Mansfield People

Torin is a tutor for dynamics and a third year DPhil student in Applied Mathematics working in collaboration with global domestic appliance brand Beko plc. His research uses mathematical modelling to understand microplastic fibres in washing machines, and he is supervised by Professors Chris Breward and Ian Griffiths.

Mansfield College teaching:
In Hilary 2024 and 2025, I am the tutor for Dynamics.
In Michaelmas 2023 and 2024, I was the tutor for Differential Equations 1.
In Trinity 2024, I was the tutor for Calculus of Variations.

Departmental teaching:
In Hilary 2024, I am a TA for the Further PDEs course taken by MSc students.
In Michaelmas 2023, I was a TA for the third year course, Viscous Flow.

Jessica is a University Research Lecturer, teaching for the Theology and Religion Faculty on Hinduism and Theories of Religion, and for the Philosophy Faculty on Indian Philosophy. Her research explores key philosophical themes across cultures, from Indian classical theories of Being to twentieth-century phenomenology. Her books explore conceptions of reality, the self and the good across cultures, focusing on classical Indian metaphysics and German phenomenology, and her forthcoming books explore Indian approaches to Being, definitions of the material and the divine, and Gadamer’s distinctive “hermeneutic” ontology. She is also the managing editor of the Journal of Hindu Studies (OUP).

Her work on Hindu ideas translates them into global terms, so that we can all think in new ways about issues that shape our society: the nature of a good life, justice and human rights, metaphysics, the goals of community. She anchors these perspectives in classic texts, and bring them into conversation with academic philosophy and existential concerns.

Carl-Benedikt Frey is the Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Fellow of Mansfield College, University of Oxford. He is also Director of the Future of Work Programme and Oxford Martin Citi Fellow at the Oxford Martin School.

After studying economics, history, and management at Lund University, Carl completed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in 2011. He subsequently joined the Oxford Martin School where he founded the programme on the Future of Work. Between 2012 and 2014, he was teaching at the Department of Economic History at Lund University.

Anna has responsibility for operations with the development team, including data, revenue and systems. She also assists in fundraising for specific funding needs and is always pleased to hear from Mansfield alumni and supporters.

Anna works three days a week.

Daphne manages the execution of the HR Strategy and core areas of the HR department including recruitment, employee relations, workforce administration, employee engagement, payroll, reward and recognition, as well as maintaining and improving HR systems and management of the HR budget.

Konstantina is a Lecturer in EU and Constitutional Law at Mansfield College, a DPhil in Law candidate at the Faculty of Law and an Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.

Konstantina holds an LL.B. (Distinction; Scholarship for academic excellence by the University of Athens A. Papadakis Trust), an LL.M. in Public Law (Distinction) and an LL.M. in Civil Law (Distinction) from the University of Athens. She has also obtained an LL.M. in Commercial Law from the University of Cambridge (supported by the A.S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation) and an M.St. in Legal Research from the University of Oxford (as a scholar of the University of Athens A. Gazis Trust). In the context of her studies on DPhil level, Konstantina is a scholar of the A.G. Leventis Foundation.

Konstantina is a qualified lawyer and a member of the Athens Bar Association. Prior to her DPhil studies, she practiced public law, project finance and public procurement in top-tier law firms in Athens, Greece. She has worked as a research assistant at the School of Management and Business of King’s College London, conducting research on the prospects of a new employment relations and labour market model for Greece. In 2017, she was a scientific collaborator of the European Public Law Organisation, responsible for the codification of all existing legislation falling within the regulatory competence of the Hellenic Ministry of Tourism. In 2019, Konstantina completed a traineeship at the European Commission (DG FISMA), focusing on transaction involving capital movements and intra-EU investment.

Mick is a current DPhil student in Mathematics, researching representation theory. He has previously completed his bachelors in Maths and Physics at the University of Amsterdam.

Also Professor of Ethno-ornithology, holding a joint position between the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology (Zoology Dept.) and the Institute of Human Sciences (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography). Director of Studies for Human Sciences at Mansfield College. Main research interests in Ornithology and Ethno-ornithology including evolutionary ecology of woodland birds focusing on ecological adaptation, and what bird folk-names teach us about human perceptions of nature and how these change over time. Co-editor of the book Ethno-ornithology: Birds, Indigenous Peoples, Cultures, and Society, (2010) London: Earthscan (Routledge), and Research Director of EWA: the Ethno-ornithology World Atlas, a project in partnership with Birdlife International. Also a minister in the Church of England.

Ian Griffiths’ interests lie in a broad range of fluid dynamical challenges, from water purification strategies to the manufacture of glass for computer tablet screens to the modelling of Covid-19 transmission. His approach is to use a blend of modelling, asymptotic, and numerical techniques to enable predictions to be made for the behaviour of such physical systems, and in particular, to give insight into their optimal operating strategies. Ian collaborates with a range of scientists from many disciplines as well as industries, including: global domestic appliance brand Beko; leading vacuum-cleaner company Dyson; fabric and performance solutions company W.L. Gore and Associates; chemical and pharmaceutical company Merck; food and beverage industry Nestlé; specialist glass company Schott AG; filtration company Smart Separations; and Government organizations including Defra and the Welsh Government.