Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza read Philosophy and Psychology at Edinburgh University. A keen student actor, he went on to study Drama at the British American Drama Academy in London. Afterwards he moved to New York and worked as a Classical actor and producer off-Broadway, before moving to Paris and later Beirut, where he wrote, produced and directed a large feature-film set during the Lebanese Civil War. 

Recently he produced a Hemingway Classic "The Garden of Eden" starring Mena Suvari. Currently he runs a family business, is a strong supporter of Classics and Archaeology at Oxford University and elsewhere, and he continues to build up a family collection of Roman coins and antiquities. As a fourth generation collector, he is currently "rounding off" his skills by working on a part-time Classical Studies degree at the Open University.

Prof. Alfred Cerezo has been part of Wolfson College since 1985, first joining as Junior Research Fellow and later as Research Fellow (1989), and Governing Body Fellow (1995).

During these years, his research at the Department of Materials in Oxford focused on the development and applications of the 3-dimensional atom probe – an instrument that permits the study of advanced engineering materials at the level of single atoms. This experimental work was coupled to atomistic models of how metallic alloys change during production and in service.  Being able to visualise and simulate the structure and chemistry of materials at the atomic-scale is crucial to understanding their properties, and as a result much of the work was performed in collaboration with industry (e.g. Rolls-Royce, Johnson-Matthey, Seagate Technologies). 

Cerezo also helped to commercialise the 3-dimensional atom probe technology, and although the company he helped create was bought out by a competitor in the US in 2006, these instruments continue to be produced and sold to research laboratories around the world.

An ad feminam post in the University involved establishing the Beazley Archive as an international centre for the study of classical Greek art, teaching undergraduates in the Faculty of Classics, taking more than forty graduates, (many of them students of the college) through successful doctorates in the School of Archaeology, and publishing four series on classical art with thirteen volumes in eleven years, in addition to publishing her own books, articles and online resources.

Professor Donna Kurtz's interest in world art and public access to scholarly data developed from the Archive being housed in the Ashmolean Museum for forty years and from two web sites – The World of Ancient Art (www.waa.ox.ac.uk) for the School of Archaeology and The World of Art on the Semantic Web (www.clarosnet.org) for the University’s e-research centre (www.oerc.ox.ac.uk).

Kurtz's interest in ICT began in 1979 and resulted in the creation of the Archive’s major research databases (www.beazley.ox.ac.uk) and the direction of international digital research projects. Within the college she proposed the Digital Research Cluster and co-direct it with ICT researchers.

As a Senior Research Fellow of OeRC Kurtz has a special interest in interoperability/open linked data and facilitating collaborative research across Humanities, Social Sciences and MPLS. Her proposal for a Cultural Heritage Programme in the Humanities Division exemplifies this by enabling doctoral students and senior members to engage in collaborative research across Archaeology, Oriental Studies, Law, Technology, Said Business School and the University’s Museums and Collections. 

Dr Martin Francis gained an MA and DPhil at Balliol College from 1958 to1965. He acted as Assistant Principal, Ministry of Health (Oct. 1965 – Aug. 1967); Research Scientist Unilever PLC  (Aug. 1967 – May 1969), Studying Rose Perfume Compounds and Biosynthesis; Research Fellow, Lecturer and University Lecturer in Biochemistry, Nuffield Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, Oxford (June 1969 – Sept 2006).  He was Fellow and Extraordinary Fellow, Wolfson College (Jan. 1979 –Sept. 2010); Secretary to Governing Body (Oct. 1986 – Sept. 1994); Vicegerent, (April 1997 – March 1999); Senior Tutor (Sept. 2001 – Sept 2010); Chairman of Senior Tutors Committee (Jan. 2005 – Sept 2008), and of Tutors for Graduates Committee (Oct. 2004 – Sept 2005 and Oct – Dec. 2007).

Francis' research focuses on Inherited Disorders of Connective Tissue and Bone Metabolism. He has published over 100 articles. 

David Robey was  a  Governing Body Fellow and University Lecturer in Italian from 1970. He was appointed Professor of Italian at Manchester University from 1989, and at the University of Reading from 1998. From 2003 to 2008 he was Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme. He retired from Reading in 2008, and was for a period part-time Digital Humanities Consultant at the Oxford e-Research Centre. 

He has published on 15th-century Italian humanism (educational and poetic theory), language and style in Dante and Renaissance narrative poetry, the computer analysis of literature, modern Italian culture, and modern critical theory. He was joint editor (with Ann Jefferson) of Modern Literary Theory. A Comparative Introduction (Batsford, 1982 and 1986), and editor of Structuralism.  An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 1973), originally one of the earliest series of Wolfson College Lectures. He authored a computer-based study on Sound and Structure in Dante's 'Divine Comedy' (OUP, 2000), and extended this work to include the major narrative poems of the Italian Renaissance, now in the form of a substantial on-line analytical database Sound and Metre in Italian Narrative Verse. He was joint editor of the Oxford Companion to Italian Literature (now translated into Italian as the Enciclopedia della Letteratura Italiana Oxford/Zanichelli), and joint author of Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction and Dante: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2012 and 2015), all with Peter Hainsworth.