Univ Record 2018

Pleasures: The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England (OUP). His work since has focussed
on the seventeenth century polymath Kenelm Digby. In 2016 he published a book on
Digby’s 1628 Mediterranean voyage, titled A Stain in the Blood. In 2017 he made his first
documentary for Radio 4, In Search of Milton’s Paradise Lost. He is currently working on
a book that begins with holy things being given to children as playthings during the
Reformation.
Supernumerary Fellows not on Governing Body
PROFESSOR SARAH HARPER, CBE, BA, MA (CAMB), D PHIL (OXF), has been elected as
our Supernumerary Fellow in Gerontology. Professor Harper is Professor of Gerontology
at Oxford. She is Co-Director of The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing which she
founded in 1997 with funding from the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Between
2014 and 2017 Professor Harper served on the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and
Technology, which advises the Prime Minister on the scientific evidence for strategic
policies and frameworks. In 2017 she served as the Director of the Royal Institution of
Great Britain, and was appointed as a Director and Trustee of the UK Research Integrity
Office. She was appointed CBE for services to the Science of Demography in the 2018
Queen’s Birthday Honours.
PROFESSOR PHILIP STIER, M SC (READING), MA (OXF), PH D (HAMBURG), has been
elected as our new Supernumerary Fellow in Physics. Professor Stier is Professor of
Atmospheric Physics at the Department of Physics in Oxford, where he heads the subdepartment
of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics as well as the Climate
Processes research group. He also serves on the steering group of the Oxford Climate
Research Network. His research addresses physical climate processes in the context
of anthropogenic perturbations to the earth system as the underlying cause of climate
change and air pollution. Focal points of his research are aerosol and cloud physics, their
interactions and their role in the climate system.
Junior Research Fellows
DR ROLY ARMSTRONG, MA (CAMB), D PHIL (OXF), has been elected as our new JRF
in Organic Chemistry. Dr Armstrong obtained his undergraduate degree in Natural
Sciences from Pembroke College, Cambridge and subsequently moved to Merton
College, Oxford to carry out a DPhil under the supervision of Professor Martin D
Smith working on asymmetric counter-ion directed catalysis. After his DPhil, he joined
the University of Bristol as a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Professor Varinder
K Aggarwal, investigating new methods for stereoselective olefination. His current
research is directed towards developing new transition-metal catalysed processes for
enantioselective C–C bond formation.
DR ANN-KATRIN GILL, MA (TRIER), M ST, D PHIL (OXF), has been elected as our Lady
Wallis Budge JRF in Egyptology. Dr Gill obtained her Magister Artium in Egyptology,
Papyrology, and Classical Archaeology from the University of Trier, and her MSt and
DPhil on two British Museum papyri (P. BM EA 10252 and 10081) from Oxford. She
was a research assistant on “The Tale of Sinuhe” project at Oxford and a junior curator
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