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Introduction

I concentrated in East Asian Studies as an undergraduate at Harvard College (1989-1993), and then spent two years in Japan as a Rotary Scholar before returning to Harvard for my doctoral studies in political science (1995-2001).  During my graduate studies I spent a year abroad as a Fulbright scholar with time in Tokyo and Brussels for research on the politics of agricultural trade negotiations. I taught international relations at Princeton University for sixteen years with a joint appointment as a professor in the Department of Politics and in the School for Public and International Affairs. I returned to Harvard in 2018 where I am now the Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. For the year 2024-25, I will serve as the Centenary PPE Professor at Oxford.

Teaching

At Harvard, I have taught seminars at the graduate and undergraduate level on international organizations.  We explore theoretical perspectives on the conditions that support cooperation and consider specific topics such as trade policy, environmental protection, and collective security. I also teach an undergraduate course, “Law, Politics, and Trade Policy: Lessons From East Asia.” Students examine the transformative role of trade policy for Japan, Korea, and China that produced the East Asian growth miracle and generated trade conflict.

Research

My research examines topics related to trade, East Asian foreign policy, and international organizations. My dissertation research was published in 2003 as a book titled Food Fights over Free Trade: How International Institutions Promote Agricultural Trade Liberalization. My research continued to explore cooperation in trade policy with articles on economic and security linkage in negotiations and a book Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO (Princeton University Press 2012), which examines the domestic pressures that shape international trade disputes.  My most recent book, Discriminatory Clubs: The Geopolitics of International Organizations, was published by Princeton University Press in 2023. The book reveals the discriminatory logic at the heart of multilateral institutions. With statistical analysis of membership patterns and historical case studies, I show how geopolitical alignment determines who gets into the room to make the rules of global governance. This year I am conducting research for a new book about how international rivalry shapes trade policy and writing several articles on economic sanctions.

Publications

A list of my publications can be found here

Introduction

I grew up and went to school in north London before studying English at Trinity College, Dublin. I first came to Oxford for my Master’s degree at University College, and I stayed on to write my DPhil on medieval and Tudor drama. Before joining Queen’s in 2024, I taught medieval and early modern literature in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London, where I was also Head of English.

Teaching

I teach English literature from 1350–1660, and have particular interests in premodern drama, book history, and material culture. I have supervised graduate students working on a broad range of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century topics including fifteenth-century aureate verse, Henrician court poetics, and the performance of skin on the early modern stage. I welcome enquiries from potential doctoral students interested in any of the areas of my research.

Research

All my work is concerned with the material conditions that shape literary production and reception. My first two books—The Drama of Reform (Brepols, 2013) and Reading Drama in Tudor England (2018)—were about the drama written and performed in England before a culture of commercial playgoing was established at the end of the sixteenth century. I continue to work on premodern drama and have co-edited a collection of essays on dramatic manuscripts—Early English Drama in Manuscript (Brepols, 2019).

Alongside my writing about drama, I have published widely on the interactions between manuscript and print, the marketing of early printed books, and various other aspects of the early English book trade. My current book project grows from a Leverhulme-funded Major Research Fellowship and explores the reuse and recycling of old books in early modern England. Assessing the relationship between bibliographic and literary ideas about waste and reuse, it considers the role of old books (both as wasted remnants and second-hand commodities) in early modern culture. Out of this work, I am also developing a new project about the second-hand movement of books in early modern Europe.

Introduction

I am one of the two physics Fellows at Queen’s. I went to a large comprehensive school in North Yorkshire (Stokesley School, Stokesley) and then came to Oxford for my undergraduate degree (an MPhys at Balliol College). I really enjoyed learning physics, especially the particle physics options, so moved on to a DPhil in particle physics, where I studied particles called neutrinos (also in Oxford, at St. Cross College). After eight years in Oxford, I moved to the USA as a Lederman Fellow at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (the USA’s particle physics lab, located just outside Chicago) for four years. I returned to Oxford in 2021 as a UKRI Future Leader’s Fellow and Lecturer at Lincoln College, Oxford. I then took up my current position at Queen’s in 2024.

