The Queen's College Record 2023

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