Blavatnik Cambridge Postdoctoral Fellows

2021 Fellow

Home Institution: The Weizmann Institute of Science

Host: Dr Gonçalo Bernardes, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge

Project: Computational design of antibody conjugates for increased target affinity. 

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2021 Fellow 

Home Institution: Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Host: Professor Anne-Christine Davis, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge

Project: Non-minimally Dark Energy model test.

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2021 Fellow

Home Institution: DustPhotonics Ltd. (PhD from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Host: Professor Jeremy Baumberg, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge

Project: Tunable and reconfigurable metamaterials.

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2021 Fellow 

Home Institution: The Weizmann Institute of Science

 Host: Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge

 Project: Monitoring and manipulating inter-organellar contact-sites during mycobacterial infection.

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2021 Fellow 

Home Institution: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

 Host: Professor Emmanuel Breuillard, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge

 Project: On the Many Aspects of Counting Lattice Points on Nilpotent Groups.

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2020 Fellow

Home Institution: Weizmann Institute of science

Host: Professor Sarah A. Teichmann, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge

Project: Developing computational tools to reconstruct 3D-whole transcriptomics maps of the human ovaries.

2020 Fellow

Home Institution: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Host: Professor Michael Elmhirst Cates, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge

Project: Macroscopic fluctuation theory of active matter. 

2020 Fellow

Home Institution: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Host: Professor Michael C. Anderson, Senior Scientist and Programme Leader, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge

Project: Memory Suppression during the Menstrual Cycle: GABA and Ovarian Hormones.

2019 Fellow 

Home Institution: Weizmann Institute of Science

Host: Professor David Tong, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge

Project: Flowing from the microscopic to the macroscopic scale in quantum field theory.

2019 Fellow

Home Institution: Northwestern University

Host: Professor Ashwin Seshia, The Nanoscience Centre, University of Cambridge

Project: Multistable Microstructures for Energy harvesting.