Teaching

I teach a range of topics to undergraduate students at Queen’s, including classical mechanics, special relativity, quantum mechanics, and nuclear and particle physics. I also typically supervise around three graduate (DPhil) students and two or three post-doctoral researchers.

Research

I am an experimental particle physicist, and my research is on particles called neutrinos. Neutrinos are the most abundant massive particle in the universe, but they almost never interact with anything, which means it’s very hard to detect that they are even there. Neutrinos come in three types, or “flavours”, and the most interesting thing about them is that they can change between flavours. The big question in neutrino physics now is whether neutrinos and the antimatter version, antineutrinos, change in the same way – if they don’t, it could be a hint to why the universe is made only of matter, even though we think equal amounts of matter and antimatter were created in the Big Bang. My research focuses on studying how neutrinos change and how they interact in detectors. I am a member of multiple international experimental collaborations: MicroBooNE (where I am Physics Coordinator, responsible for scientific leadership on the experiment), the Short Baseline Near Detector (SBND), T2K, and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).

If you’d like to know more, I host a YouTube series (created with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) about neutrino physics called “Even Bananas” (because everything creates neutrinos – the Sun, the Earth, and…even bananas!).

Publications

My publications are listed on the department website here: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/our-people/duffy/publications

Introduction

I went to school at Chelmsford County High School in Essex, before studying Natural Sciences at Cambridge. During this time, I became fascinated with how the immune system makes critical decisions, and I therefore moved to the London Research Institute for my PhD with Dr Caetano Reis e Sousa. After a fantastic four years working out the signals to recognise fungal infections in the spleen, I realised it would be important to understand how this works earlier during infection at the body surfaces. I therefore moved to McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario to carry out a postdoc with Prof Andrew McPherson. During this time, we could demonstrate some of mechanisms used to contain the diverse consortium of microbes that resides in your large intestine. In 2011, I became an “Ambizione” junior group leader together with Prof Wolf-Dietrich Hardt at the ETH Zurich. I was promoted to Assistant Professor for Food Immunology in 2018, and to a full Professor for Mucosal Immunology in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology in 2022. I was appointed to the Barclay Williams Professorship for Molecular Immunology in 2023 at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology.

Teaching

I lecture on adaptive immunity for first-year Biomedical Sciences students. Internationally, I am involved in teaching “Research Integrity” for doctoral students and as a “didactic fellow”. My research group is open for the supervision of projects in the areas of mucosal immunology, vaccine design, and microbiome sciences.

Research

The Molecular Mucosal Immunology group is focused on understanding the complex relationship between intestinal bacteria, the host immune system, and intestinal physiology. This includes fundamental research in reductionist systems, addressing questions such as what mechanisms we human hosts use to control the gut microbiome, via novel technique development, through to translational mucosal vaccine development targeting critical intestinal pathogens. We currently have a major focus on eliminating antibiotic resistant pathogenic E. coli carriage in the gut.

Publications

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Introduction

I grew up in Melbourne, Victoria, and completed undergraduate degrees in law and science at the University of Melbourne. After graduating, I spent three years as a solicitor at Minter Ellison before returning to the Melbourne Law School as a research fellow and, subsequently, doctoral candidate. My thesis passed in 2012, and won the Law School’s Harold Luntz Graduate Research Thesis Prize and the university-wide Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis. Prior to starting at Queen’s in 2023, I held posts at the University of Queensland (2009-2012), University of Oxford (2012-2015) and King’s College London (2015-2023). I am the author of Drafting Copyright Exceptions: From the Law in Books to the Law in Action, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Teaching

Within the College, I teach Contract Law and Trusts at FHS Level. My Faculty teaching is in Intellectual Property law. I contribute to all four IP half options offered to students studying the BCL/MJur and the MSc in Intellectual Property Law: Comparative Copyright; Incentivising Aesthetic Progress: Intellectual Property, Art & Design (which I convene); Incentivising Innovation; and Trade Marks and Brands. I also contribute to the Oxford Diploma in Intellectual Property Law. I am available to supervise graduate work, in particular in relation to copyright and trade mark law.

