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Research Fellowships

Each year, the college holds competitions for Research Fellowships, both Stipendiary and non-Stipendiary. These support gifted young researchers for four years; generally Research Fellows are appointed within two years of the award of a doctorate.

The Fellowships give young researchers an opportunity to establish their career before moving on to become fully independent researchers. Research Fellows have freedom to carry out their chosen research projects within the academic environment of the College and the University departments.

Usually, Research Fellows are appointed by the College Research Committee following interviews in mid-July and mid-January. One Fellow is usually appointed in sciences and one in arts and humanities on each occasion. For July appointments, advertisements will appear in April and May, with closing dates for applications between the end of April and beginning of June. Shortlisted candidates will be informed in mid-June to early July. For January appointments, advertisements will appear in August with closing dates in September. Shortlisted candidates will be informed in the first part of December.

The college also usually appoints two non-stipendiary Research Fellows, one in Physical Sciences, Mathematical Sciences & Engineering and one in Biological & Medical Sciences. Non-stipendiary Research Fellows will need to have already secured external funding for the time of their fellowship. Advertisements appear in late April, with closing for applications in mid-May. Long-listed candidates with be notified in mid-May and asked to submit further material. Short-listed candidates will then hear in early July for interviews in mid-July.  

Competitions will appear below when they open. 

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Junior Research Fellows 2022

Junior research fellowships 2022.

Homerton College invites applications for up to three Junior Research Fellowships, one of which will be in partnership with THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute).

Applications may be made in the fields of:

• World History, particularly North Africa, the Middle East, or Central Asia
• Healthcare Improvement Studies
• Systems Engineering

Candidates may be graduates of any University and will have completed or be about to complete a PhD.  There is no age limit for eligibility, but the College will not normally appoint Junior Research Fellows who are more than three years beyond the award of a doctorate.  A Junior Research Fellowship is tenable for four years with effect from 1st October 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter.

The closing date for applications is Monday 17th January 2022 at noon.

Please go to  https://app.casc.cam.ac.uk/fas_live/homjrf.aspx  for information about how to apply online.

Application/administrative enquiries to: Andra Hoole/Sonali Rao, [email protected] Academic enquiries to Dr Katherine Boyle, [email protected].

Applicants working in any area relevant to improving quality and safety in healthcare will be eligible for the  THIS Institute  JRF, which is jointly funded by Homerton College and THIS Institute in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care in Cambridge. This position may appeal to candidates working in broad areas ranging from  engineering, humanities (including philosophy and ethics), law, business studies, psychology, arts and social science through to medicine and health services research  

The applications committee will automatically put forward for consideration any applicant for any of the subjects listed above that may be eligible.

Further particulars:

1    Applications are invited from outstanding graduates, whose doctoral degrees are complete or very near to completion. 

Candidates whose research requires laboratory access, consumables etc should check that their field of research is matched within the wider University of Cambridge.  You should contact the relevant department in the University, which can be found by logging onto the University of Cambridge website to ensure that relevant resources and space would be available.

2    A Junior Research Fellowship is tenable for four years with effect from 1st October 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter.  There is no age limit, but a Fellowship is intended to support those at an early stage in their academic careers, who will expect, in due course, to go on to hold posts in educational institutions of international standing.  The College will not normally appoint Junior Research Fellows who are more than three years beyond the award of a doctorate.

3    The stipend for a Junior Research Fellow (on the single pay spine scale point 16) is currently £23,096 per annum. Junior Research Fellows may join the Universities Superannuation Scheme.  There are also research funds available to Junior Research Fellows up to £3,000 pa for all expenses including Open Access fees and other publication subventions . In addition, Junior Research Fellows will receive a non-pensionable accommodation allowance of £8,400 per annum; this is taxable and subject to National Insurance contributions. Accommodation is available in College, currently at £700 per month, which will be deducted from salary.  If non-resident, the use of a study, free of charge, in College may be available.  A dining allowance is also included.

4    Junior Research Fellows are allowed to undertake a certain amount of teaching.  Supervisions will be paid for at standard supervision rates, in addition to the stipend.   

