Univ Record 2017

Fellows’ News
The Fellows
DR WILLIAM ALLAN, Univ McConnell Laing Tutorial Fellow in Greek and Latin
Languages and Literature and Tutor in Classics, has been elected as the University’s
Assessor for 2018-19. The Assessor works with the Proctors and is responsible for, among
other things, student welfare and finance. He also contributed the introduction and notes
to a new translation of Homer’s Odyssey (Oxford World’s Classics).
DR LARS HANSEN, Associate Professor of Rock and Mineral Physics and Sollas Fellow
and Tutor, talked on BBC Radio Oxford about how tectonic plates are weaker than we
previously thought. You can read more about his research on the Earth Sciences webpage.
Univ Old Member PROFESSOR TIM SELLERS (1980, Classics) is the College’s new
HLA Hart Visiting Fellow for 2017-18. Professor Sellers is Regents Professor of the
University System of Maryland and Director of the University of Baltimore Centre for
International and Comparative Law. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard
Law School, and studied as a Rhodes Scholar and Frank Knox Fellow at Univ.
PROFESSOR TREVOR SHARP, Radcliffe Medical Tutorial Fellow in Neuroscience and
Professor of Neuropharmacology, gave the Page Lecture to the International Society
of Serotonin Research on “Translating basic research on 5-HT neuron control and
signalling”. He also became a Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society, and was
appointed to the Medical Research Council Neuroscience and Mental Health Board.
He also completed “En Svensk Klassiker” a sporting challenge in which one completes
within one year, Swedish marathons in cross country skiing (90 km), cycling (300 km),
open water swimming (3 km) and cross country running (30 km).
PROFESSOR MARK SMITH has published Following Osiris: Perspectives on the Osirian
Afterlife from Four Millennia. He was also presented with a Festschrift by former students
and close colleagues to mark his 65th birthday.
Univ Tutorial Fellow DR SOPHIE SMITH was the Quentin Skinner Fellow at the
University of Cambridge. She gave the annual Quentin Skinner lecture ‘The Nature of
Politics’ last month.
PROFESSOR EDMAN TSANG and Swire Scholar Molly Li have developed a new
catalyst for biofuel production. Their findings were published in Nature Chemistry.
Emeritus Fellows
Emeritus Fellow PROFESSOR JOHN FINNIS has been appointed QC (honoris causa)
for his major contribution to the law of England and Wales outside practice in the courts.
He was also awarded an honorary LLD by the University of Adelaide, his alma mater.
Emeritus Fellow and Professor of Modern History, PROFESSOR HARTMUT POGGE
VON STRANDMANN has published Bid for World Power? New Research on the Outbreak
of the First World War.
Supernumerary Fellows
Univ Supernumerary Fellow DR STEPHEN GOLDING has been awarded the Gold
Medal of the European Society of Radiology for lifetime achievement – arguably the
second highest award for a European radiologist. He will be presented with the award
in Vienna on 1 March.
Univ Supernumerary Fellow DR EMILY JONES, Associate Professor in Public Policy
(Global Economic Governance) at the Blavatnik School of Government, led a three
day executive training programme on international trade for 35 senior Indonesian
civil servants in Bogor, Indonesia in October. The highly interactive course provided
participants with a framework and insights on how to conduct international trade
negotiations. She was also awarded an ESRC Impact Acceleration Award for the project
Making UK Trade Work for Development Post-Brexit and was part of a team providing
training to UK civil servants as they prepare for negotiating trade deals with the EU and
third countries in the wake of Brexit.
Univ Supernumerary Fellow PROFESSOR NICOLA SIBSON and colleagues have
just had a manuscript accepted by Nature Communications in which they report the
development of a novel biodegradable MRI contrast agent that will allow them to
translate their preclinical work in early diagnosis of brain metastasis (secondary cancer
to the brain) to the clinic. This has led to a three-year research grant from Breast Cancer
Now.
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