr Nicolazzo’s research agenda is focused on mapping gender across college contexts, with particular attention to trans* collegians, as well as the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and disability. During his fellowship at Warwick Dr Nicolazzo co-hosted seminars and spoke at a professional development seminar at the Society for Research into Higher Education. He also began preparing a joint funding application with Dr Henderson.

Hidefumi Nishiyama

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Department of Politics & International Studies

Dr Nishiyama’s doctoral thesis scrutinises the historical relations between racism and biometrics in Japan from the colonial period to the present. Adopting Foucault’s historical method, it analyses the interplay between discourses on race and practices of biometric identification, and articulates historical transformations of the biopolitical strategy of control-subjectification of race. The preliminary findings of his thesis have been published in the leading international and interdisciplinary journal Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. He has also published a book chapter on the exceptional politics of maritime borders in post-9/11 Japan, which was derived from his MSc dissertation. Dr Nishiyama’s research interests lie in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches, particularly the intersection of Japanese modernity and critical theories of global politics.

Elizabeth Nolte

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2017-19)

Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies, Connecting Cultures GRP

Brian O'Shea

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Department of Psychology

As a Social Psychologist, I critique existing measures used to estimate unconscious/implicit biases (e.g., prejudice towards other races). I have designed two new implicit measures which I have demonstrated provide useful advantages over the current “gold standard” implicit tasks. I also use “big data” to explain factors that exacerbate prejudice (e.g., disease rates/segregation) towards stigmatised groups (e.g., immigrants/minorities) both across and within countries/cultures. I completed an International Psychology BA at the National University of Ireland, Galway and the University of Ottawa. I also hold an MSc in Social and Cultural Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. During my PhD at the University of Warwick, I built collaborative links with the world’s largest online virtual laboratory, Project Implicit (Harvard University and the University of Florida). Upon completing my ECF, i was awarded a MSCA International Fellowship at the University of Amsterdam, with a two-year placement at Harvard University.

Dr Oxana Palesh

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

Stanford University Medical Center, USA

11 May - 25 May 2019

Nominated by Professor Francis Levi, Warwick Medical School. Dr Palesh is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director of Stanford Cancer Survivorship Research Program. Dr Palesh’s research is focused on understanding the etiology and pathophysiology of side effects in cancer, with the goal of developing and testing novel therapeutic approaches. Her current research is focused on understanding the neurocognitive pathways behind cancer related neurocognitive impairment (CRNI) and managing insomnia/circadian rhythm disruption in cancer. During her visit to Warwick University, Dr Palesh will also work with faculty to develop and propose innovative collaborative multidisciplinary research grant focused on health monitoring (sleep in particular) in a real-time, accessible, effective and minimally obtrusive way.

Quanwen Pan

Rutherford Strategic International Fellow (2018-19)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

10 December 2018 - 10 March 2019

Nominated by Dr Zacharie Tamainot-Telto, School of Engineering. Dr Quanwen Pan is Research Assistant Professor at the Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics of Shanghai (School Mechanical Engineering - Shanghai Jiao Tong University). His research activities are focused on adsorption refrigeration, heat pump and thermal storage. While at the University of Warwick, he collaborated with Dr Tamainot-Telto and other colleagues in developing an innovative pinch technique applied to a heat exchanger’s network of hybrid refrigeration systems for better system efficiency therefore low carbon footprint. This fellowship visit strengthened the long standing collaboration between Warwick and Shanghai Jiao Tong who are among the world-leading institutions of Sorption Technology.

Professor Wil Pansters

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

Utrecht University, Netherlands

1 February – 12 April 2017 and 12 – 26 June 2017

Nominated by Dr Benjamin Smith, School of Comparative American Studies. Professor Pansters is head of the Department of Social Sciences at University College Utrecht and professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. He is also Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Groningen and director of the Centro de Estudios Mexicanos in Groningen. He has been a research fellow at El Colegio de México, and the University of Oxford amongst others. In 2012, he occupied the Friedrich Katz Chair at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. Over the years, he has done ethnographic and historical field research in Mexico. He has published on political culture, regional history, democratisation and social change. Currently he focuses on the meanings of (drugs related) violence in politics and society, and on the search of people for justice in environments of insecurity. His most recent book is Violence, Coercion and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico. The Other Half of the Centaur (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012). In 2011 he received the Orden del Águila Azteca from the Mexican government.

Emma Parfitt

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Department of Sociology

Dr Parfitt’s research explores whether young people’s emotions and behaviour are empowered or constrained by story. She is interested in using oral storytelling, as a means of providing insights into the emotional and behavioural dimensions of young people’s lives. Young people’s experiences of emotions and behavioural management have the potential to inform debates about what is essential to improve educational experience in policy and practice.

Professor Prasannan Parthasarathi

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

Boston College, USA

Visiting 23 - 27 May 2016

Nominated by Professor Daniel Branch, Department of History. Professor Parathasarathi is engaged in a study of environmental change, agriculture, and labour in nineteenth-century South India. His research has been supported by fellowships from the Dibner Institute and the American Council for Learned Societies. He is a senior editor of International Labor and Working Class History and serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals including Textile History, the Medieval History Journal, and the American Historical Review.

Dr Nicodemo Di Pasquale

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

University of Manchester, UK

24 – 31 January 2017

Nominated by Dr Thomas Hudson, Mathematics Institute. Dr Di Pasquale is a postdoctoral researcher in the quantum chemical topology group at the University of Manchester. During his time at Warwick, Dr Di Pasquale gave an internal seminar to discuss his previous work, conducted extensive discussions with current and potential collaborators and planned a strategy for the validation of his research in molecular dynamics.

Dr Giulio Pedrini

International Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

University of Bologna, Italy

2 - 27 July 2018

Nominated by Dr Daria Luchinskaya, Institute for Employment Research. Dr Pedrini’s research examines the outcome of graduates’ transition into Italian and UK labour markets in order to investigate how different labour market regimes affect transitions to work in the UK and Italy, and develops new theoretical links between human capital and the political economy of higher education and training. The research question deals with the role of training and internships in enabling young people to get more secure jobs and develop their careers. The research was carried on in collaboration with Dr Luca Cattani, IAS Visiting Fellow during the same period, Dr Daria Luchinskaya from the Institute for Employment Research, and Dr. Charoula Tzanakou, from the Faculty of Social Sciences. During the fellowship he also organized interdisciplinary events with the hosting departments, and planned future collaborative research activity using this study as a springboard for further projects.

Dr Jenny Perlin

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

NY Albert and Vera List Academic Center, USA

17 – 24 May 2017

Nominated by Dr Charlotte Heath-Kelly. Dr Perlin makes films, videos, installations, and drawings. Her projects draw on interdisciplinary research interests in history, cultural studies, literature and linguistics. Her films incorporate innovative techniques to investigate history as it relates to the present. Dr Perlin’s work is in public collections including MoMA, Seattle Art Museum, the Five Colleges, MA, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and numerous private collections. Galleries Annet Gelink and M+R Fricke represent her work in Amsterdam and Berlin. She is currently teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, the Cooper Union, and The New School in New York.

Tobias Pforr

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Department of Politics & International Studies

In his research, Dr Pforr explores how economic ideas and practices are produced, reproduced, and transmitted, how these have changed over time, and what methodologies can be used to study these issues. He is particularly interested in how different kind of knowledge claims become considered as common-sense and authoritative. As such, his research tries to bridge understandings of expert knowledge and popular understandings. In October 2016 Dr Pforr took up a Teaching Fellowship in the Department of Politics an International Studies.

Dr Shilpa Phadke

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India

30 January – 12 February 2017

Nominated by Dr Sarah Hodges, Department of History. Dr Phadke’s research focuses on gendered public spaces, the relationship of young women with feminism, feminist interventions in schools, and feminist parenting. She has been researching gendered access to public space for the last 15 years focusing largely on South Asia. She is also deeply engaged in pedagogy and reflections on pedagogic practice. During her time at Warwick she reflected on newer work on the synergies between digital activism and street public protests/interventions, through a planned activity focusing on possibilities for loitering in Warwick with faculty and students organised by Dr. Hodges. Through this intervention she explored to what degree it is possible to combine activism and 'impact' in a university setting. She also recently directed (with two colleagues) a film titled Under the Open Sky that looks at girls playing football in relation to gendered public spaces. This film was screened for students during her time in Warwick.

