The Martlet - Spring 2019

College
Fellows’ news
New appointments.
College appointments
Tutorial Fellows
Professor Joel Hamkins has
been elected as our new
Sir Peter Strawson Fellow
in Philosophy. Professor
Hamkins is Professor of
Logic at Oxford. His main research interest
lies in mathematical and philosophical
logic, particularly set theory, with a focus
on the mathematics and philosophy of the
infinite. He was previously Professor at the
Graduate Center at City University of New
York (CUNY).
Junior Research Fellows
Dr Roly Armstrong has
been elected as our new
JRF in Organic Chemistry.
Dr Armstrong was
previously a Postdoctoral
Research Associate at the University of
Bristol, investigating new methods for
stereoselective olefination. His current
research is directed towards developing new
transition-metal catalysed processes for
enantioselective C–C bond formation.
Supernumerary Fellows
Professor Sarah Harper,
CBE, has been elected as
our new Supernumerary
Fellow in Gerontology.
Professor Harper is
Co-Director of the Oxford Institute of
Population Ageing which she founded in
1997. She is a Director and Trustee of
the UK Research Integrity Office and a
member of the Board of Health Data
Research UK.
Dr Daniel Luban has
been elected as our JRF in
Politics, Political Theory
and International Relations.
He is especially interested
in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century
European social thought and in theories
of capitalism and economic order. He has
also worked as a political journalist and
continues to write about politics and ideas
for a general audience.
Professor Philip Stier has
been elected as our new
Supernumerary Fellow in
Physics. Professor Stier is
Professor of Atmospheric
Physics at Oxford, where he heads the
sub-department of Atmospheric, Oceanic
and Planetary Physics as well as the Climate
Processes research group.
Jack Parlett has been elected
as our Stevenson JRF
in English. His research
focusses on the literary
output of Fire Island
throughout the twentieth century. His
research seeks to explore how queer space
is constructed whilst also considering the
complex relationship between the utopian
and the nostalgic.
Dr Ann-Katrin Gill
has been elected as our
Lady Wallis Budge JRF
in Egyptology. Dr Gill
was previously a research
assistant on The Tale of Sinuhe project at
Oxford and a junior curator at the Museo
Egizio in Turin. Her research focusses on
ancient Egyptian religion, in particular
funerary and ritual texts.
You can read more Fellows’ news in the University College Record.
Dr Marieke Oudelaar
has been elected as
our Stevenson JRF in
Biochemistry. Dr Oudelaar’s
research focusses on the
structural organisation of DNA inside
human cells – in particular the use,
development and computational analysis
of Chromosome Conformation Capture
techniques to explore the three-dimensional
structure of DNA.
William Roth,
Development Director
and Fellow, left Univ
at the end of January
to take up a senior position in the
Development Office at the University
of Toronto.
Martha Cass has
been appointed as
Interim Director
of Development.
Martha worked at Univ as a Senior
Development Executive (Major Gifts
Manager) between 2013 and 2016.
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