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Dr Antonina Kruppa

Fellow

Dr Antonina Kruppa

Fellow
Biological Microscopy Coordinator, School of Biological Sciences and Tutor, St Edmund's College

Antonina J. Kruppa BA PhD, originally from Germany, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Mathematics from Mount Holyoke College, USA in 2007. Supported by a Wellcome Trust PhD Studentship, she obtained her PhD at Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 2012 investigating an enzyme that protects from the toxicity of plaques in Alzheimer’s disease. She then undertook post-doctoral research in the laboratory of Dr Folma Buss (2013-2023) working on the molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases. Antonina’s research utilized a wide variety of microscopy techniques to understanding the role of molecular motor proteins and the cytoskeleton in regulating mitochondrial homeostasis and was funded by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the British Heart Foundation and Alzheimer’s Research UK. She is now the Biological Microscopy Coordinator for the School of Biological Sciences (SBS) where she is working at the user:facility interface to facilitate access to microscopy facilities across Departments within SBS, creating links with experts for bespoke imaging setups housed in the Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre (CAIC), and building a wider microscopy community across Cambridge.

Dr Arnaud Comment

Friend of St Edmund's

Dr Arnaud Comment

Friend of St Edmund's
Senior Scientist, General Electric Healthcare, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute

After having studied physics at EPFL, Switzerland, Arnaud Comment joined the group of Prof. Charles P. Slichter at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, for a PhD in the field of solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). He then spent the following one and half years working in condensed matter physics at the Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory (CNRS/Max Planck Institute). In 2005, he launched a dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) project at EPFL. He designed and implemented a DNP setup that he coupled to a preclinical MRI scanner for performing in vivo hyperpolarized NMR and MRI. He then joined the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne to lead the developments of biomedical applications of hyperpolarized MRI in Lausanne. In 2011, he was awarded a professorship grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and became assistant professor at EPFL. In 2015, he joined General Electric Healthcare as senior scientist to further develop  the clinical applications of hyperpolarized 13C imaging. Since 2016, he has also been working on a project supported by an ERC Consolidator grant hosted by the University of Cambridge at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUKCI).

The overall aim of his current research is to break new grounds in metabolic and molecular imaging and to lead novel methods and technologies towards clinical applications. His expertise in instrumentation along with his background in physics provides him with unique opportunities to translate discoveries from basic science research into medical applications. He is committed to a multidisciplinary approach which combines physics, engineering, chemistry, biology and medicine in order to develop hyperpolarized 13C MRI and new imaging methods based on secondary-ion mass-spectroscopy (SIMS) as technologies to answer key questions relating to mammalian metabolism both in healthy and diseased tissues.

Dr Barry Colfer

Fellow

Dr Barry Colfer

Fellow
Research Fellow
Dr Barry Colfer has been elected a Research Fellow from 1 October 2020.  Barry’s research interests include the politics of European integration, industrial relations and the future of work. While at St Edmund’s, Barry will be carrying out research into the impact of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU for Ireland. Barry was awarded his PhD from the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge in 2018, and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the European Studies Centre at the University of Oxford (2018-2019) and at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University (2019-2020). Barry previously worked at both Dáil Éireann (the Irish parliament) and at the European Parliament and for a range of leading think-tanks.
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Dr Becky Shercliff

Director of Studies

Dr Becky Shercliff

Director of Studies

Becky is Director of Studies for Anglo Saxon, Norse, and Celtic degree.

Dr Bernadette O’Keeffe

Emeritus Fellow

Dr Bernadette O’Keeffe

Emeritus Fellow

Emeritus Fellow. Former Co-Director of the Von Hugel Institute and tutor

Dr Caleb Howard

Bye-Fellow

Dr Caleb Howard

Bye-Fellow

I am an Assyriologist based at Tyndale House, Cambridge, researching scribal practices and onomastics (personal names) in ancient Mesopotamia and the Levant. At St Edmund’s I am a Bye-Fellow and Associate Tutor.

Dr J. Caleb Howard is an Assyriologist who studies the languages, texts, and history of ancient Mesopotamia and the Levant. He is a Research Fellow in Old Testament and Ancient Near East at Tyndale House, Cambridge, where he spends most of his time. He is also editor of Tyndale’s academic journal, Tyndale Bulletin. At St Edmund’s College, he is Bye-Fellow and Associate Tutor.

Dr Howard’s research focuses on two periods of ancient history and their textual corpora. First, he researches scribal practices in the Neo-Assyrian state, which flourished in northern Iraq, ca. 1000-600 B.C. His current book project investigates the mechanics of scribal production of Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions, the propaganda of the Assyrian state. The basis of this project is first-hand collation and photography of royal inscriptions of the king Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.) in various museum collections.

A part of Dr Howard’s research on the Neo-Assyrian empire is carried out within the framework of the Cambridge-LMU Strategic Partnership, one aim of which is to publish up-to-date editions of Assyrian royal inscriptions, both online and in print publications. In cooperation with Dr Jamie Novotny (LMU) and Professor A. Kirk Grayson (University of Toronto), Dr Howard is preparing an updated edition of the royal inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II. Transcriptions and translations of these inscriptions will be made available to scholars and the public via an online repository of cuneiform texts called Oracc (Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus).

