Henslow Fellowships

Three year funding across a wide range of fields – with over thirty Henslow Fellows receiving funding from 2010 to date.

The Society regularly sponsors three-year Research Fellowships, “Henslow Fellowships”, in the fields of Natural Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science and Clinical Sciences. The Henslow Fellowships are awarded to selected colleges to augment research fellowship provision within Colleges, rather than to substitute for existing schemes.

The aims of the Philosophical Society are “to promote research in all branches of science and to encourage the communication of the results of scientific research.”  The advertisement and selection of each of the Henslow Fellowships is made by the College, in full consultation with the Cambridge Philosophical Society.

Henslow Fellow Profiles


Dr Tiffany Ki

Henslow Fellow 2024

Dr Ankit Dilip Kumar

Henslow Fellow 2024

Dr David Hardman

Henslow Fellow 2024

Dr Alec Christie

Henslow Fellow 2021-2024

Dr Georg Maierhofer

Henslow Fellow 2023-

Juan Benito Moreno

Henslow Fellow 2023-

Timothy Chisholm

Henslow Fellow 2023-

Dr Francesco Fournier-Facio

Henslow Fellow 2023-

Dr David Willer

Henslow Fellow 2021-

Dr Carrie Soderman

Henslow Fellow 2023-

Dr Rajesh Bhagat

Henslow Fellow 2020-

Dr Harriet Groom

Henslow Fellow 2014-2017

Dr Sarah Morgan

Henslow Fellow 2017-2020

Dr Emily Mitchell

Henslow Fellow 2016-2019

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The Unknown Maxwell

  • 09:00 - 17:30 Cambridge University Engineering Department Lent Term One-Day Meeting

In the millennium poll, James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was voted the third greatest physicist of all time – behind Newton and Einstein. He is best known for his equations of electromagnetism and thermodynamic relations, but his interests and achievements extended far beyond these fields. His profound insights across many extraordinarily diverse areas have laid the foundations for much of contemporary physical science.

The day will begin with an overview of James Clerk Maxwell’s life and achievements. The talks following will focus on just a few of the fields where he did seminal work, and in which current research is revealing interesting developments.

There will be a small exhibition of artefacts including some of Maxwell’s models from the Cavendish collection. The exhibition catalogue can be found here

James Clerk Maxwell had strong links with the Cambridge Philosophical Society during his time at Cambridge. He studied mathematics as an undergraduate – initially at Peterhouse, but moving to Trinity before the end of his first term. He graduated in 1854, and shortly afterwards presented his first paper On the transformation of surfaces by bending to the Cambridge Philosophical Society. His career took him to Aberdeen, King’s College London and ther family estates at Glenlair before returning to Cambridge in 1871 to become the first Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics. He was President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1875-1877. In 1879 he died in Cambridge at the age of 48.

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