Michaelmas Term 2023 Economic and Social History Seminars Week 6

My research in theoretical computer science mainly lies in the field of algorithms and computational complexity, which studies the inherent hardness in solving some computational problems. I am particularly interested in “total search problems”, which arise naturally in many applications, such as game theory, optimization, cryptography, and many more.

Background

DPhil in Computer Science, University of Oxford (from 2017 to 2021)
MSc in Computer Science, Stanford University (2017)
Diplôme d’Ingénieur, Ecole polytechnique (2016)
BSc in Mathematics, TU Munich (2012)

Research Interests

Algorithms and Computational Complexity
Total search problems
Applications in Game Theory, Fair Division, Optimization

Selected publications

Publications (external link)

Professor Paul David

BA, MA, PhD, FBA, Dottore Honoris Causa, Universita di Torino

Emeritus Fellow from 2002 until 2023

24 May 1935 - 23 January 2023

Research interests included the economics of past and current technological change, demographic history, institutional evolution, and topics in the economics of industrial organization with special reference to the micro-level sources of long-term productivity growth.

Background

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (2002 to 2023)
Senior Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute (from 2002 to 2008)
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1993 to 2002)
Assistant Professor of Economics (1961–6), Associate Professor of Economics (1967–70); Professor of Economics, and of History (1971–2005), Stanford University (from 1961 to 2006)
Teaching Fellow, Harvard Economics Department; also Sophomore Economics Tutor, Adams House, Harvard (from 1958 to 1960)
Tutor, Economic History, Pembroke College, Cambridge (from 1957 to 1968)
Fulbright Research Student, University of Cambridge (from 1956 to 1958)
Postgraduate economics student, Harvard University (from 1958 to 1960)
Undergraduate Harvard College (from 1952 to 1956)

Research Interests

The economics of technological change, demographic change and institutional change, and other areas of theoretical and empirical research on the nature of path-dependence in economic processes
Economic history, with special reference to the U.S. and the North Atlantic economies in the modern era
Contemporary public policy issues: the role of interoperability standards in the evolution of network industries and the economics of science and technology

Selected publications

Other professional memberships and roles

Economic History Association (past President)
International Econometric Society (Fellow)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Fellow)
American Philosophical Society (Fellow)
Western Economic Association International (President-Elect)

Teaching

Undergraduate and graduate courses in American economic history, European economic history, and economics of science and technology
Graduate research seminars: Social Science History Workshop and Science, Technology and Economy Workshop; AEA

Research awards and grants

Mellon Foundation Emeritus Research Award.
Rockefeller Foundation Grant.

Professor Gavin Salam awarded IOP Dirac Medal

Professor Gavin Salam FRS, Fellow of All Souls, has been awarded the Paul Dirac Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics for his “profound, wide-ranging and impactful contributions to particle physics, especially those concerning the identification and structure of hadronic jets”.

16th October 2023

Dr Antonia Weberling

Natural Sciences

PhD, MSc, BSc

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow since 2023

Contact:antonia.weberling@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

Background

Postdoctoral research associate, group of Prof Florian Hollfelder, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK (2022-2023)
Visiting Scholar, group of Prof Paul Trainor, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, US (2023)
PhD in group of Prof Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience, Clare College, University of Cambridge, UK (2017-2022)
M.Sc. Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (2015-2017)
B.Sc. Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (2012-2015)

Research Interests

Species Conservation, Developmental Biology, Embryos, Stem Cells

Selected publications

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jgNPaA4AAAAJ&hl=en

Molè MA*, Coorens THH*, Shahbazi MN*, Weberling A*, Weatherbee BAT*, Gantner C, Sancho-Serra C, Richardson L, Drinkwater A, Syed N, Engley S, Snell P, Christie L, Elder K, Campbell A, Fishel S, Vento-Tormo R, Behjati S & Zernicka-Goetz M: A single cell characterisation of human embryogenesis identifies pluripotency transitions and putative anterior hypoblast centre. Nature Communications. 2021 doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23758-w (*equal contribution)

Molè MA*, Weberling A*, Fässler R, Campbell A, Fishel S & Zernicka-Goetz M: Integrin b1 coordinates survival and morphogenesis of the embryonic lineage upon implantation and pluripotency transition. Cell Reports. 2021 doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108834 (*equal contribution)

Weberling A & Zernicka-Goetz M: Trophectoderm mechanics direct epiblast shape upon embryo implantation. Cell Reports. 2021 doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108655

Molè MA*, Weberling A* & Zernicka-Goetz M: Comparative analysis of human and mouse development - from zygote to pre-gastrulation. Review. Current Topics in Developmental Biology. 2020 doi: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2019.10.002 (*equal contribution)

Christodoulou N*, Weberling A*, Strathdee D, Anderson KI, Timpson P & Zernicka-Goetz M: Morphogenesis of extra-embryonic tissues directs the remodelling of the mouse embryo at implantation. Nature Communications. 2019 doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11482-5. (*equal contribution)

Teaching

Academic years 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23 Supervisions for 1st year Natural Science undergraduates in “Physiology of Organisms” at Clare College, Cambridge (Cambridge Equivalent to Tutorials in Oxford)

Research awards and grants

2023 – 5-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, All Souls College
2023 – Travel Grant of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
2019 – Travel Grant of the Company of Biologists
2017 – 3-year PhD Fellowship from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Horizon2020 International Training Network “ImageInLife”

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