Dr Jonathan Pinckney

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

Norweigian University of Technology & Science, Norway

11 January - 14 January 2019

Nominated by Dr Jessica Di Salvatore, Department of Politics & International Studies. Dr Pinckney is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where he works on the Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns project, and an external associate at the Peace Research Institution of Oslo (PRIO). He researches extra-institutional political contention in non-democracies, with a particular focus on nonviolent civil resistance. He received his PhD in International Relations from the University of Denver in March 2018, his MA, also from the University of Denver in 2014, and his BA in International Affairs from Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts in 2008. He was a 2012 recipient of the Korbel School's Sie Fellowship and a 2016 recipient of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict's PhD fellowship.

Martina Piperno

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

School of Modern Languages & Cultures

Dr Piperno's primary research questions address issues of perception and representation of time - with specific reference to the dichotomy ancient-modern - and temporality in occasion of revolutionary and/or traumatic events. Her PhD thesis was dedicated to Italian and European post-revolutionary culture (1816-1848), but she also dedicated some attention to case sudies related to the impact of WWII. Her research has driven Martina to explore the legacy of Giambattista Vico's ground-breaking though in post-revolutionary and postwar readers (including Giacomo Leopardi and Carlo Levi). She is interested in any aspect of global nineteenth century culture, philosophy of history, reception of the ancient.

Dr Jeronimo Pizarro

Residential Fellow (2015-16)

University of the Andes, Columbia

Visiting 4 - 15 December 2015

Nominated by: Professor Paulo De Medeiros, Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies. Associate Professor Dr Pizarro researches Hispanic literature and linguistics and is an expert on Portuguese modernist writer Fernando Pessoa. He visited Warwick to build upon his existing collaboration with Professor De Medeiros by starting up a Global Modernism Research network and preparing several manuscripts for journals and edited volumes. Dr Pizarro also gave a public lecture on modernism as well as leading an undergraduate lecture for students in the Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies and the School of Modern languages.

Professor Lawrence Principe

International Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

John Hopkins University, USA

6 - 12 May 2018

Nominated by Professor Ingrid de Smet, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. Professor Principe’s work is currently focussed on the changing nature of chymistry at the Académie Royale des Sciences, roughly 1666-1730. He presented some results of this research both formally and informally while at Warwick and benefitted from the insights and discussions with the scholars there, some of whom are working on the same time and place. This assisted in improving a book-manuscript on the topic that is very near completion. He has also been studying the value and practice of reproducing historical experiments and explored this topic also with colleagues at Warwick, particularly in terms of how it can aid both historical research and scientific pedagogy.

Dr Jasbir K Puar

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

Rutgers University, USA

14 May - 16 May 2019

Nominated by Dr Goldie Osuri, Department of Sociology. There has been much written on the forms of control enacted in the splintering occupation of Palestine, in particular regarding mobility, identity, and spatiality, yet this vast scholarship has presumed the prominence of the abled-body that is hindered through the infrastructures of occupation. In my current research I examine the splintering occupation in relation to disability and the spatial distribution of debilitation, highlighting the logistics of border crossings and movement in the West Bank in relation to disability rights frameworks. I am developing two arguments: one, that the creation of what Celeste Langan terms "mobility disabilities" through both corporeal assault and infrastructural and bureaucratic means are not only central to the calculus of the occupation, but importantly, linked logics of debilitation; and two, that these calibrations of various types of movement are forms of carceral containment and enclosure that render specific stretchings of space and time, what we could call slow life.

Victor Quan

Early Career Fellow (2016-17) sponsored by Materials GRP

Molecular Organisation and Assembly in Cells Doctoral Training Centre

Victor Quan is an Early Career Fellow at the IAS. His work during the recently completed Ph.D., taken as a part of the MOAC DTC, explored on the potential of a novel platform for biomimetic solar energy harvesting applications. This body of work now serves as the basis for the endeavour beyond the initial proof-of-concept phase of his grand scheme of world domination. Outside of the academic world, Victor also has a number of other interests - prior to entering MOAC, he had completed two unrelated bachelor degrees: music technology and biochemistry, he also taught multiple skills including musical instruments, martial arts and badminton.

Rahul Roy

Residential Fellow

Indian Statistical Institute

Visiting 9 - 17 September 2019

Nominated by Dr Arpan Mukhopadhyay, Computer Science. Rahul Roy is a Professor in the Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics department of Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. He is a probabilist with interests in percolation theory, particle systems and random graphs. He has co-authored a book (with Ronald Meester) on Continuum percolation. He is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Anirudh Rana

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2017-19)

Mathematics Institute, Energy GRP

Sharmila Rathee

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

University of Delhi, India

6 October - 12 October 2018

Nominated by Professor Ann Stewart, School of Law. Sharmila Rathee has a keen interest in field of inclusive education with special focus on universal design for learning (UDL) and identity perspectives. Her interests extend to disability studies, social psychological processes related to education, inter-group dynamics, and micro-level school processes. As part of her doctoral degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, her current ethnographic research is focused on social class identities in classrooms. She is associated with the University of Minnesota, USA, as a recipient of American Disability Act fellowship, 2017, and is a key consultant on a project on women in higher education at Warwick University, UK. She is associated with different educational agencies working in the field of inclusive education. She is also a life time member of the Comparative Education Society of India which is affiliated to World Council for Comparative Education Societies.

Professor Rodrigo Ribeiro

Residential Fellow (2017-18)

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

15 - 28 July 2018

Nominated by Professor Davide Nicolini and Dr Pedro Monteiro, WBS. Rodrigo Ribeiro serves as the Head of the Graduate Program of Production Engineering at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. His research interests are on the social, technical and organizational aspects of expertise and learning within organizations, with a special focus on the development, maintenance and diffusion of tacit Knowledge. He has backgrounds in Civil/Production Engineering and in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and has held a visiting appointment at UC Berkeley, where he studied key authors in the fields of Philosophy and Social Anthropology. Having conducted research/consultancy in disparate settings such as one of the most advanced steel plants in Japan and two Greenfield industrial projects near the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, Rodrigo has a situated, engaged and participative approach to researching and solving practical problems faced by and with practitioners.

Giorgio Riello

Director (2014-17)

Giorgio Riello was the Director of the Institute of Advanced Study between 2014 and 2017 and is Professor of Global History and Culture. He joined the Department of History at Warwick in 2007. His area of expertise lies in the history of globalisation, trade and manufacturing with a particular focus on industrialisation and economic divergence. Giorgio has been in charge of a number of research projects and networks, the most recent of which is the Leverhulme-funded 'Luxury Network' in collaboration with several museums and universities and the Warwick Business School. He has been a member of the Global History and Culture Centre since its foundation and co-directed the Centre in 2013 - 14. Since 2010, he has also been the Director of the Pasold Research Fund, a charity established in 1964 for the promotion of research in textiles, dress and fashion.

Maria Roca Lizarazu

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

School of Modern Languages and Cultures

My PhD research analyses representations of the Holocaust and the Second World War by a range of contemporary German-and Austrian Jewish writers belonging to the so-called third generation. I examine how these authors relate to the events from the position of the non-witness and in the face of an increasing mediatisation and globalisation of Holocaust memory. I am also the co-founder and co-organiser of the Warwick Memory Group and work as a research assistant for the GRP ‘Connecting Cultures’. I joined Warwick in 2013, after completing a joint B.A. in German Literature and History and an M.A. in Comparative Literature.

