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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.

Dr Robin Chatterjee

Fellow

Dr Robin Chatterjee

Fellow
Fellow in Accounting, Judge Business School

Robin Chatterjee joined the Judge Institute of Management Studies as a University Lecturer in Accounting, having qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Price Waterhouse in London (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). Prior to joining Price Waterhouse he conducted post-doctoral work in the Economics Faculty, having earlier completed a PhD on 'Takeover and Company Performance', also at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. Robin initially came up to Magdalene College, Cambridge in October 1990 to read for an MPhil degree in Finance, having graduated in Mathematics and Management Studies from King's College, London.

Professor Edwin Chilvers

Fellow

Professor Edwin Chilvers

Fellow

Professor Edwin Chilvers [FRCP, FMedSci, ScD] graduated from Nottingham University Medical School and after Junior medical posts in London started specialist training in Respiratory Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital. This was followed by an MRC Clinical Training Fellowship to work with Professor Steve Nahorski in University of Leicester, studying inositol phospholipid metabolism in airways smooth muscle. He was then appointed Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine at Edinburgh University, working with Professor Chris Haslett, and thereafter to a Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship in Clinical Science, Reader in Medicine at Edinburgh, and Hon Consultant Physician at the Royal Infirmary Hospital.

During this he developed his research interest in inflammatory cell biology, in particular the intracellular signals that regulate the activation and survival of white blood cells (neutrophils and eosinophils). This has translational relevance to a range of inflammatory lung diseases including COPD, asthma, and acute lung injury.

Professor Chilvers was Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Cambridge from 1998-2018 prior to his appointment as Professor of Medicine and Head, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London 2018-2023 (now Emeritus Professor of Medicine). He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2007 and President of the British Thoracic Society in December 2016.

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