The Queen's College Record 2023
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Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
Her research focuses on social dimensions of opera in nineteenth-century Europe.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong> also elected five new Fellows who will join us in Michaelmas Term<br />
<strong>2023</strong>. <strong>The</strong> post previously filled with a Career Development Fellowship in Law was<br />
replaced with a Tutorial Fellowship: Law will once again have two Tutorial Fellows<br />
in <strong>College</strong>. This new post will be filled by Professor Emily Hudson, a specialist<br />
in Intellectual Property Law whose primary research interests include intellectual<br />
property law, personal property law and trusts, and law as it relates to cultural<br />
institutions and the creative industries. Professor Hudson joins us from King’s<br />
<strong>College</strong> London, where she has been since 2015 after holding academic posts<br />
at the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland (with whom she<br />
maintains an association). She holds a BSc, LLB, LLM and PhD from the University<br />
of Melbourne.<br />
Dr Jules Salomone-Sehr was elected to a Career Development Fellowship in<br />
Philosophy. A specialist in ethics, philosophy of action, and social philosophy, he is<br />
particularly interested in agency and responsibility in the social world. Dr Salomone-<br />
Sehr has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre de recherche en éthique at<br />
the Université de Montréal. He holds Masters degrees from the EHESS (École des<br />
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne<br />
and a PhD in Philosophy from <strong>The</strong> Graduate Center (CUNY) and the Institut Jean<br />
Nicod (École Normale Supérieure).<br />
Dr Shamara Wettimuny was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in History.<br />
Dr Wettimuny’s research focuses on identity formation and religious violence,<br />
specifically as they contributed to the 1915 anti-Muslim pogrom in Sri Lanka (known<br />
then as Ceylon). During her Fellowship she will continue to interrogate the violence<br />
of 1915 within the global context and shed light on broader historiographical<br />
questions pertaining to the history of British colonialism in Ceylon. In addition to a<br />
DPhil in History from Oxford, Dr Wettimuny holds a BSc and an MSc in History of<br />
International Relations from the London School of Economics.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong> also elected Dr Matthew Wright and Dr Paz Fink Shustin to ‘extraordinary’<br />
(i.e. non-stipendiary) Junior Research Fellowships, in Materials and Mathematics, respectively.<br />
Dr Wright is a postdoctoral research associate working on photovoltaics<br />
and silicon solar cells in the Electronic and Interface Materials Laboratory, which aims<br />
to understand and develop functional thin-films, device contacts and electrodes, and<br />
applied nanomaterials that can improve next-generation optoelectronic devices and<br />
integrated circuits. He holds degrees in Photovoltaic Engineering from UNSW Sydney.<br />
Dr Fink Shustin comes to us from Tel-Aviv University, where she earned her undergraduate<br />
and graduate degrees in Applied Mathematics. For her doctorate, she focused on<br />
semi-infinite linear regression and its applications to machine learning problems; since<br />
then, she has continued work on regression models: semi-infinite linear regression and<br />
nonparametric regression models via methods such as Gaussian process regression.<br />
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