Paola Roccella

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

School of Modern Languages & Cultures

Dr Paola Roccella’s research interests concern Twentieth-century Italian literature, with a particular focus on the fantastic as a way to enact an oblique socio-political critique of historical reality. Examining a group of authors active in Italy between the 1930s and the 1950s (including Alberto Savinio, Tommaso Landolfi, and Anna Maria Ortese), she argues that the slippery entities, settings, situations, and narrative modalities involved in their fictional works not only voice the cultural and political instability of the time but also echo parallel debates on human instincts and aggressiveness that were taking place in the fields of ethnology and anthropology. Her current research investigates this question by focusing more specifically on a series of ethno-anthropological studies (Collezione di studi religiosi, etnologici e psicologici Einaudi) published in Italy between 1948 and 1956, and which had an important impact on the literary field.

Dr Stephen Ross

International VIsiting Fellow (2018-19)

Concordia University, Canada

25 April - 5 May 2019

Nominated by Professor Daniel Katz, Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies. As a comparatist scholar of modern and contemporary literature, my current research itinerary divides into two broad areas: 1) modernist poetry/poetics and its contemporary legacies; 2) the “global” turn in modernist studies. My first monograph, Invisible Terrain: John Ashbery and the Aesthetics of Nature (OUP, 2017), examines the poetry of John Ashbery in relation to the avant-garde fantasy that nature can become art. I am also co-editor with Dr. Alys Moody of Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2019), a 210K-word anthology of programmatic statements by modernist artists that reflect on the theory and practice of modernism in its various global formations. As an IAS fellow representing Concordia University’s Centre for Expanded Poetics (CEP), I will work closely with Warwick faculty (my former colleagues) and students to develop a collaborative research program that engages poetics as an inclusive rubric encompassing questions of (literary) making beyond the strict confines of poetry as such.

Professor Anjali Gera Roy

International Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

India Institute of Technology, India

16 May - 3 June 2018

Nominated by Professor Virinder Kalra , Department of Sociology. Anjali Gera Roy is a Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Her current research focuses on Partition 1947 and on hereditary performing communities of India. During her visit to Warwick, she worked together with Professor Virinder Kalra on identifying the contributions of hereditary performers in preserving South Asian cultural heritage and presented a paper at the 19th Annual Cambridge Heritage Research Symposium on “Heritage and Authoritarianism”. Additionally, she shared her work-in-progress on “After Partition: Post-memories of Partition 1947” in the Workshop “Undoing Partition” organized by Pippa Virdee, Virinder Kalra and Emily Keightley on 18 May 2018.

Professor Anuparma Roy

Residential Fellow (2015-16)

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Visiting 3 - 8 January 2016

Nominated by Dr Silvija Jestrovic, Department of Theatre and Performace Studies. Professor Roy is an international established political scientist whose work has focused on legal studies, political anthropology of public institutions, and women studies. During her Fellowship, Prof Roy contributed to two ongoing projects by giving talks to current university staff and students, participating in the formulating a follow-up project and working on a grant application to support this new project. Following from the Fellowship, Professor Roy has written a book chapter for the Gendered Citizenship collection and continues to be part of the research team for different projects.

Professor Yongbin Ruan

International Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

4 - 25 July 2018

Nominated by Dr Wieyi Zhang, Mathematics Institute. Professor Ruan is the William Fulton Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. He is a world leading expert in the field of Geometry and Topology, motivated by Mathematics Physics. Ruan invented or developed many important theories, like Gromov-Wittene theory, Chen-Ruan cohomology, FJRW theory, symplectic birational geometry and many others. He has been recognised by many distinctions including: International Congress of Mathematicians invited speaker, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Clay Senior Scholar, Changjiang Chair Professor of the Ministry of education of China.

Dr Sunghan Ryu

International Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

30 July - 2 September 2018

Nominated by Qing Wang, Warwick Business School. Dr Sunghan Ryu is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received a PhD in IT management from the College of Business, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, an MS in Culture Technology from the Graduate School of Culture Technology and a bachelor degree from the Korea University Business School. His research and teaching focus on understanding how IT innovation transforms business activities and organizational practices in cultural and creative industries. Before joining ICCI, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Creative Media and Department of Information Systems of City University of Hong Kong. He also worked for KAIST Knowledge Management Research Centre and Korea Institute of Science and Technology. In addition, he taught at the Inter-School Division, Korea National University of Arts and co-founded an arts education start-up. He initiated a research project on Chinese cultural and creative markets and develop a new course on creativity and entrepreneurship during his fellowship in Warwick.

Parastou Saberi

Rutherford Strategic International Fellow (2018-19)

Vrihe Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

1 October - 20 December 2018

Nominated by Professor Stuart Elden, Department of Politics & International Studies. Parastou Saberi holds a PhD (2017) in urban political theory from York University (Toronto, Canada). She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2017-2020). Her research focuses on the historical and multi-scalar nexus of security-racialisationterritorialisation as it relates to the formation of area-based urban policy targeting ‘immigrant neighbourhoods’ in Western cities. Her doctoral dissertation was the first comprehensive study of the relational formation of area-based security and urban policies in Toronto. She is currently developing this into a book manuscript, intended for University of Minnesota Press. Her postdoctoral research examines the relational formation of area-based urban policy and the national and supra-national (EU) security strategies of de-radicalisation in Birmingham and Brussels.

Dr Nidhi S. Sabharwal

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

National University of Educational Planning and Administration, India

6 October - 12 October 2018

Nominated by Professor Ann Stewart, School of Law. Nidhi S. Sabharwal is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi. Dr Sabharwal has previously served as the Director at the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi. She has conducted extensive research on the development concerns of the poor, especially the scheduled caste groups. Her current research focuses on student diversity and equity in higher education. Her recent publications include Caste, Discrimination, And Exclusion in Modern India, Sage, 2015 (with Vani K. Borooah etal); edited book Bridging the Social Gap: Perspectives on Dalit Empowerment, Sage, 2014 (with Sukhadeo Thorat); and India Higher Education Report 2016: Equity in Higher Education (With N.V. Varghese and Malish C.M.) Sage, 2018.

Dr Soham Sahoo

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), India

15 October - 29 October 2018

Nominated by Dr Sudipa Sarkar, Institute for Employment Research. Dr Soham Sahoo is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Public Policy of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He received his PhD in Quantitative Economics in 2015 from Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. He has been a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Economics, University of Goettingen during 2016–2018. His research interests are broadly in development economics, with a focus on the economics of education, labour, and gender. He is currently working on topics such as gender disparity in technical education and labour supply, effect of political leaders’ identity on economic outcomes, and evaluation of education policies in developing countries.

Dr Char Sample

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

MITRE, USA  

Visiting 19 February - 16 March and 6 June - 2 July 2016

Nominated by Professor Carsten Maple, Cyber Security Centre, WMG. Dr Sample has rich and varied experience working for commercial companies, government contractors and most recently federally funded research and development centres. Dr Sample obtained her DSc in Information Assurance and has significant experience in numerous areas of cyber security including: infrastructure security, supply-chain, threat intelligence, DNS security issues, routing security, cloud security and risk quantification. During her Fellowship Dr Sample spoke to a wide cross section of University staff and students about cyber security, Cyber-resilience and threat intelligence.

Emanuelle Santos

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies

Dr Santos’ PhD thesis titled Late Postcoloniality: State, Violence and Wealth in the Literatures of early 21st Century Portuguese-speaking Africa consists on a comparative study of the contemporary literatures of Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe, enquiring the ways in which their postcolonial experience has been shaped by their 21st Century fiction. Considering these societies’ aftermaths of independence, the research promotes both a comparative assessment of current pathways of national discourses in literature, as well as a critique of postcolonial theory, as it points to the need of supplementary theoretical tools to analyse situated realities of contemporary postcolonies.

Joe Sanzo

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Classics & Ancient Histroy, Connecting Cultures GRP

My research focuses on the diverse religious traditions of the late antique Mediterranean world (ca. 3rd-7th CE), with a particular emphasis on ritual in lived religion. I completed my PhD in History at the University of California, Los Angeles (2012), and I have held postdoctoral fellowships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In addition to my book, Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt (Mohr Siebeck, 2014), I have placed my research in several peer-reviewed journals, including the Harvard Theological Review, the Journal of Early Christian Studies, and Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. As a WIRL-COFUND fellow, I will examine Jewish and Christian amulets and incantation bowls from late antiquity in order to uncover how Jews and Christians negotiated their identities and structured their communal boundaries in relation to one another in their everyday lives.

