Gonville & Caius College wishes to welcome incoming Fellows and bids a fond farewell to academics who have now left us.

Dr KC Lin, Dr Carl Turner, Dr Lewis Owen and Dr Thomas Simpson have now left the Fellowship, while nine new Fellows and two Bye-Fellows have been welcomed to Caius this October. The new Fellows were officially elected to the Fellowship and made their declaration in the Chapel on Monday evening.

Dr Lin was appointed University Lecturer in Politics in 2011, and elected as a College Lecturer and Fellow in 2012. He was subsequently designated the Tun Suffian Fellow in 2018.

Dr Lin, who served as the Director of Studies in Humanities, Social, and Political Sciences, has been appointed Professor of Military and Security Studies at the Department of Spacepower, Air University in the United States. As the first full professor for this department – established in 2019 as the education arm of the US Space Force – he will lead research on great power competition in the space domain and teach in the Schriever Scholars Program dedicated to developing space strategists.

Dr Turner spent four years as a Research Fellow in Caius, working on problems in theoretical physics and condensed matter, while teaching mathematics to undergraduates and masters students. He has started a new role as a Research Engineer at Featurespace, working on combating fraud and financial crime using machine learning. He is also making videos on science communication, having enjoyed taking part in outreach work while at Caius.

Dr Owen has begun a new role at The University of Sheffield, as a Lecturer in Metallurgy and a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow. He was the College research convenor, organising the SCR-MCR talk series, discussing the great breadth of research taking place across the College with members of the Fellowship and the MCR. He also served on the Working Group for Representation, contributing to the ongoing discussion about issues surrounding representation in College.

Dr Simpson earlier this year published his first book, The Frontier in British India: Space, Science, and Power in the Nineteenth Century, which was the culmination of his doctoral and postdoctoral work at Caius. Dr Simpson has previously spoken to the Caius website about his research.

Dr Nicolas Bell-Romero left Caius at the end of his one-year Bye-Fellowship, which followed his PhD undertaken at Caius. He will continue his work as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Legacies of Enslavement at the University of Cambridge. Over the past year, Dr Bell-Romero has been a postdoctoral researcher for Caius’ inquiry into the legacies of slavery. He wishes to thank College archivist James Cox.

Dr Ahab Bdaiwi is to return to the University of Leiden at the end of his year-long stay as Cook-Crone Research Bye-Fellow. Dr Bdaiwi spoke to the Caius website about his research earlier this year. Dr Jason Hawkes assumes the position in Archaeology, and Dr Amoghavarsha Mahadevegowda joins as a Bye Fellow, College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Engineering.

Nine new Fellows were elected on Monday, and made their declarations in Chapel

Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis, who completed his Law PhD at Caius, Stephen Turton in English, Michele Simoncelli in Physics, and Jan Steinebrunner in Pure Mathematics were recommended for election via the Research Fellowship competition, announced in January. Dr R.Sánchez-Rivera was the successful candidate in the competition for the Research Fellowship in the Study of Race and Anti-Racism, announced in April.

Dr Geoffrey Maguire’s appointment as Fellow in Spanish was announced in April, while Carsten-Andreas Schulz, Michael Joseph and Thea Don-Siemion were appointed this summer and will be Fellows in Human, Social, and Political Sciences; History; and Economics; respectively.

Profiles for our new Fellows are now on our website. We welcome them all to Caius.