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Nicky is Director of Studies in Graduate Medicine (Clinical)

Dr Sean Butler is an Emeritus Fellow at St Edmund's College. His main field of research is animal rights law.

Dr Sean Butler studied Law at Oxford (St Edmund Hall) and the LSE, London, as well as Genetics at Cambridge (CPGS) before taking his PhD in social science at Imperial College, London. He supervises Roman Law and lectures Animal Rights Law in the Law Faculty, and is Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law.

Academic Profile

Professor Campbell Joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) as a member of Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service in 1997. He has worked at the United Nations Security Council in New York, the European Union, and at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London and on diplomatic postings overseas. From 1999-2003, he served on the staff of the then Prime Minister Tony Blair, first as a Policy Adviser in the No.10 Policy Unit, and then as a Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. He also served on secondment with Amnesty International as the Senior Director of Policy. From 2005-2011, he served as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Holy See. From 2011-13, he served as Deputy High Commissioner in Pakistan. From 2013-2014 he was the Head of the Policy Unit in the FCO and Director of Innovation at UK Trade and Investment.

From 2014-2020, Professor Campbell served as Vice-Chancellor of St Mary’s University in London and also Professor of International Relations, while on special leave from the Foreign Office. In February 2020, Professor Campbell became the fourth Vice-Chancellor of The University of Notre Dame Australia. He also holds the position of Professor, International Relations.

He has been a Member of the Advisory Panel of the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, London. He also served on a number of governing bodies including St. Mary’s University, St. Joseph’s Hospice (London), St. Elizabeth’s School (London) and Carlow College (Ireland). He continues to serve as a Trustee of Forward Thinking (London).

More recently, Professor Campbell was appointed a Governor of the Forrest Research Foundation, member of the Divine Word University Council, member of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities Board of Directors and is a founding member of the International Council on Human Trafficking at St Thomas University, Miami, School of Law.

Paolo Carozza is Professor of Law and Concurrent Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA), where he has been on the faculty since 1996. His expertise is in the areas of comparative constitutional law, human rights, law and development, and international law. His more recent books and edited volumes include The Practice of Human Development and Dignity (2020), Dialogues on Italian Constitutional Justice (2020), Italian Constitutional Justice in Global Context (2016), Comparative Legal Traditions (2014), and Regional Protection of Human Rights (2013). His numerous articles, published in four languages, have focused primarily on foundational principles of human rights law, such as human dignity, democracy, and subsidiarity.

From 2012-2022 he served as the Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, an interdisciplinary institute focusing primarily on the themes of democracy and human development, where he was also the founder and principal investigator of the Notre Dame Constitutionalism and Rule of Law Lab.

Carozza currently serves as a member of the Oversight Board, an independent expert body created by Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to render binding decisions and policy recommendations regarding difficult content moderation questions on Meta’s platforms. From 2019-2023 he was the United States member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (the Venice Commission), the Council of Europe’s expert advisory body on issues of constitutionalism, the rule of law, democracy, and fundamental rights. In 2019-2020 he was a member of the U.S. State Department’s independent, nonpartisan, advisory Commission on Unalienable Rights. From 2006 to 2010 Carozza was a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the principal international body responsible for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Western Hemisphere, and served as its President in 2008-09. He was appointed by Pope Francis in 2016 to be a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

I am Assistant Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research, Cambridge Judge Business School. My research examines the role of financial and non-financial firms in sustainable economic development, monetary policy transmission, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Dr Giorgio Caselli is Assistant Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Business Research (CBR), Cambridge Judge Business School, and Fellow of St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow and Supervisor on the MSt in Sustainability Leadership at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). Giorgio’s research examines the role of financial and non-financial firms in sustainable economic development, monetary policy transmission, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. He has been working on several projects, funded among others by Cambridge Ahead, the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, the Business Board, the Babraham Research Campus and the Greater Cambridge Partnership. Prior to joining the CBR, Giorgio worked at Deloitte Italy’s Global Financial Services Industry and completed his PhD in Financial Economics at Cranfield University. His PhD thesis was awarded the Director’s Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis of the Year. Giorgio regularly presents his research at leading international conferences and his work received several awards, including a Young Researcher Award by the European Association of Cooperative Banks. His research has been published in several academic and practitioner journals such as the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Financial Review and SUERF Policy Notes.

