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Dr Anna Gannon, MA, PhD Cantab, FSA

Emeritus Fellow, Director of Studies

Dr Anna Gannon, MA, PhD Cantab, FSA

Emeritus Fellow, Director of Studies

I specialise in early medieval Insular Art. I am part of an international group working on early Irish reliquaries found in Italy, and co-edit a Medieval studies Festschrift. Current research focuses on the exegesis of evoked sacred landscapes, religious approaches to nature in the Insular world.

Dr Anna Gannon, MA, PhD Cantab, FSA, FHEA gained her first degree in Italy, where she studied Modern Languages and specialised in German Philology. She read History of Art at Cambridge, and her PhD was published as The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage (Oxford University Press, 2003; paperback reprint, 2010; Kindle edn. 2012). Dr Gannon worked for some years at the British Museum in the Money and Metal Department and in the Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory, reporting on Treasure. She published the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 63. British Museum. Anglo-Saxon Coins. Part i. Early Anglo-Saxon Coins and Continental Silver Coins of the North Sea, c.600-760, British Museum, 2013.
As Academic Consultant for the University, she was in charge of the professional development of newly-appointed probationary lecturers across the University. As Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of History of Art she taught her own Part II paper on Anglo-Saxon Art, as well as directing studies for five colleges. At St Edmund’s she was also a Tutor and contributed to a number of major Committees.

Her principal research interests and publications are in Anglo-Saxon coinage, Germanic and Insular art and culture, Late Antiquity and the artistic reworking of the heritage of Rome, the advent and spread of of Christianity. Her work spans archaeological and interdisciplinary methodological questions. Since her retirement she has pursued her interest in Theology, and has contributed entries to the Visual Commentary of Scripture on line, a project directed by Prof. Ben Quash, King’s College London.

Publications 

  • The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage (6th-8th centuries), 2003, Oxford University Press .
  • Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 63, c.600-760, 2013 B.M.P
  • The Coins of the Irish Free State, 1928, 2025, in Le Molte Facce di una Moneta, Milano UP, 109-26
  • Guarding the Sacred: early Anglo-Saxon cylindrical containers’ 2021, in Custodire il Sacro, Temporis Signa, XVI, 213-233
  • Insular numismatics 2020, Barbaric Splendor, Archeopress 121-139.

Dr Anna Spathis

Fellow, Director of Studies

Dr Anna Spathis

Fellow, Director of Studies
Associate Professor (Honorary Consultant) in Palliative and End of Life Care

Anna Spathis trained in hospital medicine, general practice and palliative medicine, before working as a palliative medicine consultant in the NHS for over a decade. Since 2019, she has been employed by the University of Cambridge, continuing to work clinically as an honorary consultant in the Cambridge Breathlessness Intervention Service, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Her research focuses on designing and testing of complex interventions for the management of chronic symptoms caused by long-term conditions, particularly breathlessness and fatigue. She has a particular interest in the development of health professional educational tools that facilitate symptom management by providing treatment rationale and structure.

Anna is the Specialty Director for the palliative care clinical course within the Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Academic Lead for the East of England Specialty Training Committee and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is a Fellow and Clinical Director of Studies at St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge.

 

Dr Antonina Kruppa

Fellow

Dr Antonina Kruppa

Fellow
Biological Microscopy Coordinator, School of Biological Sciences

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.

Mr Benjamin Woolf

Dr Benjamin Woolf

Associate Tutor, Bye-Fellow

Dr Benjamin Woolf

Associate Tutor, Bye-Fellow

I am a genetic epidemiologist who works on casual inference from observational data. My research focuses on using the inheritance of genetic variation to emulate randomised control trials, and thereby accelerate drug development. 

Having failed to become a philosopher, Benji became a genetic epidemiologist. He currently works at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics and Integrative Epidemiology Units (at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol respectively). His research leverages the random inheritance of genes to emulate clinical trials ('Mendelian randomization'), and thereby accelerate drug development for cardiovascular and respiratory conditions. His PhD research won the 2023 Cambridge Public Health Early Carer Researcher award for developing a novel approach to assess the causal impact of intergenerational risk factors, such as familial second-hand smoke exposure.

In addition to being an Associate Tutor at St Edmunds, Benji is a tutor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Publications

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

Associate Tutor, Bye-Fellow

Dr Caleb Howard

Associate Tutor, 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

Associate Tutor, Bye-Fellow

Dr Camilla Benfield

Associate Tutor, 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.

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