Mansfield People

Current Projects

Professor Steve is currently working with Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), an experiment based in Canada which measures fundamental properties of neutrinos generated in the sun. A new experiment is being explored which will use neutrinos from a reactor to measure more such fundamental properties.

Steve is also investigating a new concept for ground-based, very high energy, gamma-ray observations to study some of the highest energy radiation produced by astrophysical objects.

Stephen Blundell is a Professor of Physics and a Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College. After studying physics and taking his doctorate at the University of Cambridge, he moved to Oxford as an EPSRC Fellow, and then took a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College. His research is in the area of magnetism and superconductivity, and he is particularly known for his contributions to the technique of muon-spin rotation, in which radioactive particles called muons are implanted into samples in order to study their magnetic properties. He has authored or co-authored six books with Oxford University Press, including Magnetism in Condensed Matter Concepts in Thermal Physics and Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur.

Professor Born directs the European Research Council funded research programme 'Music, Digitisation, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies'.

Clem is our Bursar, the senior administrative officer at Mansfield. As well as being the financial lead, Clem is responsible, under the direction of the Governing Body, for all of the non-academic functions within the College. This includes responsibility for the management of staff and other resources to ensure that day-to-day operations and finances meet the needs of the College’s academic objectives.

Clem was formerly the Chief Operating Officer at the Royal Institute of British Architects and, before that, the Chief Operating Officer at the National Archives (UK).

As Registrar and Director of Admissions, Helen has oversight of all on-course student administration, admissions and outreach.

Helen works in the Academic Office, which can be found on the ground floor of Staircase B.

The Academic Office is usually open on weekdays between 9:30am-5:30pm, apart from during our lunch break which is taken at 12:30pm-1:15pm.

Lee is responsible for supervising the food prep and cooking, maintaining a fully-stocked kitchen inventory and complying with safety and cleanliness standards.

Başak Çalı is head of research at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and Professor of International Law. She is also currently Professor of International Law and director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School, Berlin. She holds a permanent visiting professorship from the I-Courts Centre for Excellence at the University of Copenhagen and is a fellow of the University of Essex Human Rights Centre. She has held visiting professorships in Ankara, Oslo, Paris, and Natolin and serves on the board of a number of journals.

Her expertise concerns international law and human rights. She has published widely in the fields of authority of international law, standards of review in international law, the relationship between international law and domestic law, European human rights law, UN human rights law and comparative international human rights law. She has pioneered the study of bad faith violations of human rights law (Wisconsin International Law Journal, 2018), and she is the author of Authority of International Law: Obedience, Respect and Rebuttal (OUP 2015), editor of International Law for International Relations (OUP, 2010), co- editor of Legalisation of Human Rights: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Human Rights and Human Rights Law (Routledge 2006), Migration and the European Convention on Human Rights (OUP, 2021) and Secondary Rules of Primary Importance: Standards of Review, Causality, Evidence and Attribution before International Courts and Tribunals (OUP, 2022).

As a legal practitioner, Başak is a founder and chair of the board of European Implementation Network, Europe’s leading civil society organization that advocates for the full and effective implementation of human rights judgments. She has acted as an expert on the European Convention on Human Rights since 2002 and has trained judges, prosecutors, lawyers and police officers in the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights across the Council of Europe. She has acted as a legal representative or advisor in cases before the European Court of Human Rights.

Dr Guiyu Cao is a Non-Stipendiary Lecturer in Engineering at Mansfield College and a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Civil Engineering Group at the University of Oxford with Dr Christopher Vogel. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2020.

From 2020 to 2023, he worked at the Southern University of Science and Technology as a Postdoctoral Fellow and then as a Research Assistant Professor. In 2021, he was a visiting scholar at Peking University.

Dr Carlucci completed his DPhil in Mathematics in Oxford, working in Algebraic Geometry under the supervision of Professor Balázs Szendrői. Before coming to Oxford, he graduated from Sapienza University in Rome, spent a year at UPMC in Paris, and then several months at the University of Warwick.

Ana Sofia Carpinteiro Inacio is a Royal Society Newton International Fellow at the Sub-department of Particle Physics and a Stipendiary Lecturer in Physics at Mansfield College. She obtained her PhD in Physics in 2022 from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research focus on understanding the fundamental properties and behaviour of neutrinos with the SNO+ experiment.

Dr Xiaosheng Chen is currently a research associate in the Wind and Tidal Energy research group at University of Oxford as a CFD specialist. He graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with BEng in Thermal Energy and Power Engineering in July 2012. He was then awarded an MSc degree with distinction in Advanced Mechanical Engineering in Oct 2013 by University of Sussex. Later, he obtained a PhD degree in aeronautical engineering in 2018 from the National Centre for Combustion and Aerothermal Technology (former Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre) based at Loughborough University.

Following the graduation, he started a secondment job in the Combustion Aerothermal Methods Team of Rolls-Royce plc., helping them to design the next generation lean-burn jet engine combustor. In July 2019, he joined the University of Oxford as a research assistant, working with Prof. Richard Willden and Dr. Christopher Vogel in wind and tidal energy.