5    All applicants will need to provide:

•     A covering letter that includes a personal statement outlining your reasons for applying for this Fellowship at Homerton College, and a description of not more than 1,000 words summarising your proposed research over the next 4 years and research to date;

•     A Curriculum Vitae, including a list of publications where relevant;

•     Applicants are further required to ensure that two references are submitted via email ( [email protected] ) to arrive by the deadline date.  Referees should provide the details for four readers, at least two of whom should not work at the University of Cambridge.

6    Those longlisted will be invited to submit a piece of work (c. 10,000 words) including copies of text, chapters, articles or DOIs. This piece of work should enable readers to gauge so far as possible the nature, scope and importance of your research. More information will be supplied closer to the time.

7    Shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview, to take place in-person or online depending on Covid regulations at the time.

8    Applicants who do not have an automatic right to work in the United Kingdom should note that employment and the payment of stipend cannot commence until appropriate leave to enter or remain has been granted under the Home Office’s immigration rules.  The College will assist the successful candidates with the application process and Certificate of Sponsorship.

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Junior Research Fellowship 2024

Clare College is intending to recruit two Junior Research Fellows in the sciences. This also extends to mathemetics. 

These will be recruited through the  Joint Application Scheme for Early Career Research Fellowships . This website has details of the application process. 

• The application process begins on  Friday, 6th October 2023.
• The application must be submitted through the website by  5.00pm on Monday, 6th November 2023 . Incomplete applications will not be accepted.
• Two references must be submitted through the website by  5.00pm on Monday, 13th November 2023 .
• Candidates who are selected to send samples of written work, must do so by  midnight on Sunday, 7th January 2024.
• Candidates for Clare College will not be interviewed
• Elections will be made no later than the week commencing  18th March 2024.
• Successful candidates will enter into their Fellowships on  1st October 2024.

If you have any questions, contact the JRF Administrator at  [email protected] .

College Junior Research Fellowships University of Cambridge DORA signatory

Each year, the college holds competitions for Junior Research Fellowships, both Stipendiary and non-Stipendiary. These support gifted young researchers for four years; generally Junior Research Fellows are appointed within two years of the award of a doctorate.

Applicant citizenship : Worldwide

Host country : United Kingdom

Years since PhD : <2

Award Duration (years): 4

Research costs : Yes

Mobility rule :

Subjects : Life Sciences , Arts and Humanities

How to apply? For further eligibility requirements and the application process, please visit: Official Funding website

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Junior Research Fellowship in the Sciences

The Governing Body of St Catharine’s College invites applications for election to a Junior Research Fellowship tenable from 1 October 2023 for three years.

The Fellowship is open to graduates of any University who are engaged in research in any aspect of the Sciences. The Sciences include, but are not limited to, the following broad categories as represented by the Cambridge Tripos system: Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Genetics, History and Philosophy of Science, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Pathology, Pharmacology, Physics, Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Plant Sciences, Psychology, Zoology.

This Fellowship is intended to support those at an early stage in their academic careers, and will normally be awarded to candidates who have recently completed their PhD research, or are close to completion. Candidates should not have been engaged in full-time post-doctoral research for more than one year, nor have already held a College Research Fellowship elsewhere.

Applications are welcome for a non-stipendiary Fellowship from candidates who have secured external research funding for three years from 1 October 2023, for example, from the British Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Leverhulme Trust, Wellcome Trust, etc.

A Research Fellow may undertake up to a maximum of six hours of undergraduate teaching per week during term, which will be remunerated separately, but will not be permitted to undertake paid work or to hold any other appointment, award or emolument, without the consent of the Governing Body. Research Fellows are normally expected to spend the tenure of their Fellowship in Cambridge and to contribute to the life of the College, but permission may be granted for periods of research away from Cambridge.

Candidates should complete the on-line application form at https://app.casc.cam.ac.uk/fas_live/cathjrf.aspx where further details are available.

A complete application should comprise a CV, a 2-page statement of proposed research and two references.

Any enquiries should be addressed to the Master’s Executive Assistant ( [email protected] ).

The closing date for applications is 9am on Wednesday 30 November 2022 .

By mid-December 2022, the Electors will construct a short-list of candidates who will be invited to submit a 4-page extended research proposal or other written work; the title of which should be given in the appropriate section of the application form.

Any candidates who have not heard from the College by this date can assume that they have not been placed on this list. Provided that there are candidates of suitable merit, the Governing Body expects to make the elections during Lent Term 2023. Unsuccessful candidates will be contacted at the same time.

