A high-calibre Research Fellowship competition has concluded with four academics recommended for election as unofficial Fellows at Gonville & Caius College. The four researchers are scheduled to begin their four-year Research Fellowships in October 2024.
Jane Hines (Music) and Samuel Brandt (Geography) were recommended by the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fellowships Sub-Committee. Dmitri Whitmore (Mathematics) and Mor Rozner (Physics) were recommended by the Sciences Research Fellowships Sub-Committee.
The College wishes to thank Professor Joachim Whaley and Professor Tim Pedley for chairing the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fellowships Sub-Committee and the Sciences Research Fellowships Sub-Committee, respectively, and the secretaries of the sub-committees, Dr Rebecca Sugden and Professor Sir Alan Fersht.
Pictured, clockwise from top left: Samuel Brandt, Dmitri Whitmore, Jane Hines, Mor Rozner
More about the competition winners:
Jane Hines (Music)
Jane studies historical modes of creating, experiencing, and theorising music in German-language contexts. Her current research uncovers the relationships between theories of imagination in philosophy, aesthetics, and psychology and musical theory and practice in the long 19th century. She recently completed her PhD in musicology at Princeton University and holds degrees in music history and music theory from Oakland University and Bowling Green State University. In 2019-20, Jane was a Fulbright Scholarship recipient at the University of Vienna.
Samuel Brandt (Geography)
Sam is a cultural-historical geographer of modern and contemporary Latin America. His research centres on three book projects based on his fieldwork in Uruguay since 2014. The studies concern respectively the value of metaphors in teaching geographic knowledge, the impact of a national-scale housing program (MEVIR) for the rural poor, and the Uruguayan spaces where soccer shapes national identity. He holds a BA in Geography from the University of Chicago and is completing his PhD in Geography at UCLA. His research has been supported by two Fulbright awards and an American Geographical Society Council Fellowship.
Dmitri Whitmore (Mathematics)
Dmitri is interested in number theory and arithmetic geometry; in particular he is interested in the Langlands programme. An undergraduate and postgraduate student at St John's College, Cambridge, he has won multiple prizes including the 2020 Larmor award, 2019 Horne Scholarship, Adams Memorial (Wright) Prize and Ian Hall Year Prize, 2018 Horne Scholarship, Lapwood-Towle (Wright) Prize and Quass (shared) Year Prize, 2017 Horne Scholarship, Leathen (Wright) Prize and Johnstone (shared) Year Prize and in 2016 the Pythagoras Prize. An earlier draft of his paper on the Taylor—Wiles method for reductive groups also received the highest grade in the departmental Smith–Knight/Rayleigh–Knight Essay competition.
Mor Rozner (Physics)
Mor is finalising her PhD at the Technion, Israel, where she also earned her master and bachelor degrees. An astrophysicist, Mor’s research comprises three main directions: formation and dynamics of planetary systems, dynamics in gas-rich environments and binary formation, evolution and distribution. During her fellowship, Mor plans to deepen her understanding in these topics, as well as extending her expertise to some further directions. More than anything, Mor just loves science and enjoys carrying out interdisciplinary research, finding surprising connections between seemingly distant topics.
