People
New faces
As the new academic year starts, Wyvern introduces some of the new
faces on campus.
The Department of Economics are welcomed several new members of staff:
Giovanni Facchini has joined as senior lecturer in the Department.
His research focuses on international trade and factor mobility and he is
a member of the co-ordination committee of the Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano
in Milan, where he directs research for a €2.7 million RTN program on the
Transnationality of Migrants.
Economics also welcomes Tianxi Wang as a lecturer from the
London School of Economics; teaching fellow Sonja Fagernas from the
University of Cambridge; and lecturer Stefan Niemann from the
University of Bonn. Sergei Severinov from Duke University in the
United States and Francesco Squintani from University degli Studi
di Brescia in Italy both join as professors.
Part-time academic staff appointments include Xiaohua Chen and
Evdoxia Pliota, Panu Pelkonen, and Cecilia Testa.
Administrator Camilla Thomsen has joined the department with
responsibility for first year undergraduates.
There are several new starters in the School of Accounting, Finance and
Management. Five lecturers are joining, Scott Taylor, Ahmed Kholeif,
Liya Shen, Dimitri Vinogradov and Vivekanand Nawosah. Sanjay
Banerji has been appointed as a Reader and Edward Wray-Bliss
and Mohammad Hudaib have begun as senior lecturers.
Three new members of staff have taken up positions in Biological
Sciences. Dr Jonathan Worrall joins the Department as a lecturer,
and is joined by Neil Kad from the University of Vermont. Neil's
research focuses on how DNA motor proteins target their binding sites and
how they interact with one another.
Fellow lecturer Jody Mason joins Essex from the Albert-Ludwigs
Universität in Freiburg, Germany where he has been studying the mechanisms
controlling the association of coiled coil structures.
Anglican Chaplain joins campus
New Anglican Chaplain, the Rev Thomas Yap, joined the University at the
end of the academic year and is getting to know students and staff.
Thomas came to Essex from a parish in Harrogate and is the only
full-time Christian Chaplain on campus.
He said: 'The Anglican Chaplaincy team is here to offer spiritual,
pastoral and counselling care for staff and students. Also there will be
some changes to the Anglican services, with an evening service at the
weekend to make it even more accessible.'
The first major event planned is a Christmas celebration on Wednesday
12 December but Thomas would like to hear your ideas for social and
spiritual events, e-mail:
tyap@essex.ac.uk.
Arts appointments
With Professor Peter Vergo now Head of the Department of Art History
and Theory, there are several other new appointments.
Taina Caragol is a Research Fellow with the AHRC project on Modern and
Contemporary Latin American Art and the UK: History, historiography,
specificity. Dr Isobel Whitelegg will also be working on the same project.
Natasha Ruiz-Gómez is taking up a five-year fellowship in January. Her
research interest is in the intersection of nineteenth century French Art
and contemporary scientific discourses.
Wolfgang Brückle has also joined the Department to work on the
three-year project Aesthetics in Photography.
Also in the printed October edition of Wyvern:
- New editor for flagship journal
- Retirements
- Big steps
