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A collaboration led by Professor Kylie Vincent, Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry at Jesus, has been awarded a Royal Society of Chemistry Horizon Prize for developing a cheaper and more sustainable method to manufacture important amine compounds.
A musical composition inspired by a conversation between two Jesus Fellows is to receive its world premiere at the Southbank Centre, London in November 2025.
Dr Robert Laidlow, Career Development Fellow in Music at Jesus, has created a symphonic work titled ‘Exoplanets’ following an informal discussion with Professor Ray Pierrehumbert, Senior Research Fellow in Physics, about his interdisciplinary research to understand the climates, atmospheres, surfaces, interiors, dynamics, formation, evolution, and habitability on the many worlds both in our solar system, and throughout our galaxy.
Fabian Grabenhorst, Tutorial Fellow in Experimental Psychology and Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology at Oxford, has published two papers on the neural coding of uncertainty and risk in the primate brain: one paper in Nature Communications looking at single neurons in the monkey amygdala, and the other paper translating this to the human brain, published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Dr Andrew Dunning, Hugh Price Fellow in Book History at Jesus and R.W. Hunt Curator of Medieval Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford has received a grant award from the British Academy Neil Ker Memorial Fund for a project entitled ‘Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: Securing a future for a key resource in manuscript studies’.
Project Amplify, a Jesus College-funded project in Jamaica, which worked with young people to explore the potentials and pitfalls of interacting in virtual environments and gaming spaces – has published its final report.
The report – Co-designing Metaverse Ethics: Perspectives of Jamaican Youth – emphasises the pivotal role that young people can, and should play in co-designing ethical guidelines for the Metaverse, and underscores their importance in defining what the digital future looks like. It also presents a set of recommendations to policymakers, researchers, investors and funders, and Metaverse providers and developers on the development of ethical digital spaces.
Emeritus Fellow Professor Tim Palmer has been honoured for his pioneering role in weather forecasts and climate predictions at a ceremony celebrating the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) top prize.
The IMO Prize (named after WMO’s predecessor, the International Meteorological Organization) is the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for meteorologists. It was established in 1955, and symbolises the advancements that have been made in meteorology over the years.
Dr Ricardo Rocha, Tutorial Fellow in Biology at Jesus College and an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, has co-authored a new study highlighting how bats can be valuable allies to farmers, by feeding on important agricultural pests. The findings demonstrate that encouraging bat species can be a win-win for both conservation efforts, and local farmers.
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta, Senior Research Fellow, has been awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant of up to €2.5 million to explore the geopolitics of cloud computing, and the impacts of data being increasingly stored on ‘hyperscale’ data centres operated by multinational cloud computing providers, rather than on users’ own devices. Whilst this concentration generates significant economies of scale and improves energy efficiency, it also creates new systemic risks and impacts international relations, as governments and economies become more reliant on infrastructures that are often situated in another country.
In the latest film in the University of Oxford’s Policy Engagement Network Researcher Stories: Policy Engagement series, Seth Flaxman, Tutorial Fellow and Associate Professor in Computer Science, talks about his collaboration with Lucie Culver, Professor of Child and Family Social Work, during the COVID-19 pandemic to improve global understanding of the number of children ‘left behind’ by losing a parent or guardian during the pandemic.
Seth and Lucie’s work has directly informed child protection policies and systems in a number of countries, to ensure children impacted by the loss of a parent or caregiver receive the support they need.
Professor Tim Coulson, joint Head of the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, and Professorial Fellow in Zoology at Jesus College, is one of four Oxford researchers to have been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant of €2.5 million over five years to explore their most innovative and ambitious ideas.
Tim will investigate the ecological and evolutionary consequences of changes in predation within an ecosystem, and the long-term consequences it can have on an environment. This will be explored across three different ecological systems: Yellowstone National Park in the US, freshwater streams in Trinidad, and the oceanic islands surrounding Australia.
Dr Roxana Radu, a Supernumerary Fellow at Jesus College and Departmental Lecturer in Technology and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, has been elected as the new Chair of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet).
GigaNet is an international association of academic researchers in internet governance, founded in 2006 to establish internet governance as a field of study, and support multidisciplinary scholarship in the field.
A new study, co-authored by Professor Vili Lehdonvirta, Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College and Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research at the Oxford Internet Institute, has found that 40% of time currently devoted to unpaid housework, and care of children and other family members could be automated within the decade.
The research by academics at the University of Oxford and Ochanomizu University, was published in February in the journal PLOS ONE.
Dr Oiwi Parker Jones, a Hugh Price Fellow at Jesus College, was recently awarded a Medical Research Council Career Development Fellowship to create a research group in the University’s Department of Engineering Science.
The new Oxford Neural Engineering Group will focus on the development of neural prosthetics for paralysed patients, and on the development of deep learning methods for brain-computer interfaces. In addition to the MCR award, Oiwi will also become a Principal Investigator at the Oxford Robotics Institute.