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Early career research fellowships.

Joint Application Scheme for Early Career Research Fellowships

Joint Application Scheme for Early Career Research Fellowships.

A number of Early Career Research Fellowships are offered each year by the participating colleges (currently Churchill College, Clare College, Fitzwilliam College, Robinson College & Trinity Hall). The Fellowships are normally tenable for three years and are open to graduates of any University who have recently completed their doctorate or are close to completion. These Fellowships are intended to be early (first or second) post-doctoral positions appropriate to the start of an academic career.

The administration of the Scheme is conducted by the Fellowship Administrator at Churchill College.

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Applications for tenures starting in October 2025 will open in the second week of October 2024.

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Research Fellowships

Each year the College normally advertises competitions for stipendiary and non-stipendiary Research Fellowships, often for applicants in a number of specified subject areas. From time to time, the College also advertises a competition for a fixed-term Research Fellowship in a single specified subject area, with particular teaching duties attached. The College is currently advertising for a Non-Stipendiary Early-Career Research Fellowship, details are available at https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/about/opportunities/academic-vacancies .

A Research Fellowship provides recent PhD graduates an opportunity to spend time in Cambridge undertaking post-doctoral research or scholarly work at an early stage of an academic career.  Research Fellows are all full members of the University and are attached to the Faculty or Department in the University relevant to their particular subject.

A Research Fellow’s responsibility is to engage full-time in research. Like all Fellows, Research Fellows are welcome and encouraged to participate fully in the life and activities of the College. Most Research Fellows are not required to contribute to teaching, but a Fellow who wishes to do so may undertake, for extra payment, limited teaching within the College and University.

A Research Fellow enjoys all the other privileges of a Fellow, including generous allowances for accommodation. They are also entitled to free meals at the High Table, access to funds for the support of research and attendance at conferences, and use of all the College’s facilities.

Similar fellowships are offered by different Cambridge colleges in different subjects, therefore as a Research Fellow at Corpus you will be joining a large community of postdoctoral researchers from across the university.

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Junior Research Fellowship 2023, University of Cambridge

Christ’s College, Cambridge invites applications for a stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship (four-year fixed term) in specified areas of Arts; Humanities and Social Sciences, tenable from no later than 1October 2023 and non-renewable.

A Junior Research Fellowship is intended for a researcher early in their career, who has completed, or expects to complete, their PhD Degree after 1 st January 2022 and, in this case, is restricted to applications in one of more of the following subject areas: Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic; Architecture; English (limited to pre-1800 literature); Linguistics; Modern & Medieval Languages; Music; Philosophy.

The stipend for a Junior Research Fellow is currently £25,627 (with a PhD) and £21,135 (without a PhD) and the successful candidate will be afforded the full privileges of a Fellow of the College.

Applications must be submitted on-line via the Christ’s College website at www.christs.cam.ac.uk/jrf by 12:00 noon on Thursday 20 th October 2022. Reports from two referees must also be received by the same deadline for the application to be eligible. Interviews are expected to be on or around Wednesday 11 th January 2023. Further details of the Fellowship competition are provided on the website ( www.christs.cam.ac.uk/jrf ).

A stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship for a successful applicant who does not have an automatic right to work in the United Kingdom will be subject to the visa requirements of the United Kingdom. The College will give informal advice and assistance but ultimately it will be the responsibility of the candidate to obtain the necessary visa.

Application Deadline: 20 October 2022

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Ten Cambridge scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society 2024

Ten outstanding Cambridge researchers have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences and the oldest science academy in continuous existence.

The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world’s most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering and medicine.

The Society’s fundamental purpose, as it has been since its foundation in 1660, is to recognise, promote and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.

This year, over 90 researchers, innovators and communicators from around the world have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society for their substantial contribution to the advancement of science. Nine of these are from the University of Cambridge.

Sir Adrian Smith, President of the Royal Society said: “I am pleased to welcome such an outstanding group into the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

“This new cohort have already made significant contributions to our understanding of the world around us and continue to push the boundaries of possibility in academic research and industry.

“From visualising the sharp rise in global temperatures since the industrial revolution to leading the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, their diverse range of expertise is furthering human understanding and helping to address some of our greatest challenges. It is an honour to have them join the Fellowship.”

The Fellows and Foreign Members join the ranks of Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Lise Meitner, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Dorothy Hodgkin.

