The beginning of this academic year has brought some exciting news to several Wiener-Anspach Alumni. We are very grateful for being kept up-to-date with their work and wish them the best for the future.
Ruadhaí Dervan, Research Fellow in Mathematics at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, was granted a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Ruadhai spent six months as a visiting PhD student at the ULB in 2016, under the supervision of Professor Joel Fine (Departement of Mathematics). His doctoral thesis was entitled “Continuity methods in Kähler geometry”.
Mathias Lamberty has been appointed as Référendaire in the Cabinet of Thomas von Danwitz, Judge at the European Court of Justice, as from November 2020. Mathias completed the Magister Juris (MJur) programme at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford in 2013, with the support of the Foundation.
Nibedita Mukherjee has joined Brunel University London as a Lecturer on Global Challenges. On another note, after being the Co-Chair of the UN programme GEO for Youth, she has been invited by UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) to be a part of the review of the future of the Global Environment Outlook. From 2014 to 2016 Nibedita carried out a postdoctoral research on “Designing efficient solutions to address the bottlenecks in the modus operandi of current biodiversity conservation efforts (DESCO)”, under the supervision of Prof. William Sutherland (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).
Violette Pouillard has been appointed CNRS Research Fellow at the LARHRA (Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes), where she will continue her research on wildlife conservation and management in Central Africa (Congo and Uganda), from the 19th century to present. In 2019 Violette published the book Histoire des zoos par les animaux. Contrôle, conservation, impérialisme, which was partly the result of her postdoctoral research at the African Studies Center in Oxford from 2015 to 2017.