COLLEGE NEWS I Jesus College Annual Report 2022
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People Awards, honours, projects, significant lectures Fellows and other senior positions Professor Jeremy Baumberg, Professor of Nanoscience, led a multidisciplinary team to create a new type of detector for mid-infrared light that should improve prospects for biomedical sensing and imaging. The results were reported in the journal Science. Professor Clare Chambers published a new book Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body (Allen Lane). You can hear her interviews about the book on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking and read about it in iNews. Dr Frazer Christie, alongside co-author Professor Julian Dowdeswell, led work published in Nature Geoscience showing the sensitivity of Antarctica’s ice shelves to fluctuations in offshore sea ice. He also co-authored a ground-breaking new study revealing, for the first time, seasonal variations in the speed at which the Antarctic Ice Sheet flows towards the ocean. The findings of the study, published in The Cryosphere, imply that current estimates of Antarctic ice mass loss to the ocean may be significantly mis-estimated. Professor Roberto Cipolla, Professor of Information Engineering, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. The Fellowship of the Royal Society is made up of the most eminent scientists, engineers and technologists either from or working in the UK and the Commonwealth. Dr Elizabeth Coker, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, lead the world’s largest published study to date exploring effective drug combinations in breast, colon and pancreatic cancer. The resulting paper in Nature has been read over 58,000 times since February and describes multiple promising new treatments for these cancers. Professor Sarah Colvin, Schröder Professor of German, published her latest book, Shadowland: The Story of Germany told by its prisoners. Professor Rachel Evans was awarded the 2022 McBain Medal by the Joint Colloids Interest Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Chemical Industry. This is an annual award given to recognise an early career researcher’s contribution to colloid and interface science. Dr Julius Grower, Yates Glazebrook Fellow in Law, was appointed to an Associate Professorship at the University of Oxford, along with a Fellowship at St Hugh’s College. Professor Nicholas Guyatt published a new book about a prisoner-of-war camp in Dartmoor during the British-American war of 1812. Published in April 2022, the title is The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison (New York and London: Basic Books/Oneworld, 2022). Dr Sebastian Marino was awarded a University Research Fellowship by the Royal Society. This fellowship is given to outstanding scientists in the early stages of their research careers. In addition, he was awarded 150 hours of telescope time by the ALMA observatory, the largest observatory in existence, to study exocometary discs and search for evidence of Neptune-like exoplanets.
