Leverhulme/INT Early Career Fellows are the largest constituency in the INT Fellows’ Association, with between 1 and 25 new fellowship holders joining us annually. Our LECFs are researching in an extraordinary range of subjects across the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences as well Physical Sciences, Technology and Biological Sciences.
Our Leverhulme ECFs are listed by cohort below:
2024 - 25 Cohort
| Name | Research Subject | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Ahmed Abouzaid | Genealogies of Political Violence in Modern Middle East: Colonialism, Sharia, and Legal Hybridity | Sociology |
| Dr Vean Al-Saka | The Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Baritle | Asian and Middle Eastern Studies |
| Dr Christian Anderson | Declaring Spiritual War on Islam: Evangelical deliverance ministry and the demonization of the Muslim world | Divinity |
| Dr Estara Arrant | Communicating through Contexts: A Digital Humanities Approach to the Arabic of the Jews of Medieval Alexandria | University Library |
| Dr Marine de Clerck | Quantum chaos and scrambling of information in the interior of generic black holes | Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics |
| Dr Federica De Lazzari | Unravelling the role of mitochondrial calcium in the metabolic dysregulation in Parkinson's Disease | MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit |
| Dr Kieran Gilfoy | When Gold Enters the Blood’: life, labour, and minerals in the Brazilian Amazon | Politics and International Studies |
| Dr Tristan Hynes | Quelling the urge to err: attenuating the sex-specific neurochemical prior of risk-taking | Psychology |
| Dr Luis Junqueira | Healing Through the Mind: The Rise of Mind-Cure Movements in Modern East Asia | History & Philosophy of Science |
| Dr Lisa Kelsey | The Local Environments of Supernova Siblings | Astronomy |
| Dr Sun Woo Kim | Interplay of charge density waves and high temperature superconductivity | Materials Science & Metallurgy |
| Dr Ziyu (Claude) Liu | Statutory Lawlessness and Real Lawlessness: Two Pathologies of a Legal System | Law |
| Dr Yongpeng Liu | Solar nitrogen fixation for green ammonia production on nitrogenase bio-hybrids | Chemistry |
| Dr Tianjun Liu | Spin related optoelectronic properties in chiral perovskite semiconductors | Physics |
| Ms Rayssa Martins Pimentel | Constraining the contribution of late-accreted material to Earth’s volatile inventory with germanium isotopes | Earth Sciences |
| Dr Joseph (Joe) Millard | Novel AI and economic mechanisms to solve the biodiversity crisis | Zoology |
| Dr Linfeng Pan | Multimodal microscopic study on Cu2O photocathodes towards efficient solar fuels production | Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology |
| Dr Alice Pearson | The 'Information' of Markets: Economy, Culture, and the Disciplinary Circles of Cybernetics | Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Dr Thomas Powell Davies | Settler colonialism and the Indigenous child: Adoption and inter-ethnic hierarchy in Asmat, Papua, Indonesia | Social Anthropology |
| Dr McNeil Taylor | When One Divides into Two: Politics of the Couple-Form in Late 20th Century France | Modern & Medieval Languages and Linguistics |
| Dr Mariëtta Van der Tol | Theologies of Political Imagination: The "Russian World" in pursuit of "Christian Europe" | Divinity |
| Dr Zhiwu Wei | The Geography of Opportunity in the United Kingdom | Land Economy |
| Dr Alice Wickenden | Named Library Collections: Material and Political Afterlives | English |
| Dr Emmanuela Wroth | Diasporic Divas: Racialised and Genered Celebrity in Western Europe, 1715-1925 | Music |
| Dr Hauser Zora | Mafia Diplomacy: The External Relations of Organised Crime | Criminology |
2023 - 24 Cohort
| Name | Research Subject | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Amir Asadi | Hierarchical Approaches to Statistical Learning and Private Data Generation | Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics |
| Dr Toby Buttress | Heterochromatin formation in early embryogenesis at single nucleus resolution | Gurdon Institute |
| Dr Harriet Fagerberg | Understanding Dysfunctions of Highly Neuroplastic Traits | History & Philosophy of Science |
| Dr Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh | Southern Africa and the Early Modern Globalisation of Knowledge | History |
| Dr Alexis Maclntyre | Finding the Flow: Temporal Contributions to Speech Perception | MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit |
| Dr Vasiliki Mavridou | Understanding and advancing protein modulation of sodium channels: Nav1.9 | Pharmacology |
| Dr Tobias Müller | Democratic Futures: Climate Change, Coloniality and State Legitimacy | Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Dr Nik Patek-Sargeant | Enhancing Fenland Farming: Applying Insights from Archaeology | Archaeology |
