Univ Record 2017

Foundation Fellows
Formed in 2007, Foundation Fellowships are awarded to those individuals who have
made exceptional benefactions to the College.
*MR JAMES ANDERSON, BA (OXON), MA (JOHNS HOPKINS)
*JOHN CROMPTON, BA (OXON)
*MR BRUNS GRAYSON, BA (HARVARD), BA (OXON), JD (VIRGINIA)
*MR TIMOTHY SANDERSON, BA (OXON)
*MR THOMAS SCHRECKER, MA (OXON)
*MR EDWARD SCOTT, BA, MA (MICHIGAN), BA (OXON)
* Old Member
Newly Elected Fellows
Tutorial Fellow
We welcomed DR PATRICK REBESCHINI as a Tutorial Fellow at Univ. He is an
Associate Professor of Statistics at the University’s Department of Statistics. Before
coming to Oxford, he was an Associate Research Scientist in the Electrical Engineering
Department of Yale University, as well as a Lecturer in Computer Science and a
Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Institute for Network Science. He holds a PhD in
Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University. His research
interests lie at the intersection of applied probability, statistics and computer science.
He is particularly interested in the investigation of fundamental principles to perform
scalable inference, learning and optimization in high-dimensional models, and in the
design and analysis of algorithms in machine learning.
Special Supernumerary Fellows
DR CATHERINE MANNING is the Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow and the
Special Supernumerary Fellow in Autism and Related Disorders. Before taking her new
post she was the Scott Family JRF in Autism at Univ. Her current research aims to
better understand how autistic children process sensory information, with a particular
emphasis on the mechanisms underlying atypical perception. She is using a combination
of psychophysics, electroencephalography (EEG) and computational modelling to
achieve this aim.
PROFESSOR LAURA HERZ is a Supernumerary Fellow in Physics at Univ. As well
as lecturing in Physics, she is the co-director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral
Training in Plastic Electronics. Her research group explores the fundamental science
and applications of semiconducting materials and nanostructures. Her current research
focuses on common themes such as energy and charge transfer, molecular self-assembly,
bio-mimetic light-harvesting, nanoscale electronic phenomena and interfacial effects.
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PROFESSOR PETER MAGILL joins Univ as the Special Supernumerary Fellow in
Neurobiology. He is also Deputy Director of the MRC Brain Network Dynamics
Unit. His research group aims to provide detailed explanations of how brain circuit
organisation supports normal and impaired behaviours. By focusing on the basal ganglia,
the group monitor and manipulate different types of nerve cell to provide new insights
into how their host networks operate. They also use specialised nerve cell types as entry
points for novel therapeutic interventions that are designed to correct the brain circuit
disorganisation and behavioural difficulties that arise in disease.
Junior Research Fellows
SEAN MOSS joins us as Junior Research Fellow in Computer Science at Univ. He
was previously at Trinity College, Cambridge, completing a PhD in Mathematics.
His research interests are in category theory and its applications to type theory and
programming language theory. He primarily studies type theories via this categorical
semantics, which allows one to use machinery and intuition from pure mathematics
to gain a better understanding of the nature of proof and programming.
ROXANNA WILLIS has been appointed British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at
the Centre for Criminology and a Junior Research Fellow in Law at Univ. Before
starting in her new post, Roxana was awarded a DPhil in Law from the University
of Oxford, an LLM in International Economic Law from the School of Oriental
and African Studies, University of London, and an LLB in Law with European
Legal Studies from the University of Kent at Canterbury. Her research examines
the intersection of social class, mental disorder, and youth offending, building on
her doctoral findings, which assessed the role of language in working-class disputes.
Finance Bursar
DR ANDREW GRANT became our new Finance Bursar, and head of the Estates
Bursary, in August this year. Dr Grant studied chemistry at Univ, matriculating in
1977, and has a D Phil in physical chemistry from Wolfson College. He is returning
to Oxford after a long and successful career in business, mostly in strategy, planning,
commercial business development and financial management. For the seven years
prior to his retirement from corporate business, he was the global head of BP’s inhouse
executive management education in the financial disciplines, and managing
director of a number of oil and gas companies. He is also a Chartered Director and
Fellow with the Institute of Directors.
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