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No 6751

Wednesday 31 July 2024

Vol cliv No 41

pp. 853–883

Notices by the General Board

Academic Career Pathways (Research & Teaching) and (Teaching & Scholarship) 2024 exercises: Appointments and titles

In its Report of 7 June 2024 on the outcomes of the Academic Career Pathways (Research & Teaching) and (Teaching & Scholarship) 2024 exercises (Reporter, 6745, 2023–24 p. 685), the General Board recommended the following, all with effect from 1 October 2024:

Academic Career Pathways (Research & Teaching) exercise:

The establishment of 42 Professorships (Grade 12)

The establishment of 2 Clinical Professorships

The establishment of 40 Professorships (Grade 11)

The appointment of 3 individuals with curatorial, conservation and associated responsibilities to Grade 10 offices or posts

Academic Career Pathways (Teaching & Scholarship) exercise:

The appointment of 2 individuals to unestablished Teaching Professorships (Grade 12)

The establishment of 1 Professorship (Grade 11)

The appointment of 3 individuals to unestablished Teaching Professorships (Grade 11)

The recommendations of the Report were approved by Grace 4 of 17 July 2024. The following list of appointments includes the titles that have been agreed.

Academic Career Pathways (Research & Teaching) exercise

Professorships (Grade 12)

School of Arts and Humanities

Professor Katharine Julia Dell, CTH, appointed Professor of Old Testament Literature and Theology

Professor Katriona Jane Boddy, F, appointed Professor of American Literature

Professor Laura Charlotte Wright, appointed Professor of the History of the English Language

Professor Martin Paul Vernon Crowley, Q, appointed Professor of Modern French Thought and Culture

Professor Bert Vaux, K, appointed Professor of Linguistics and Armenian Studies

School of the Biological Sciences

Dr Emma Louise Rawlins, appointed Professor of Developmental Physiology

School of Clinical Medicine

Professor Simon Mendez-Ferrer, appointed Professor of Experimental Haematology

School of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr Toke Skovsgaard Aidt, JE, appointed Professor of Economics and Politics

Professor Tiago Vanderlei de Vasconcelos Cavalcanti, T, appointed Professor of Economics

Professor Sara Theresa Baker, DAR, appointed Professor of Developmental Psychology and Education

Professor Hilary Joy Cremin, HO, appointed Professor of Education

Professor Jenny Louise Gibson, N, appointed Professor of Neurodiversity and Developmental Psychology

Professor Helen McCarthy, JN, appointed Professor of Modern and Contemporary British History

Professor Sian Lazar, CL, appointed Professor of Social Anthropology

Professor Dennis Christian Grube, appointed Professor of Politics and Public Policy

Professor Peter Jack Sloman, CHU, appointed Professor of British Politics

Professor Graham Arthur Neill Willis, Q, appointed Professor of Global Politics and Society

Professor Kathleen Mary Liddell, appointed Professor of Intellectual Property and Medical Law

Professor Helen Xiaohui Bao, N, appointed Professor of Urban Economics and Public Policy

School of the Physical Sciences

Professor Charlotte Lucy Lemanski, appointed Professor of Urban Geography

Professor Neil Stuart Arnold, JN, appointed Professor of Glaciology

Professor William Gareth Rees, CHR, appointed Professor of Polar Geoinformatics

Professor Blake Daniel Sherwin, appointed Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics

Professor Ulrich Sperhake, appointed Professor of Gravitation

Professor Perla Sousi, EM, appointed Professor of Probability

Professor Robert James Phipps, ED, appointed Professor of Organic Chemistry

Professor Rachel Claire Evans, JE, appointed Professor of Materials Chemistry

Professor Nicholas Gwilym Jones, PEM, appointed Professor of Metallurgy

Professor Javier Eduardo Moya Raposo, CHU, appointed Professor of Materials Physics

Professor Akshay Rao, appointed Professor of Physics

School of Technology

Dr Jochen Immanuel Menges, appointed Professor of Leadership

Professor David John Stillwell, appointed Professor of Computational Social Science

Professor Nicholas Donald Atkins Lane, JN, appointed Professor of Machine Learning Systems

Professor Thomas Michael Sauerwald, EM, appointed Professor of Algorithms and Probability

Professor James Oliver Vicary, K, appointed Professor of Future Computation

Dr Özgür Barış Akan, appointed Professor of Electronic and Communication Engineering

Professor Cesare Alan Hall, K, appointed Professor of Aerothermal Engineering

Professor Ajith Kumar Narayanan Parlikad, HH, appointed Professor of Asset Management