Madeleine Scherer

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department English & Comparative Literary Studies

I work on the intersection between classical reception and memory studies from the twentieth century onward, mapping out the ways in which the classics are specifically ‘remembered’ as often as – or more often than – they are deliberately ‘adapted’. As some of the oldest and most well-known stories of mankind, the classics have long held an important part in many peoples’ cultural memory, whereby my research uses new concepts from memory studies to explore both the cultural longevity and transcultural reception mnemohistory of classical antiquity. Alongside my research I also became co-leader of the Memory Studies Association’s ‘Global Memories’ working group.

Dr Julie Schmittdiel

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, USA

15 – 24 May 2017

Nominated by Professor Roberta Bivins, Department of History. Dr Schmittdiel is a research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from MIT, and an MA in Biostatistics and a PhD in Health Services and Policy Analysis from UC Berkeley. Dr Schmittdiel’s career focuses on stakeholder engagement and translational research in diabetes and cardiovascular disease, focusing particularly on improving medication adherence and cardiovascular disease risk factor control in diabetes patients. Principal or co-investigator on 20+ delivery science and health policy research studies, she has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Dr Schmittdiel serves as the Director of the National Institutes of Health-funded Health Delivery Systems Center for Diabetes Translational Research, and is the Associate Director of the Kaiser Permanente Delivery Science Fellowship Program.

Dr Sylvian Schmitz

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

University of Paris-Saclay, France

20 – 24 March 2017

Nominated by Dr Ranko Lazic, Department of Computer Science. Dr Schmitz (PhD University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis 2007) is an Assistant Professor at ENS Paris-Saclay and a permanent member of LSV, one of the top European research centres in logical aspects of computer science. In 2015, Schmitz was a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Warwick. An author of over 40 articles in international journals and conferences, Schmitz's work has attracted over 500 citations, won best-paper awards, and been presented at several invited talks and European doctoral schools.

Dr Carsten Schulz

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

Universidad Catolica, Chile

1 - 12 July 2019

Nominated by Dr Tom Long, Department of Politics & International Studies. Dr Schulz’s research focuses on Latin America in the evolution of international society. In particular, he is interested in how latin American foreign policy elites conceived of their place within the incipient liberal international order, and how perception of relative marginalization informed political decisions, both domestically and internationally. During his visit, Dr Schultz and Dr Long developed an AHRC grant application and began to write a related agenda-setting paper.

Professor Benjamin Schweizer

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

TU Dortmund, Germany

19 June – 21 July 2017

Nominated by Dr Florian Theil, Mathematics Institute. Professor Schweizer’s research focuses on partial differential equations and singular limits, specifically applied to porous media, plasticity, free boundary problems and fluid mechanics. He visited Warwick in order to collaborate with Dr Theil on the topic of mathematical homogenisation with high contrast. This project investigates mathematical derivation of simple models that can be used to predict the performance of batteries and involves industrial partner Jaguar-Land Rover, which is currently developing electric vehicles.

Stephen Seely

WIRL-COFUND Fellow (2017-19)

Department of Sociology, Connecting Cultures GRP

Professor Márcio Seligmann-Silva

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

1 October - 12 October 2018

Nominated by Professor Paulo de Medeiros, Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies. While at Warwick, I developed my project Performing violence memory in post dictatorial Latin America at the Institute of Advanced Study. It included a seminar about The new Culture of Memory and Testimony in Latin America that presented a reading of the “culture of memory” in Latin America emphasizing Brazil, Argentina and Chile, three countries marked by dictatorships. The seminar also served as a platform to present the Memory and Trauma Studies that have flourished in recent years in Latin America. In another activity I delivered a lecture about Resisting through art: artists and their strategies of surviving in dark times in Brazil.

Professor Liam Semler

International Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

University of Sydney, Australia

12 September - 17 November 2017

Nominated by Dr Paul Prescott, Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies. Liam Semler is Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Sydney and project leader of the collaborative partnership ‘Better Strangers’ which runs the open-access Shakespeare Reloaded website. His research focuses on the place of Shakespeare and Literary Studies in modern educational systems. While at Warwick, he collaborated with Dr Paul Prescott and other colleagues on various initiatives around innovative approaches to Shakespeare pedagogy. This involved exploring synergies between Professor Semler’s collaborative project work and collaborative educational projects based at Warwick. He also shared his extensive archival research into the English textual record of the grotesque from 1500-1700.

Professor Issa Shivji

International Visiting Fellow (2015-16)

University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania  

Visiting 19 April - 13 May 2016

Nominated by Dr Sam Adelman, School of Law. Professor Shivji is one of Africa's leading experts on law and development issues. He presently occupies the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Research Chair in Pan-African Studies of the University of Dar es Salaam. Professor Shivji has also served as advocate of the high court and the Court of Appeal of Tanzania since 1977 and advocate of the high court in Zanzibar since 1989. He has taught and worked in universities all over the world, including the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Warwick, the University of Hong Kong and El Colegio De Mexico. He is a prolific writer and researcher, producing books, monographs and articles, as well as a weekly column printed in national newspapers. During his fellowship Professor Shivji gave seminars to Warwick staff and students, was keynote presenter at a joint Warwick/ British Tanzania Society in London on Tanzanian developments. Along with Professor Baxi he participated in the highly successful international symposium Beyond Development: New Imaginaries in Social Justice.

Nick Sillett

Early Career Fellow (2018-19) sponsored by MRC-DTP

Warwick Medical School

I am a recent graduate of the Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research doctoral training partnership funded by the MRC. The research I carried out over the course of my PhD focused on the DNA replication machinery, known as the replisome, in the model organism budding yeast. The accurate, faithful replication of the cell’s genetic information, the genome, is paramount in maintaining its stability and the replisome. Failure to do so can give rise to widespread mutations that, in humans, can drive the transformation of a healthy cell to a cancerous one. More specifically, the work I performed looked at the diverse roles of a component of the replisome, DNA polymerase ε, as cells replicate their DNA, which I discovered had a previously unidentified function in signalling DNA damage. During my time with the IAS, I hope to finish off the work I undertook in order to publish it, as well as developing my portfolio of skills to help me make the next step in my career.

Professor Radhika Singha

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

24 February - 4 March 2019

Nominated by Professor Anne Gerritsen, Department of History. Singha is a world-class academic in the field of imperial and global history. She has a record of innovative and high-profile research at the crossroads of the histories of South Asia and the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries. Singha has been Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi since 2002. She has also held a number of prestigious visiting fellowships in Europe and in the United States. Professor Singha was the Oberlin-Shansi Visiting Associate Professor at Oberlin University (Ohio) in 2005, the L. M. Singhvi Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies at Cambridge University in 2008 and a Fellow of the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University in 2006. She has also collaborated with the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale (ETHZ) in Zurich, the Linchtenberg Kolleg of Goettingen University and Leiden University.

Clare Siviter

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Department of History

Clare Siviter has recently taken up a postdoctoral fellowship at Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France, having completed her Ph.D. in French Studies in Warwick’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures, where she also studied for her Bachelors’ degree. Clare’s thesis, entitled ‘Rewriting History through the Performance of Tragedy, 1799-1815’, used theatre as a lens to analyse how multiple agents – audiences, authors, actors, state officials and Napoleon – employed tragedy to help reconstruct the French nation after the Revolution. Following on from her Ph.D. which was principally focused on Paris, Clare’s current research investigates theatre in the French provinces and its diffusion across Europe during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic period.

Lisa Skwirblies

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

School of Theatre & Performance Studies

My research focuses on the nexus between theatre and colonialism in the German empire between 1884 and 1914. I am interested to what extent theatre and colonialism have been productive of each other’s orders, knowledge formations, and truth claims and to what extent they continue to do so today. In introducing the concept of colonial theatricality my research provides an understanding of the German empire that goes beyond its territorial, administrative and military strategies and includes its cultural manifestations and its ‘representational machinery’ as well. Next to my academic research I work as a dramaturg, advisor and mentor in the realm of theatre, dance and performance.