Research

My research spans many areas, including intellectual property, personal property, trusts, and law as it relates to cultural institutions and the creative industries. I have a particular interest in interrogating the ‘law in action’ – that is, law as understood by everyday actors. This reflects the idea that law has multiple audiences, only some of which are legal experts (judges, lawyers and the like). How do regular folk understand and engage with the law? In exploring these questions, I have drawn from more recent iterations of law and economics, being scholarship informed by psychologists, behavioural economists and others who have challenged and built on the insights of the Chicago school and its legal offshoots. In my current work, I am drawing even more heavily from cognitive science, psychology and allied fields, in order to test the scientific basis of certain claims and concepts in intellectual property law.

Introduction

I grew up in Eggersriet, Switzerland. In 2013, I obtained my BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University (Lincoln College). After stints as a journalist, a researcher at the Swiss National Bank, an analyst at a development NGO, and a teacher in a refugee reception centre in Switzerland, I read for an MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE), where I subsequently stayed for an additional year as a pre-doctoral research fellow.  I completed my PhD in Economics at UC Berkeley in spring 2022 and returned to Oxford as an Associate Professor of Economics at the Economics Department and a Tutorial Fellow at Queen’s College later that year.

Teaching

I teach tutorials in Probability and Statistics and Quantitative Economics at Queen’s. At the Economics Department, I am involved in teaching the undergraduate options course in Development Economics, and I also lecture as part of the MSc in Economics for Development. In addition, I supervise a few MPhil and DPhil students each year.

Research

I conduct empirical research on migration, networks, and spatial linkages between economic agents. For instance, one of my current projects investigates to what extent co-national social networks help newly arriving refugees integrate in the local labor market and society more broadly, and how this affects local firms, workers, and politics. In another, I study how unconditional cash transfers to rural households in Kenya shape their social and economic interactions, and how the benefits of cash ripple through existing social networks within their villages.

Introduction

I studied German and French in Oxford at Magdalen College, where I also began my graduate work on the underground poetry of the former East Germany before getting a two-year fellowship from the FvS Foundation to Germany. I returned to a Fellowship in German at Emmanuel College in Cambridge (1990) but came over to Oxford to a Fellowship at New College in 1993. I was there, as a Tutorial fellow, for almost 30 years, from 2008 as Professor of Modern German Literature before joining Queen’s as the Schwarz-Taylor Chair in October 2022.  

Teaching

I have for a long time taught across the modern German syllabus with a special interest in poetry and the contemporary. My focus will now be graduate teaching: for those with an interest in modern or contemporary literature, East German literature, the Berlin Republic, poetry, translation, spectres, angels, ecology, Brecht and Rilke.

Research

I started my academic life researching the samizdat poetry, art and music scene that existed in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall.  I have continued my interest in the GDR and have published widely on modern German culture, especially of the post-1945 and contemporary periods; my interests range from poetry and the poetic tradition to modernity, GDR literature; contemporary German culture, lateness, afterness, women’s writing, angels, spectres, translation, Rilke and Brecht. Since 2014 I have also led the project Mediating Modern Poetry. I am also a prize-winning translator of contemporary German literature, including Evelyn Schlag, Raoul Schrott, Michael Krüger, Durs Grünbein, Volker Braun and Ulrike Almut Sandig. I think of myself very much as a practitioner alongside my academic work and have taught poetry writing and translation and been awarded artist residences in UK and Germany.