Professor Stuart Ashley Scott, G, appointed Professor of Energy and Thermodynamics

Dr Ljiljana Fruk, SID, appointed Professor of BioNano Engineering

Professor Andrew John Sederman, T, appointed Professor of Magnetic Resonance in Engineering

Professor Samuel David Stranks, CL, appointed Professor of Energy Materials and Optoelectronics

Clinical Professorships

School of Clinical Medicine

Dr Catherine Elizabeth Margaret Aiken, T, appointed Clinical Professor of Maternal and Fetal Medicine

Dr Rajesh Jena, CAI, appointed Clinical Professor of Data Science in Radiotherapy

Professorships (Grade 11)

School of Arts and Humanities

Dr Alessandro Launaro, CAI, appointed Professor of Roman Archaeology

Dr Jörg Haustein, SE, appointed Professor of Global Christianity

Dr Justin James Meggitt, W, appointed Professor of the Study of Religion

Dr Daniel Haskell Weiss, DAR, appointed Professor of Jewish Studies and Philosophy of Religion

Dr Christopher Graham Warnes, JN, appointed Professor of Modern Literature and Postcolonial Studies

Dr Ross Michael Wilson, EM, appointed Professor of the History and Theory of Criticism

Dr Miranda Helen Griffin, MUR, appointed Professor of Medieval French Literature

School of the Biological Sciences

Dr Tristan Andres Bekinschtein, Q, appointed Professor of Consciousness and Cognition

Dr Lucy Gaia Cheke, SID, appointed Professor of Experimental Psychology

Dr Anton James Enright, TH, appointed Professor of RNA Biology and Genomics

Dr Catherine Jill Merrick, appointed Professor of Parasitology

Dr Hannah Frances Clarke, DOW, appointed Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience and Psychopharmacology

Dr Milka Sarris, T, appointed Professor of Cell and Tissue Biology

Dr Timothy Lee Williams, F, appointed Professor of Veterinary Clinical Pathology

School of Clinical Medicine

Dr Janet Elwyn Deane, appointed Professor of Molecular Membrane Biology

Dr Miguel Constância, K, appointed Professor of Developmental Epigenetics

School of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr Gabriel Noah Glickman, F, appointed Professor of Early Modern British History

Dr Pedro Ramos Pinto Oliveira da Silva, TH, appointed Professor of Contemporary History

Dr Christopher Robert Brooke, HO, appointed Professor of Modern European Political Thought

Dr Sharath Srinivasan, K, appointed Professor of International Politics

Dr Jeffrey Michael Skopek, HH, appointed Professor of Law

Dr Lars Roland Vinx, HH, appointed Professor of Jurisprudence

Dr Paolo Campana, DAR, appointed Professor of Criminology

Dr Justice Tankebe, ED, appointed Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Dr Mary Augusta Brazelton, JE, appointed Professor of Global Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine

School of the Physical Sciences

Dr Aron Clark Wall, appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics

Dr Varun Suhas Jog, appointed Professor of Information Theory and Statistics

Dr Qingyuan Zhao, CC, appointed Professor of Statistics

Dr Alexander Charles Forse, TH, appointed Professor of Materials Chemistry

Dr Chiara Giorio, CHR, appointed Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry

Dr Tijmen Godfried Euser, M, appointed Professor of Experimental Physics

School of Technology

Dr Lionel Julien Paolella, appointed Professor of the Social Sciences and Organisations

Dr Niyazi Ufuk Taneri, appointed Professor of Innovation and Operations Management

Dr Carl Henrik Ek, PEM, appointed Professor of Statistical Learning

Dr Tom Gur, appointed Professor of Computer Science

Dr Ferenc Huszár, appointed Professor of Machine Learning

Dr Lorenzo Di Michele, PEM, appointed Professor of Bionanoscience

Institute of Continuing Education

Dr Gillian Clare Carr, CTH, appointed Professor of Conflict Archaeology and Holocaust Heritage

University Library

Dr Benjamin Mathew Outhwaite, CHR, appointed Professor of Genizah Studies

Fitzwilliam Museum

Dr Victoria Jane Avery, JN, appointed Professor of European Sculpture

Grade 10 offices or posts for individuals with curatorial, conservation and associated responsibilities

Fitzwilliam Museum

Dr Anastasia Christofilopoulou, JN, appointed Keeper, Ancient Mediterranean

Ms Christine Slottved Kimbriel, Q, appointed Senior Conservator (Teaching and Research)

Dr Lucy Jane Wrapson, JN, appointed Senior Conservator (Teaching and Research)

Academic Career Pathways (Teaching and Scholarship)

