New Fellows join the Reuben Community
This year, as the College continues to grow, we are pleased to welcome a number of new Fellows to our Reuben community.
We have new Official Fellows, Research Fellows and Associate Research Fellows joining us and covering all research and strategic themes; Ethics and Values, Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning, Cellular Life, Environmental Change, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and Public Engagement with Research.
Find out more about some of those who have recently joined us below.
Official Fellows:
Ignacio Cofone – Official Fellow in Ethics and Values
Ignacio is Associate Professor of Law and Regulation of AI, working at the Faculty of Law and the Institute for Ethics in AI. His research examines how the law should adapt to AI-driven social and economic changes.
Geneviève Helleringer – Official Fellow in Ethics and Values
Geneviève Helleringer is a member of the Law Faculty at the University of Oxford and the deputy director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law. Professor Helleringer is an expert on international and comparative (French, US, UK) contract, corporate and financial law, as well as commercial dispute resolution. Her research draws on insights from economics and behavioural studies, as well as on her practical experience as a corporate lawyer, dispute resolution neutral, and policy advisor.
Ben Lambert – Official Fellow in AI & Machine Learning
Ben is a mathematician and a statistician with a strong interest in biological systems, and he develops computational methods that help to uncover biological and epidemiological knowledge. Ben also directs Oxford's Schmidt AI in Science programme — a postdoctoral Fellowship programme where Fellows apply methods from AI to advance scientific knowledge.
Michaela Livingstone-Banks – Official Fellow for Public Engagement with Research
Michaela is the Head of Public and Community Engagement with Research at Oxford’s MPLS Division, where she leads efforts to embed engagement as a core part of research culture.
JC Niala – Official Fellow for Public Engagement with Research programme.
JC serves as the Head of Research, Teaching, and collections at the History of Science Museum, University of Oxford. In this role, she leads a dynamic and research-active team, utilizing object-based learning to enhance teaching across various university departments while also overseeing the care and development of the museum’s extensive collections.
Watu Wamae – Official Fellow in Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Watu Wamae is Head of Innovation at the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx), University of Oxford. She leads the College’s programme of activity for MBA students supported by the Laidlaw Women’s Leadership Fund in conjunction with the Said Business School. Watu has substantive expertise in the dynamics of innovation-led structural change. Her recent research is focused on understanding the experiences of women innovators in Africa. She is committed to extending opportunities for women in Africa to participate meaningfully in turning their scientific ideas into sustainable solutions through science-based venture building.
Research Fellows:
Tarrion Baird – Research Fellow
Tarrion is an immunologist and computational biologist. Their research focusses on identifying pathotypes of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Adam Bales – Research Fellow in Ethics and Values
Adam is the assistant director (philosophy) and a senior research fellow at the Global Priorities Institute of the University of Oxford. His research explores ethical and social questions raised by artificial intelligence.
Anna Cook – Research Fellow in Cellular Life
Anna is a researcher who is interested on how memories are stored in the brain.
Padraig Dixon – Research Fellow in Ethics and Values
Padraig is a Senior Researcher in Health Economics in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. Padraig’s research interests relate to economic and wider social issues associated with the increasing availability of genetic data, particularly in relation to how these data might be used to support causal inference, screening, prognostic modelling, and in the evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of stratified therapies.
Yee-Van Fan – Research Fellow in Environmental Change
Yee Van is primarily involved in CicEUlar Project, a European Research and Innovation Action project that aims to develop new modeling approaches for analysing circularity from a systems perspective. Her research interests include material recovery and clean energy, supported by sustainability analysis, optimisation, and scenario modeling.
Tess Johnson – Research Fellow in Ethics and Values
Tess is a bioethics postdoctoral researcher based at the University of Oxford's Ethox centre, in the Nuffield Department of Population Health. Her area of focus is infectious disease ethics, with particular interests in antimicrobial resistance, emerging infectious diseases, and pathogen surveillance.
Winok Lapidaire – Research Fellow in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Winok’s research aims to better understand the impact of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy on the brain.
Winok also works on making early diagnosis and continuous check-ups for (vascular) diseases accurate, affordable, and accessible for everyone across the world.
Isabelle Taylor – Research Fellow in Environmental Change
Isabelle is a postdoctoral researcher in the Earth Observation Data Group in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics. Her research involves the development of tools for studying volcanic clouds of ash and gas with satellite data, and using these to learn about volcanic clouds, their hazards and the potential impacts on the environment and climate.
Tom Williams – Research Fellow in Cellular Life, from the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
Tom is fascinated by how cells, which make up all life, adapt to the many and varied changes to the environment they experience every day.
Associate Research Fellows:
Micah Bowles – Associate Research fellow for Schmidt AI in Science, from Department of Physics
Micah’s research focusses on finding ways to analyse our large survey science data in new and efficient ways to make the most of what we are collecting; investigating modern AI methods and their properties to enable new science probes from the large data products observatories are collecting.
Jialun Chen – Associate Research Fellow for Schmidt AI in Science, from Department of Engineering
Jialun’s current research focuses on temporal and spatial scale wave forecasting with machine learning to achieve a precise representation of the coastal wave dynamics.
Milan Klower - Associate in Research Fellow for Schmidt AI in Science, from Department of Physics
Milan is a Schmidt AI in Science Fellow working on combining climate modelling and machine learning.
Laura Mansfield – Associate in Research Fellow for Schmidt AI in Science, from Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics
Laura is a Schmidt AI in Science Fellow in the department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics. She uses machine learning and Bayesian statistics to improve small-scale processes in climate models.
Brian Moser - Associate in Research Fellow for Schmidt AI in Science, from Department of Physics
Brian is an experimental particle physicist collaborating on the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. Their research focuses on studies of the Higgs boson and the characterization of silicon pixel detectors.
Jinzhao Sun – Associate in Research Fellow for Schmidt AI in Science, from Department of Physics
Jinzhao is a Schmidt AI in Science Fellow at the Department of Physics, whose has a broad research interest in quantum computing, quantum physics, and quantum machine learning.
Samvida Venkatesh - Associate Research Fellow
Samvida is a Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, working with Prof Chris Holmes (Statistics) and Prof Jim Hughes (Medical Sciences) to build predictive models of how non-coding genetic variants affect gene expression.
Mengyun Wang – Associate Research Fellow for Schmidt AI in Science, from Department of Materials
Mengyun is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Materials. As a Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, her research interest focuses on machine learning/AI-enabled meta-optics to push forward the boundaries in quantum photonics technology.
