St Andrews celebrates Leverhulme Trust Success
Eight St Andrews Academics have been awarded Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for the Academic Year 2026-27. 123 Research Fellowships were offered overall, they enable experienced researchers in any discipline, who are, or have been, prevented by routine duties, to complete an original piece of research.
Congratulations to the newest fellows from St Andrews from across both the Humanities and Science. They include…
Dr Marine Ganofsky, School of Modern Languages – ‘Enchanté! Libertines and the magic of desire in eighteenth-century French fiction’.
Dr Jochen Kursawe, School of Mathematics and Statistics – ‘Neural network architectures for fast molecular dynamics of RNA’
Professor David Herd, School of English – ‘First person: literature and the voice of human rights’.
Dr Anna Kelley, School of Classics – ‘Cotton in the first millennium: a global history of local networks’
Professor Laura Moretti, School of Art History – ‘Cosmopolitan ambition: Niccolò Gaddi’s global objects in early modern Florence’
Professor Oscar Gaggiotti, School of Biology – ‘Interpretable AI: a new paradigm for advancing population genomics research’
Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, School of Classics – ‘A new approach to the Elgin marbles: archaeology, intimacy and collecting’
Professor Emily Michelson, School of History – ‘Muslims, Jews, and Orthodox in Europe’s rupture’
Professor Oscar Gaggiotti, School of Biology – ‘Interpretable AI: a new paradigm for advancing population genomics research’
Dr Jochen Kursawe, School of Mathematics and Statistics – ‘Neural network architectures for fast molecular dynamics of RNA’
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