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Dr Andy Harter CBE DL FREng

Fellow

Dr Andy Harter CBE DL FREng

Fellow
Fellow, Computer Laboratory; Chair, Cambridge Network; Vice President, The Institution of Engineering and Technology

Dr Andy Harter CBE, DL, FREng, CEng, FIET, FBCS, CITP, FLCM, FRSA, read Mathematics and Computer Science at Fitzwilliam College. As a graduate student at Corpus Christi and the Computer Laboratory, he investigated designs for three-dimensional integrated circuits. His doctoral thesis was published by Cambridge University Press and is still available having been recently reprinted!

Since then he has been engaged in industrial research and development for communications systems, and was director of research and engineering of the AT&T Cambridge Laboratory. He has contributed extensively and significantly in the fields of distributed systems, ubiquitous and context aware computing, user-interface design and thin-client systems most notably VNC, a system that lets one person take over another person’s computer screen to help them fix problems. The software is now on over a billion devices, on more different kinds of computer than any other application and is even an official part of the internet. The software is also embedded in Intel Chips, Apple Desktops, Google Software, mobile phones and cars.

Andy is a Fellow of the Computer Laboratory involved with graduate student research programmes, and lectures to final year undergraduates. He is the founder and CEO of RealVNC, a highly successful Cambridge software company which in 2013 won its third Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in three years. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2010, he received the Academy’s Silver Medal, and in 2013 the MacRobert Award, the most prestigious UK prize for engineering and commercialisation. In 2016 he was awarded the Faraday Medal, the highest honour of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and gave the 2018 Turing Lecture. He is a trustee of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, The Computer History Museum and Britten Sinfonia. He is a Chair of Cambridge Network and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was awarded a CBE in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours.  He is a Deputy Lieutenant of the County and was appointed by HM The Queen as the High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire for 2018-19.

At St Edmund's Andy has been a Tutor, Director of Studies in Computer Science, Senior Treasurer of the May Ball and Family officer. He is married to Lily and they are kept busy with their young family. Other interests include golf, rowing, gardening and music, particularly the piano and organ, for which Andy is a Fellow of the London College of Music. He also enjoys travel, and has ventured in a single-engined light aircraft to Iceland, Greenland, Northern Canada (to within a few hundred miles of the North Pole), North and South America (crossing the Andes, rounding Cape Horn and visiting the Falkland Islands).

Dr Hermann Hauser KBE CBE FRS FREng

Honorary Fellow

Dr Hermann Hauser KBE CBE FRS FREng

Honorary Fellow

Dr Hermann Hauser KBE CBE FRS FREng is an Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist and Honorary Fellow at St Edmund's College.

In his long and successful career as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Hermann has founded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors. These include Acorn Computers (where he helped spin our ARM), Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel and Cambridge Network Limited.

Hermann holds an MA in Physics from Vienna University and a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Academy of Engineering and holds an Honorary Doctorate from several other universities.  Dr Hauser was awarded a CBE in 2001 for ‘innovate service to the UK enterprise sector’.  In 2012 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and in 2015 he received a Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) for services to engineering and industry.

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Professor Neil T Gorman DL

Honorary Fellow

Professor Neil T Gorman DL

Honorary Fellow

Lily Bacon DL

Fellow Commoner

Lily Bacon DL

Fellow Commoner
Executive Vice-President of RealVNC, Senior Captain of St Edmund’s College Boat Club

Lily Bacon DL FRSA is a co-founder and Executive Vice-President of Cambridge technology company RealVNC.  In 2013 the company received a third Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in three years, the same year that Lily and four of her colleagues received the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award for engineering innovation and commercialisation, making her only the second female recipient since the awards were established in 1969.  Amongst many other things, she is responsible for the company’s substantial corporate social responsibility programme, instigating sponsorship and support of the arts, charities and education in the region.  Lily is a trustee of the Cambridge Arts Theatre and East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices. She is a panel member of the Cambridgeshire Innovation Fund. In 2018 Lily was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.

