ACADEMIC TEAM

The programme’s instructors are drawn from the academics team of Oriel College and other colleges of the University. Some of our tutors include:

DR DOMINIC ALONZI
Lecturer in Biochemistry
Oriel College, University of Oxford

Dominic read Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at Corpus Christi, Oxford before reading for a DPhil at Linacre College with Dr Terry Butters and Prof Raymond Dwek, CBE, FRS at the Oxford Glycobiology Institute, Department of Biochemistry.

He lectures in Glycobiology to Biochemistry undergraduates and teaches a variety of cell biology and biological chemistry topics to biochemistry undergraduates via tutorials: enzymes, drug design, virology, protein structure and function, cell membranes and metabolism. I also tutor the medical and biomedical science students at Magdalen.

His research involves working in the field of glycobiology. He examines how small molecule inhibitors can have affect a number of cellular targets to enhance and elucidate their therapeutic potential and multiple mechanisms of action.

DR TIMOTHY BOURNS
Fellow in Scandinavian Studies at University College London
University College London

Dr Timothy Bourns holds a doctorate in English from St John’s College, University of Oxford, where he wrote his thesis on animals and human-animal interconnections in Old Norse-Icelandic literature. While at Oxford, he also worked as a Sub-Dean and Lecturer in Medieval English for St Edmund Hall and as a Folklore & Mythology Consultant for English Heritage. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Universities of Iceland and British Columbia, where his research has mostly focused on emotions and the environment in medieval literature. He has now returned to the UK as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Scandinavian Studies at University College London.

DR CHRISTOPHER BOWDLER
Associate Professor in Economics
Department of Economics, University of Oxford

Christopher is a Fellow of Oriel College, where he is Director of Studies in Economics. At Oriel he served as the Tutor for Admissions and Outreach from 2013 to 2015, and continue to serve on a range of college committees.

He is an applied macroeconomist and have published a range of empirical papers on topics including the identification of monetary policy shocks and their transmission to the real economy and financial markets, testing open economy models of the output-inflation trade-off, and evaluating the effects of international differences in labour market institutions.

DR IAN CARROLL
Lecturer in Political Theory
Brasenose College, University of Oxford

Ian studied for his undergraduate degree in political science at Trinity College, Dublin, and for his MPhil and DPhil in political theory at Nuffield College, Oxford. As a lecturer at Brasenose, he teaches core papers in political theory, as well as option papers in contemporary political philosophy and in classical and early modern political thought. His research focuses on social contract theory, with particular interests in perfectionism and state neutrality, bargaining theory, and justificatory liberalism.

DR LUCA CASTAGNOLI
Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy
Oriel College, University of Oxford

Luca Castagnoli is an Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a Stavros Niarchos Foundation Fellow of Oriel College. Having studied philosophy at the University of Bologna and the University of California, Berkeley, Luca obtained a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cambridge. He was a Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and then a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy at Durham University for eight years, before moving to Oxford. He has published one monograph on ancient self-refutation arguments (CUP 2010) and some two-dozen articles on ancient philosophical subjects. He teaches ancient philosophy and ethics for Oriel College.

DR SIMONE FALCO
Senior Researcher
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

Simone is a Senior Researcher in Computational Mechanics at the department of Engineering Science of the University of Oxford and lecturer at Oriel College. His research interests comprise different aspect of the behaviour of materials under extreme loading condition, from the response of armour systems upon impact to the effect of high temperatures on the structural integrity of materials, with particular focus on the effect micromechanical features on the overall macroscopic properties of the material.

PROFESSOR BERNARDO CUENCA GRAU
Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford

Bernardo is a Professor of Computer Science and a Tutorial Fellow at Keble College. He also holds a prestigious University Research Fellowship awarded by the Royal Society. Professor Cuenca Grau’s research interests are in Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems; in particular, his research focuses on logics for Knowledge Representation, semantics-based technologies, and their applications. His research covers a wide spectrum within these areas, which includes theory and foundations, algorithm design, tool development, technology standards, and end-user applications. He has published over 100 articles in leading academic journals and conferences.