Academic Profile

Publications

• Caselli G. & Migliorelli M. (2024), [Title], SUERF Policy Note, https://tinyurl.com/3x37vmem
• Caselli G. & Figueira C. (2023), [Title], The Financial Review, DOI: 10.1111/fire.12329
• Caselli G. (2022), [Title], in Migliorelli M. and Lamarque E., [Title], ISBN: 978-3-030-98193-8
• Caselli G., Cosh A. & Tyler P. (2021), “The Cambridge Phenomenon; [Subtitle]”, Innovation & Impact
• Caselli G. et al. (2020), [Title], Cambridge Journal of Economics, DOI: 10.1093/cje/beaa011

Awards & Recognitions

• European Association of Cooperative Banks (EACB) Award for Young Researchers on Cooperative Banks
• Director’s Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis of the Year, School of Management, Cranfield University

Thomas is a postdoctoral researcher in climate science with experience in remote sensing, in-situ observations and numerical modelling.

In April 2021, he moved to Cambridge to start a new role as a Polar Climate Scientist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) at the Scott Polar Research Institute.

He completed my DPhil with the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford in May 2021, prior to which he obtained an MSc in Applied Meteorology from the University of Reading.

His research as a climate scientist focuses on coastal Antarctica: a narrow zone where atmosphere, sea ice, and ocean interact strongly. The central aim of my work is to understand and reduce uncertainty in how Antarctic coastal processes will change in a warming climate, and what those changes mean for both Antarctica and the rest of the world.

Dr. Elif Çetin is an Associate Professor of International Relations and a Faculty member at the Department of International Relations, Yaşar University (Izmir, Turkey). Additionally, she is a Research Associate at the Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. Since September 2023, she has been the Head of the UNESCO Chair on International Migration at Yaşar University, which is the first and only UNESCO Chair in Turkey that specifically focuses on migration.

Dr. Çetin holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. She was a visiting scholar at the EUI (Florence) and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) (Oxford). Her research interests include politicisation of immigration, political discourse formation, and development of immigration control policies in Europe and beyond. Her publications focus on different dimensions of migration management and control policies.

Dr Aitichya Chandra is a Research Associate in Resilient Networks with the Asset Management Group at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM). His research explores the behaviour of complex networked systems under disruption, focusing on intelligent, adaptive strategies that enhance resilience and sustainability. Within the Group, he leads the design of dynamic resilience solutions for Boeing (USA) and contributes to the UK’s National Hub for Decarbonised, Adaptable, and Resilient Transport Infrastructures (DARe). Dr Chandra earned his PhD in Transportation Systems Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, in 2024. His doctoral work developed analytical frameworks to optimise terminal airspace performance, improve en-route network coordination, and support resilient gate-to-gate operations. A recipient of the Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (2020–2023), he also holds an ME in Transportation Engineering and a B.Tech in Civil Engineering. His interests span network science, intelligent & dynamic decision-making, and optimisation of complex systems.

Jerry is the Director of Studies for Land Economy

Dr Chen Chen is also a Senior Member at St Edmunds College.

Dr Chen Chen's research interests are broadly in areas of EdgeAI, Serverless Computing, Cloud/Edge Computing, Network Resource Orchestration, In-network Computing, Distributed System and IoTs.

Chen is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the System Research Group, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge. In SRG, Chen works on the EDGELESS project with Professor Richard Mortier, exploring the opportunities for efficient virtualization in small edge devices for serverless computing. Chen is also a Senior Member at St Edmunds College.

Prior to that, Chen received his PhD in Computer Science from Loughborough Univeristy (LU), UK with a full scholarship. Chen received his BEng from Xidian University, Xi’an, China. His research interests are broadly in areas of Serverless Computing, Cloud/Edge Computing, Network Resource Orchestration, In-network Computing, Distributed System and IoTs. His latest work focuses on resource orchestration in serverless edge computing, aiming to optimize the overall performance for the system, including latency, energy consumption and system cost. Chen has extensive experience collaborating with industries such as Siemens, Infineon, EMS-UK, National Physical Lab and many others.

Also, Chen is actively serving as a TPC member and reviewer for many conferences and journals such as ICDCS 2024, IFIP NPC 2024, IEEE MSN 2023, IEEE TSC, Computer Networks, JNCA and etc. Chen also holds an Associate Fellowship of Higher Education Academy.

Tim is a chemist working to better understand neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. His current research focuses on protein aggregates; large clumps of protein that stick together in the brains of people with these diseases. By better understanding protein aggregates, Tim is aiming to develop a diagnostic test for neurodegenerative diseases.

