This page lists a selection of the current Postgraduate research being undertaken by students, divided by Faculty or Department.
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Veronica Pasquarella, PhD in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Category theory, representation theory, and their application to gauge theories.
Tamara Evstafyeva, PhD in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Tests of general relativity (GR) and modified theories of gravity, with particular interest in simulations of binary black hole mergers in these modified theories of gravity and the modelling of resulting gravitational waves.
Miranda Evans, PhD in Archaeology
The proteomics of pottery and its residues: applications to ancient foodways.
Emilia Franklin, PhD in Biological Anthropology
Considering how epidemic disease influences demographic profiles, focusing on the assessment of survivorship and mortality profiles from skeletal assemblages from “plague pits”, medieval cemeteries from before the Black Death, and medieval parish cemeteries spanning the second plague pandemic.
Aman Kang, PhD in Archaeology
Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS): utilising new methods to unravel Neanderthal and AMH cognition from worked bone.
Gabrielle Russo, PhD in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
The representation of the Turkic military guard in ninth-century Arabic praise writing
Rebecca Boston, PhD in Toxicology at the MRC Toxicology Unit
Evaluating the relationship between the human immune system and the gut microbiome in the context of patients with immunodeficiency.
Zhenyi Gu, MPhil in Biological Sciences
Mechanisms of how the human immune system defends against bacterial infections, particularly through the inflammasome activation triggered by bacterial lipopeptides.
Ella Taylor, PhD in Biological Sciences at the Babraham Institute
Investigating the effect of RNA structure modulation by RNA helicases during B-lymphocyte activation.
Juliette Limozin, PhD at the MRC Biostatistics Unit
Developing statistical methodologies for causal inference in longitudinal settings, focusing on the multiple emulated target trial approach.
Nuzli Karam, PhD in Bioelectronics
Developing a novel three-dimensional electrode sensing array with tissue-like properties for the study of cerebral brain organoids.
Vaidehi Roy Chowdhury, PhD in Chemistry
Rational design of antibodies and antibody engineering to manipulate challenging protein targets in complex environments.
Erin Mei Holdsworth, PhD in Chemistry
Synthetic control of the solid-state interactions of MR-TADF emitters for the development of next-generation blue OLED devices.
Michelle Wan, PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry
Research encompasses an interdisciplinary project which explores London air pollution exposure and human health, using machine learning techniques.
Cecily Bateman, PhD in Classics
The use of Classics by the Far-Right in Europe and America from 1945 to the present.
Christiane-Marie Cantwell,PhD in Classics
Cultural and religious changes in Roman Gaul through the lens of economic sociology, via a computational methodology. Current project focuses on the Gallo-Roman votive practice.
Lottie Cummings, MPhil in Classics
The acquisition and reception of classical artifacts in Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Rhiannon Smith, PhD in Classics
Focus on Classical Linguistics, specialising in Latin female onomastics.
Cécile Crapart, PhD in Clinical Neurosciences
Aiming to unravel the functional link between Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) morphology and the health of brain cells through an in-depth investigation of ER performance in calcium supplying powering neuronal and astroglia vital activities.
Sophie Field, PhD in Clinical Neurosciences
Looking at neuroinflammation in the brains of Huntington’s disease patients and investigating whether somatic instability or transportable elements plays a part in this.
Anna Vlachaki, PhD in Clinical Neurosciences
Researching programmed axon death, and the role of the pro-degenerative protein SARM1 in various neurodegenerative diseases, using biochemical and structural approaches.
María José Arosemena Burbano, MPhil in Criminological Research
Intimate partner violence.
Xuyi Yang, PhD in Economics
Applied microeconomics, labour economics, and productivity and innovation.
Julie Bailey, PhD in Education
Autistic students’ experiences of engagement with learning activities.
Aurora Lixinhao Gao, PhD in Education
Multilingualism, psychological development, and social justice.
Linh Nguyen, PhD in Education
Love as epistemology through feminist pedagogies and decolonial storytelling and spillage.
Mariel Alem-Fonseca, PhD in Engineering
Her research in the Industrial Resilience Research Group at the Institute for Manufacturing focuses on the evaluation of alternative protein supply chains from a resilience and cost perspective.
Wei Bi, PhD in Engineering
In collaboration with Transport for London, this research aims to advance complex network modelling to quantify and enhance the resilience of urban rail transit systems to extreme flood events.
