Fellows’ News

FELLOWS’ NEWS

Arthur Asseraf was awarded the British Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize for his book Electric News in Colonial Algeria. He was also awarded the Pro Futura Scientia Fellowship by the Swedish Riksbanken for three years. Rosalind Polly Blakesley was appointed a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and a Trustee of the Samuel Courtauld Trust. Hugo Bronstein was appointed Reader in the Department of Chemistry and Physics. Nick Burton was made an Assistant Professor at the Van Andel Institute in Michigan. Sanne Cottaar was awarded the 2021 Harold Jeffreys Lectureship by the Royal Astronomical Society. Hannah Elsisi’s dissertation was awarded the Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Humanities by the Middle Eastern Studies Association, and the Leigh Douglas Memorial Award for best dissertation on Middle East Studies by the British Society for Middle East Studies. She has also been awarded a one-year Research Fellowship at the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Boston. Andrea Ferrari was elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was also awarded the Blaise Pascal Medal in Materials Science from the European Academy of Science. Robin Franklin was awarded the 2021 King Faisal Prize in Medicine for his work on the topic of regenerative medicine in neurological conditions. Allegra Fryxell obtained a postdoctoral research position in the Chair for Science Studies at ETH Zürich, and was also awarded a Branco Weiss Fellowship that will support her in her researches. Renaud Gagné’s book Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece: A Philology of Worlds was published by Cambridge University Press. Loraine Gelsthorpe was awarded the 2021 European Society of Criminology Lifetime Award for her distinguished contribution to European criminology. Clare Grey was awarded the 2021 Körber European Science Prize, which is worth €1 million. Alex Houen has published a chapbook of poetry entitled Malapartings (Equipage, 2021) that engages with poems by the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte. Mike Hulme has been awarded the 2021 Eduard Brückner Prize by the German Meteorological Society for outstanding interdisciplinary achievements in climate research. His latest book – Climate Change – has just been published by Routledge in their Key Ideas in Geography series.

Nicholas Jones was appointed Reader in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. Lauren Kassell was appointed to the Chair in the History of Science at the European University Institute in Florence. Rebecca Kilner was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Wanne Kromdijk was awarded a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship. Rebecca Lämmle was appointed Senior University Lecturer in the Department of Classics. She also produced (with Richard Hunter) an edited edition of Euripides’ Cyclops, that was published by Cambridge University Press. Luca Magri was made a Reader in Data-Driven Fluid Mechanics by Imperial College London. Jessica Maratsos was awarded the Samuel H Kress grant from the Renaissance Society of America for her book, Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy, which will be published in September by the Cambridge University Press. Robert Mayhew, who becomes Senior Tutor of the College in September, was made a Fellow of the British Academy. Nick McBride co-authored the Independent Review of Administrative Law that was presented to the UK government in March 2021. Torsten Meißner was highly commended in the Cambridge University Student Union student-led teaching awards for his lecturing in Classics. Gos Micklem was appointed Professor in the Department of Genetics. Anna Maria Pappa has obtained an appointment in the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at Khalifa University, in Abu Dhabi. Mark Purcell was made a University Proctor. Chris Smith, the Master, was appointed to the Board of the English National Opera. Stephanie Smith was given a student-led teaching award by the Cambridge University Student Union for her small group teaching in science and technology. Max Sternberg has been appointed as Honourable Secretary of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. His co-edited volume Modern Architecture and the Sacred was published by Bloomsbury. Ashok Venkitaraman was made Director of the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, as well as Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine at the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medine. Colin Wilcockson was presented with a handsomely bound and printed volume of his writings called A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry.

Chris Young was awarded the North American Society for Sport History’s 2021 Anthology Prize for his The Whole World Was Watching: Sport in the Cold War (edited with Robert Edelman).