Prior to his fellowship, Tim graduated from the University of Sydney with a BSc (Hon I) and a MPhil in Chemistry. During this time he worked in the group of Professor Richard Payne, where he developed new methods for the chemical synthesis of proteins. Tim then moved to the University of Cambridge where he completed his PhD with Professor Chris Hunter and first began his research into neurodegenerative diseases.

Dr. Maria Cimperman is a member of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (RSCJ). Her Master of Divinity is from the University of Notre Dame, Licentiate in Sacred Theology from Weston Jesuit School of Theology and PhD in Theological Ethics from Boston College. A faculty member at Catholic Theological Union (Chicago, USA), she recently received promotion to full Professor of Theological Ethics and Consecrated Life.

Dr Cimperman is the author of three books: When God’s People Have HIV/AIDS: An Approach to Ethics;  Social Analysis for the 21^st Century: How Faith Becomes Action;  and Religious Life For Our World: Creating Communities of Hope. She also co-edited Engaging Our Diversity: Interculturality and Consecrated Life Today. She presents nationally and internationally.

In addition to theological ethics, Maria’s passion is theology of consecrated life. Dr. Cimperman served for 8 years as the founding Director of the Center for the Study of Consecrated Life at CTU. During 2021-2022, Maria was one of two women religious theologians [with Dr Gemma Simmonds, CJ] and two men religious theologians serving on the UISG-USG [International Union of Superiors General and Union of Superiors General] Synod Synthesis Commission which read and together prepared a synthesis of the responses from religious around the globe for the two Unions.   She serves on the Editorial Board of Review for Religious and the Board of Directors of CARA (Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate).  This Fall she will continue at CTU while beginning a position at UISG in Rome coordinating their global Synodality Initiative.

Dr Oliver Coates is Director of Studies in History and Politics at St Edmund’s College and Associate Researcher at the Institut des mondes africains in Paris.

His research interests are in African history, with reference to Nigeria. His recent research has appeared in the International Journal of African Historical Studies, the Journal of Asian and African Studies, the Journal of African Military History, and Outre-Mers: Revue d’histoire, as well as contributions to the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of African History, the Oxford Handbook of Nigerian HistoDr Oliver Coates is Director of Studies in History and Politics at St Edmund’s College. He is also Associate Researcher at the Institut des mondes africains at the C.N.R.S., Paris.ry, the Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics, and the Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare.

Dr Coates is a committee member of the Lagos Studies Association, University of Lagos, Nigeria, and a member of the African Studies Association of the U.S.A.

I am a human development economist, working on topics relating to poverty, inequality, aporophobia, education and indicators of human development. I have been working on the operationalisation of the capability approach and on the development of new methods of partial rankings for evaluating well-being and sustainability. I carry out a long-term (unpublished) research on moral sentiments, focusing on the links between love and human development. I am currently Professor of Business Ethics and Economics, and Dean of the IQS School of Management/Ramon Llull University in Barcelona. I have been a senior economist for the United Nations Development Programme in Brazil. I have also worked as a consultant for several UN agencies such as UNEP, ILO, UNESCO, FAO, among others. Prior to that I was a GB fellow, CTO and Director of Studies of Economics & Land Economy for St Edmund’s College for several years. I have been associated with the Von Hügel Institute since my PhD years at St Edmund’s, back in 1994. I have also lectured for Land Economy on ‘human development and ecosystem services’ for 18 years.

Flavio Comim is the Dean of the IQS School of Management, University Ramon Llull in Barcelona. He is a Professor in Business Ethics and Economics. He was senior economist for UNDP Brazil during 2008/2010 when he coordinated Brazil’s Human Development Report on ‘Human Values’. After that he coordinated Panama’s 2014 Human Development Report on ‘Childhood and the Youth’. He has also been a consultant for many international organisations such as UNEP, UNESCO, FAO, WHO, UNDP and ILO, carrying out fieldwork in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America. He has also been a consultant for CSR projects of big corporations such as Natura & Co, Philips, Siemens, Petrobras, Vale, TIM, among others. He lectured for Land Economy for 18 years. In Cambridge, he is also a research associate of the Von Hügel Institute at St Edmund’s College. He has been a Coordinating Leading Author of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and has contributed to the Global Environmental Outlook 4. He has published widely in areas such as history of economic thought, economic methodology, development ethics, ecological economics and the capability approach. Among his publications, it could be mentioned the co-edited books Children and the Capability Approach (2011) with Mario Biggeri and Jerome Ballet, Capabilities, Gender, Equality with Martha Nussbaum (2014) and New Frontiers of the Capability Approach (2018) with Shailaja Fennell and PB Anand. He has published in journals such as the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Ecological Economics, Ecological Indicators, China Economic Review, Social Indicators Research, Review of Social Economy, Journal of International Development, Journal of Economic Methodology, History of Political Economy and Structural Change, and Economic Dynamics and Development among others.

