Welcome new Fellows

1 March 2018

This year we have welcomed a number of new academics to the college fellowship:

Computer Science: Dr Andrew Cropper

Dr Cropper studied at Imperial College, London, before coming to Hertford in 2018 as a Junior Research Fellow in Computer Science. His research focusses on inductive logic programming (ILP), a form of machine learning which learns logic programmes from data.

Economics: Professor Elizabeth Baldwin

Professor Baldwin joined Hertford at the beginning of the academic year as Roger Van Noorden Fellow, and Tutor and Director of Studies in Economics. She first came to Oxford to read Mathematics at Wadham College, later taking a DPhil in the subject. She then returned to study further, this time in economics, completing both an MPhil at Nuffield, and a second DPhil at Balliol. Professor Baldwin’s research follows two principal strands: firstly she studies consumer theory for indivisible goods: both the underlying geometry that preferences induce on price space, and the practical implications of this for auction design. Her second research interest examines the economics of climate change. Prior to Hertford she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Grantham Research Institute of the London School of Economics, and a research fellow at Nuffield College.

Law: Dr Benedict Coxon

Dr Coxon read Law at the University of Adelaide before coming to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where he completed his DPhil at Magdalen College. Following a period of legal practice in London, he came to Hertford in 2017 as a Career Development Fellow in Law. His research focusses on statutory interpretation and public law issues, and extends to comparative public law with a focus on Commonwealth countries.

Physics: Professor Siddharth Parameswaran

Professor Parameswaran graduated from the University of Rochester, USA, with a BS in Physics and a BA in Mathematics in 2006. He then moved to Princeton University where he received a PhD in theoretical physics in 2011 before accepting a three-year post-doctoral fellowship in Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He came to Hertford in 2017 as Associate Professor in Quantum Condensed Matter Theory and a Tutorial Fellow in Physics following a period as Associate Professor in Physics at the University of California, Irvine. He now works as a theoretical physicist, focusing on quantum mechanical systems of many particles that are strongly interacting, far from equilibrium, or both.