| Dr Facundo Romani | Decoding the regulatory machinery of the simplest land plant model | Plant Sciences |
| Dr Lefan Wang | New Insights into Foot Biomechanics via Personalized Multimodal Sensing Insole | Engineering |
| Dr Alan Wanke | Fine Root Endophytes: a new window into the evolution of plant-fungal symbioses | Sainsbury Laboratory |
2022 - 23 Cohort
| Name | Research Subject | Department | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Thomas Albrow-Owen |
Nanostructured, computation-driven devices for spectral sensing and imaging |
Engineering | ||
| Dr Nathan Cofnas | The Biological Basis of Moral Norms | Philosophy | ||
| Dr Alexander Gillett | The physics of high spin states in organic solar cells | Physics | ||
| Dr Hooi May Hen-Smith | Sociology of Law | Law | ||
| Dr Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston | Early Twentieth-Century Literary Culture and the Medicalization of Sex: Sex Beyond Modernism | English | ||
| Dr Simon Kahmann | Hybrid nanostructures for chiral optoelectronics – polarising communication | Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology | ||
| Dr Michael Loy | Cargo and conflict: Aegean networks after the Persian Wars | Classics | ||
| Dr Samuel Lunn-Rockliffe | The Contemporary Archaeology of Agricultural Innovation in Elgeyo Marakwet, Kenya | Archaeology | ||
| Dr GyuChul Myeong | Chemo-dynamical Galactic Archaeology in the Era of Gaia and Large Surveys | Astronomy | ||
| Dr Guillermo Najera | Mechanical signals driving self-renewal in gastruloids | Genetics | ||
| Dr Farhana Rahman | Rohingya Refugees: Gendered Subjectivities in Camps and Cities | Politics & International Studies | ||
| Dr Avital Rom | The Politics of Hearing in Ancient China | Asian & Middle Eastern Studies | ||
| Dr Lin Su | Wiring biohybrids for solar powered microbial electrosynthesis | Chemistry | ||
| Dr Zoltan Taracsak | Deep mantle carbon heterogeneity through the lens of ocean island volcanism | Earth Sciences | ||
2021 - 22 Cohort
| Name | Research Subject | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Peter Asimov | Reimagining modernism: Yvonne Loriod and the French avant-garde | Music |
| Dr Jan Behrends | Topology and many-body chaos in open quantum systems |
Physics |
| Dr Abigail Bradshaw | Testing prediction as a unified framework for speech production and perception | MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit |
| Dr Jess Cotton | Lonely Subjects: Postwar Literature and Psychoanalysis, 1945-1975 | English |
| Dr Timothy Cooper | Media ethics, celebration, and religious disclosure in Pakistan | Social Anthropology |
| Dr Maxime Fouyssac | Identifying the role of interoception in the formation and maintenance of habitual behaviour | Psychology |
| Dr Carlos Gantner | A multi-lineage model of the human embryo: opening the black box of development | Physiology, Development and Neuroscience |
| Dr Gabriel Jamie | The origins and maintenance of polymorphisms across species radiations | Zoology |
| Dr Jiachen Jiang | Traversing the Vicinity of Black Holes Using X-rays | Astronomy |
| Dr Sebestian Kroupa | Plants and the Pacific: Tracing Knowledge Across a Sea of Islands, c.1565–1750 |
History & Philosophy of Science |
| Dr Nick Posegay | Middle Eastern Intellectual History | Asian & Middle Eastern Studies |
| Dr Alexandra Wigzell | Examining the ethics of care in youth justice | Criminology |
| Dr Ashleigh Wiseman | How to build a hominin: predictive simulations of locomotion in human evolution | Archaeology |
| Dr Miri Zilka | Trustworthy Machine Learning | Engineering |
2020 - 21 Cohort
| Name | Research Subject | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Kelly Fagan Robinson | Testing the limits of communication when testifying to need and desert of support in Great Britain | Social Anthropology |
| Dr Dominic Walker | Underwriting the Market: A Literary Genealogy of Postclassical Economic Thought | CRASSH |
2019 - 20 Cohort
| Name | Research Subject | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Farah Ahmed |
Rethinking Islamic education for British Muslim children: trialling dialogic pedagogy in UK madrasahs (supplementary schools). |
Education |
| Dr Tim Greenfield | Exploring the complex tectonics beneath Sulawesi and Kalimantan, Indonesia | Earth Sciences |
| Dr Christina Woolner |
The poetry of politics and politics of poetry: transforming political subjectivities in Somaliland |
Social Anthropology |
2018 - 19 Cohort
| Name | Research Subject | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Lucía Martí-Prats | Study of the psychological factors and cellular mechanisms of the coping behaviours, with a special emphasis in those relying on the use of alcohol. | Psychology |