Our people

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.

Institutional processes and diffusion of practices; social and environmental issues, technological and management innovations; value creation and new market development; offshoring and outsourcing, reputation management, and bottom-of-the-pyramid strategies.

Subject group: Strategy & International Business

Folma Buss is a Professor in Molecular and Cellular Biology in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry and the Director of Post Graduate Studies at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. She received her PhD in 1992 from the University of Bielefeld, Germany on studies into the regulation of actin filament dynamics. She did her postdoctoral training at the MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology and at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry. In 2003 she was awarded a Welcome Trust Senior Fellowship and became a group leader at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. Folma’s research is focused on understanding of the crucial roles played by myosin motor proteins in membrane trafficking and how these proteins are linked to pathological disorders such as cancer, inflammation and neurodegeneration.

Samuel Sami Everett, who goes by Sami, is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD in Politics from SOAS, University of London and a BA in North African Language and Culture from INALCO, Paris. His research focuses on the historical-colonial and spatial-political dimensions of interreligious Jewish-Muslim identification to North Africa.

Catherine Dobson read Law at Jesus College, Cambridge, where she was an Exhibitioner and Scholar. During her degree, Catherine spent a year studying at the University of Poitiers, France, obtaining a Diploma in French law. She subsequently read for the BCL at Lincoln College, Oxford. Catherine is a qualified barrister and practises at 39 Essex Street Chambers in London. Before becoming a barrister, Catherine worked at the International Criminal Court. She is currently taking a sabbatical from practice to clerk for Lord Clarke at the UK Supreme Court. Catherine supervises Constitutional Law.