Lily has had a number of responsibilities at St Edmund’s including Family liaison for several years and the stewardship of a number of May Balls. She is the Senior Captain of the College Boat Club.  In addition to rowing, Lily keeps fit with regular running including marathons, and more recently the delights and frustrations of real tennis. Lily’s other interests include travel, literature, theatre and music and she has even made time to recently take up the viola.

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Professor Bruce Alberts CBE

Honorary Fellow

Professor Bruce Alberts CBE

Honorary Fellow

Former President, US National Academy of Sciences

Dame Kate Barker

Dame Kate Barker DBE CBE

Honorary Fellow

Dame Kate Barker DBE CBE

Honorary Fellow

Kate Barker is a business economist.  She is presently as a non-executive director of Taylor Wimpey plc and Man Group plc.  Among other roles she is also chairman of trustees for the British Coal Staff Superannuation Fund.

Kate was a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) from 2001 until May 2010.  During this period, she led two major policy reviews for Government, on housing supply and on land use planning.

Professor Sir Brian Heap CBE FRS

Honorary Fellow

Professor Sir Brian Heap CBE FRS

Honorary Fellow
Former Master of St Edmund's College

Sir Brian Heap has doctorates from the Universities of Nottingham and Cambridge in animal physiology, and has published on endocrine physiology, biotechnology, sustainable consumption and production, and science advice for policy makers. He was University Demonstrator at the University of Cambridge, staff member of the Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, Cambridge, Director of the Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research (Cambridge and Edinburgh), and Director of Research at the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Swindon. He was President of the Institute of Biology, UK Representative on the European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, UK Representative on the NATO Science Committee, member of the Scientific Advisory Panel for Emergency Responses (SAPER), Chief Scientist’s Office, Cabinet Office, and member of the Advisory Board of the Templeton Foundation. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989, he became a member of Council, and Foreign Secretary and Vice-President from 1996 to 2001. In 1994 he was awarded CBE and in 2001 knighted for contributions to international science.

Sir Brian was President of the European Academies Science Advisory Council, Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham, and is Chief Scientific Advisor to the Malaysian Commonwealth Study Centre and the Cambridge Malaysian Education and Development Trust, and is a Trustee of the Cambridge China Development Trust. He was Master of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, and is Honorary Fellow at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge and formerly at Green Templeton College, Oxford. He was Editor of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B, Chair of the Advisory Panel on Sustainable Consumption and Production at the Department of the Environment Food and Rural Affairs, and Specialist Advisor to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Putting Science and Engineering at the Heart of Government Policy.

With the UK’s Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the Department of Health’s Expert Group on Cloning, the EU President’s Advisory Group on Biotechnology, and the UK-China Forum he has been engaged in issues of population growth, environment and biotechnology. He is Senior Adviser of the Smart Villages Initiative in Africa, Asia and Latin America, International Adviser, Global Food Security, University of Cambridge, and previously project co-leader of Biosciences for Farming in Africa. He was scientific consultant for Merck, Sharp and Dohme, Johnson and Johnson, and Ligand Pharmaceuticals in the USA, and Principal Scientific Adviser for ZyGEM Co Ltd, New Zealand.

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Sir James MacMillan CBE

Honorary Fellow

Sir James MacMillan CBE

Honorary Fellow
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Professor Christopher Rapley CBE

Honorary Fellow

Professor Christopher Rapley CBE

Honorary Fellow

Former Director of the Science Museum, London

Dr Alexandra Urban

Visiting Scholar

Dr Alexandra Urban

Visiting Scholar

Dr Alexandra Urban studied German philology and Latin at LMU Munich (First State Examination, 2016) and went on to complete a Master’s degree in German Language and Literature with a specialization in medieval studies (2017). From 2016 to 2020, she was a research associate in the DFG research group 1986 “Nature in Political Conceptions of Order: Antiquity – Middle Ages – Early Modern Period”, where she completed her PhD, awarded summa cum laude, in July 2020. The book was published in 2021 by De Gruyter under the title Poetik der Meisterschaft in ›Der meide kranz‹: Heinrich von Mügeln auf den Schultern des Alanus ab Insulis (series Deutsche Literatur. Studien und Quellen). Since 2020, she has been a research associate at the Chair of Professor Kellner (LMU Munich).

