I am currently engaged in a five-year long research project, titled ‘Defining Belief and Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean: The Role of Interreligious Debate and Interaction’, which is funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant, one of the most competitive and prestigious European awards.

As the Principal Investigator for this project, I am leading and supervising a team of researchers who are working on a broad-based, multilingual, multi-disciplinary study of the formation of religious belief and identities in the eastern Mediterranean (6th-8th centuries AD).

This project seeks to recover the processes by which religious beliefs and identities were defined through interreligious interaction and debate in the religious culture of a broader social base in the eastern Mediterranean (6-8th centuries AD) through examination of a neglected, unconventional corpus of medieval Greek, Syriac and Arabic literature of debate and disputation (consisting of collections of questions and answers, dialogues among others).

I am conducting legal-political research on judicial reforms in Europe with a geographical focus on post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). I am particularly interested in the evolution of power relations between the judiciary and the political branches, as well as in the processes through which ideas about the judiciary's role and relation to society have filtered in to Europe from the US.

My empirical research is currently focused on how and why US-style judicial supremacy has come to pervade European thinking, and whether it is becoming the norm throughout CEE and elsewhere in Europe. My previous research, under a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, concerned judicial independence in selected CEE countries. I have also researched the influence of Europeanization on State-civil society relations in Eastern Europe (yielding publications for one of which I won West European Politics' Vincent Wright Prize for significant contribution to comparative European politics).

I’m a linguist and neuroscientist who grew up speaking English and Hawaiian bilingually. Linguistically, I maintain a strong interest in Eastern Polynesian languages and have worked on many levels of Hawaiian description, usually from a computational or experimental perspective.

As a neuroscientist, my driving ambition has been to understand (1) how multiple languages are represented and accessed in the bilingual brain, and (2) how bilingual aphasics recover the ability to speak in each language after a stroke. To these ends, my colleagues and I use a variety of methods, such as anatomical and functional neuroimaging and computational simulations.

I am an experimental condensed-matter physicist, studying complex materials with strong correlations between individual electrons. This can lead to emergent phenomena such as high-temperature superconductivity, exotic forms of magnetism, or transitions between metallic and insulating phases that defy the conventional 'band' theory of solids.

I use ultra-short pulses of laser light to generate non-equilibrium states in these materials, and then study how properties like electronic structure, crystal structure and charge transport evolve with time. I work in the Cavalleri Group in the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, and in the Centre for Free-Electron Laser Science, Hamburg.

I work in pure mathematics, in harmonic analysis and number theory. On the more analytic side, I am interested in Fourier analysis, oscillatory integrals, and Radon transforms.

On the more number theoretic side, I work on questions of quadratic forms, character sums, and the circle method. I particularly enjoy combining the two fields: applying number theoretic methods to prove results about discrete analogues of classical operators in harmonic analysis.

My research mainly focuses on the interaction between philosophical and musicological approaches to Western music. My main interest is in discovering how philosophers and musici underpin their systems with appeals to external phenomena and how this affects their music-theoretical conceptions as well as their music.

I am currently working on a critical edition of Marsilio Ficino’s Timaeus commentary: a fifteenth-century reinterpretation of Plato’s famous dialogue, in which music theory has a prominent place.  My teaching interests are in history of (early) music; history of (Renaissance) philosophy; history of music therapy; and aesthetics of music.

I am the John Fell Fund Research Fellow specialising in the anthropology of fertility and reproduction in South Asia (Oct 2011-2014). I have previously carried out research related to Pakistani and Indian migration to Britain, including ageing and chronic illness; transnational families; young people; and am beginning work on marriage, maternity and motherhood in urban Pakistan.

My field of research is the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, with special emphasis on the aftermath of the Six Day War of June 1967. My forthcoming book The Bride and the Dowry: Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War (Yale University Press, 2012) deals with Israel’s foreign policy of deception whose aim was to stave off American pressure to negotiate peace with King Hussein of Jordan in order to retain the territorial conquests of the war.

My current research project concerns the June 1967 War refugees. At least 350,000 Arabs fled the territories Israel seized from Jordan, Syria and Egypt or were ‘encouraged’ to leave, and later their return to their homes was denied by Israel. Though the refugee problem of 1967 significantly exacerbated the refugee problem of 1948 which lies at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict, this issue has hardly been discussed in the existing literature.

My main research interest is focused on the evolutionary epidemiology of antigenically diverse pathogens, such as Plasmodium falciparum (the causative agent of severe malaria in humans), Dengue virus or Influenza.

With the help of mathematical models and in close collaboration with field and laboratory scientists I investigate the interactions between pathogens and the host's immune system that contribute to immune evasion and facilitate disease persistence and epidemic outbreaks.

As a biochemist based in the department of Cardiovascular Medicine, I am interested in how subtle changes to protein structure-function caused by genetic trait variations have profound effects on cardiac function. Hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies affect between 1-500 and 1-2500 people and are associated with sudden cardiac death. Genetic work has shown that both disorders are caused by mutations in proteins that make up the contractile machinery (sarcomere) of the heart cell.

My work has characterised how disease causing mutations in different muscle filament proteins alter muscle contraction in the two diseases using in-vitro biochemical assays. This has established a paradigm of altered muscle contractility that is likely to cause cardiac disease.

Since joining Wolfson College in 2011, my work has diversified into electrophysiological characterisation of genetically modified cardiomyocyte cultures. This work will enable the study of signalling in the diseased heart cell and potentially identify novel therapeutic targets.

I am the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities, an appointment I hold jointly with the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC) and the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. My research interests are situated at the intersection of new computational research methods with traditional humanistic scholarship.

In particular, my areas of enquiry revolve around the 18th-century Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, the circulation and translation of Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment thought, and, more generally, the literary, cultural, and intellectual history of 18th and 19th-century France. I received my Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Chicago. 

I am an ecological modeller working on general ecosystems, marine ecosystems as well as other biological systems. The goal of my research is to provide better understanding of the mechanisms for maintaining ecosystems stability and species diversity over ecological and evolutionary time scales.

My approach is to combine empirical data and theoretical understanding to develop ecological models applicable to a changing environment. Currently I am developing remote-sensing based mathematical models on spectral regulation of plankton bloom in the oceanic mixed layer. I am developing models based on bio-optical properties of phytoplankton to understand the distribution and succession of phytoplankton functional types.

I joined Wolfson as a Research Fellow in 2007, after nearly ten years and three degrees at St John's College, Oxford. My first degree was theology, where I developed an interest in the Medieval period which then led me to Byzantium. My research interests cover both history and theology.

Currently, I work mainly on the Byzantine eleventh century, particularly ecclesiastical texts, and the fourteenth century. I am also General Editor for a new series of translated Byzantine texts, Translated Texts for Byzantinists.