The new Cambridge fellows are:   

Professor Sir John Aston Kt FRS

Aston is the Harding Professor of Statistics in Public Life at the Statistical Laboratory, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, where he develops techniques for public policy and improves the use of quantitative methods in public policy debates.

From 2017 to 2020 he was the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office, providing statistical and scientific advice to ministers and officials, and was involved in the UK’s response to the Covid pandemic. He was knighted in 2021 for services to statistics and public policymaking, and is a Fellow of Churchill College.  

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore FBA FMedSci FRS

Blakemore is the Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, and leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group. Her research focuses on the development of social cognition and decision making in the human adolescent brain, and adolescent mental health. 

Blakemore has been awarded several national and international prizes for her research, and is a Fellow of the British Academy, the American Association of Psychological Science and the Academy of Medical Sciences.   

Professor Patrick Chinnery FMedSci FRS

Chinnery is Professor of Neurology and head of the University’s Department of Clinical Neurosciences, and a Fellow of Gonville & Caius College. He was appointed Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council last year, having previously been MRC Clinical Director since 2019.

His principal research is the role of mitochondria in human disease and developing new treatments for mitochondrial disorders. Chinnery is a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow with a lab based in the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit and jointly chairs the NIHR BioResource for Translational Research in Common and Rare Diseases. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald OBE FMedSci FRS

Fitzgerald is Professor of Cancer Prevention in the Department of Oncology and the inaugural Director of the University’s new Early Cancer Institute, which launched in 2022. She is a Fellow of Trinity College.

Her pioneering work to devise a first-in-class, non-endoscopic capsule sponge test for identifying individuals at high risk for oesophageal cancer has won numerous prizes, including the Westminster Medal, and this test is now being rolled out in the NHS and beyond by her spin-out Cyted Ltd.

Professor David Hodell FRS

Hodell is the Woodwardian Professor of Geology and Director of the Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research in the Department of Earth Sciences, and a Fellow of Clare College.

A marine geologist and paleoclimatologist, his research focuses on high-resolution paleoclimate records from marine and lake sediments, as well as mineral deposits, to better understand past climate dynamics. Hodell is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has received the Milutin Milankovic Medal.

Professor Eric Lauga FRS

Lauga is Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, where his research is in fluid mechanics, biophysics and soft matter. Lauga is the author, or co-author, of over 180 publications and currently serves as Associate Editor for the journal Physical Review Fluids.

He is a recipient of three awards from the American Physical Society: the Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics, the François Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics and the Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of Trinity College.

Professor George Malliaras FRS

Malliaras is the Prince Philip Professor of Technology in the Department of Engineering, where he leads a group that works on the development and translation of implantable and wearable devices that interface with electrically active tissues, with applications in neurological disorders and brain cancer.

Research conducted by Malliaras has received awards from the European Academy of Sciences, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the US National Science Foundation among others. He is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society and of the Royal Society of Chemistry.  

Professor Lloyd Peck FRI FRSB FRS

Peck is a marine biologist at the British Antarctic Survey and a fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge.

He identified oxygen as a factor in polar gigantism and identified problems with protein synthesis as the cause of slow development and growth in polar marine species. He was awareded a Polar Medal in 2009, the PLYMSEF Silver medal in 2015 and an Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch in 2016-2017. 

Professor Oscar Randal-Williams FRS

Randal-Williams is the Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

He has received the Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society, a Philip Leverhulme Prize, the Oberwolfach Prize, the Dannie Heineman Prize of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and was jointly awarded the Clay Research Award.

Randal-Williams is one of two managing editors of the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, and an editor of the Journal of Topology.

Professor Mihaela van der Schaar FRS

Van der Schaar is the John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine in the Departments of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Engineering and Medicine.

She is the founder and director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine, and a Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. Her work has received numerous awards, including the Oon Prize on Preventative Medicine, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and the IEEE Darlington Award.

Van der Schaar is credited as inventor on 35 US patents, and has made over 45 contributions to international standards for which she received three ISO Awards. In 2019, a Nesta report declared her the most-cited female AI researcher in the UK.  

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Research fellowship black identity or heritage (fixed term).

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available until 30th September 2025 in the first instance.

