Visiting Fellows

Professor Jeremy Tame

Visiting 01 Sept - 30 Nov 2025

Nominator: Professor David Roper, School of Life Sciences

Jeremy Tame is a Professor of Biochemistry in the Graduate School of Medical Life Sciences at Yokohama City University.

The Tame group uses interdisciplinary approaches, from basic microbiology to molecular structure determination by X-ray crystallography, to relate protein structure and function. His research encompasses traditional biophysical approaches and modern drug discovery. The Tame group is particularly well-known for its work into the structure and evolution of haemoglobin (Hb), recently revealing the unique properties of crocodile Hb that allow these animals to remain submerged underwater for hours at a time.

Several years after completing his PhD in the UK, he was a awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, and during this period he took sabbatical leave in Kyoto, Japan. He was then offered a position at the newly founded campus in Tsurumi, Yokohama, equipped with state-of-the-art apparatus for a variety of techniques to study large molecules.

Dr Tania Saeed

Visiting 24 Nov - 07 Dec 2025

Nominator: Professor Virinder Kalra, Sociology

Dr. Tania Saeed is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan. She has expertise in citizenship and education in the context of Pakistan and the South Asian diasporas.

Dr Saeed's most recent project as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow focused on diaspora networks of political parties from India and Pakistan, examining their operations in UK and US. Dr Saeed is visiting Warwick to collaborate in establishing a Diaspora Centre between LUMS and Warwick. The first of its kind for the British Pakistani community, the Centre will strengthen research networks and scholarship between Pakistan and its diasporas.

Dr Dmytro Chumachenko

Visiting 06 - 16 Jan 2025

Nominator: Professor Ram Gopal, Social Sciences

Dr. Dmytro Chumachenko is a Visiting Associate Professor at the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technologies, and an Associate Professor of the Mathematical Modelling and Artificial Intelligence department at National Aerospace University “Kharkiv Aviation Institute”. Dmytro also serves as a Chair of the “AI + Education & Science” subgroup of the Expert Committee on AI sphere development under the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine and as Chair of the Board/President of the Ukrainian Scientific and Educational IT Society – the biggest community of computer science academics in Ukraine.

Dmytro earned his Ph.D. in Systems and Means of Artificial Intelligence in 2017 in Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics (Ukraine). He has done his postdoc at the Ubiquitous Health Technology Lab at the University of Waterloo (Canada)