Victoria is our Director of Studies for our English degree

My research includes Veterinary Pathology, Oncology, hepatitis and pancreatitis in dogs and cats, infectious diseases in animals, and syringomyelia in Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. I have supervised 15 undergraduate theses, 8 master theses, and 5 doctorate theses.

Fernando Constantino-Casas graduated with a Bachelor degree in Veterinary Medicine from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1985. He was awarded a PhD degree from the University of Cambridge, UK in 1991. Fernando was head of the Department of Pathology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FMVZ) in Mexico City from 2001 to 2006. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK in 2007 and as University Pathologist in the same institution in March 2014. Fernando is a member of the Mexican Society of Veterinary Pathologists and the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath), Specialist in Veterinary Pathology (small species) – Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS). Fernando is a Fellow Class A and tutor at St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Publications

• Rad R, Strong A, Varela I, Kriegl L, Fraga MF, Calvanese V, Saur D, Price S, McDermott U, Eser S, Constantin-Casas F, Kirchner T, Yusa K, Grove C, Seidler B, Schmid RM. A genetic progression model of BrafV600E-induced intestinal tumourigenesis reveals targets for therapeutic intervention. Cancer Cell. 2013; 24, 1-15, July 8.
• Rad R, Rad L, Wang W, Strong A, Ponstingl H, Bronner IF, Mayho M, Steiger K, Weber J, Hieber M, Veltkamp C, Eser S, Geumann U, Ollinger R, Zukowska M, Barenboim M, Maresch R, Caldinanos J, Friedrich M, Varela I, Constantino-Casas F, Sarver A, Hoeve JT, Prosser H, et al. A conditional PiggyBac transposition system for genetic screening in mice identifies oncogenic networks in pancreatic cancer. Nature Genetics. 2015; 47:1; 47-56.
• Prevalence of pancreatic, hepatic and renal microscopic lesions in post-mortem samples from cavalier King Charles spaniels. J Small Anim Pract. 2016;57(4):188-193.
• Coddou MF, Constantino-Casas F, Scase T, Day MJ, Blacklaws, Watson PJ. Chronic inflammatory disease in the pancreas, kidney and salivary glands of English cocker spaniels and dogs of other breeds shows similar histological features to human IgG4-related disease. J Comp Pathol. 2020; 177:18-33.
• Nivy, Constantino-Casas et al. Copper-associated hepatitis in CKCS. Veterinary Record. 2023:e3651.

Awards & Recognitions

• Specialist in Veterinary Pathology (Small Domestic Animal), Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS).
• Associate Fellow (Associate Fellowship Higher Education Academy - AFHEA).

Gianmarco Contino is an Associate Professor of Cancer Genomic Medicine and Group Leader in the Department of Cancer and Genetic Sciences at the University of Birmingham Medical School. He also serves as an Upper GI Consultant at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, part of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust, and as the Translational Lead for Precision Health Technologies at the University of Birmingham. Additionally, he is the Director of the MSc in Clinical Oncology at the University of Birmingham and the Network Chair of the EORTC Pathobiology Group. Gianmarco is a Research Fellow at the Von Hügel Institute, University of Cambridge, where he explores topics in the epistemology of medicine and the implications of artificial intelligence.

Previously, Gianmarco was a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke’s Hospital. His training in surgical oncology and translational science included positions at the European Institute of Oncology (Milan), Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston), the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Imperial College London. He consulted for AI-driven biotech companies, including Cambridge Cancer Genomics (now part of Nvidia) and EpistemicAI.

Gianmarco's research focuses on functional genomics of aneuploidy and upper gastrointestinal cancers. As part of the International Cancer Genome Consortium, he worked on identifying structural variations driving oesophageal adenocarcinoma. His current research leverages functional genomics approaches to understand the molecular mechanisms behind chromosomal instability in oesophageal adenocarcinoma, with active studies involving Genomics England and UK Biobank.

Clinically, Gianmarco specializes in advanced endoscopy and endoscopic treatment for upper gastrointestinal cancers. He has published extensively on the genomics and molecular therapeutics of pancreatic and oesophageal adenocarcinoma, with contributions appearing in leading journals such as Science and Nature.

Gianmarco is passionate about training the next generation of clinician-scientists and volunteers with organisations that support students from disadvantaged backgrounds to enter STEM fields.