The McDonald Institute invites applications for the third annual Fellowship in archaeology (broadly defined) aimed at candidates of Black Identity or Heritage. The McDonald Institute aims to nurture excellence in the discipline of archaeology regardless of background and in pursuit of diverse knowledges, approaches and practices. We recognise that persistent structural inequalities disadvantage people from Black backgrounds and communities, including within higher education and academic research. As such, we are keen to enable underrepresented early career researchers of Black Identity or Heritage to develop their portfolio of research experience and to thrive in academia. This one-year postdoctoral Fellowship is designed to attract research excellence and we will provide the Fellows with training, mentorship and support to drive their careers forward and to generate a more diverse pipeline of future talent. In addition to salary, the Fellow will be entitled to up to £2,500 relocation costs and £5,000 training and research costs. The Fellow will also have the opportunity to apply through open competition for up to £5,000 p.a. from the D.M. McDonald Grants and Awards Fund for each of three years subsequent to the Fellowship and will be eligible for up to £2,500 expenses for one subsequent return visit to Cambridge. The successful candidate will also be eligible to take up a College Post- Doctoral Associate Position at Jesus College for the year of their appointment.

The successful applicant will take up their Fellowship on 1st October 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. Applicants must normally have defended their PhD a maximum of 7 years prior to the closing date shown above. Applications are encouraged from all branches and fields of archaeology broadly construed, including also human evolution, heritage and museums studies, with no restrictions on methodological approach, period or geographic focus. Applicants should propose a well-focussed research project to be developed across the period of the Fellowship.

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Fellowship recipients to continue their studies in the u.k..

Top row, from left, Paulina Pimentel-Mora, Tony Wang,Galia Newberger, Ellie Burke, and Giuliana Pavanelli Durón. Second row, Yosef Malka, Joshua Nguyen, Anjali Mangla, Sophie Kane, and Vijay Pathak.

Eight Yale seniors and two recent graduates have been awarded fellowships from various organizations for graduate study in the United Kingdom.

These are in addition to students, previously announced in Yale News, who have won Rhodes and Marshall scholarships.

The fellowship winners and their awards follow:

Ellie Burke , who is studying history at Yale, was awarded a Paul Mellon fellowship to pursue an M.Phil. degree in World History at the University of Cambridge. For her thesis project, Burke, who is originally from Kansas City, examined the impacts of the South African musical “Sarafina!” on anti-apartheid protest in the United States with advisor Professor Daniel Magaziner. At Cambridge, she will expand this project to more broadly examine the role of anti-apartheid theater in the United Kingdom. During her time at Yale, Burke produced multiple independent theater shows, sang in a cappella groups, and served in arts leadership roles including Outreach Coordinator for the executive board of the Yale Dramatic Association. She also worked as a barista in the Silliman student-run coffee shop, served as a First-Year Outdoor Orientation (FOOT) Leader, and is currently finishing her year as a First-Year Counselor in Silliman.

Giuliana Pavanelli Durón , who will graduate from Yale with a degree in Urban Studies and Architecture, was awarded a Paul Mellon Fellowship for graduate study at the University of Cambridge, where she will pursue an M.Phil. degree in Architecture and Urban Studies. As an Edward A. Bouchet Research Fellow, she has explored the history of landscape architecture in Mexico City, focusing on how the Mexican Revolution affected the design of urban parks and citizens’ relationship to land. In her thesis, she has explored the political and cultural dimensions of water infrastructure in Mexico City. She addresses how Indigenous histories and colonial legacies have been memorialized in hydrologic monuments within the city’s parks, specifically El Bosque de Chapultepec. She has also interned at the Housing and Health Equity Lab, analyzing the effects of pandemic-era moratoriums on housing-insecure individuals. As an Urban Fellow, Giuliana also works on data analysis for New Haven's Fair Rent and Housing Commission, advocating for tenant rights and healthy living conditions. Her research at Cambridge will focus on urban gardens in Mexico City, with an emphasis on how these community spaces serve as a source for alternative planning strategies based on grassroots practices. 

