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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

Gerard Clinton Godart
grg25@cam.ac.uk
(NRI and Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge)

After studying philosophy and history in Leuven, Osaka, and Kyoto, Clinton received his PhD from the department of history at The University of Chicago. His research involves the intellectual history of modern Japan, especially the interconnections between science, religion, and philosophy. He is currently working on a book project, based on his dissertation, titled Darwin in Japan: Evolutionary Theory and Japan’s Modernity. This project is a broad rethinking of the roles evolutionary theory played in Japan from the late nineteenth century into the postwar era. Darwin in Japan involves not only biology, but also how philosophers, Christians, Buddhists, state officials as well as anarchists, conceived and used evolution, and therefore serves as a platform to think about larger issues such as the relation between science and religion, and science and the modern state. At the Needham Research Institute, he will focus among others on the controversial biologist Imanishi Kinji, and the influence of Soviet biology (Lysenkoism) in postwar era Japan.

ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION RESEARCH FELLOWS

LI FOUNDATION VISITING FELLOW

SINO-BRITISH FELLOWSHIP TRUST VISITING FELLOW

Chen Pu 陈朴 September – December 2009
chenpu@live.com
(Research Center of Science & Technology History and Development Strategy, Harbin Institute of Technology)

Chen Pu’s research focus is mechanical engineering in ancient China. During his stay at the NRI, he will be working on the development of the cart and its influence on social change in the Pre-Qin Period.

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

Guo Mingshan郭明杉 September-December 2009
hitgmshan@yahoo.com.cn
(Research Center of Science & Technology History and Development Strategy, Harbin Institute of Technology)

Li Xiaocen 李晓岑 June – Sept. 2010
lixiaocenp@sina.com
(Research Center for Science, Technology and Civilization, University of Science & Technology, Beijing)

Professor Li has three main fields of research - the history of metallurgy in China, traditional paper-making technology, and traditional science and technology among the national minorities of Yunnan province. While at the NRI he will be conducting research on the history of Chinese paper-making technology and its transmission to the West.

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.