Dr Sandra Brunnegger

College Teaching Officer, Director of Studies, Fellow

Dr Sandra Brunnegger

College Teaching Officer, Director of Studies, Fellow

Dr Sandra Brunnegger is a Fellow in Law and Anthropology.

Dr 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 Sean Butler

Emeritus Fellow

Dr Sean Butler

Emeritus Fellow

Dr Sean Butler is an Emeritus Fellow at St Edmund's College. His main field of research is animal rights law.

Dr Sean Butler studied Law at Oxford (St Edmund Hall) and the LSE, London, as well as Genetics at Cambridge (CPGS) before taking his PhD in social science at Imperial College, London. He supervises Roman Law and lectures Animal Rights Law in the Law Faculty, and is Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law.

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Dr Philip McCosker FRSA

Fellow

Dr Philip McCosker FRSA

Fellow
Dr Philip McCosker, FSRA, is Director of the Religion and Theology Research Programme at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University, and a Fellow of St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. He is the former Vice-Master of St Edmund's College and former Director of the Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry. He was previously Deputy Master of St Benet’s Hall and Lecturer in Theology at Trinity and Jesus Colleges in Oxford. He received his theological formation at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale. His research focuses on historical, philosophical, and constructive theology, frequently in connection with the Catholic traditions.

Dr Ian McCrone

Fellow

Dr Ian McCrone

Fellow
University Physician (Farm Animal Clinical Team Leader), Department of Veterinary Medicine

Mr Ian Stewart McCrone graduated from the University of Liverpool with a degree in veterinary science and has completed further postgraduate qualifications with a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons' certificate in cattle health and production and a Masters Degree in epidemiology and a Diploma of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Before joining the department of veterinary medicine Ian worked almost exclusively as a farm animal (veterinary) practitioner in North Norfolk, South Yorkshire and the Lancashire-Yorkshire border.  Ian joined Cambridge in 2006 initially as a Clinical Farm Animal Veterinarian, then as a Clinician Teaching Fellow in Veterinary Public Health and Farm Animal Medicine, and since October 2013 as University Physician, a reader level position with responsibility as Farm Animal Clinical Team Leader.

Dr Suzanne Paul

Tutor, Fellow, Fellow Archivist and Librarian

Dr Suzanne Paul

Tutor, Fellow, Fellow Archivist and Librarian

Dr Suzanne Paul is the Keeper of Rare Books and Early Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, Fellow Librarian, Fellow Archivist

Dr Suzanne Paul is the Keeper of Rare Books and Early Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library.  She obtained an MA in Classics and Medieval History from the University of Edinburgh, followed by an MA and PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Leeds. From 2003-2007, she undertook post-doctoral research at the University of Hull which resulted in the publication of the 4-volume Repertorium of Middle English Prose Sermons. In 2007, she moved to Cambridge to work as a researcher on the Parker on the Web project at Corpus Christi College and subsequently became sub-librarian of the Parker Library. From 2013-2015, she was the Medieval Manuscripts Specialist in the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives in Cambridge University Library. Within the broad field of manuscript research, she has a particular interest in the application of digital technologies to the study and curation of medieval manuscripts.

Dr Matthew Psycharis

Fellow, Director of Studies

Dr Matthew Psycharis

Fellow, Director of Studies

Director of Studies in Law 

Matthew is a Fellow of St Edmund’s College and Director of Studies of Undergraduate Law.  He is a member of the Centre for Public Law, Cambridge.  He teaches constitutional law, and the law of trusts and equity, across a number of Cambridge colleges.  His research is in the field of constitutional law and constitutional theory.  His works on topics ranging from contemporary populism, constitutional change, referendums, and constitutional history, have been published in leading UK and Australian journals.

Matthew completed his PhD in law at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, supported by a WM Tapp Scholarship, on the topic of ‘Policy Referendums in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia’.  In addition to his doctorate, Matthew holds a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from the University of Melbourne.  In 2015 he matriculated at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, completing a Master of Laws.