Robert Smith

GCRF Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Theatre & Performance Studies

2018-19

Collaborating with Maxwel Okuto, Amani People’s Theatre, Kenya and Professor CJ Odhiambo, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya. Theatre can offer culturally relevant and participatory interventions in peacebuilding contexts. This project sought to develop understandings of what factors might limit the efficacy of theatre and peacebuilding projects by engaging with the perspectives of theatre practitioners working in Kenya. Workshops and focus groups were held in Mombasa, Nairobi and Kisumu, attended by over 50 theatre practitioners. The findings suggest that inadequate funding, a lack of time and inadequate networks hinder theatre and peacebuilding projects.

 2018-19

Collaborating with Rebecca Besant, Search for Common Ground Rwanda, Hope Azeda, Mashirika ,Rwanda, and Professor Patrick Mangeni Makerere University, Uganda. This project enabled an initial exploration of theatre and peacebuilding in Rwanda and Uganda, which will lead to further funding applications and potential collaborations. It asked the following questions:What limitations exist for theatre practitioners involved in peacebuilding? What causes the success or failure of theatre-based approaches to peacebuilding What possibilities exist for North-South and South-South networks and partnerships to address conflict and contribute to peacebuilding?

Hualong Song

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Chemistry

My PhD research in Warwick Chemistry is Post Assembly Functionalized Peptidomimetic Metallohelices. I designed and synthesized the highly stereoselective asymmetric self-assembly bimetallic helices (metal centre FeCl2 or Zn(ClO4)2) which contain terminal alkyne groups. Then, I clicked aromatic azides or sugar azides onto the preformed complex to extend the helices functionality and investigate the biological properties. In particular, the sugar (β-glucose, β-galactose) clicked metallohelices shows the dramatically increased anticancer activity in vitro compared with the alkyne unclicked complexes. I also developed new directional ligand containing triazole-imine and bipridine to form a new asymmetric self-assembly bimetallic helical system.

Natia Sopromadze

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

Centre for Education Studies

My main research interests revolve around emotion, higher education leadership and cross-cultural methodologies. My PhD examined the emotional experience of departmental leadership from the perspectives of heads of department and academic staff at Georgian and English universities. It highlighted the role of cultural context in engaging the hearts of academic staff and creating a supportive work environment. I am currently developing an interdisciplinary research project on subjective wellbeing in academia. I aim to apply innovative and creative research methods to studying contextual features of a happy workplace across culturally diverse universities.

Dr Stanislav Soskin

Residential Fellow (2015-16 and 2016-17)

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

1 November – 1 December 2016

Nominated by Dr Igor Khovanov, School of Engineering. Following a successful fellowship with the IAS in the 2015-16 academic year, Dr Soskin visited Warwick again in 2016-17 to continue his long standing collaboration activities with Professor Khovanov. You can read more about Dr Soskin’s research in his article in the 2017 IAS Annual Report.

Professor Zrinka Stahuljak

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

University of California, USA

17 February - 27 February 2019

Nominated by Dr Emma Campbell, School of Modern Languages & Cultures. While at Warwick, I assessed current and developed new approaches to Translation and Interpreting Studies. I focused on translation in situations of conflict (whether or not armed) and the lived experience of fixers (military and journalistic interpreters) in medieval and contemporary contexts. How do these experiences and contexts challenge our notions of translation (authorship; uses of communication), transnationalism (polity and translation), multiculturalism (identity and translation)? How does communication, not as a goal of translation, but as a political necessity, change our perspective on ethics, economy, and history? In short, what is translation today?

Frank Sterkenburgh

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

School of Modern Languages & Cultures

I am an historian of modern Germany and an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study of the University of Warwick. I have recently completed a PhD in German Studies at this university, after having previously obtained an MA in military history at the University of Amsterdam. My research interests encompass biography, practices and cultural representations of political rule and the role of monarchies in the nineteenth century. I am currently preparing and expanding my PhD thesis ‘William I and monarchical rule in Imperial Germany’ for publication, as well as two further publications related to this subject.

Andrew Stones

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies

My PhD thesis stages an encounter between theories of World Literature and the thought of Gilles Deleuze. Using the concept of the ‘line of flight’ (ligne de fuite) as a philosophical and methodological refrain, my research aims to reconfigure the ways we might think the becoming of world literature beyond the paradigms of both nationalism and globalism. My postdoctoral research explores these ideas in the emerging field of climate fiction, working within a trans-disciplinary framework which brings together insights from the Earth sciences and environmental humanities to ask: how can literature help us live in the Anthropocene?

Christopher Strelluf

GCRF Fellow (2018-19)

Centre for Applied Linguistics

8 - 24 July 2019

Collaborating with Eric Ekembe, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Cameroon. Christopher Strelluf travelled to Cameroon to build capacity for English teaching and to cultivate research and administrative collaboration. Dr. Strelluf participated in a series of engagements with key leaders in government and education. He led a workshop in research methods that graduated 65 participants from Universities of Bamenda, Maroua, Tchang, and Yaoundé, and English teachers from four regions. He met with researchers, piloted a survey, and mentored teacher association leadership to initiate a major project.

Alison Struthers

Early Career Fellows (2015-16)

School of Law

Dr Struthers’ principal research area is Human Rights Education (HRE) at both the domestic and international levels. Her PhD considered whether England is complying with its international legal obligations regarding the provision of HRE, and drew upon qualitative and quantitative empirical research with primary teachers across England to explore why they are not currently educating effectively in this area. Dr Struthers is also a project manager for the Centre for Human Rights in Practice. This has involved her carrying out research with each of the Scottish universities currently providing teacher training to determine how HRE could best be incorporated into their degree programs. In September 2016 Dr Struthers was appointed Assistant Professor in Warwick Law School.

Professor Miki Sugiura

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

Hosei University, Japan

16 – 20 May 2017

Nominated by Professor Anne Gerritsen, Department of History. Professor Sugiura is one of the leading scholars in the field of global history in Japan. An expert in the history of slavery and South African history, she has published widely on the role of gender in global and comparative text. Professor Sugiura visited Warwick in order to complete a Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship application in collaboration with Warwick’s Global History and Culture centre.

Dr Steven Tait

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

Indiana University, USA

28 August - 28 December 2018

Nominated by Professor Giovanni Costantini, Department of Chemistry. Steven L. Tait is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions in the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Tait obtained a BS degree in Honors Physics and University Honors from Brigham Young University, then MS and PhD degrees in Physics from the University of Washington. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. His research at Indiana University applies an interdisciplinary approach to problems in surface chemistry to advance new solutions to grand challenges in materials and energy.

Professor Richard Traunmuller

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

4 February - 13 February 2019

Nominated by Dr Andreas Murr, Department of Politics and International Studies. Richard Traunmüller is currently a visiting professor of quantitative methods at the University of Mannheim and on leave from his junior professorship in empirical democracy research at Goethe University Frankfurt. Prior to coming to Frankfurt he has held positions at the Universities of Konstanz, Berne, Mannheim, and Essex. Traunmüller has taught semester long courses on data visualisation at these universities and has been invited to teach statistical visualisation at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. In addition, he is a regular instructor for data visualisation at the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and the International Program in Survey and Data Science. His work has appeared in major social science journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and Political Analysis, amongst others.

Emilie Taylor-Brown

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Department of English & Comparative Literary Studies

Dr Taylor-Brown recently completed an interdisciplinary PhD investigating the bi-directional dialogue between Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination between 1885 and 1935. Her doctoral work sought to examine the impact that increasing knowledge of parasitic disease had on cultural understandings of British imperialism and national identity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has published in the Journal of Literature and Science, has chapters in two edited collections, and is first author of a biology review article published in Parasites and Vectors. Her post-doctoral research is concerned with the concept of replication, the use of parasitic frameworks in late nineteenth century psychoanalysis, and the intersections between narrative and medicine.