Publications

Recent publications include:

Ulrike Almut Sandig, Monsters Like Us, trans. by Karen Leeder (London, New York, Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2022).

Karen Leeder, ed. (with Lyn Marven), Ulrike Draesner: A Companion (New York, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022).

Volker Braun, Great Fugue, trans. by Karen Leeder and David Constantine (Ripon: Smokestack Books, 2022).

Via Lewandowsky & Durs Grünbein, Intercom: Dialogue, trans. by Karen Leeder (Göttingen: Steidl, 2022).


Introduction

During my undergraduate studies at Union College, I spent a term in France, where I returned to teach after completing my degree. After a Master’s at Ohio State, I did my PhD at Brown, focusing on nineteenth-century French poetry. I came to Queen’s in 2016.

Following my education in non-selective state schools in the U.S., I pursued undergraduate and postgraduate study and taught at both private and public institutions before coming to Oxford. I welcome applications from excellent students from all corners of the globe and from all walks of life. I also share the University’s commitment to an inclusive environment, which ‘promotes equality, values diversity and maintains a working, learning and social environment in which the rights and dignity of all its staff and students are respected.’

Teaching

I teach French language and literature to all years of the French undergraduate course at Queen’s. In addition to translation from French into English and first-year grammar classes, I teach a range of topics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature. I’m happy to supervise graduate work on nineteenth-century French literature, particularly in poetry.

Research

Much of my research has focused on 19th century poetry: specifically, at the intersection of poetic form and underlying tensions within and around a text. I have tended to work on poets of the second half of the century, including Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, and Krysinska, in my research and in translations as well. I have been the editor of the scholarly journal Nineteenth-Century French Studies since 2014.

Publications

You can find out more about my current research projects, and a list of selected publications, on my Faculty webpage.


Introduction

I attended my local state grammar school (King Edward VI, Chelmsford) and then studied for both my undergraduate and doctoral degrees in engineering at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. I then spent four years as a research fellow at St. John’s College, Cambridge which included two years in the USA as a Marie Skłodowska Curie fellow at Lawrence Berkley national laboratory. Following this I then spent a brief period as a Diamond-Manchester research fellow within the school of chemistry at the University of Manchester but based at Diamond Light Source on the Harwell campus. In 2019, I took up my current position at Queen’s and the materials department in Oxford.

Teaching

I teach subjects from across the materials course to first, and second-year undergraduates at Queen’s and Mansfield. I also currently supervise two graduate (DPhil) students and two post-doctoral researchers.

Research

My research interests lie primarily in the area of interface science – that is understanding the reactions occurring at the interfaces between materials and their environment. Much of my group’s work involves the development of novel interface sensitive characterisation techniques and using these to understand both desirable and unwanted reactions that occur at the interfaces between functional materials during operation. This includes electrode-electrolyte interfaces in rechargeable batteries, the surfaces of heterogeneous catalyst materials in gas and liquid environments, and two-dimensional materials growing on top of flat substrates.

Publications

For a full list of publications, please visit: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=DLUsdFkAAAAJ&hl=en.


Introduction

I was educated at my local comprehensive school from 11 to 16 and attended a private school for sixth form. I obtained my first degree from Cambridge and a PhD from Imperial, London where I then spent a further three years as a junior researcher. I then studied for a postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) and spent three years teaching in a large state secondary school in London. Following this I moved to Zurich where I spent 10 years running a small research group. In 2013 I returned to the UK to take up my current position in Oxford. 

Teaching

I am passionate about teaching. In contrast to many colleges, I give most of the first-year tutorials to the Queen’s students myself. These involve the standard essay writing and discussion but also additional activities centred on my extensive natural history collection! I give quantitative methods (QM) tutorials to the second years and prepare the third years for both the general and the data interpretation papers.