Teaching Professorships (Grade 12)

School of the Biological Sciences

Professor Cecilia Brassett, M, appointed Teaching Professor of Human Anatomy

Professor Marie-Aude Annette Christiane Genain, G, appointed Teaching Professor of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging

Professorships (Grade 11)

School of Arts and Humanities

Dr Christophe Gagne, CHU, appointed Professor of French Language and Translation

Teaching Professorships (Grade 11)

School of the Biological Sciences

Dr Chiara Adami, appointed Teaching Professor in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia

School of the Physical Sciences

Dr William Peter Nolan, R, appointed Teaching Professor of Chemistry

Institute of Continuing Education

Dr Timothy John Brittain-Catlin, appointed Teaching Professor of Architecture

Head of the School of Arts and Humanities: Appointment

10 July 2024

The General Board has appointed Professor Jocelyn Wyburd, CL, as Head of the School of Arts and Humanities from 1 October 2024 until 30 September 2028. The appointment was made on the recommendation of a search committee appointed by the Council of the School of Arts and Humanities, comprising Professor Bhaskar Vira, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education (Chair), Professor Raphael Lyne, Professor Christine Van Ruymbeke and Professor Caroline Vout.

Honorary Professors

The following lists of individuals holding the titles of Honorary Professor and Emeritus Honorary Professor are published for the information of the University.

Honorary Professors

Agricultural Botany: Tina Lorraine Barsby, ED, 30 September 2024

Applied Pharmacology: Sir Menelaos Pangalos, CLH, 30 September 2027

Biochemistry: Ben Lehner, CLH, 30 September 2028

Bioinformatics: Ewan Birney, 30 September 2024

Cancer Genomics: Peter Campbell, CL, 30 September 2024

Communications: Ian Hugh White, JE, 30 September 2024

Early Modern History: Clare Jackson, TH, 30 September 2028

Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture: Virginia Cox, T, 30 September 2026

Epigenetics: Wolf Reik, 30 September 2024

Evolutionary Malacology: Elizabeth Mary Harper, CAI, 30 September 2024

Experimental Cardiology: Andrew Grace, JN, 30 September 2025

Experimental Medicine: John Bradley, TH, 30 September 2025

Genomic Sciences: Sir Michael Stratton, 30 September 2024

Genomics and Computational Biology: Paul Flicek, 30 September 2027

Historical Geography and Intellectual History: Robert John Mayhew, PEM, 30 September 2024

History of Science: Sachiko Kusukawa, T, 30 September 2025

Human Genetics and Genomics: Matthew Hurles, 30 September 2028

International Management: Peter James Williamson, JE, 30 September 2024

Microbial Genomics: Stephen Bentley, 30 September 2027

Russian and Soviet Culture: Catriona Helen Moncrieff Kelly, T, 30 September 2026

Silk Roads Studies: Peter Frankopan, K, 30 September 2027

Stem Cell Biology: Robin Franklin, PEM, 30 September 2028

Structural and Molecular Microbiology: Jan Löwe, DAR, 30 September 2028

Translational Gastroenterology: Miles Parkes, 30 September 2025

Emeritus Honorary Professors

Biomolecular Sciences and Informatics: Dame Janet Thornton, CHU

Circadian Neurobiology: Michael Harvey Hastings

Clinical Genomics: Helen Firth, N

Conservation Science: Rhys Edward Green, CTH

Ethical and Political Philosophy: Onora Sylvia O’Neill, N

Experimental Molecular Neurology: Michel Goedert

French Literature: Alison Finch, CHU

Historical Bibliography: David John McKitterick, T

History and Economics: Emma Rothschild, M

History of Art: Nigel John Morgan

History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine: Christopher Cullen, DAR

Language and Cognition: William David Marslen Wilson, W

Latin Literature: Philip Russell Hardie, T

Machine Intelligence: Andrew Blake, CLH

Medieval European History: Elisabeth Maria Cornelia van Houts, EM

Medieval Philosophy: John Alexander Marenbon, T

Molecular Bioenergetics: Sir John Walker, SID

Molecular Biology: Sir Hugh Pelham, CHR

Music: Susan Rutherford, JE

Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Robert David Lethbridge, F

Penal Theory and Penal Law: Andreas Von Hirsch, W

Poetry: Angela Leighton, T

Pure Mathematics: Béla Bollobás, T

Social and Economic Geography: Susan Jane Smith, G

Structural Biology: Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, T

Theoretical Physics: David Khmelnitskii, T

Theoretical Physics: Christopher Neville Pope, JN

Theoretical Seismology: Christopher Hugh Chapman, CHR