Author: g_fasol
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[Trinity Japan] Sir Simon Baron-Cohen “The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism”, 19 Nov 2021
Professor Sir Simon Baron-Cohen Sir Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at Cambridge, Director of the Autism Research Centre, and Fellow of Trinity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Baron-Cohen https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-academics-recognised-in-2021-new-year-honours https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?sb205 https://www.autismresearchcentre.com/staff/simon-baron-cohen/ Trinity in Japan Trinity in Japan is a Trinity College Officially Recognized Group, and recognized by the University of Cambridge as an alumni group. Chair and Founder:…
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[Trinity Japan] Sir Shankar Balasubramanian, inventor of Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS), 22 Oct 2021
Sir Shankar Balasubramanian Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian (together with Sir David Klenerman) have been awarded the 2020 Millenium Technology Prize “their innovation of Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS), technology that enables fast, accurate, low-cost and large-scale genome sequencing”. Sir Shankar is the Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and Trinity…
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[Trinity Japan] Heonik Kwon (권헌익), “The Cold War and Japan”, 14 Oct 2021
Professor Heonik Kwon (권헌익), Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at Trinity College Heonik Kwon has been with Trinity College since 2011 in the capacity of Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology. Author of prize-winning books on the historical memories of the Vietnam War, Asia’s Cold War, and the Korean War, he is currently working…
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[Trinity Japan] V S Ramachandran on “Evolutionary cognitive neuroscience, explored through synesthesia, mental calendars, and body image distortions”, 6/7 Oct 2021
Professor V S Ramachandran V S Ramachandran; MBBS, FRCP (London), PhD( Trinity ) DSc, Distinguished Professor, UCSD ( La Jolla), Adjunct Professor, Salk Institute , La Jolla CA. V S Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Distinguished Professor with the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San…
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[Trinity Japan] Grae Worster, Professor of Fluid Dynamics and Trinity’s Vice-Master: why airplanes fly, how ice melts, 24 Sept 2021
Professor Grae Worster, Professor of Fluid Dynamics at Cambridge University (DAMTP) and Vice-Master of Trinity Professor Grae Worster at the Dept of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/person/mgw1 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grae_Worster Publications: http://www.itg.cam.ac.uk/people/grae/publications.html Trinity in Japan Trinity in Japan is a Trinity College Officially Recognized Group, and recognized by the University of Cambridge as an…
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[Trinity Japan] Dominic Lieven, on his book “In the Shadow of the Gods. The Emperor in World History” 3 Sept 2021
Professor Dominic Lieven, Trinity Honorary Fellow and Emeritus Fellow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Lieven Professor Lieven at LSE Professor Dominic Lieven at Harvard And here, Dominic Lieven on “The European Crisis” in Nikkei Professor Dominic Lieven’s most recent book Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia was selected as FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR…
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[Trinity Japan] Richard Turnill, Senior Bursar Trinity College, investing and net zero carbon emissions, 22 July 2021
Richard Turnill Richard recently joined Trinity as Senior Bursar and therefore has responsibility for Trinity’s financial wellbeing. Previously Richard worked many years at BlackRock as Global Chief Investment Strategist, and Head of Global Equity. Richard graduated with a BA in Economics from Cambridge University. Trinity in Japan Trinity in Japan is a Trinity College Officially…
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Struggling for Europe’s technology sovereignty – a comment on Hermann Hauser’s proposal for a €100 billion Technology Sovereignty Fund
by Gerhard Fasol Hermann Hauser in a recent article on Project Syndicate, entitled “The Struggle for Technology Sovereignty in Europe” argues for “the UK and EU to jointly establish a €100 billion ($120 billion) Technology Sovereignty Fund to counter the $100 billion that the US is spending on its technology sovereignty and the even larger…
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[Trinity Japan] Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics, “The modern day alchemist”, 18 June 2021
Sir Richard Friend Sir Richard Friend FRS, FREng is maybe best known for his breakthrough discoveries of light emitting polymers, inventions which led to the development of OLED (organic light emitting diodes), and to his founding of several companies Cambridge Display Technology ( https://www.cdtltd.co.uk ) and Plastic Logic ( https://www.plasticlogic.com ) and more… Sir Richard…
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[Trinity Japan] Lord John Eatwell on “Piero Sraffa: the Trinity enigma who placed a time bomb under economic theory”, 21 May 2021
Lord John Eatwell Lord John Eatwell was Fellow of Trinity College, Lecturer at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Economics and Politics, Professor of Financial Policy at the Cambridge Judge Business School, and President of Queens’ College, Cambridge. Trinity in Japan Trinity in Japan is a Trinity College Officially Recognized Group, and recognized by the…