Welcome to Trinity’s Newest Fellows

Trinity is pleased to welcome a number of new Fellows to college for this academic year, representing a wide range of subjects and expertise.

Professor Janina Dill is the inaugural Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security at Oxford University, and Professorial Fellow at Trinity. Her research concerns the role of law and morality in international relations, specifically in war. She develops legal and philosophical theories about how international law can be an instrument of morality in war, albeit an imperfect one. She also studies how normative considerations shape public opinion on the use of force and the attitudes of conflict-affected populations. She currently co-convenes a research project on the "Law and Ethics of Nuclear Deterrence," which is part of the Research Network on Rethinking Nuclear Deterrence, funded by the MacArthur Foundation.

Dr Tobias Warnecke is Tutorial Fellow in Biochemistry. His research is concerned with evolution at the molecular level. This has recently focused on the evolution and organization of chromatin, with a particular emphasis on archaea and what they reveal about the emergence of eukaryotic genome regulation. His research group have also explored a range of other phenomena, including red blood cell sickling in deer and the role of chaperones in buffering deleterious mutations at the RNA and protein level.

Dr William Winning is Junior Research Fellow in Classics. He specialises in the literary and intellectual culture of Ancient Greece between the late Archaic and Hellenistic periods. His research explores the Greco-Roman contexts in which many of the concepts we employ today were originally devised. His other main research focus concerns the ancient background to the apparently self-evident notion of literal meaning – a concept which has underpinned centuries of legal and religious exegesis and continues to be invoked in debates about the correct interpretation of constitutions and religious texts today.

Trinity’s Senior Tutor, Dr Rebecca Bullard, says: ‘We are delighted to welcome these new Fellows to Trinity. Each of them is an outstanding researcher in their own field, and will add enormously to the vibrant academic community here at Trinity. We look forward to getting to know them as scholars, colleagues, and friends.’