Fellows' Research Interests

Ancient History	Dr Josephine Crawley Quinn	Greek, Roman and Phoenician history; North Africa; Near East.
Archaeology	Dr Katharina Ulmschneider	Early Medieval Archaeology of Northwest Europe; economy and coinage; metal-detectors and archaeology; history of archaeology; archaeological archives.
Biochemistry	Dr Mark Howarth	Development of new chemical and biological approaches to the imaging and diagnosis of cancer.
	Dr Timothy Weil	Understanding the molecular mechanism of mRNA localization, specifically as it pertains to body axis patterning and cellular dynamics. Live cell imaging and advanced microscopy.
Biology	Dr Peter Darrah	Soil microbiology, especially microbiology of the rhizosphere. Mathematical modelling.
	Dr Rory Bowden	Genomics and bioinformatics of microbial infection; practical aspects of population genetics, including evolution and conservation. Molecular microbiology, host-pathogen interactions and public health.
Chemistry	Dr Grant Ritchie	Chemical reaction dynamics; ultrasensitive laser absorption methods; breath analysis; optical binding and manipulation.
Classics	Dr J.Scott Scullion	Greek religion. Greek literature, especially tragedy; fifth-century Theatre of Dionysus and dramaturgy. History of Greek literature.
Comparative Philology	Prof. Andreas Willi	Ancient Greek sociolinguistics and dialectology, language and linguistic culture in the ancient world, comparative grammar and etymology of Greek, Latin and Indo-European.
Computation	Dr Hongseok Yang	Manual or automatic program verification techniques, especially those suitable for real-world concurrent software systems; application of results from artificial intelligence and machine learning to automatic software verification; development of programming language theories, such as data abstraction and semantics, that explain programming disciplines used in major low-level systems code.
	Prof. Michael Goldsmith	Establishing the robustness and security of systems, especially in ad-hoc and pervasive computing environments, from underpinning theory through ethical and psychological issues to practical applications.
	Prof. Sadie Creese	Cybersecurity in the broadest sense, from human factors and risk perception, data privacy and dynamic consent models, usability of security technology, through risk management, threat and vulnerability modelling, visual analytics, situational awareness and information provenance, to the more technical aspects of intrusion detection, security architectures and network defence and underpinning theory of cybersecurity.
Earth Sciences	Prof. Donald Fraser	Thermodynamics and kinetics of geological systems. Origin of life and biological chirality. Chemistry of the mineral-solution interface.
	Prof. John Woodhouse	Seismic tomography; structure of the earth's deep mantle and core. Quantification of earthquakes. Theoretical and computational seismology. Composition and dynamics of the Earth.
	Prof. Michael Searle	Structural and thermal evolution of mountain belts in particular the Himalaya - Karakoram and Tibet. Genesis and emplacement of ophiolites onto continental margins, particularly in Oman and Ladakh. Evolution of strike-slip faults across Tibet and Southeast Asia. Effects of the Great Sumatra earthquake on tectonics of the Andaman Islands and tectonics of the Arabian Dead Sea fault system, Jordan, Palestine, Syria.
Economics	Dr Simon Cowan	Industrial economics; pricing and price discrimination; privatisation and regulation.
Education	Prof. Ernesto Macaro	Learner strategies and autonomy in Foreign Languages learning; classroom discourse and interaction, particularly teachers' use of codeswitching.
	Dr Gabriel Stylianides	Mathematics education, particularly the teaching and learning of mathematical reasoning and proof; Mathematics teacher education, particularly issues of teachers' subject matter knowledge; Technology, particularly the use of intelligent tutoring systems in the teaching and learning of algebra.
Engineering	Prof. Anthony Blakeborough	Dynamics of structures, earthquake engineering, human-structure interaction.
	Dr Antonis Papachristodoulou	Robust stability analysis and design of nonlinear networked dynamical systems using convex optimization and sum of squares programming. Systems and synthetic biology. Aerospace systems and flow control.
English	Prof. Jonathan Bate (Provost)	Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature, Romanticism, biography and life-writing, ecocriticism, the classical influence on English literature, contemporary poetry and theatre history.
	Prof. David Bradshaw	Nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature, especially the relationship between literature, society and ideas in the period 1880-1945; Woolf; Joyce; Yeats; Eliot; Huxley; Waugh; Modernism.
	Dr Laura Ashe	Medieval literature, history and culture, c. 1000-1400, and particularly romance, chronicle, and the multilingual writings of post-Conquest England.
Experimental Psychology	Dr Paul J. Azzopardi	The neural basis of visual perception and conscious awareness, including models of perceptual decisions and disorders of perception and conscious awareness arising from brain-damage such as found in patients with blindsight and visual neglect.
French	Dr Kate Tunstall	Eighteenth-century French literature and thought; the Enlightenment Diderot; word and image relations.
Geography	Prof. Heather Viles	Geomorphology (especially weathering and biogeomorphology) and its applications to heritage conservation.
	Dr Sebastian Engelstaedter	Climate and environmental change on regional to global scales with a specific focus on land-atmosphere interactions in arid and semi-arid environments, the processes controlling the spatial and temporal variability of the dust cycle (emission, transport and deposition), and the climate of the Sahara/Sahel region.
German	Dr Ben Morgan	German film; Heidegger; the Frankfurt School; psychoanalysis; medieval mysticism; narrative and cognitive neuroscience.