Before Cambridge, Matthew was admitted to legal practice, and worked as an Associate at the Australian firm Allens-Linklaters, practising as a litigator.  He advised clients on a wide range of government investigations, business disputes, class actions, and cross-border disputes.  In a pro bono capacity, he instructed in constitutional proceedings concerning democratic rights, and advised peak human rights bodies on issues concerning offshore refugee detention and the drafting of anti-discrimination legislation.  Taking time out of practice, Matthew spent a year working as the Senior Judicial Assistant to a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria (Australia).  Before coming to the law, Matthew trained as an economist and worked, in 2012, as a policy analyst at the Department of Treasury and Finance (Australia).

His Law Faculty page, including a list of publications and research projects, is available here:  https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/mj-psycharis/78801

Dr James Whitworth

Fellow

Dr James Whitworth

Fellow

Dr James Whitworth's research and clinical activity focuses on the identification of individuals at increased risk of cancer due to a heritable genetic cause, and methods to mitigate that risk where identified.

James obtained his medical degree from the University of Leicester in 2007. He continued his clinical training in the East Midlands before taking up an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in Clinical Genetics in Birmingham. He moved to Cambridge to undertake a PhD, which was completed in 2019 and led to his appointment as an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer prior to his current post.

Dr Anna Gannon, MA, PhD Cantab, FSA

Emeritus Fellow, Director of Studies

Dr Anna Gannon, MA, PhD Cantab, FSA

Emeritus Fellow, Director of Studies

Dr Anna Gannon is an Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund's College. She specialises in early medieval Insular Art. She is part of an international group working on early Irish reliquaries found in Italy, and co-edits 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 David Friedman

Bye-Fellow, Director of Studies

Dr David Friedman

Bye-Fellow, Director of Studies
Dr David Friedman is Director of Studies in Classics at St Edmund's and an Affiliated Researcher in the Faculty of Classics.

Dr Friedman studies Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, with a particular focus on Josephus and ancient historiography. After receiving a BA in Mathematics (Yale) and working first at a physics lab and for many years in derivatives trading, he returned to university to earn an MA (UCL), MPhil (Oxford), and DPhil (Oxford), which explored how Josephus presented the origins of the Jews to his Roman audience. David is a Bye Fellow of Darwin College, a Bye Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at St  Edmund's and an affiliated researcher in the Faculty of Classics.

Dr Phung Dao

Tutor and Fellow

Dr Phung Dao

Tutor and Fellow

Dr Phung Dao is Associate Professor in Second Language Education. His research focuses on the intersection of second language acquisition (SLA), educational technology, and language education.

Phung Dao is Associate Professor in Second Language Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, where he teaches MPhil/MEd courses in Research in Second Language Education (RSLE) and supervises PhD students. Before joining the University of Cambridge, Phung was a senior Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University (2018-2022), teaching undergraduate/postgraduate courses and supervising PhD students in TESOL/Applied Linguistics. He also taught undergraduate/postgraduate courses in Applied Linguistics at University of Queensland (Australia), Concordia University (Canada) and An Giang University (Vietnam). His research interests focus on instructed second language acquisition (ISLA), technology for language teaching and learning, peer interaction, learner engagement, Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), L2 pedagogy, and L2 teacher education. His publications appear in international peer-reviewed Applied Linguistic journals such as Modern Language Journal, TESOL Quarterly, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Teaching, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Language Teaching Research, Applied Linguistics Review, TESOL Journal, System, Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, Language Learning Journal, IRAL and among others.

His current research projects, funded by British Council and IELTS IDP Australia, investigate online English language teaching in Vietnamese public schools, IELTS impacts on stakeholders, and young learners’ engagement in L2 learning tasks in face-to-face and online classes.

Academic Profile 

Publications

  • Dao, P. (2024). Learner Engagement in Online Second Language Classrooms. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Iwashita, N., Dao, P., & Nguyen, M. (2025). Understanding Interaction in the Second Language Classroom Context. Multilingual Matters.
  • Dao, P., M. Nguyen, PT. Duong, V. Tran-Thanh. (2021) Learners’ Engagement in L2 Computer-Mediated Interaction: Chat Mode, Interlocutor Familiarity, and Text Quality. Modern Language Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/modl.12737
  • Dao, P., Bui, T. & Nguyen, XNCM (2024). Public primary school teachers’ perceptions and assessment of young learners’ engagement. Language Teaching Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688241253546

 

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