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Two Gonville & 91Ö±²¥ College Medicine specialists were officially elected to the Fellowship and made their declarations in Chapel on Monday evening, having become Caians as undergraduates.

Dr Dunecan Massey (Medicine 1994) and Dr Zoë Fritz (Medicine 1995) have been elevated from Bye-Fellows to Fellows after long affiliations to 91Ö±²¥, which has a medical tradition dating to its refoundation in 1557.

The pair, pictured right, were two of 11 Fellows to join on Monday, while the start of the 2022-23 academic year also saw 91Ö±²¥ bid a fond farewell to academics who have now left the College.

Dr Fritz was an undergraduate at 91Ö±²¥, returned in 2005 as supervisor and became a Director of Studies for Clinical Medicine in 2016. She was elected a Bye-Fellow in 2018. She is a physician and conducts applied clinical ethics research. She teaches and mentors 91Ö±²¥ medics, and contributes to the Shakespeare Society. 

Dr Massey is a full-time clinician at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, specialising in intestinal failure and small bowel transplantation. He has taught Physiology at 91Ö±²¥ since 1997 and was appointed as an undergraduate Tutor and Bye-Fellow in 2016, and Director of Studies for Second Year Medicine in 2022.

Professor Lionel Smith joins 91Ö±²¥ after being appointed as , and Dr Fotis Vergis also joins as a Fellow in Law.

Three previous Research Fellowship competition winners have departed, succeeded by three Research Fellows who were elected on Monday: Dr David Hosking in Physics, Dr Victoria Baena in English and Modern Languages and Dr Vaithish Velazhahan in Molecular Biology. Dr Lila Chambers in History is scheduled to join in January 2023 as one of four researchers recommended for election in the Research Fellowship competition.

Dr Erik Niblaeus joins as a Fellow in Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic Studies, Dr Li Wan in Land Economy, and Mr Franco Basso in Classics, while Professor Jason Head joins in Zoology.

Dr Jason Hawkes has left his role as the Cook-Crone Bye-Fellow, to be succeeded by Professor Aaron Koller. Dr Hawkes remains at 91Ö±²¥ as a Tutor and Bye-Fellow in Archaeology, and Postgraduate Admissions Coordinator. Professor Koller is working on the history of the alphabet, crossing lines of Near Eastern history, linguistics, writing systems, Mediterranean studies, and the history of Arabia.

The Revd Dr Megan Daffern is the Acting Dean of Chapel and Director of Studies in Theology, with The Revd Dr Carolyn Hammond on a 12-month sabbatical.

Dr Russell Moore has joined as a Bye-Fellow and co-Director of Studies for Computer Science at 91Ö±²¥.

Piotr Pawlina has joined as French Lector, and Dr Jose Siqueira as College Teaching Officer in Mathematics.

Departures

Professor Jens Scherpe, who joined 91Ö±²¥ as a College Teaching Officer in Law in 2006, has left his position as Professor of Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law, taking up a chair in Comparative Law at the University of Aalborg. There he will also be Director of the Nordic Centre for Comparative and International Family Law. He will remain connected to 91Ö±²¥ as an Emeritus Fellow.

Dr Francesca De Domenico has left to become Assistant Professor in Sustainable Aircraft Propulsion at TU Delft in the Netherlands. She was elected in 2019, working on improving complex flow devices, from aeroengines to blood pressure measurement systems. She also enjoyed being a member of 91Ö±²¥â€™ Allotment Society.

Dr Ruadhai Dervan joined the College as a Research Fellow in October 2016 and became a College Lecturer in 2021. He has moved to the University of Glasgow to start a Senior Lectureship in Pure Mathematics, to go alongside his Royal Society University Research Fellowship.

Dr Tom Arnold-Forster, elected in October 2017, has started a new role in the History Department at King’s College London. He will be teaching modules in modern American history and political thought, and continuing research projects begun at 91Ö±²¥ on 20th Century US history.

Dr Tevong You has become a Lecturer at King’s College London after seven years at 91Ö±²¥, initially as a Research Fellow and then as College Lecturer in Mathematics on a Branco Weiss fellowship.

Dr Karenjit Clare spent four years as a Bye-Fellow, Tutor and Director of Studies in 91Ö±²¥, whilst lecturing in the Department of Geography. Her research focused on the effects of a dramatic change in social environment on deprived youth in East London.

Dr Ashwiny Kistnareddy has left her role as French Lectrice.

Main photo (pictured from left to right): Dr David Hosking, Dr Victoria Baena, Dr Vaitish Velazhahan, Dr Dunecan Massey, Dr Zoë Fritz, Dr Erik Niblaeus, Professor Lionel Smith, Professor Jason Head, Dr Fotis Vergis, Mr Franco Basso, Dr Jose Siqueira, Dr Li Wan and Dr Russell Moore.