History	Prof. Robert N. Gildea	Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French and European history; Second World War; French Resistance; collective memory and oral history; 1968 in Europe.
	Dr Bob Harris	Eighteenth-century British and Irish political, social and cultural history; early history of the press; urban history; history of gambling c1650-1850.
	Dr Conrad Leyser	Religious and social history of the Latin West, 300-1100; asceticism; law, memory, and social differentiation.
	Dr Peter Frankopan	History of the Byzantine Empire, the Medieval Mediterranean, the Balkans and Russia; medieval Greek literature; heresy and the Orthodox world; the Crusades; the rise of Venice.
History of Art	Dr Christopher Brown	Dutch and Flemish painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
	Dr Mercedes Cerón	Late eighteenth-century visual culture in Britain, France and Spain; history of visuality in the eighteenth century; prints and printmaking; Francis Douce's collection of prints at the Ashmolean Museum.
	Dr Eleonora Pistis	English, Italian and French eighteenth-century architecture and urbanism; architecture of institutions; circulation and collecting of architectural drawings, prints and books; impact of antiquarian studies on architecture.
Law and Criminology	Mr Donal Nolan	Negligence law, especially liability for psychiatric injury and the liability of public authorities; the law of nuisance; product liability; contract law; the classification of private law.
	Prof. Judith Freedman	Taxation Law especially business taxation; interdisciplinary studies on taxation policy; tax avoidance, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility; law and taxation of small businesses.
	Dr Cathryn Costello	EU Law, in particular EU fundamental rights, immigration and asylum law; Discrimination Law.
	Prof. Julian Roberts	Sentencing policy and practice in common law jurisdictions; parole; public opinion, crime and criminal justice.
	Dr Maris Kopcke Tinture	Philosophy of law/jurisprudence; criminal law theory; political theory; Roman law; theory of comparative law.
Linguistics	Prof. Deborah Cameron	Sociolinguistics, especially the relationship between language and gender; language ideologies and linguistic normativity; discourse analysis.
	Ms May Chan	Sociolinguistics, especially, sociolinguistic variation of Cantonese. Phonetics and phonology
Management & Business	Dr Nir Vulkan	The economics of electronic commerce; Economic market design; Information economics; Game Theory.
Mathematics	Prof. Roger Heath-Brown	Number Theory.
	Dr Richard Earl	Director of Undergraduate Studies, Mathematical Institute.
	Prof. Endre Suli	Nonlinear partial differential equations and the mathematical analysis of algorithms for their numerical approximation.
	Dr David Steinsaltz	Stochastic processes and random dynamical systems; mathematical biology and biodemography; ageing; survival analysis; hidden Markov models.
	Dr Robin Knight	General topology and set theory and logic.
Music	Prof. Robert Saxton	Composer. Interests include post-tonal modality, goal-directed structures and the nature of musical time regarding large-scale formal issues; the ways in which composers from various eras within the Western tradition have organised compositional discourse and investigating factors of structural unity and coherence underlying surface style.
Philosophy	Dr Stephen Williams	Philosophical logic, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics.
	Dr Michail Peramatzis	Ancient Philosophy, especially Aristotle's metaphysics, logic and epistemology and Plato's metaphysics and epistemology. Topics in modern metaphysics such as substance, definition, essentialism, causation and explanation, realism and grounding.
	Dr Steven Methven	History of analytic philosophy, philosophical logic, philosophy of mathematics.
Physics	Prof. Paul Ewart	Atomic and laser physics.
	Dr Sugata Kaviraj	Astrophysics: Galaxy formation and evolution, the co-evolution of black holes and their host galaxies, extra-galactic globular cluster systems.
Physiological Sciences/ Medicine	Prof. Andrew Carr	Genetics of Osteoarthritis. Patient report outcomes of orthopaedic surgery. Minimally invasive surgery and tissue engineering in tendon repair.
	Dr John Parrington	Molecular mechanisms of reproduction and early embryogenesis; the role of calcium signals in mediating key physiological events; genomic and proteomic approaches to understanding cell signalling.
	Prof Andrew Price	Research in the field of understanding cartilage damage, early knee osteoarthritis, cartilage repair processes and the outcome of knee arthroplasty surgery.
	Dr Kim Dora	Microvascular physiology and pharmacology
	Dr Ben Fairfax	Genetic regulation of innate immune tolerance; innate immunity and oncology; the clinical impact of chronic inflammation.
	Dr Edward Hutchinson	The molecular biology of influenza A virus. Viral interactions with host factors; viral polymerase function; packaging of the influenza genome.
Politics	Dr Zofia Stemplowska	Contemporary political philosophy.
Theology	Dr Susan Gillingham	Biblical archaeology; the religion of ancient Israel and early Judaism; biblical poetry; prophecy; reception history, especially of the Psalms; post-feminist biblical criticism; Jewish-Christian dialogue.
	Dr Afifi al-Akiti	Islamic theology, philosophy and science; the works of the celebrated Muslim theologian, al-Ghazali (d. 1111) - especially the influences there from Avicenna (d. 1058) and the Greek philosophical tradition generally; the relationship between science and religion in the Islamic world; the reception of Aristotle's Metaphysics and De Anima by medieval Muslim, Jewish and Christian theologians.

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