the college record I FELLOWSHIP ELECT I O N S Official Fellows WALID KHALED was elected as an Official Fellow and appointed College Lecturer in Biological Sciences from 1 January 2014. He is a lecturer in cancer biology at the Department of Pharmacology. Following his PhD with Prof Christine Watson, Department of Pathology, Cambridge he was awarded a junior research fellowship (JRF) at King’s College (2008–2012). In 2009 he joined the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to work with Dr Pentao Liu. During his postdoctoral research he worked on the connection between cell fate regulation and breast cancer development. In 2014, Walid was awarded the prestigious career establishment award from Cancer Research UK to continue his research on breast cancer. Walid was born in London and grew up in Cairo. He studied Genetics at Edinburgh University before joining Imperial College London for his masters in Molecular Medicine. Outside of the lab, Walid likes cycling, rowing and travelling. ARI ERCOLE was elected as an Official Fellow and appointed College Lecturer in Clinical Medicine from 13 March 2014. He is a consultant anaesthetist and neurointensivist at the neurosciences critical care unit, Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Clinically, his main interest is in the acute critical care of polytrauma and in particular, severe neurotrauma patients. He also has a background in prehospital immediate care and retrieval medicine. Before medicine, Ari studied Natural Sciences and obtained his PhD studying low dimensional magnetic structure at the Cavendish Laboratory. Today, he is actively engaged in research within the University of Cambridge division of Anaesthesia and his research interests include applications of computing, statistical and mathematical modelling techniques to critical illness.
was elected as an Official Fellow, and appointed a College Lecturer in Psychology from 26 June 2014. He is a University Lecturer in the Department of Psychology and is the director of the Cambridge Prosociality and Wellbeing Laboratory. Alex’s research interests are broadly centred on the biological, contextual, cultural, and experiential forces that shape human kindness and well-being. He received his undergraduate training at the University of California, Berkeley and his PhD from the University of Hong Kong. He then went onto a ALEKSANDR KOGAN
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