DR CRAIG HOLMES
Lecturer and Tutor in Economics
Pembroke College, University of Oxford

Dr Craig Holmes is an economist at Pembroke College, Oxford and the Blavatnik School of Government, where he focuses his teaching on microeconomics, labour economics and public economics for undergraduates and post-graduates. His research interests sit between labour economics and public policy, in particular skills and education policy, with a particular interest in higher education, the changing nature of work, career mobility and youth unemployment.

MS LARA IBRAHIM
DPhil student in Law, Oriel College
Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

Lara Ibrahim is a Judicial Fellow at the International Court of Justice and a DPhil in Law student at the Faculty of Law. Her DPhil is supported by funding from the Faculty of Law and Oriel College. Her main research interests are in Public International Law, looking specifically at extraterritorial human rights obligations of States in relation to environmental harm and climate change. She is supervised by Professor Lavanya Rajamani and Dr. Ekaterina Aristova. Lara is also a Lecturer in Law at Oriel College, where she leads tutorials on Tort Law and Contract Law to undergraduate students. Lara completed the BCL at Oxford University in 2022 with Distinction and read for the papers International Human Rights Law: Theory, Practice and Critique, International Environmental Law, International Law of the Sea, and Comparative Human Rights.

DR RUDINA JASINI
Tutor in Law
Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

Rudina Jasini is an attorney and researcher specialising in international criminal law and human rights law. As an Economic Social Research Council (ESRC) researcher at the Faculty of Law, she is currently leading with Prof Carolyn Hoyle the ESRC Impact Acceleration Award (IAA) project “Advancing the Impact of Victim Participation at the International Criminal Court: Developing Avenues for Collaboration” in cooperation with the International Criminal Court Bar Association. This project builds upon her research at the University of Oxford. It focuses on co-designing resources for the education and training of legal representatives for victims at the ICC. Previously, Rudina was appointed as an ESRC Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford and a Postdoctoral Global Fellow at New York University Law School Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. Rudina has also held appointments as a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School and the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. r. Prior to her time at Oxford, Rudina worked as an attorney for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. She has also worked with the legal team providing representation and assistance to victims of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.

DR KOBI KREMNITZER
Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics
Oriel College, University of Oxford

Kobi’s areas of research are geometry, algebra and mathematical physics. Kobi is an associate professor in Oxford and tutorial fellow in Oriel College since 2009. Before that he was at MIT and at the University of Chicago. From 2005 to 2009 he was the principle investigator (PI) on a large NSF grant focusing on non-commutative algebraic geometry and its applications to representation theory. In Oxford he has forged strong links between the research groups in algebra, geometry, number theory and math physics and with the department of computer sciences. He is the Oxford PI on an EPSRC programme grant “Symmetries and Correspondences” joint between the university of Oxford and the university of Nottingham, an investigator on D. Joyce’s EPSRC programme grant, and a senior member of the Centre for Quantum Mathematics and Computation in Oxford.

DR TESS LITTLE
Quondam Fellow in History
All Souls College, University of Oxford

Tess is a writer and historian, with research interests in twentieth-century Europe and the US. Her doctoral thesis examined the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s in transnational perspective through a case study of the links between the movements in the US, UK, and France. She surveyed archival material and conducted life history interviews with activists in all three countries to trace theory, protest tactics, and organisational ideas which spread across national borders. The collection of interviews will be available in future at the British Library. Tess also writes fiction; her debut novel, The Ninth Guest (published in North America as The Last Guest) was published in 2020.

DR LUCY POWELL
Research Fellow in the Faculty of English
Trinity College, University of Oxford

Lucy Powell is a Leverhulme early career fellow at Trinity College, Oxford, where she researches birds and the global imaginary. She completed her PhD on the prison in the eighteenth-century novel at University College, London, and has taught English literature to undergraduate and graduate students at UCL and at Oxford, for more than six years. Lucy is also an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker, and has made programmes across the network on a range of topics, from the history of the inside loo to Pamela and the #Metoo movement to the long legacy of Jean Jacques Rousseau. She wrote and presented a cultural history of dreams from Homer to Freud  for BBC Radio 4, and an essay series about the brilliant sisters of very famous men; Shakespeare’s Sisters for BBC radio 3. Her writing has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Life; Life Writing; The Shandean; Notes and Queries; The Times; The Sunday Times; The Guardian; Tank and Vogue.

