Our people

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.

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

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

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.

Academic Profile

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.

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).

Academic Profile

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.