Our people

Mr Ian Stewart McCrone graduated from the University of Liverpool with a degree in veterinary science and has completed further postgraduate qualifications with a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons' certificate in cattle health and production and a Masters Degree in epidemiology and a Diploma of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Before joining the department of veterinary medicine Ian worked almost exclusively as a farm animal (veterinary) practitioner in North Norfolk, South Yorkshire and the Lancashire-Yorkshire border.  Ian joined Cambridge in 2006 initially as a Clinical Farm Animal Veterinarian, then as a Clinician Teaching Fellow in Veterinary Public Health and Farm Animal Medicine, and since October 2013 as University Physician, a reader level position with responsibility as Farm Animal Clinical Team Leader.

Dr Philip McCosker is the former Vice-Master of St Edmund's College and Director of the Von Hügel Institute.   He was previously Deputy Master of St Benet’s Hall and Lecturer in Theology at Trinity and Jesus Colleges in Oxford. He received his theological formation at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale. His research focuses on historical, philosophical, and constructive theology, frequently in connection with the Catholic traditions.

Dr. Qin-Qin Lü (q pronounced as ‘ch’) is a research fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and the Department of Archaeology. As an archaeological scientist, he works on applying physical science methods to understand ancient culture and technology. He is interested in integrating existing and emerging scientific methods to improve the characterisation of inorganic archaeological materials. His recent research focuses on the provenance of ancient glass in relation to inter-regional interactions on the Silk Roads. He is a physicist by training.

He completed his B.Sc. at University of Science and Technology of China, and obtained his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. In his spare time, he enjoys taking hikes in nature.

Sandra Brunnegger is a legal anthropologist. Her research interests span human rights, indigenous legal systems and practices, everyday conceptions of justice, transitional justice, violence, environmental issues and social movements. Ethnographically, her research focuses on Latin America, with particular emphasis on Colombia. Her teaching interests include development, political and legal anthropology and international law.

Dr Katharina Brett is a Publisher in the Academic Group of Cambridge University Press, where she has worked for over twenty-five years. During that time, she has been responsible for commissioning and publishing new books in subjects including literary studies, language and linguistics, and religious studies.  This has involved regular travel to conferences and university campuses in Europe, North America and Australia. Dr Brett is currently developing a new initiative within the Press, the Cambridge Library Collection.  Her academic background is in Modern and Medieval Languages, which she studied at Cambridge, eventually specialising in the literature of medieval France. She was a Junior Research Fellow at St Edmund’s College from 1984 to 1986, and re-joined the Fellowship in 1999. As a Fellow, she is a member of the College’s Governing Body and has served for four years on the College Council. Her College work includes the library, Von Hügel Institute and Dean’s committees. Dr Brett is an accomplished violinist, who plays regularly in a quartet and the City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra. Her recreational interests include gardening, mountain walking and travel.

Louise Boyle became the Professor of Molecular Immunology in the Department of Pathology in October 2021. She obtained a BSc Hons in Biological Sciences from the University of Edinburgh in 1998, followed by a PhD in Immunology from the University of Cambridge, where she studied T cell responses in patients with arthritis in Professor Hill Gaston’s laboratory.   In 2002, she joined Professor John Trowsdale’s group as a Postdoctoral Research Associate to continue her work on major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules.   There, she discovered TAPBPR was a novel component of the MHC class I antigen processing and presentation pathway. In 2009, Louise was awarded a Wellcome Career Development Fellowship, followed by a Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship to explore the molecular pathways controlling antigen presentation to the immune system.  She was appointed as a University Lecturer in 2017 and promoted to a University Reader in 2019. In 2020, her Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship was successfully renewed. Her laboratory is currently focused on understanding the role of TAPBPR in peptide selection for immune recognition and how this contributes to human health and disease.  Louise’s research programme offers important translational opportunities in infection control, autoimmune disease, cancer immunotherapy and vaccine development.

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