Floreat Domus

Christine Borgman
Visiting Fellow and oliver smithies Lecturer (information studies), Christine is Professor and
Presidential Chair in information studies at the university of California. Her research interests
lie in the changing nature of scholarship in the digital age, including social, technical, and policy
concerns. she conducts research on data practices in the sciences and has written two monographs,
Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (Mit Press, 2007) and
From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World
(Mit Press, 2000). she is on sabbatical this year at the oxford internet institute and the oxford
eResearch Centre, and has plans for a book on the opportunities and challenges posed by open
access to research data.
George C Edwards
George is John G Winant Visiting Professor
of American Government. He is university
Distinguished Professor of Political science at
texas A&M university and the Jordan Chair in
Presidential studies. He has held visiting positions
at oxford, the university of London, sciences
Po-Paris, Peking university, Hebrew university of
Jerusalem, and the us Military Academy at West
Point. the most recent
of his 25 books are The
Strategic President (2009),
which offers a new theory
of presidential leadership;
and Overreach (2012),
which analyses presidential
leadership during the
obama presidency. He
is currently working
on the impact
of basic policy
premises on the
decisions of
political leaders.
Robin Choudhury
Research Fellow in Biomedical sciences, Robin
read medicine at Balliol and returned to oxford
as Clinical Lecturer in Cardiovascular Medicine
in 2001. He is currently a Wellcome trust senior
Research Fellow in Clinical science; Professor of
Cardiovascular Medicine; Consultant Cardiologist
at the John Radcliffe Hospital; and Clinical
Director of the oxford Acute Vascular imaging
Centre (see page 11). His clinical expertise is in
the management of coronary artery disease and
myocardial infarction, including using invasive
approaches (stents). His
research focuses on
the cellular response
to myocardial
infarction, and on
the development
and application of
imaging techniques
for the characterization
of atherosclerosis,
thrombosis,
and vascular
inflammation.
Panagis
Filippakopoulos
Panagis is Junior Research Fellow in the sciences
(structural Biology). He is a Wellcome trust
Career Development Fellow in the nuffield
Department of Medicine. His research is focused
on structural comparisons of entire protein
families and the discovery of shared and distinct
mechanisms that determine substrate recognition
and protein regulation. During the tenure of
his JRF, Panagis will be studying
the structural and functional
role of Bet (Bromo
and extra-terminal)
proteins in transcription
initiation, the process
of copying a living cell’s
genetic material, and the
implications of disrupting
this role in disease, when
for example Bet proteins
are found fused to the nut
(nuclear protein in
testis) protein or
when they are
associated to viral
oncoproteins.
Kofi Agawu
Kofi is George eastman Visiting Professor 2012–
13. Professor of Music at Princeton university, he
previously taught at Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and
King’s College London. His research interests are
in the analysis and theory of european and West
African music. He is the author of Playing with
Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music
(Princeton university Press,
1991), for which he received
the Young scholar Award
from the society for Music
theory, African Rhythm: A
Northern Ewe Perspective
(CuP, 1995), Representing
African Music: Postcolonial
Notes, Queries, Positions
(Routledge, 2003), and
Music as Discourse:
Semiotic Adventures
in Romantic Music
(ouP usA,
2009).
Martin
Burton
Martin is Research
Fellow in Clinical
Medicine. He
is a Consultant
otolaryngologist at
the oxford university
Hospitals nHs trust,
based at the John
Radcliffe Hospital,
and also senior
Clinical Lecturer in the
nuffield Department
of surgery. He was
appointed as Lecturer
in Clinical Medicine
at Balliol in 2005.
He is Director of the
uK Cochrane Centre
and was the founding
co-ordinating editor
of the Cochrane ear,
nose and throat
Disorders Group. He
is currently President
of the otorhinolaryngological
Research
society. His clinical
practice is otological
– particularly hearing
loss, middle ear
surgery, tinnitus, and
balance disorders.
He is interested
in the application
of evidence- (and
wisdom-) based
medicine in medicine
in general and
otolaryngology in
particular.
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