Research

I am an ecologist with a particular focus on plants. I have engaged with a broad range of topics, but at the moment I am particularly interested in how plant species coexist and in the symbiotic relationships between algae and other organisms. These relationships allow many other organisms, apart from plants, to take advantage of photosynthesis. I have several DPhil students in my research group working on a diverse range of topics. In addition, I usually supervise a small number of undergraduate projects.

Publications

  • Is ‘Peak N’ key to understanding the timing of flowering in annual plants, New Phytologist (205) 2015, 918-927
  • Land-use intensity and the effects of organic farming on biodiversity: a hierarchical meta-analysis, Journal of Applied Ecology (51) 2014, 746-755
  • Ecology’s dark matter: the elusive and enigmatic niche, Basic and Applied Ecology (15) 2014, 93-100
  • Coexistence, niches, and the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning, Ecology Letters (16) 2013, 116-127
  • Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions, Journal of Ecology (101) 2013, 58-67
  • Natural enemies drive geographic variation in plant defenses, Science (338) 2012 116-119
  • Adaptation and extinction in experimentally fragmented landscapes, PNAS (107) 2010, 19120-19125

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I was educated at local state schools as a child and then at Selwyn College, Cambridge, as an undergraduate and the University of Bristol as a postgraduate. I joined Queen’s in 2006 and worked in the Old Members’ Office for eight years, initially as Old Members’ Officer and then as Director of Development. I was appointed Bursar in 2014.

The role of the Bursar is specified in the Statutes as being ‘responsible for the administration of the property and pecuniary affairs of the College under the authority of the Provost’. Nowadays this roughly corresponds to the role of Chief Financial Officer, and the most important requirement of my post is to oversee the management of the College’s finances, including our endowment investments. However, the role of the Bursar also now includes a certain amount of responsibility for all of the non-academic operations of the College.


Introduction

I am one of the two physics tutors at The Queen’s College. After completing my DPhil at Hertford College in 1983 I was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at St. John’s College here in Oxford. In 1986 I was elected to a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, which I held until 1990, when I was elected to a Fellowship at Queen’s, and to a University Lectureship at the Department of Physics. I was awarded the title of Professor of Condensed Matter Physics in 2008. I was Head of Condensed Matter Physics from September 2017 until September 2022.  I am the Entertainment Secretary and Wine Steward here at Queen’s. Physics is part of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, and I was Associate Head of this Division from October 2011 until September 2016, in charge of academic matters. I am currently the Tutor for Admissions at Queen’s, please find all information about admissions on our main website under the menu item Admissions.

Teaching

At Queen’s I teach a range of topics to the undergraduate physics students, including electromagnetism and optics, thermal physics and condensed matter physics.

Research

I am interested in the optical properties of materials, and have been working in the areas of nanotechnology , nanophotonics and quantum computing for the past 10 years. Full details of my research can be found at my departmental web page.

Publications

Some of my recent publications include:


Introduction

I graduated from the University of Genoa, Italy, with a laurea in Biological Sciences (1999). I then specialised in biophysics at the National Research Council in Genoa and went on to earn a PhD in Pharmacology at the University of Bath (2004). I held a post-doctoral fellowship in physiology at Oxford (2004-2008), under the mentorship of Professor Frances Ashcroft, while I was also a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College. In 2008, I was appointed as a Research Council (RCUK) Fellow to set up an independent lab at the University of Manchester. I returned to Oxford in 2012 as an Associate Professor in Pharmacology and a Fellow at Queen’s.

Teaching

I teach undergraduate students at all stages of preclinical medicine and biomedical sciences. My teaching focuses especially on systems and molecular physiology, pharmacology and biophysics. I also teach as part of the MSc course in pharmacology, and I typically supervise three DPhil students in my lab.

