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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

Leon Rocha
lar29@cam.ac.uk
(NRI and Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

Leon Rocha is currently a Junior Research Fellow at Emmanuel College. He received his BA, MPhil, and PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge. He was Lecturer in the History of medicine at Yale University and then D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia Postdoctoral Fellow. Rocha's research project will involve Joseph Needham and his relationships with Sinologists, historians of science, public intellectuals, as well as popularisers, and will seek to place the Science and Civilisation in China project in historical context.

ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION RESEARCH FELLOWS

Daniel Morgan September 2011-March 2012

dpmorgan@uchicago.edu

(University of Chicago)

Daniel Morgan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His research topic is astronomy and calendars in early imperial China with a focus on excavated manuscripts and records of debates, through which he hopes to explore the practice and sociological dimensions of ancient science, as well as the ways in which contemporary actors themselves conceived of the goals, methods, and history of their own scientific activities. Daniel is also interested in paleography, manuscript culture, religion, and the occult.

Wang Changming 汪常明 October 2011-March 2012

wangcm@126.com wcm@ustc.edu

(Research Center for Science, Technology and Society Development, Guangxi University for Nationalities, Nanning)

Wang Changming is a lecturer at the Research Center for Science, Technology and Society Development, Guangxi University for Nationalities, Nanning, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main fields of interest are history of science and archaeometry, and his current research project at the NRI is an investigation into the lives and researches of outstanding Chinese students who studied chemistry in the UK during the Republican era (1911-1949).

Yu Xinzhong 余新忠 January-June 2012

yuxinzhong@nankai.edu.cn

(Key Research Institute of Social History in China, Nankai University)

Professor Yu Xinzhong researches the socio-cultural history of Chinese medical treatment and Ming-Qing history. His current interest is in the construction of modern Chinese medical knowledge, and factors such as disease, medical treatment and hygiene in daily life in the Qing dynasty.

LI FOUNDATION FELLOW

Hu Wenliang 胡文亮 October 2011 – April 2012
dark.angle1985@yahoo.com.cn
(College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University)

Hu Wenliang is a Ph.D candidate in the history of science and technology at Nanjing Agricultural University. Her research topic is Chinese students who studied agricultural science and technology in Europe during the period 1900-1950, and their impact on Chinese agriculture, through which she hopes to explore the relationship between the Chinese students who studied in Europe and the advancement of Chinese crop-farming and forestry, as well as make an evaluation of the students’ roles and their impact on Chinese agriculture.

OTHER VISITING SCHOLARS

Xiong Weimin 熊卫民 July 2011 – January 2012

wx216@cam.ac.uk

(Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

An associate researcher at the IHNS, and currently a visiting scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Weimin's research interests includes the social history of science in China, the history of modern biology in China and the history of education in China. During his stay at the NRI, he will be working on the communication between the Chinese Biochemistry Committee and the British scientific community, 1956–1979.

Wang Luoyin 王洛印October 2011 – September 2012

lywang@mail.ustc.edu.cn

(Harbin Institute of Technology)

Wang Luoyin is a lecturer at the Research Center of Science and Technology and Development Strategy, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. His main fields of interest includes history of science, especially the history of physics in the 19th century, and his current research project is an investigation into Faraday and the rise of electrical technology in the 19th century, as well as the sociology of electrical science during this period both in Britain and China.

Yi Ggodme January - Dec 2012

yime@sj.ac.kr

(Department of Nursing, Sangji University, Korea)

An associate-professor at Sangji University, Ggodme’s main research topic is the history of nursing and midwifery in Korea from the late 19th century to the 20th century. Her current research topic is changes in the nursing profession in Korea during the period of Japanese wartime mobilization.

Shin Dongwon 申東源 January 2012 and June-August 2012

newsdw@kaist.ac.kr

(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea)

An associate-professor in the Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences at KAIST, Dongwon is also Director of the Korea Research Center for the History of Science, Technology & Civilization, and general editor of a multi-volume series on the history of ST&M in Korea. His research has focused on issues of culture, power and identity in the history of Korean medicine, in particular the characteristic of modernity of Korean society in medicine and hygiene. He is also interested in the role of traditional medicine in everyday life, as well as features of Korean medicine in the context of East Asian medicine.

Mei Jianjun 梅建军
meijianjun12@yahoo.com.cn
(Institute of Historical Metallurgy and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing)

Mei Jianjun is a professor and director of the Institute of Historical Metallurgy and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing. He received his Ph. D. on early copper and bronze metallurgy in Xinjiang at the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge in 2000. His major research field is archaeometry and the history of metallurgy in China. During his stay at the Institute, he will focus on the origins and early development of copper and bronze technology in China. His research is part of the Science and Civilization in China project (volume on Non-ferrous metallurgy in ancient China).

VISITING PHD STUDENTS

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.

Dong Qiaosheng 董桥声 October 2011-

bridgesound.dong@gmail.com, qd206@cam.ac.uk
(Faculty of Classics, Jesus College, University of Cambridge)

Dong Qiaosheng is a Ph.D. candidate in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. His main interests are in the new field of Sino-Hellenic Studies, especially comparative studies of ancient Greek and Chinese medicine. His Ph.D. research will involve three different but related topics on the ancient world: (1) anatomical knowledge; (2) gender issues; (3) embryological thought. Qiaosheng is also broadly interested in the role of medicine in the religions, arts and literatures of ancient cultures across the world.

Daniel Trambaiolo Jan. 2012-

trambaiolo@googlemail.com

(Princeton University)

Daniel Trambaiolo is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Science at Princeton University. His current research on the history of medical therapies in Tokugawa Japan explores the relationship between new medical ideas and the production and consumption of different types of medicines. In particular, he is exploring the interactions between Chinese, Dutch and Japanese medical styles by tracing the material and intellectual history of "violent remedies" (sweating, vomiting and purging therapies) from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.