Dr Moldovan will be responsible for the Research and Development of high-performance scientific imaging detectors capable of studying structures and processes at the atomic level.

Initially focused for use in electron microscopy, the detectors also have potential applications for X-rays, other microscopy techniques, and machine vision. Oxford Imaging Detectors' instruments provide significant advantages over current technology, exceeding the current state-of-the-art in speed, contrast, efficiency and resolution.

Professor Watts is joint leader of a research project that has captured startling new images from the Rim of Fire in the depths of the Pacific Ocean to reveal one of Earth's most violent processes: the destruction of massive underwater mountains. 

John Buchanan was a Research Fellow at Wolfson from 1968-70, and has been knighted for services to industry.

Sir John is the chairman of global medical technology company Smith & Nephew and is also heavily involved in a number of charitable organisations. He said it was an honour to receive the recognition, particularly in his adopted home country. "I feel quite privileged. I have been very lucky dealing with the business sector and the voluntary sector and I'm just very honoured to receive this."

The conference, entitled, The Evolution of International Norms & Norm Entrepreneurship: The Council of Europe in Comparative Perspective, was convened by Wolfson Fellow Professor Anne Deighton and Dr Gwendolyn Sasse from the Department of Politics at Oxford University and co-sponsored by Wolfson College and the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, among others.

Bob Coecke was made Professor of Quantum Foundations, Logics and Structures; Christina Redfield is now Professor of Molecular Biophysics; and Rosalind Rickaby became Professor of Biochemistry.

The exercise recognises their achievements in research, teaching, and good citizenship.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are of great religious and historical significance, as they include the oldest known surviving copies of Biblical and extra-biblical documents, generally dated between 150 BCE and 70 CE.

Hollinghurst, who was named Waterstone's Author of the Year 2011, discussed the complex relationships between biographer and subject; lived experience and the attempt to record it, a subject he explores in his latest novel, The Stranger's Child.

McWilliam overcame writer's block following a period of near-blindness brought on by the rare illness blepharospasm to write the Hawthornden Prize-winning memoir What to Look for in Winter. Wolfson College President and OCLW Director Hermione Lee, in her introduction to the lecture, described her voice as "subtle, original and sharp", and her memoir as remarkable for its candour and lack of sef-pity, "told with eloquence, truthfulness and comic brio".

The cluster marks a significant development in the partnership between the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society and Wolfson College, and strengthens the existing association with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, to constitute a major centre for the study of law, justice and society in Oxford.

Such was the provocative view put forward by Dr Nikita Sud, Wolfson Fellow and University lecturer in Development Studies at the Department of International Development, in her lecture entitled ‘God, Gold, and Government: Economic liberalism meets political illiberalism in western India', delivered before the Wolfson College Governing Body in the Haldane room on Wednesday 7^th March.