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Dr Joe Goodwin
Junior Research Fellow in Physics
Joe and his colleagues in the Ion Trap Quantum Computing group recently demonstrated a means of producing a faster and more reliable quantum link between separate ion trap quantum computers.
By interfering single photons emitted by ion qubits at each node of the network, the qubits can be entangled with one another without ever coming into contact, allowing a large quantum computer to be built from networks of smaller devices.
Recent publications:
‘High-Rate, High-Fidelity Entanglement of Qubits Across an Elementary Quantum Network’, LJ Stephenson, DP Nadlinger, BC Nichol, S An, P Drmota, TG Ballance, K Thirumalai, JF Goodwin, DM Lucas, CJ Ballance, in Physical Review Letters, 124, 110501.
The Revd Professor Andrew Gosler
Fellow in Human Sciences
Andy’s Ethno-ornithology World Atlas (EWA) project has hosted four international meetings (two at Mansfield, two in the University of Pittsburgh). It then published in the groundbreaking volume that is the major output of Creative Multilingualism (an
AHRC-funded venture exploring the links between creativity and language; see https://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/). The conferences brought linguists, ethnobiologists and conservationists together with indigenous scholars to focus on common concerns.
After ordination in 2019, Andy was invited to lecture in Aotearoa New Zealand, where he spoke in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin on faith, conservation and human rights. In 2020, using funds otherwise unspent due to the pandemic, EWA supported Amazonian indigenous communities to document their knowledge. The EWA Research Group based across Zoology, Anthropology and Geography now has seven graduate students (see also https:// ewatlas.net/who-we-are and https://ewatlas.net/news).
In October 2020, Andy was made a Professor, and is, we think,
the world’s first Professor of Ethno-ornithology. We proudly congratulate him on this academic distinction. He also holds a joint position between the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology (Zoology Department) and the Institute of Human Sciences (School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography).
Dr Alex Henley
Stipendiary Lecturer in Theology and Marie Curie Research Fellow
Alex left Oxford in summer 2020 for a position at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, heading its MA in Islamic Studies.
During his three years at Mansfield he divided his time between teaching in College – on Islam and ways of thinking about religion in society – and research trips to Jordan where he investigated the new religious institutions that are redefining the place of Islam in the Middle East. In Hilary term he hosted a popular series of visiting speakers at Mansfield to discuss cutting-edge critical and decolonial approaches to ‘religion’, out of which conversations
he is putting together an exciting new volume, Seeing Through ‘Religion’: A Practical Handbook of Critical Approaches. Alex can be reached at ahenley@iis.ac.uk.
Recent publications:
‘Islam as a Challenge to the Ideology of Religious Studies: The Failure of Religious Studies in the Middle East’, in Implicit Religion. Issue 3, Vol 22 (2020), 372-389.
‘Islamic Authorities and Mosques in Jordan during the Corona Crisis’, in the Bulletin of the Council for British Research in the Levant, forthcoming.
‘Religion and the Study of Religious Leadership’; and ‘Who Defines Religion in the Colony?’, in The Critical Religion Reader, ed M Barbato, C Montgomery and R Nadadur Kannan (Studio Dreamshare Press, 2020).
‘Mashyakhat al-‘Aql: The making of a modern Lebanese Druze institution’, in The Druze Millennium, ed A Abu-Husayn and M Rabah (American University of Beirut Press, forthcoming).
Lukas Hensel
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Development Economics
Recent publications:
‘Coronavirus Perceptions and Economic
Anxiety’, T Fetzer, L Hensel, J Hermle, and C Roth, in The Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming).
‘Does Party Competition Affect Political Activism?’, A Hager, J Hermle, L Hensel and C Roth, in Journal of Politics (forthcoming).
Professor Peter Keevash
Professorial Fellow in Mathematics
This year Peter was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant. His project entitled ‘Combinatorial Applications of Random Processes and
Expansion’ tackles a variety of challenging open problems in Pure Mathematics, many of which concern networks and are inspired by real life phenomena. This includes understanding mathematical models of phase transitions, the flow of fluid, or the spread of information or disease throughout a network.
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