Nicholas Taylor

Early Career Fellow (2015-16)

Department of Politics & International Studies

Dr Taylor’s research focuses on historical and contemporary perspectives on poverty and unemployment in liberal and neoliberal Britain. His doctorate looked at the transition to neoclassical economics from classical political economy and the development of understandings of unemployment among policy-makers in the late 19th century and early 20th century, as well as the contemporary era of ‘welfare-to-work’. He holds an interest in the political economy of work and labour and have published articles on theorising different forms of labour within comparative capitalisms research. In October 2016 Dr taylor took up a research Fellowship at Goldsmiths University.

Professor Philip Taylor

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

Federation University, Australia

11 - 15 March 2019

Nominated by Beate Baldauf, Institute for Employment Research. The fellowship supported a two-week visit of Professor Philip Taylor, an expert on the issue of workforce ageing at the Federation University Australia, to the IER to deliver a range of workshops and to engage in research development. A key event was the one-day international workshop held at the University of Warwick in 2019, which considered inequalities in work and retirement transitions. Two key outcomes are expected to follow on from the fellowship: a major grant application for a project which will be led by IER and involve research teams from Australia and the USA, and a special journal issue.

Dr Theobald Theodory

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

Mzumbe University, Tanzania

4 March - 16 March 2019

Nominated by Professor Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla, Institute of Global Sustainable Development. Dr Theobald Theodory is a social scientist focusing on Environment and Natural Resources Management. He joined Mzumbe University in March 2010 as Assistant Lecturer. In April 2013, Dr Theodory was awarded DAAD PhD scholarship to pursue his PhD in Geography (Climate Change) at the University of Bonn, Germany where he completed his PhD studies in 2016. However, Dr Theodory is a registered environmental expert by National Environmental Management Committee (NEMC) of Tanzania to carry out Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Environment Auditing (EA), and Environmental monitoring. Currently, he is a Lecturer and Acting Head of the Centre for Environment, Poverty and Sustainable Development, at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Mzumbe University, Tanzania. Dr Theodory has published extensively in the areas of climate change adaptation, land investments, water resources governance, and natural resources management.

Kathryn Thompson

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Classics & Ancient History

My doctoral thesis investigated the conceptualisation of the ‘apotropaic’ phallus of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the context of these sites’ celebrated rediscovery during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. My project’s re-examination of the ideological genealogy of phallic apotropaism in relation to late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century archaeological, anthropological and comparative-religious discourse highlights its particular import for the socio-cultural inquiries and concerns of that era. Accordingly, my research grapples with the History of Ideas as well as the developments of popular perceptions of the sites and their significant place in the cultural imagination of the ancient past, and our ongoing relationship with it. Moving forward, I hope to explore other, wider aspects of the historical role of popular perceptions of antiquity in the construction of ‘accepted’ knowledge about the ancient world and its relevance to modernity. I have a strong interest in outreach, widening participation and public engagement, and take every opportunity to engage with non-specialist audiences.

Dr Lilit Thwaites

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

22 October - 03 November 2018

Nominated by Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, School of Modern Languages & Cultures. I completed my MA and PhD at the University of Toronto in contemporary Spanish literature. Between 1981 and 2011, I worked full-time as an academic at La Trobe University, Melbourne. My research focuses on contemporary Spanish literature, in particular, the work of women writers. Since 2011, I have focused on literary translation, my most recent translation being Antonio Iturbe’s The Librarian of Auschwitz (2017). At Warwick, when not interacting with students and staff, I continued to work on finalising current translations and making/re-establishing contact with translators and publishers in the UK, to source future work. Main areas of interest include: (literary) translation; contemporary Spanish literature, women writers in particular; Spanish society and cultures; notions of (inner) exile, memory and identity; the portrayal of older women in Spanish literature and film; (Spanish) literature and/through film.

Mr Mariano Tomatis

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

Wonder Injector, Italy (www.marianotomatis.it/en)

19 – 23 April 2017

Nominated by Professor Anne Gerritsen, Department of History. Mariano Tomatis’ lecture-show brings back to life the scientists and magicians of the 18th century through their objects, their stories, and their tricks, focusing on the way their shadow still haunts contemporary ideas. Mesmerized! re-stages an authentic 18th-century demonstration in amusing physics, intertwined with an analysis of the rhetorical and mechanical techniques “behind the curtains”. Among talking skulls and magic lanterns, X-ray glasses and rising cards, the audience takes take part in a learned and amazing journey into the dark side of Enlightenment.

Lauren Tooker

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

Department of Politics and International Studies

Lauren Tooker is Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick, UK. A political economist focused on the everyday politics of finance, Lauren holds interdisciplinary research and teaching interests in cultural economy, ethics, and social and political theory. Lauren is Associate Editor of the Journal of Cultural Economy and has written on the everyday politics of debt and credit, financial resistance and digitally-mediated social finance.

Nese Ceren Tosun

Early Carer Teaching Fellow (2017-18)

Department of Theatre & Performance Studies and Institue of Advanced Teaching & Learning

Nese studied sociology, political science, film, cultural and performance studies before embarking on an interdisciplinary research journey on food, performance and migration at Warwick University. Her PhD research is titled: Performing Home: à la Turca foodscapes in London, exploring the intricate ways in which food related tasks enable us to communicate and dwell. Home is where you make food happen, she claims. She currently teaches Critical Issues in Law & Management Module at Warwick Business School, explores possibilities of a food pedagogy as IAS/IATL EC Teaching Fellow and works as Impact Officer for the AHRC funded Sensing the City Project at Theatre Studies Department.

Iliyana Trifonova

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

Department of Psychology

My research interests are broadly in cognitive science and exploring human cognition. My research background is predominantly in psycholinguistics with a focus on language processing. During my PhD, I explored underlying processes in reading, such as the encoding of a letter sequence before its mapping to a concept in the human mind. I examined orthographic effects in visual word recognition, or how the visual form of a word affects its reading speed. I investigated factors such as form similarities between words, and repetitions and frequencies of word constituents. My methods include behavioural experiments as well as statistical and computational modelling.

Dr Dallas Trinkle

International Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, USA

12 - 25 August 2018

Nominated by Dr James Kermode, School of Engineering. Dallas Trinkle (Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is an expert in computational techniques for materials modelling. He is an international leader in Green’s function methods, modelling dislocations - possibly the most important class of material defects - and in particular multi-scale modelling in metals. While at Warwick, this expertise provided crucial input into the hosts' (Christoph Ortner and James Kermode) ongoing Leverhulme project on multi-scale modelling for metals. The IAS fellowship visit provided a means to establish a long-term collaboration and to raise the profile of Warwick’s growing strength in the area of predictive materials modelling.

Ms Dubravka Ugrešić

International Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

Amsterdam, Netherlands

1 - 10 March 2018

Nominated by Dr Mila Milani and Dr Linda Shortt, School of Modern Languages & Cultures. Dubravka Ugrešić was born in 1949 in Yugoslavia. Following degrees in Comparative and Russian Literature, she taught at the University of Zagreb’s Institute of Literature for many years, successfully pursuing parallel careers as a writer and a scholar. In 1991, when war broke out, Ugrešić took a firm anti-war stance. Subjected to prolonged public ostracism and persistent media harassment, she left Croatia in 1993 and is now based in Amsterdam. While at Warwick, Dubravka Ugrešić collaborated with Dr Mila Milani, Dr Linda Shortt and Dr Chantal Wright and other colleagues from Humanities on a series of high profile cross-faculty and wider community-based events in March 2018. She shared her original and insightful perspectives on topics which inform her writing such as conflict and conflict resolution, memory and identity, migration, (trans)nationalism and the cultural inbetween.

Dr Jennifer Vanderburgh

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

Saint Mary’s University, Canada

1 - 10 July 2019

Nominated by Dr Helen Wheatley, Department of Film & Television Studies. As a leading film and television scholar in Canada, Jennifer Vanderburgh’s work has enriched our understanding of the interconnections between culture, citizenship, and collective memory. Her much anticipated monograph, What Television Remembers: Artefacts and Footprints of Television in Toronto brings together her research on VHS recording, TV and Toronto, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and places critical pressure on the archival practices of Canada’s lead broadcasters. Moreover, her enterprising work on citizen-led archiving practices and the crowdsourcing of archives offers a model for public engaged historical work on the medium of television. One of the Centre’s key non-HE partners, the Media Archive of Central England, indicated that they would be very excited to hear more about Jennifer’s work in this area given that it may well inform the development of their ‘Full Circle’ approach to working with communities in relation to the archive.

