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International visitors for 2023/24

Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professorships 2023-24

Date of Visit	Name and Institution	Bristol host	Topic of Research
4 Sept-13 Oct 2023	Professor Richard T.W. Arthur McMaster University, Canada	Dr Karim Thebault Philosophy	The Methodology of Natural Philosophy: From Leibniz to Modern Philosophy of Physics
8 Sept-9 Nov 2023	Professor Theodore Schatzki University of Kentucky, USA	Professor Dale Southerton Management	Digital Fates
1 Oct-30 Nov 2023	Professor Colin J.N. Wilson Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand	Professor Juliet Biggs Earth Sciences	New insights into the dynamics of large silicic volcanic systems
‌‌2 - 30 Nov 2023	Professor Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay University of California, Davis, USA	Dr Zoë Leindhart Physics	Investigating the evolution of material properties during planet formation
16 Feb - 23 Mar 2024	Professor Leslie Morgan Loyola University Maryland, USA	Professor Marianne Ailes French	Franco-Italian Epic: Origins, range, and interpretations
19 Feb - 29 Mar 2024	Professor Vanessa Northington Gamble The George Washington University, USA	Dr Stephen Mawdsley History	The Historical Implications of American Race and Medicine
20 Apr - 26 May 2024	Professor Sharynne McLeod Charles Sturt University, Australia	Professor Yvonne Wren Bristol Dental School	Children born with cleft palate: Intelligibility and participation
1 May - 31 July 2024	Professor Lev Vaidman Tel Aviv University, Israel	Professor Sandu Popescu Physics	Research on the foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum information
15 May - 15 June 2024	Professor Stuart Candy Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico	Professor Helen Manchester School of Education	Visiting Professorship and artist residency - experiential futures
TBC	Professor Sergei Egorov University of Virginia, USA	Professor Nigel Wilding Physics	Aggregation and Phase Separation of Hydrophobic Solutes in Water: a Combined Density Functional Theory and Simulation Approach

Bristol 'Next Generation' Visiting Researcher Programme 2023-24

Date of Visit	Name and Institution	Bristol host	Topic of Research
11 - 26 Aug 2023	Dr Elisabeth Gilmore Carleton University, Canada	Professor Daniela Schmidt Earth Sciencees	Improving communication across natural and human system scientists
7 - 22 Sept 2023	Professor M.V. Ramana University of British Columbia, Canada	Dr John Downer Sociology, Politics and International Studies	Exploring reactor safety
1 - 30 Oct 2023	Dr John Mondal CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, India	Professor Charl FJ Faul School of Chemistry	‌Nanoarchitectonics of Porous Organic Polymer as Heterogeneous Catalytic Assemblies (CatPOPs)
9 - 20 Oct 2023	Dr Vera Lucia Raposo Nova University, Portugal	Professor Oliver Quick Law School	Artificial Intelligence in healthcare: investigating innovation, safety and liability
18 Nov - 2 Jan 2024	Dr Anthony Halog University of Queensland, Australia	Professor Guy Howard Cabot Institute for the Environment	Partnering for Innovation and Impact: Collaboration for Net Zero Emission, Circular Agriculture and Bioeconomy
13 Dec - 23 Jan 2024	Professor Elisabeth J. Cooper UiT-The Arctic University of Norway	Dr Christopher Williamson Geographical Sciences	Arctic snow-microbial-plant interactions in a changing climate
9 Jan - 19 Feb 2024	Dr Eleanor Fleming University of Maryland, USA	Dr Patricia Neville Bristol Dental School	Decolonizing Dentistry to Centre Health Justice: Dismantling White Supremacy and Power from Oral Health
4 - 22 Mar 2024	Dr Shu Minakuchi University of Tokyo, Japan	Mr Vincent Maes Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering	Enhanced consolidation monitoring
4 - 25 Mar 2024	Dr Sean Chorney Simon Fraser University, Canada	Dr Tracey Helliwell School of Education	Mathematics Teacher Educators distributed expertise: Transition from secondary school mathematics teaching to preservice teacher education
15 Apr - 24 May 2024	Dr Santiago Palmas Perez Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Lerma, Mexico	Professor Alf Coles School of Education	Developing Early Agebra
29 Apr - 9 June 2024	Dr Ralph Evins University of Victoria	Professor Peter Flach School of Computer Science	Applying machine learning methods to engineering simulation
7 - 28 June 2024	Dr Clayton Chin University of Melbourne, Australia	Professor Tariq Modood Sociology, Politics and International Studies	Multiculturalism and National Identity in Diverse Liberal Democracies
8 - 29 June 2024	Professor Jenny Kaminer University of California-Davis	Dr Connor Doak Departmant of Russian	Gender and the body in contemporary Russian culture‌‌‌‌
10 June - 21 July 2024	Dr Katherine Elvira University of Victoria, Canada	Dr Charlotte Lloyd Geographical Sciences	Building bespoke artificial cells to investigate how environmental nanoplastics affect human cell membranes

Bristol Benjamin Meaker Follow-on Fund 2023-24

Date of Visit	Name and Institution	Bristol host	Topic of Research
8 Jan - 27 Jan 2024	Dr Fernando Hartwig Federal Universidad de Pelotas, Brazil	Professor George Davey Smith Bristol Medical School	Empirically assessing the plausibility of unconfoundedness in observational studies
28 Apr - 29 May 2024	Professor Nick Huggett University of Illinois at Chicago, USA	Professor James Ladyman Philosophy	Atoms are quantum!
24 May - 7 June 2024	Professor Nandita Sharma University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA	Professor Bridget Anderson Sociology, Politics and International Studies	Hydra Rising - follow up
1 June - 30 June 2024	Dr Tanveer Ahmed Naveed University of Gujrat	Professor David Gordon Policy Studies	Multidimensional Child Poverty in Pakistan: Measurement and Methodology