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ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½'s newest Fellows officially joined the College in a short ceremony before the Governing Body meeting on 11 February, all signing their names into the College's Fellows Book.
The Fellowship at ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ is actively engaged in College life, joining for meals and Formal Halls, working from the Fellows' Study in Plommer House, and participating in strategic development, the intellectual and cultural life of the College, and in the learning and teaching of students.
Many Fellows mentor PhD students through our mentorship program, others organise regular seminars and lectures, and others foster interactions with cultural and research institutions in the UK and overseas, and with philanthropists and charitable foundations. Their commitment to the academic and cultural life of the College underpins and enhances our student experience.
Meet the new Fellows
Dr Carlos Fernando Ceballos-Gonzalez
Carlos is a bioengineer with interdisciplinary expertise in tissue engineering, pluripotent stem cells, and gene editing. He aims to understand how embryos build tissues and apply these principles to engineer organs in the laboratory.
Dr Jake Cornwall-Scoones
Jake is a researcher at the interface between developmental, systems and physical biology. His work combines theory, synthetic biology and embryology to study the mechanisms by which cells individually and collectively process information.
Professor James Crossley
James specialises in the study of religious ideas and figures, and their place in historical change. He has worked extensively on the life of the historical Jesus and receptions of biblical and apocalyptic language in English political history. James joined the University in 2024, where he is now Professor and the Director of the Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CenSAMM) in the Faculty of Divinity.
Dr Yaswanth Sai Jetti
Yaswanth’s research investigates uncertainty in materials and fluid flows and develops models that connect mathematical theory, computational mechanics, and experimental data. His work aims to improve the safety and resilience of critical infrastructure. He is currently a Research Associate in Computational Mechanics in the Department of Engineering at the University.
Dr Zhen-Qi Liu
Zhen-Qi is a computational neuroscientist investigating how complex cognition emerges from brain network structure and dynamics. He is a Royal Society Newton International Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry and a Junior Research Fellow at ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½.
Dr Natasha Murphy
Natasha is a postdoctoral researcher whose research revolves around circularity: the design of enzymes, reaction pathways, and processes that transform waste into valuable materials.
Dr Syed Waqas Haider Shah
Syed is a communication theorist and policy researcher specializing in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), dedicated to advancing robust, intelligent, and sustainable future wireless networks. He focuses on developing practical, low-complexity solutions that seamlessly bridge physical and cyber worlds in next-generation wireless systems.
Dr Zhenghan Shi
Zhenghan works at the interface of flexible electronics, wearable biosensors, and sustainable energy technologies. His current research focuses on developing high-performance polymer thermoelectric devices and exploring their applications in flexible energy harvesting.
Dr Pamudu Tennakoon
Trained as both an art and architectural historian as well as a cultural anthropologist, Pamudu investigates how people occupy and traverse previously colonized cities and relate to the material remnants of colonial and postcolonial pasts in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Dr Anthony Torres-Ruesta
Anthony is a global health security researcher whose work explores how science, governance, and technology can better protect societies from biological risks. He is particularly interested in identifying and addressing inequities that shape the world’s preparedness for future epidemics and pandemics.
Dr Daniel Whitehouse
Dan is an emergency medicine doctor with an interest in traumatic brain injury (TBI) and data science. His research focuses on diagnostics and outcomes following TBI, with a particular emphasis on the use of proteomic blood-based biomarkers to improve care following brain injury.
Dr Kangjie Zheng
Kangjie is a machine learning scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. His research lies at the intersection of AI and biology, aiming to develop generalisable AI foundation models for large-scale multi-omics data to elucidate the principles of gene regulation.