Dr Howard’s second major research focus is personal names in the Levant in the second and first millennia B.C. At Tyndale House, Cambridge, he is part of a team of researchers collecting personal names from relevant primary sources and analysing them, to see what they tell us about the linguistic and social history of the region. This work will be documented in an open-access database and in a set of print publications. Dr Howard’s main research contribution to the project is a study of the personal names in about five hundred cuneiform tablets from the ancient city of Alalakh (Tell Atchana) in southern Turkey. These texts contain thousands of personal names, mainly derived from one or more West Semitic languages and from the Hurrian language. These names reveal aspects of language, religion, and culture which would otherwise be inaccessible to modern research.

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Dr Camilla Benfield

Tutor and Bye-Fellow

Dr Camilla Benfield

Tutor and Bye-Fellow

Camilla is currently a Consultant in the Animal Production and Health Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Prior to that she was a Senior Lecturer in Virology and Course Director for the MSc in One Health at the Royal Veterinary College, University of London.

Camilla has a degree in veterinary medicine, MA in Zoology and PhD in the molecular virology of influenza virus from the University of Cambridge (St. Catharine’s College), awarded in 2010. She was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Imperial College London and the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, where she worked on virus immunomodulation and virus-vectored recombinant vaccines.

Her research has focused on virus cross-species transmission, and she is interested in infectious diseases at the human-wildlife-livestock interface and the One Health approach.

Camilla is also an Associate Tutor here at St Edmund’s.

Dr Caterina Milo

Dr Caterina Milo

Research Associate

Dr Caterina Milo

Research Associate

My research interests lie in health law and ethics, particularly informed consent, doctor-patient relationship, and reproductive ethics widely considered.

Dr Milo is Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, University of Sheffield, where she leads the Health Law Research Group. Before joining Sheffield, she was College Assistant Professor and Fellow in Law at Robinson College-University of Cambridge, and previously Lecturer at the University of Exeter Law School. She holds a PhD in Health Law from Durham Law School; a MA in Bioethics and Medical Law (St Mary’s University-Twickenham); an integrated MA in Law (University of Siena, Italy); and a Diploma in Legal Studies (University of Oxford).

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Dr Charles Asher Small

Research Fellow

Dr Charles Asher Small

Research Fellow
Dr. Charles Asher Small is the founding Director and President of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP).  He is also the Director of the ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies, Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK;  a Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle East and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, and was the Koret Distinguished Fellow, Stanford University and Visitor Scholar St. Antony’s College, Oxford.

Charles received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, McGill University, Montreal; M.Sc. in Urban Development Planning in Economics, Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London; and a (D.Phil), St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.

Charles convened ground breaking academic seminar series in the emerging field of contemporary antisemitism studies at Columbia University, Fordham University, Harvard University, McGill University, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Sapienza University, Rome, the Sorbonne and the CNRS, Paris, Stanford University, University of Miami, Yale University, as well as an academic training programme for professors at Pembrook College, Hertford College, St. John’s College, and St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.

Dr Charlotte Kenchington

Fellow, Director of Studies, Tutor, Deputy Praelector

Dr Charlotte Kenchington

Fellow, Director of Studies, Tutor, Deputy Praelector
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences

Charlotte is a palaeobiologist based at the Department of Earth Sciences in Cambridge. Her research focuses on the ecology and diversity of the first large, complex macro-organisms – the Ediacaran Biota – which include fossils of some of the earliest animals. Charlotte’s field areas include southern Namibia, central England, and Newfoundland (Canada). She is currently funded by a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship and the Isaac Newton Trust. She is actively engaged in undergraduate teaching in the Department, and especially loves teaching on field courses.

Charlotte was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2016-2018, researching the ecology of marine meiofauna under mentorship of Prof. Duncan McIlroy. She completed her PhD at the Department of Earth Sciences in Cambridge under supervision of Prof. Nick Butterfield and Philip Wilby (British Geological Society), awarded in 2016. Before that, she gained her BA(Mod) in Geology from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, graduating with a Gold Medal and high first class honours degree in 2011.

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Dr Chen Chen

Post Doctoral Research Associate

Dr Chen Chen

Post Doctoral Research Associate

My 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.

Dr Chris Heath

Bye-Fellow

Dr Chris Heath

Bye-Fellow
Director of Studies, PBS

Following training in experimental psychology and behavioural neuroscience as a post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Dr. Chris Heath was recruited as a Lecturer in Health Sciences in the School of Life, Health and Chemical Sciences at The Open University.

At the OU he leads the Translational Neuroscience Research Group, a major objective of which is to utilise touchscreen-based assessment techniques to evaluate a wide variety of psychological constructs across laboratory models and both non-clinical and clinical populations. Recent work has focused on the development of touchscreen-based assessments for motivation, cost-benefit decision making and emotional state regulation and their application to both disease-related and non-disease related areas.

At Cambridge, Dr Heath has been the Director of Studies in the Psychological and Behavioural Sciences (PBS) Tripos at St. Edmund’s College and has supervised and given lectures on various PBS courses.

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