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STAFF AND RESEARCHERS

DIRECTOR:    Professor Christopher Cullen
LIBRARIAN:    Mr. John Moffett
INSTITUTE ADMINISTRATOR: Ms. Susan Bennett
BURSAR:    Brigadier Tim Thompson
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RESEARCHERS

Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd  -  Scholar in Residence

Sasakawa Foundation Research and Teaching Fellow in Japanese Science and Technology

Dr. Aya Homei 保明綾 September 2008-2009
ah567@cam.ac.uk
(NRI and Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge)

Dr. Homei received her Ph.D on the history of medical midwifery in the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) periods from the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester in 2003.  Since then she has been working on the project, ‘Modern medicine as cause and cure: fungal infections and treatment, 1920-1970’, funded by the Wellcome Trust.  As part of the project, she has been looking at how Japanese medical researchers became major players in the global network of biomedical research on infectious diseases. She is also starting a new project on the history of medical research on radiation sickness after the ‘Bikini incident’.

ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION RESEARCH FELLOWS

Dr. Wang Miao 王淼 – Oct 2008 – April 2009
wangmiao@zju.edu.cn
(College of Humanities, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China)

LI FOUNDATION VISITING FELLOW

OTHER VISITING SCHOLARS

Dr. Catherine Jami - September 2004-2005.
jami@paris7.jussieu.fr
Dr. Jami is chargée de recherche at CNRS, Paris. She has published extensively on 17th and 18th century Chinese mathematics, as well as on the Jesuits and the reception of the science they introduced in the late Ming and early Qing period.  She is currently the French Government Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. During her time at the Institute, she is completing the research and writing for her book on science, Western learning, and the construction of the state in China during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722).
See her webpage here

Dr. Vimalin Rujivacharakul - February - May 2008
vimalin@UDel.Edu
(University of Delaware)
Dr. Rujivacharakul is Assistant Professor of Art and Architectural History at the University of Delaware.  She graduated from University of California at Berkeley and was also educated at Harvard University and University of Michigan Ann Arbor.  She researches and publishes on history and historiography of modern architecture, East Asian architecture, history of knowledge-making, and Sino-European intellectual history.  She is here at the Needham Research Institute to complete the revision of her book manuscript.
http://www.udel.edu/ArtHistory/fvimalin.html

Dr. Zhu Hongbin 朱宏斌  - July 2008-June 2009
Zhhbin02@126.com
(Northwest Agriculture and Forest University)
Dr. Zhu Hongbin is an associate professor at the Chinese Agricultural History and Culture Institute, Northwest Agriculture and Forest University.  He researches agricultural technology, economics and inter-cultural contacts, currently focusing on agricultural development during Qin and Han Dynasties and the comparison of patterns of the relationship between agriculture and herding in East and West during the middle ages.

Wang Kaining王凯宁 Oct 2008 – April 2009
wkn2002@163.com

(Research Center for Philosophy of Science and Technology, Shanxi University, Taiyuan)

VISITING PHD STUDENTS

Mr. Leon Rocha
(Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)
lar29@cam.ac.uk
The sexual utopianism of Zhang Jingsheng 张兢生 : Sexuality and the May 4th Movement.

Mr. LIU Xinyi
(Department of Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
xl241@cam.ac.uk
Millet in Neolithic China.

Jiri Hudecek
(Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)
jh602@cam.ac.uk

Jiri Hudecek graduated in Sinology at Charles University, Prague. Having been awarded the NRI Studentship in East Asian History of Science, Technology and Medicine, he received in 2008 an M.Phil. in History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, and is currently a Ph.D. student there. His research topic is the Chinese mathematician Wu Wen-Tsun (Wu Wenjun) and his inspiration in traditional Chinese mathematics, but he is also interested in traditional Chinese mathematics, sociology of mathematics and different uses of the history of science in general.

Shao Kan 邵侃- July 2008-June 2009
shaokan1983@126.com
(Northwest Agriculture and Forest University)
Shao Kan is a Ph.D. student at the Chinese Agricultural History and Culture Institute, Northwest Agriculture and Forest University. Her research covers disasters in Chinese history, in particular the science and technology of disaster reduction in Chinese historical famine texts and the impact of famine on population movements.