Lihani du Plessis, PhD in Engineering
Undertaking research in the Engineering Design Centre, focusing on (re)designing the NHS medical supply chains to be free from labour exploitation.
Chisom Ifeobu, PhD in Engineering
Onshore Wind Turbine Foundations for Sustainable Development in Africa
Constanze Leeb, PhD in Engineering
Undertaking research in the Centre for Technology Management at the Institute for Manufacturing, focusing on the influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on individuals and their work identity, when using AI to augment their work.
Juliette Bretan, PhD in English
Representations of Polish characters in Anglophone modernism, as well as cross-cultural collaboration between Britain and Poland in the first half of the 20th century.
Jess Dunmore, MPhil in English
The importance of air as an epistemological element in early modern natural philosophy.
Emily Maisonville, MPhil in English Studies
Augustine’s philosophical influence on Coleridge’s poetry, particularly questions of ‘self’, truth, language, faith and reason.
Jessica Moore, PhD in Film and Screen Studies
Evaluating the concept of ‘looseness’ in relation to narration and aesthetics in the fiction film.
Cat Watts, PhD in French
The ontology of the manuscript, translation imperii and American myth, Arthurian literature, countercultures in hagiographic transmission, resistance narratives, and trans-temporal and medium-agnostic legacy.
Natalie (Yuqiao) Deng, PhD in Geography
Studying the volcanic history of Eastern Africa primarily through the use of cryptotephra preserved in lake sediment. Integrating volcanic and palaeoclimatic records to understand the integrated impacts of large-scale eruptions and climate change on hominin evolution and dispersal.
Isobel Akerman, PhD in History
Exploring the emergence of environmental thought within regional botanic gardens in post-war Britain, and considering how this affected change in their scientific research, institutional strategies and public education programmes.
Zeynep Olgun, PhD in History
Exploring the maritime culture, materiality, and society of the Byzantine Empire, including ships and shipbuilding, merchant and sailor communities, naval administration, and warfare.
Meg Roberts, PhD in History
Examining caregiving, health and disability during the American Revolutionary War
Zhiyu Chen, PhD in History & Philosophy of Science
The cross-cultural production of cartography in the early modern South China Sea.
Tamara Zambiasi, MPhil in Latin American Studies
Examining inequality and public policies in Brazil, with a focus on hunger and food security.
Joana Ribeiro de Faria, PhD in Law
Focusing on the legal and economic challenges of concluding contracts with the support of artificial intelligent agents.
Skyla White, PhD in Physics
Investigating the kinetics of prebiotic reaction networks, with a goal of placing better constraints on the geochemical environment that may have been conducive to the first steps of life’s emergence.
Siao Chi Mok, PhD in Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics
Studying moduli spaces in algebraic geometry, particularly those constructed via combinatorial techniques, and their role in enumerative geometry.
Sally Montgomery, PhD in Social Anthropology
Environmental anthropology, environmental-grief and plastic pollution, conservation.
Jung Chen, PhD in Sociology
Queer reproduction in Taiwan, focusing on Taiwanese gay men who form families and make kinship via transnational surrogacy.
Zaizhou Li, PhD in Sociology
Commercial surrogacy industry in China, sociology of reproduction and gender, assisted reproductive technology and new kinship studies.
Elisabeth Sandler, PhD in Sociology
Exploring the coming and being out experiences of LGBTQA+ identifying Cambridge students and staff members, in order to generate action points to improve the lives of LGBTQA+ students and university employees within the UK and beyond.
Nina Krause, PhD in Biological Sciences
Translational approaches to infectious diseases, based around the development of a trivalent vaccine candidate against Marburg-, Ebola- and Lassa virus, evaluating vaccine candidates in different animal models in regards to immunogenicity and efficacy.
Ming Khan, PhD in Zoology
Studying the ecological interactions of Antarctic seafloor communities using seabed photographs of the modern oceans, and the palaeocology of Antarctic invertebrate communities of the latest Maastrichtian (66 million years ago) using fossil data from museum collections.
Helena (Sacchi) Shin-Clayton, PhD in Zoology
Studying restoration methods for riparian margins within established oil palm plantations in Indonesia, focusing on reintroducing ecological conservation areas to preserve tropical species and foster a sustainable agricultural landscape that balances both production and conservation goals.