Joe van de Weil

Early Career Fellow (2018-19) sponsored by MRC-DTP

Warwick Medical School

I am an interdisciplinary biomedical scientist and trained brain surgeon (for rodents). My current research investigates how the brain senses changes in blood Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in order to regulate our breathing. As CO2 is a waste product, and is toxic in high quantities, sensing and responding to changes in CO2 is vital for all air-breathing animals. Without this function any periods of high CO2 production (e.g. exercise) would prove detrimental to bodily functions.

Sven Van Kerckhoven

Rutherford Strategic International Fellow (2018-19)

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

22 October 2018 - 22 January 2019

Nominated by Dr Ben Clift, Department of Politics & International Studies. Dr Sven Van Kerckhoven is Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Business and Economics at Vesalius College/ Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His research focuses on global political economy with particular focus on global governance and global institutions, and has resulted in the publication of several journal articles and book chapters. Sven received his PhD from the University of Leuven (KULeuven). During his PhD studies, Sven attended the CAGE Easter School at Warwick University. In 2013, he was a visiting researcher at Stanford University. During his fellowship, he cooperated with Dr Clift in relation to their shared research agenda and other faculty members at PAIS in order to strengthen the collaboration between his university and Warwick University.

Professor Sandra Vasconcelos

International VIsiting Fellow (2015-16)

University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Visiting 16 - 25 May 2016

Nominated by Dr Ross Forman, English & Comparative Literary Studies. Professor Sandra Vasconcelos has written widely on British and Brazilian literature in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Among her many areas of specialisation is her work on world literary systems and the impact of British literature on the formation of the Brazilian novel. Professor Vasconcelos’ investigation centres on the novels by Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis as privileged sites in which a most fruitful and critical appropriation of the English novelistic tradition finds full scope as a tool to deal with the local sociohistorical experience. During her Fellowship Professor Vasconcelos spoke at several conferences and seminars and worked specifically on the relations between Machado de Assis and Laurence Sterne.

Professor Juan Luis Vazquez

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

1 April – 31 May 2017

Nominated by Professor Jose Rodrigo, Mathematics Institute. Professor Vazquez’s research is focused on Differential Equations, especially nonlinear partial differential equations, and their applications to Physics and Engineering. But it also contains substantial results in ODEs and Functional Analysis. His original interest was nonlinear elliptic equations and his most cited paper (1984) deals with that issue. But the main topics have been diffusion equations and filtration equations in porous media, where he has contributed a very important monograph (2007). For the last decade he has worked mostly in nonlocal diffusion with fractional Laplacian operators. he has also worked on regularity issues like Harnack inequalities.

Pablo Velasco Gonzalez

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies

I'm currently pursuing a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at University of Warwick Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, trying to explore the materiality of digital currencies observed as political devices. I'm specially interested in the rationale behind their design and in the interwoven relations between State, borders, politics and cryptocurrencies' distribution of power. You can see some of my work (and the maps and code that I've made as part of it). I did my BA and MA studies in Philosophy, at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico). I worked on Heidegger's Concept of Truth and Language. Before joining CIM I worked as a Research Assistant in three different universities in Mexico, on a diversity of subjects including Political Networks, Theory of Theatre and National Security.

Rebekah Vince

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

School of Modern Languages & Cultures

Rebekah's research interests include world literature, transcultural memory, and Jewish-Muslim relations across the Mediterranean. Funded by the Wolfson Foundation, her doctoral research explores Francophone Maghrebi dialogic perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, underpinned by the traumatic legacies of the Holocaust and colonialism. In 2014, she completed a Masters by Research on the legacies of the Algerian War of Independance, while teaching English as a lectrice at the University of Burgundy (France). She is on the advisory board of the Memory Studies Association, an executive committee member of the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies, and an intern for the European Association for Jewish Studies.

Dr Jan Völkel

International Visiting Fellow (2018-19)

Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

1 December 2018 – 31 January 2019

Nominated by Dr Nicola Pratt, Department of Politics & International Studies. Dr Jan Völkel has been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (IES-VUB) since February 2017, working on The role of national parliaments in the Arab transformation processes. In this two-year project, he focuses on the work of the legislatures of Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia and analyses to what extent these chambers have been able to contribute to policy-making in their respective countries, in particular since the Arab uprisings in 2010/2011. During his stay, Jan utilised the University of Warwick’s excellent stock of literature on contemporary developments in the Middle East and North Africa in order to further draft his book manuscript. In addition, he delivered three lectures. Jan has extensive living and working experience in various countries of the Middle East and North Africa. He has also had teaching assignments and research stays in Ethiopia, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Tunisia, Turkey and Yemen.

Hannah Waddilove

Early Career Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Politics & International Studies

Democracies are widely considered to be improved by bringing government 'closer to the people' through devolving administrative and political power. But beyond normative ideals, how do such reforms work in practice? Do they change how institutions function, how elected officials behave, and how citizens are connected to the state? My research examines the perspectives and practices of the new locally-elected officials, how they used their positions to respond to popular conceptions of their roles, and the resultant contingent effect on presidential power. My broad research interest lies in exploring the everyday practices of democratic institutions, revealing the complex and uneven nature of democratic reform. Future research plans include bringing this approach to a comparative project of the everyday functioning of political parties in East Africa.

Georgia Wall

Early Career Fellow (2017-18)

School of Modern Languages & Cultures

My PhD focused on Italian migration to London. Historic and contemporary Italian migration to London have strong links with the catering industry, so I took an ethnographic approach to public food spaces (cafés and restaurants) interviewing people who own or visit them. Through this project, I became interested in how moving between countries affects day-to-day life and language use and questions of class and value: what is ‘lost’, when people translate themselves and their culture into a different language, and what is gained? I’m now working on developing ethnographic approaches and the study of contemporary material culture in Modern Languages.

Elisabeth Wallmann

Early Career Fellow (2016-17)

School of Modern Languages and Cultures

My research addresses questions of power and the non-human in eighteenth-century France. My PhD thesis, employing methods from Modern Languages research and the history of science, explored the connections between Enlightenment natural history and theories of government. It suggests that the way we conceive of animal nature affects not only our image of our own subjectivity, but also the economic organisation of our societies. I joined Warwick in 2011, having completed a BA in French and Italian at the University of Oxford. During my doctoral research, I also spent six months at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

Dr Jonathan Weiss

Residential Fellow (2015-16)

York University, UK

Visiting 4 - 8 April 2016

Nominated by Professor Richard Hastings, Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research. Dr Weiss is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at York University and a Clinical Psychologist. He currently holds the Canadian Chair in Autism Spectrum Disorders Treatment and Care Research. His research focuses on the prevention and treatment of mental health problems in people with Autism Spectrum Disorder or intellectual disabilities. During his visit Dr Weiss met with researchers from the Centre for Educational Development, presented to clinicians on the use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and spent time co-writing a publication with Professor Hastings.

Yonas Weldeselassie

GCRF Fellow (2018-19)

Warwick Medical School

24 - 30 June, 0 - 31 July 2019

Collaborating with Dr Amenuel Haile, Mekelle University, Ethiopia and Dr Merhawit Atsbeha, Mekelle University, Ethiopia. Undetected gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) may significantly harm a pregnant woman and her offspring, both in short and long-term. The burden of GDM is bigger in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia. The burden might be reduced by predicting GDM early. This project aims at assessing the awareness of GDM in Mekelle Tigrai and creating a collaboration with Mekelle university for future project that enable to produce guidelines for GDM screening in Ethiopia and building a risk score model that predicts GDM in early pregnancy.

Richard Whitfield

Early Career Innovation Fellow

Department of Chemistry

Richard is developing polymeric materials for controlled-release applications. He previously completed a PhD with Professor David Haddleton, developing advanced controlled radical polymerisation methodologies, with particular focus on the synthesis of cationic materials for applications in gene delivery. This included two months as a visiting scholar at the University of California Santa Barbara under the supervision of Professor Craig Hawker. Prior to his PhD, he completed his Master’s at Durham University utilizing thiol-ene click chemistry in the synthesis of thermosetting materials for coating applications.