Research

The focus of my research is on vascular ion channels, proteins that form microscopic gated pores and thus allow ions to move into and out of cells. In so doing, ion channels give rise to electrical impulses that trigger and control a vast array of fundamental biological processes. Specifically, the cells forming the wall of arteries possess channels that generate signals determining the artery diameter; this ultimately contributes to the control of blood pressure. We aim to understand the way these channels open and close and how alterations in these important proteins may lead to human disease. We also work to identify new ion channel-interacting drugs, which could modulate blood vessel function for therapeutic benefit. To achieve these aims the lab takes a multidisciplinary approach involving studies at the level of molecules, cells, tissues and the whole organism, using a combination of experimental and theoretical methodologies.

Publications

For a full list of publications, please visit https://pharm.ox.ac.uk/team/paolo-tammaro.


Introduction

I was educated at a state school in Norfolk. I studied medicine at Oxford and I undertook my doctoral studies in Physiology by taking three years out in the middle of the medical course – a practice that was more common then than it is now. After qualifying in medicine, I undertook hospital jobs for a period of time in Gloucester and Oxford before taking up my Fellowship at Queen’s.

Teaching

I have taught physiology, with a particular focus on integrative, human and medical physiology, for over 30 years. Although I no longer tutor, I continue to both lecture and examine, and I particularly enjoy giving the first year lecture course on respiratory physiology.

Research

My research interests have focussed around oxygen – not just the way it is used in metabolism, but also the way in which it affects so many of our biological functions, including respiratory, cardiovascular, and metabolic control. Most recently, I have become interested in whether it is possible to characterise clinically useful features of an individual’s physiology using highly precise measures of gas exchange. The idea is that the measurements could be used to direct therapy in relation to a number of respiratory diseases, just as blood pressure measurements are currently used to prescribe antihypertensive drugs. I currently co-direct the Respiratory Theme of the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre with Prof Ian Pavord. My personal research is currently supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and by GSK.

Publications

For a full list of publications, see my Google Scholar page.

Selected publications


Introduction

My undergraduate studies in Music were at Cambridge, where I held an Organ Scholarship. After this, I pursued doctoral research in Portugal, and then moved to Oxford as Lecturer at St Peter’s College and St Edmund Hall. I then spent six years teaching at the University of Surrey, before taking up my post at Queen’s in 1997. As Organist at Queen’s I direct the Chapel Choir, and work with the Organ Scholars in planning the choir’s activities, including thrice-weekly services in term-time, concerts, tours, recordings, and broadcasts. I also organise (with the assistance of the Organ Scholars) a series of weekly organ recitals in term-time on the College’s fine Frobenius organ.

Teaching

My tutorial teaching covers many aspects of the Oxford undergraduate course, including music history from the Middle Ages to the end of the Baroque, and techniques of composition. I supervise postgraduate students in areas related to my own research. I also lecture at the Faculty of Music, particularly in my research field of Renaissance vocal music, and in choral conducting.

Research

My research focuses on sacred music in Spain, Portugal, and England during the Renaissance. I have written about the music of William Byrd, and many of the greatest Spanish and Portuguese composers of the period. As a conductor, I direct the Chapel Choir at Queen’s, as well as the professional vocal consort Contrapunctus. My conducting work has several times been nominated for the Gramophone early-music award, and I tour extensively in Europe and beyond with the groups I direct.

Publications

  • The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603) (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
  • ‘Seville Cathedral’s Music in Performance, 1549–1599’, in Colin Lawson & Robin Stowell (eds), The Cambridge History of Musical Performance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 353–74
  • Cristóbal de Morales: Sources, Inflences, Reception, co-edited with Bernadette Nelson (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2007)
  • ‘Adventures of Portuguese “Ancient Music” in Oxford, London, and Paris: Duarte Lobo’s Liber missarum and Musical Antiquarianism, 1650–1850’, Music & Letters 86 (2005), 42–73
  • Polyphony in Portugal c. 1530-c. 1620: Sources from the Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra (New York & London: Garland, 1995)
  • ‘The English Background to Byrd’s Motets: Textual and Stylistic Models for Infelix ego’, in Byrd Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 24–50

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