Sophie Kane , a Senegalese-American who has grown up across seven countries, is an American Studies major aspiring to a career at the intersection of law and social policy. On the Yale campus, she served as the first president of the Yale Votes student organization and led the Intercultural and Social Justice program at the AFAM House. In her senior thesis, she compares restorative and reparatory justice commissions in the United States and South Africa. As an undergraduate, she has worked on a presidential campaign, in Congress, and at two nonprofit policy advocacy organizations: Solitary Watch and the Legal Action Center. She has been a Women in Government and Arthur Liman Fellow and is a former student of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. This summer, she will work at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia before pursuing a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in comparative social policy at Oxford in the fall. At Oxford, she will investigate targeted universalism as a strategic tool to reinvent American welfare.

Yosef Malka , a history major whose academic interests lie in the history of political thought, modern Jewish history, and legal theory, was awarded a Paul Mellon Fellowship to pursue an M.Phil. degree in political thought and intellectual history at Cambridge University. Malka, who is from Rockville, Maryland, will examine 20th-century debates over minority rights, the nation-state, and liberalism while at Cambridge. During his time at Yale, Malka served as co-editor-in-chief of Shibboleth, Yale’s undergraduate journal of Jewish studies, worked as an editorial assistant for the Yale Law Journal, interned for the Office of the New York State attorney general, co-led a Sephardic singing group, and founded a student forum for the study of political theory.

Anjali Mangla , who is completing a double major in Neuroscience and Global Affairs, received a Rotary Global Grant Scholarship that will allow her to pursue a master’s degree in Global Health Policy at London School of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine and London School of Economics. Mangla is interested in global health policymaking, particularly in investigating sustainable financing mechanisms for global health care policy and community-based initiatives. She is currently leading the HAVEN Free Clinic’s pilot “Food as Medicine” program, and, as the clinic’s community relations and advocacy director, has started a variety of initiatives such as reproductive health workshops with Planned Parenthood, and advocacy with the HUSKY4Immigrants Coalition to expand access to public health coverage for all eligible Connecticut residents regardless of immigration status. She has also engaged with the New Haven community through Community Health Educators and volunteering at the hospital and with IRIS' family literacy program. During spring break, she traveled to Liberia to learn more about global health initiative funding for her capstone project on the need for more indirect cost funding for low- and middle-income countries. She hopes to pioneer sustainable global health financing policies with a focus on mitigating noncommunicable diseases in the future.

Galia Newberger  was awarded the King’s-Yale Fellowship to pursue an M.Phil. degree in politics and international studies at the University of Cambridge. She will study the rise of illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. At Yale, she double majored in Humanities and Political Science, and her joint senior essay explored what Plato’s Republic can teach modern readers about preventing a backsliding of democracy. Newberger competes on Yale’s Model United Nations team, and previously served as communications director for the Yale College Democrats and as managing editor at the Yale Daily News Magazine. Outside of Yale, she has served as a legislative and communications intern for U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Illinois, as a political advocacy intern at the ACLU, and as an intern at the Federal Defenders of New York.

Joshua Nguyen , who graduated from Yale in 2023 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology , was awarded the Rotary Global Grant Scholarship to pursue an M.Sc. degree in Digital Health at the University of Oxford. During his time at Yale, Nguyen worked as a research assistant at the Yale School of Medicine, investigating the underlying genetic mechanisms of lymphedema, and was recognized as a Dean’s Research Fellow and STARS II Scholar. His interest in health care equity will guide his studies at Oxford, where he plans to delve into leveraging digital health innovations to serve marginalized populations. While at Yale he spearheaded patient care initiatives for uninsured individuals at the HAVEN Free Clinic and Yale New Haven Hospital, and serving as an ESL tutor for refugees and immigrants in the New Haven area. He was also a peer liaison for Yale’s Asian American Cultural Center, the president of Yale Outdoors, and a clarinetist and recorderist in various music ensembles. He aspires to a career dedicated to improving health equity, with a focus on supporting uninsured and low-income communities.

Vijay Pathak , a senior from Luxembourg and France who will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, has been awarded the Rotary Global Grant to pursue studies in European Politics and international conflict prevention in the United Kingdom. His academic interests lie at the intersections of statecraft, international law, and the foreign and security policies of the EU and United States. He has pursued these interests at Yale as a scholar in the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and also as a Fellow of the Peace, Dialogue, and Leadership Initiative. Pathak has worked as a research assistant at Yale Law School on the United Nations Legal Committee’s efforts to introduce legal frameworks on crimes against humanity, and is also a European Studies Undergraduate Fellow at the Yale MacMillan Center. He has completed coursework in international relations at Bocconi University in Milan, international law at the University of Oxford, and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a recipient of the Yale SASC Light Fellowship.