Paul Wilson

GCRF Fellow (2018-19)

Department of Chemistry

8 – 19 April 2019 (Professor Haddleton) and 10 - 20 April 2019 (Dr Wilson & Dr Wemyss)

Collaborated with Prof. Burt Klumperman & Dr Ben Loos, University of Stellenbosch, SA, Prof. Stefan Barth, University of Cape Town, SA, Dr Hussein Kidanto, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania. The UN lists reducing the maternal mortality rate to <70 women in every 100,000 live births by 2030 as its #1 “Goal 3 Target”. There is an unacceptably large difference in the death of mothers during childbirth between the developed and developing world, with the vast majority of these deaths occurring in areas of sub-Saharan African where there are deficiencies in simple medical resources and infrastructure to cope with complications arising during pregnancy, delivery and recovery. Our work is focused on improving the treatment of postpartum haemorrhaging (PPH), the excessive and uncontrolled bleeding that can occur due to insufficient contraction of uterus after delivery. Typically, PPH is treated using therapeutic peptide oxytocin, a World Health Organization (WHO) essential medicine, however, oxytocin suffers from chemical instability and loss of efficacy in aqueous solution, which is exacerbated by high temperatures and inefficient cold chain storage, conditions which are common of developing nations. We are using simple chemistry to modify oxytocin with a view to enhancing aqueous stability whilst retaining, or enhancing efficacy. Thus, we are going to use our IAS GCRF Fellowship to visit South Africa to scope out collaborations based on establishing a multi-disciplinary, international consortium of researchers to tackle maternal mortality in the developing world.

Laura Wood

Early Career Fellow (2016-17) saponsored by MRC-DTP

Warwick Medical School

My PhD research at Warwick was undertaken as part of the MRC doctoral training partnership and investigated the process of clathrin-mediated endocytosis. This is a fundamental process by which cells internalise large cargo such as iron and cholesterol across the outer membrane. I have developed a system of clathrin-mediated endocytosis that can be triggered in single cells at a specified place and time, allowing for much easier study of the molecular details of this process. Prior to starting at Warwick, I completed an undergraduate masters in Pharmacology at the University of Bath. Read more on my LinkedIn profile.

Dr Bernhard Woytek

International Visiting Fellow (2017-18)

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

2 May - 12 June 2018

Nominated by Professor Suzanne Frey-Kupper, Department of Classics and Ancient History. Dr Bernhard Woytek is the Director of the Division ‘Documenta Antiqua’ at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. Dr Woytek is an ancient historian specialising in ancient numismatics and economy, and in reception studies from the Renaissance onwards.

Jian Wu

Rutherford Strategic International Fellow (2017-18)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Visiting 10 May - 9 August 2018

Nominated by Dr Chaoying Wan, Warwick Manufacturing Group. Dr Jian Wu specialises in polymer synthesis and processing. He has research experience in organic synthesis, such as Huang Minglong and Knoevenagel reactions in his MSc and PhD projects. He has been working on thermoplastic elastomers and rubbers in his current postdoctoral project at SJTU, and has gained expertise in polymer processing. This fellowship will allow him to enforce his research skills in both Chemistry synthesis by working with Professor David Haddleton's group on the Department of Chemistry, and polymer nanocomposites manufacturing through the collaboration with Dr Wan's group at WMG.

David Fengwei Xie

WIRL COFUND Fellow (2017-18)

Warwick Manufacturing Group, Innovative Manufacturing GRP

Dr Renu Yadav

Residential Fellow (2018-19)

Central University of Haryana, India

6 October - 12 October 2018

Nominated by Professor Ann Stewart, School of Law. Dr Renu Yadav has nine years of teaching experience in the field of Education. Her research interests include gender concern in education, value education and leadership. She has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education in the Central University of Haryana since 2011. She has written more than 30 research papers in national and international journals with impact factor Her interests also include social outreach programmes and theatre. Recently she has completed project on Hygiene and Sanitation practices among Adolescent Girls: Study of Schools and Evaluation of Youth Red Cross activities in Haryana.

Chan Yang

Rutherford Strategic International Fellow (2017-18)

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

16 April - 15 July 2018

Nominated by Professor Tim Lockley, Department of History. Chan Yang specialises in WWII Memory and Postwar Sino-Japanese Relations. She received her BA from Hunan University, PRC (Japanese, 2009), MSc and PhD from Bristol (Area Studies, 2010; History, 2014). She is an assistant professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University. Chan Yang has prior experience of collaborating with scholars from China, Britain, Japan and America-based institutions and conducting research in these countries. These experiences have yielded several fruitful results, including her recent book: World World Two Legacies in East Asia: China Remembers the War (Routledge, 2017). She is now working on a new project “Narrators of the Second Sino-Japanese War in Postwar Britain”, and this project will benefit from her time at Warwick.

Dr Kaveh Yazdani

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

4 – 14 May 2017

Nominated by Professor Anne Gerritsen, Department of History. Dr Yazdani received his PhD degree in social sciences (Sozialwissenschaften) at the University of Osnabrück in 2014. His scholarly interests include the ‘Great Divergence’ debate and the history of South and West Asia between the 17th and 20th centuries. Most recently, he was granted the Prince Dr. Sabbar Farman-Farmaian fellowship at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam where he works on the socio-economic impact of India’s Parsis on Persia’s Zoroastrians (1853-1925) under the supervision of Touraj Atabaki.

Professor Nurit Zaidman

Residential Fellow (2017-18)

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

22 - 27 January 2018

Nominated by Professor Marianna Fotaki, Warwick Business School. Nurit Zaidman is an anthropologist and a professor at the Department of Business Administration, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business & Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Nurit’s research focuses mainly on two areas: global teams and workplace spirituality and the New Age. Both are relatively new fields of research reflecting interest in major economical, sociological and cultural global shifts. Professor Zaidman visited Warwick to scope a joint publication with Professor Fotai, combining their anthropological perspective and psychological approach to organizational research.

Professor Mykhaylo Zarichnyi

Residential Fellow (2016-17)

Lviv University and University of Rzewzow, Ukraine and Poland

8 – 13 May 2017

Nominated by Dr Roman Kozhan, Warwick Business School. Professor Zarichnyy graduated in Mathematics in 1979 from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine) and obtained his PhD from the Moscow University in 1983. He is the author of more than 110 papers and three monographs. In 2004-2016 he served as the dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. Professor Zarichnyi is a researcher in the field of topology and its applications, in particular, to game theory and mathematical economics. In a joint publication with Dr Roman Kozhan he introduced and investigated a special class of games in capacities. Some of his results concern topology of spaces of (non-additive) measures, the asymptotic dimension theory, and topology of infinite-dimensional manifolds.

Professor Andrew Zimmerman

International Visiting Fellow (2016-17)

The George Washington University, USA

6 - 13 May 2017

Nominated by Professor Gurminder Bhambra, Department of Sociology. Andrew Zimmerman worked on a number of projects related to his interest in empire, labour, global capitalism, and social theory. He discussed the work of the sociologist Max Weber in the context of German and global imperialism. The Atlantic cotton economy and issues of race, labour, and social science, formed another area of focus. Also, he continued working on his global history of the US Civil War as a transnational rebellion against slave labour and wage labour.

Dr Jack Zipes

Residential Fellow (2015-16)

University of Minnesota, USA

Visiting 31 May - 3 June 2016

Nominated by Professor Mick Carpenter, Department of Sociology. Professsor Zipes is considered a world authority on fairy tales and storytelling. A prolific author about the role of fairy tales in society and their social history, he is a celebrated scholar who brings academics together across disciplines. He is a distinguished researcher in collaboration with the University of Minnesota, whose work resonates with innovative research in oral storytelling in the Sociology Department. Professor Zipes visited Warwick to give a public lecture on the way in which fairy tales reflect conditions, ideas, tastes, and values of the societies in which they were created. He also led training and widening participation workshops for the local community.