New appointments

Pro-Vice-Chancellors

Personnel and Equality

Sally Mapstone, Reader in Older Scots Literature, was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Personnel and Equality)
with effect from 13 October 2009. She remains a fellow of St Hilda’s College.

Research

Ian Walmsley, Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics and Head of the Sub-Department of Atomic and Laser Physics, took up the post of Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) with effect from 1 April 2009. He remains a fellow of St Hugh’s College.

Oxford University Press

Nigel Portwood, Executive Vice-President, Global Operations, for the Penguin Group, based in New York, was appointed Chief Executive of OUP with effect from 17 August 2009.

Rhodes House

Professor Don Markwell, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) of the University of Western Australia, was appointed Warden of Rhodes House with effect from 1 July 2009.

Public Understanding of Science

Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics and a fellow of Wadham College, was appointed Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science and became a fellow of New College.

Strategy and Organisation

Andrew Pettigrew, OBE, FBA, Dean of the School of Management at the University of Bath, was appointed Professor of Strategy and Organisation at the Sa ïd Business School and became a fellow of Brasenose College.

Cancer Cell Biology

Jordan Raff, Cancer Research UK-funded Senior Group Leader at the Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, was appointed César Milstein Professor of Cancer Cell Biology and became a fellow of Lincoln College.

Major Programme Management

Bent Flyvbjerg, Professor of Planning at Aalborg University, Denmark and Professor and Chair in Infrastructure Policy and Planning at Delft University, The Netherlands, was appointed BT Professor of Major Programme Management and became a fellow of St Anne’s College.

Law

Graeme Dinwoodie, Professor of Law and Associate Dean at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, was appointed Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law and became a fellow of St Peter’s College.

Economics

Paul Beaudry, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Macroeconomics at the University of British Columbia and Fellow of the Bank of Canada and Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, was appointed Professor of Economics and became a fellow of All Souls College.

Musculoskeletal Sciences

Udo Oppermann, Professor in Molecular Biology, Principal Investigator: Dehydrogenases and Metabolism, Structural Genomics Consortium, Botnar Research Centre and University Research Lecturer at Oxford, was appointed Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences and became a fellow of St Catherine’s College.

Differential Equations

Gui-Qiang Chen, Professor of Mathematics at Northwestern University, USA, Visiting Chair Professor of Mathematics at Fudan University, PRC, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Advanced Study, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, was appointed Professor in the Analysis of Partial Differential Equations and became a fellow of Keble College.

Botany

Liam Dolan, Project Leader, Cell Patterning Morphogenesis and Evolution in Plant, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, and Honorary Professor of Biology at the University of East Anglia, was appointed Professor of Botany and a fellow of Magdalen College. On the retirement of Professor Hugh Dickinson,
he will assume the Sherardian Professorship of Botany.

Quantitative Finance

Thaleia Zariphopoulou, V F Neuhaus Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, was appointed Man Professor of Quantitative Finance and became a fellow of Christ Church.

Slade Professor of Fine Art

(Josephine) Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex, was appointed Slade Professor of Fine Art for the academic year 2009–10. The post is associated with All Souls College.

European Comparative Literature

Roger Chartier, Professeur d’écrit et cultures dans l’Europe moderne at the Collège de France, was appointed Weidenfeld Visiting Professor in European Comparative Literature for the academic year 2009–10. The post is associated with St Anne’s College.

Corporate Law

Paul Davies, Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics, was appointed Allen and Overy Professor of Corporate Law and became a fellow of Jesus College.

Contemporary Theatre

The playwright Michael Frayn was appointed Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre for the academic year 2009–10. The post is associated with Catherine’s College.

Broadcast Media

Stephen Garrett, Joint Managing Director of Kudos Film and Television, the makers of Spooks, Hustle and Life on Mars, was appointed News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media and a fellow of Green College for the academic year 2009–10.

George Eastman Visiting Professorship

Gretchen Gerzina, Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography and Chair in the Department of English, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA, was appointed George Eastman Visiting Professor and a fellow of Balliol College for the academic year 2009–10.

American History

Robin Kelley, Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Southern California, was appointed the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History and a fellow of The Queen’s College for the academic year 2009–10.

Control Engineering

David Limebeer, Professor in Control Engineering and Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London, was appointed Professor of Control Engineering and became a fellow of New College.

Gastroenterology

Fiona Powrie, Professor of Immunology and Wellcome Trust-funded Senior Research Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science at Oxford, was appointed Sidney Truelove Professor of Gastroenterology in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine and became a fellow of Green Templeton College.

Islamic Studies

Tariq Ramadan, Research Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, the Lokahi Foundation, London, and Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, and Visiting Professor at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, was appointed His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies. The post is associated with St Antony’s College.

American Literature

Robert Reid-Pharr, Professor in the PhD Program in English, City University of New York Graduate Center, was appointed Drue Heinz Visiting Professor of American Literature for the academic year 2009–10. The post is associated with St John’s College.

Chemistry

Carol Robinson, FRS, Professor of Mass Spectrometry at the University of Cambridge and Royal Society Research Professor, was appointed Royal Society Professor in the Department of Chemistry and became a fellow of Exeter College. She will assume the Dr Lee’s Professorship of Chemistry upon expiry of the Royal Society Professorship.

History of Ideas

Michael Rosen, Professor of Government at Harvard University, was appointed Isaiah Berlin Visiting Professor in the History of Ideas for the academic year 2009–10. The post is associated with a visiting fellowship at Corpus Christi College.

Abrahamic Religions

Guy Stroumsa, Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, was appointed Professor of the Study of Abrahamic Religions and became a fellow of Lady Margaret Hall.

Molecular and Population Genetics 

Ian Tomlinson, Professor of Molecular and Population Genetics at Oxford, Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Oxford Regional Genetics Service and Visiting Professor in Cancer Genetics at Barts and the London, Medical School, Queen Mary College, London, was appointed Professor of Molecular and Population Genetics in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine and became a Fellow of The Queen’s College.