Paulina Pimentel-Mora , who graduated from Yale in 2023 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, has been awarded the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Studentship pursue a M.Phil. degree in health, medicine, and society at King’s College, Cambridge. Her research will delve into the realm of reproductive autonomy within health care systems, employing a comparative approach to analyze reproductive policies and the diverse factors influencing women’s reproductive decisions. A first-generation community college transfer student at Yale, Pimental-Mora served as a transfer peer advisor, admissions officer blogger, and residential teaching assistant with Yale Pathways to Science and the Yale School of Art’s “The Way We See It” workshop. She was also a member of the Yale College Student Health Advisory Council and participated in the Political Science Undergraduate Advisory Committee, in addition to working at the Yale University Art Gallery. Outside of Yale, she was a 2022 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Future Public Health Scholar at the University of Michigan, where she was awarded the 2022-2023 CDC Williams-Hutchins Health Equity Award for her work as a COVID-19 case investigator.

Tony Wang , a double major in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and History of Art at Yale, has been awarded the 2024 Henry Fellowship to pursue postgraduate studies in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford University. His academic pursuits are deeply anchored in the ancient history and archaeology of the Silk Road, with a keen focus on the Buddhist and Persian material cultures that flourished within Central Asia's heartlands. An active member of the “Guardian of Bamiyan and Gandhara” initiative, Wang is committed to the preservation of cultural heritage and the advancement of local education in the historically rich regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He also served as a curator and educator at the Yale Art Gallery, the UNESCO-recognized Dunhuang Academy, the Iran National Museum, and the Tsinghua University Art Gallery. He served as a research assistant with Professor Valerie Hanson, in Yale’s Department of History, and as a junior researcher at the Institution of Global Art History at Shanghai International University.

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Trinity Fellows Rebecca Fitzgerald and Eric Lauga elected to the Royal Society

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Trinity Fellows Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Director of Cambridge’s Early Cancer Centre, and Professor of Applied Mathematics Eric Lauga have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society in the latest intake to the prestigious institution, which counts many of the world’s most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists among its members.

Rebecca Fitzgerald is Professor of Cancer Prevention at Cambridge and Honorary Consultant in Gastroenterology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. In 2022 she became Director of the new Early Cancer Institute at Cambridge, a multidisciplinary initiative focused on understanding the earliest steps of cancer formation in order to pave the way for new detection and prevention measures.

Professor Fitzgerald’s research into the earlier detection of oesophageal cancer led to the development of the Cytosponge, the ‘pill on a thread’, which can diagnose the condition Barrett’s Oesophagus that is sometimes a precursor to cancer. She won the Westminster Medal for her research into the condition and development of the Cytosponge and in 2021 received the Don Listwin Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cancer Early Detection.

Professor Fitzgerald said:

I am honoured to be elected a member of the Royal Society alongside so many illustrious figures. My scientific interests were sparked by treating patients with advanced cancer who could have had a different outcome if their pre-cancer had been diagnosed. With colleagues at Cambridge’s recently established Early Cancer Institute we will continue our work to understand who is at risk of cancer and the mechanisms through which it develops so that we can stop cancer in its tracks before it is a problem.’

Eric Lauga (above), Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, is recognised for his work in the field of biological physics and fluid mechanics.

Through mathematical analysis, Professor Lauga studies the role played by viscous flows in living systems, revealing instances where fluid dynamics underlies fundamental physical processes and discovering new roles of flows. His interdisciplinary work is often in collaboration with experimentalists from the world of biology, engineering and soft matter physics, allowing novel studies at the intersection between active matter and fluid dynamics.

The two Trinity Fellows join 90 researchers from across the world elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in recognition of their invaluable contributions to science, who include the Nobel laureate, Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier and the former Chief Scientific Advisor to the US President, Professor Anthony Fauci.

Sir Adrian Smith, President of the Royal Society, said it was an honour to welcome such ‘an outstanding group into the Fellowship.’

This new cohort have already made significant contributions to our understanding of the world around us and continue to push the boundaries of possibility in academic research and industry. From visualising the sharp rise in global temperatures since the industrial revolution to leading the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, their diverse range of expertise is furthering human understanding and helping to address some of our greatest challenges.

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