2013 Annual Report - Jesus College - University of Cambridge

COLLEGE NEWS I Jesus College Annual Report 2013 65
People
Awards, honours, projects, significant lectures
Fellows
Professor Jean Bacon has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Open University.
She has also been awarded an EPSRC Research Grant for her project CloudSafetyNet.
Professor Jeremy Baumberg has been awarded the 2013 ERC Advanced Investigator
grant. He was also given the 2013 Young Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics for
his pioneering contributions to nanophotonics.
Dr Natalia Berloff has been awarded a Professorship in the Department of Applied
Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
Dr James Clackson has been awarded Readership in the Faculty of Classics. He also
delivered the Margaret Heavey Memorial lecture at NUI Galway in March 2013.
Dr Stuart Clarke has been awarded a Professorship in the Department of Chemistry.
Professor James Crawford has been awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia for
eminent service to the law through his significant contributions to international and
constitutional legal practice, reform and arbitration.
Dr Pau Figueras has been elected a “Stephen Hawking Advanced Research Fellow” at the
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP).
Dr Mary Laven has been appointed Reader in the Faculty of History. She has also (along
with two colleagues) been awarded ¤2.3m in ERC Synergy funding to launch the
interdisciplinary project “Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Renaissance
Italian Home”.
Dr David Leith has been elected an Advanced Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.
Professor Robert Mair delivered the Cambridge Annual Red Cross Lecture in April 2013
‘What’s going on underground? Tunnelling into the future for our cities’. He was
interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 ‘The Life Scientific’ programme in January 2013 and on
their Frontiers programme on ‘Crossrail Tunnelling’ in July 2013. He was appointed a
member of the UK Government’s Construction Industry Strategy Advisory Council; its
report was published in July 2013.
Professor Juliet Mitchell has been elected the Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow in the
Department of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies. She has also
been awarded a two-year grant for a research project and book on ‘Siblings in
Psychoanalysis and in the Plays of Shakespeare’. She has been elected a Professorial
Research Associate in Theoretical Psychoanalysis at UCL, and is currently the Mellon
Visiting Scholar at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Dr Véronique Mottier was appointed Director of the Laboratoire de Sociologie of the
University of Lausanne, a research unit of 6 professors and 29 research staff, where she
also holds a part-time Professorship in Sociology. She also organised (with Robbie
Duschinsky) a conference titled ‘Classifying Sex: Debating DSM-5’ on 4 & 5 July 2013,