AMEDEO RIZZO
D.Phil Candidate in Law
Exeter College, University of Oxford

Amedeo Rizzo is a D.Phil. in Law, a Graduate Teaching Facilitator and a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford, UK, Exeter College, carrying out research about taxation, innovation, and development. He works as Academic Fellow of Taxation at Bocconi University, Italy, and as SDA Fellow of Tax and Accounting at SDA Bocconi School of Management, where he coordinates the Accounting & Tax Policy Observatory and the Transfer Pricing Forum. Additionally, he is a Transatlantic Technology Law Forum Fellow at the University of Stanford and the University of Vienna, where he analysis different types of tax incentives to enhance innovation, intellectual property and research and development activities.

Previously, Amedeo worked for the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) of the European Commission as an external advisor on budget and tax policy, and for the International Tax and Transfer Pricing Team of Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Milan, Italy. He also collaborated with the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, India, on financial transparency issues in Asia-Pacific countries. As concerns his research activities, he is the author of several papers published in national and international academic journals, such as International Tax Studies, Bulletin for International Taxation, International Transfer Pricing Journal, Fiscalità e Commercio Internazionale (Italian), and Novità Fiscali (Swiss), and technical newspaper such as We Wealth, which selected him for the top 300 wealth management influencers’ club. He also took part in the publication of the book “Brexit: Scenari fiscali e opportunità per i professionisti italiani” published by IPSOA– Wolters Kluwer Italy, which he presented at the Italian Chamber of Deputies.

Prior to his D.Phil. in Law at the University of Oxford, Amedeo obtained an M.Sc. in Taxation from the University of Oxford (distinction), an M.Sc. in Business Administration and Law (summa cum laude) and a B.Sc. in Business Administration, both from Bocconi University.

PROF. GONZALO RODRIGUEZ-PEREYRA
Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy
Oriel College, University of Oxford

Gonzalo is a CUF lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, and Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Oriel. He also holds the post of Senior Tutor at Oriel.

Gonzalo did his undergraduate degree at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, in Argentina, and his graduate work at the Faculty of Philosophy at Cambridge (first at Peterhouse and then at Churchill College). He was a student of D H Mellor. After a couple of years as Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, he took up his first permanent post as a lecturer at the Philosophy Department at Edinburgh.

In 2001 Gonzalo came to Oxford, where he had a CUF lectureship at the Philosophy Faculty and a fellowship at Hertford College (coupled with a lectureship at Oriel). In 2005 he decided to leave Oxford, and took up, simultaneously, a professorship at the Philosophy Department at Nottingham and a professorship at the UTDT in Buenos Aires. Two years later, he came back to Oxford, with exactly the same kind post he had held before (a CUF lectureship), but this time fully based at Oriel College.

DR SUMANA SANYAL
Fellow & Tutor in Medicine
Oriel College, University of Oxford

Dr Sanyal completed her PhD from Cornell University as part of the Cornell-Rockefeller-Sloan Kettering Tri-institutional program in Chemical Biology. She did her post-doctoral training with Prof. Hidde Ploegh at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Oxford, she was a Croucher Foundation sponsored Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health and School of Biomedical Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong.

ADVISORY BOARD

In order to ensure best academic quality, this year’s summer programme will be overseen by a newly appointed advisory board from Oriel College. The board, consisting of five Fellows and Tutors of Oriel, will oversee and advise on all academic aspects of the Summer Institute including: programme curriculum, assessment approach as well as the selection of tutors.

MRS JULIANE KERKHECKER
Senior Dean, Fellow of Oriel and the Grocyn Lecturer for the Classics Faculty

PROF. GONZALO RODRIGUEZ-PEREYRA
Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy
Oriel College, University of Oxford

DR NICHOLAS GASKILL
Fellow & Tutor in American Literature at Oriel

DR CHRISTOPHER BOWDLER
Macpherson Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Oriel

DR PAUL YOWELL
Fellow and tutor in law at Oriel

DR KOBI KREMNITZER
Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics
Oriel College, University of Oxford