The Anthony L. Lyster Fellowships

in Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Modern & Medieval Languages, Physics and Sociology, endowed through a legacy gift from Anthony Lyster (1949)

About the Anthony L. Lyster Fellowships

The five Anthony L. Lyster Fellowships are designed to help the College offer and sustain world-class teaching to small groups of students in the subjects of Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Modern and Medieval Languages, Physics and Sociology.
After he sadly passed away in 2012, Anthony (Tony) Lyster (1949) left the most significant legacy to Queens' in living memory, totalling over £5 million. He is named on the Major Benefactors' Plaque in The Round and his photograph is displayed with our major donors outside the Senior Combination Room.
Tony attended Rugby School, then became a Radio Mechanic in the Royal Signals during his National Service. He attended Queens' in 1949 to study Maths, later becoming a Chartered Accountant, working for companies such as British Oxygen and Albright & Wilson.
Tony's father George Lyster (1921) also studied at Queens' and left a legacy to benefit the College

Natural Sciences - Dr Jamie Blundell

Trained as a theoretical physicist at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge with Dr Eugene Terentjev studying the statistical physics of polymers. He moved to Stanford University as a postdoctoral scholar working joined the Early Cancer Institute in 2017 and was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders fellowship in September 2019. His research interests lie in quantitatively understanding somatic evolution in human tissues. His research group, Blundell Lab, aims to quantitatively understand how cancer develops over the course of our lives.

Physics - Dr Alessio Zaccone

Studied at Politecnico di Torino and completed his MSc thesis at Technische Universität Berlin. After obtaining a PhD in chemical physics at ETH Zurich (Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences), he worked as a post-doctoral researcher and as an Oppenheimer Research Fellow in physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. His research aims to further understand the atomic and molecular-level many-body dynamics in a variety of condensed matter systems and materials, from liquids to glasses, crystals and granulars.

Modern & Medieval Languages - Dr Martin Crowley

Director of Studies in Modern & Medieval Languages at Queens'. He studied French and German at the University of Oxford, before pursuing an MA in Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham, and working for two years for the French publisher Larousse, as a bilingual dictionary editor. He then returned to Oxford, where he completed a DPhil in French, on the author and film-maker Marguerite Duras. After four years as Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester, he came to Cambridge in 2000.

Mathematics - Dr Claude Warnick

Read Mathematics at Queens' from 2001-2005, and went on to study for a PhD in the General Relativity group in DAMTP, which he received in 2009. After a Research Fellowship at Queens' (2008-11), he spent time as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta, and has held lecturing positions at the University of Warwick and Imperial College, London.

Sociology - Dr Ella McPherson

Associate Professor of the Sociology of New Media and Digital Technology as well as Co-Director of the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR). At CGHR, she leads the research theme on human rights in the digital age. She is also Deputy Head of Cambridge's School of the Humanities and Social Sciences.