Visiting Research Fellows & Visiting Scholars
The VRF Scheme
The scheme is intended to attract eminent researchers to Oxford and Merton College. The scheme offers free accommodation and meals. There are normally two Visiting Research Fellows resident in any term. Fellowships can be held for one to three terms. Every application has to be sponsored by a Fellow of the College and applications are considered in a gathered field at the end of September each year.
Michaelmas, Hilary, and Trinity - Ben Haggarty (Creative Arts)
Trinity - Dr Jonas-Sebastien Beaudry (Law), Professor Christopher Skinner (Mathematics) and Dr Yijie Zhuang (Archaeology)
Previous Visiting Research Fellows have included:
- Dr Cheryl Frances-Hoad
- Professor Marc Domingo Gygax
- Professor Hye-Won Kang
- Professor David Wood
- Will Eaves
- Professor Simon Shaw-Miller
- Kirsty Gunn
- Professor Garegin Papoian
- Professor Jean-Louis Ferrary
- Penny Boxall
- Professor Jonathan Schneer
- Professor Yoram Rudy
- Kieran Stiles
- Professor David Hutchinson
- Professor Dominic Janes
- Professor Rebecca Fortnum
- Professor Elizabeth Wilmer
- Professor Eric Saylor
- Professor Paul Kovacs, University of Virginia
- Professor Michael Goldberg, Cornell University
- Dr Markus Späth, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
- Dr Birgitta Eder, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Professor Robert Tampé, Goethe University
- Professor Hans Othmer, University of Minnesota
- Professor Francisco Pina Polo, Universidad de Zaragoza
- Professor John Tyson, Virginia Poly Institute & State University
- Professor Junhyong Kim, University of Pennsylvania
- Professor Graham Bell, McGill University
- Professor Steven Ellis, NUI Galway
- Professor Barton Beebe, New York University
- Professor Per Helander, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
- Professor Kai Behrend, University of British Columbia
- Professor Benny Sudakov, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
- Professor Bruce Harris, University of Auckland
- Professor Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin
- Professor Chad Carmichael, Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis
- Professor Daniel Neumark, University of California, Berkeley
- Professor Jewel Brooker, Eckerd College, Florida
- Dr Koen Verboven, University of Ghent
- March 2023 - Professor Janis Sarra and Professor Ruth Evans
- March/ August 2023 - Professor Yohei Kawazura
- April 2023 - Professor Ros Smith and Dr Stephanie Winkelmann
- April 2023 - Dr Eduard Ocaña-Pallarès
- April 2023 - Dr Carlos Herrera
- April 2023 - Professor Paul Seymour
- May 2023 - Dr Jeremy Wideman
- May 2023 - Professor Anne Enderwitz
- May 2023 - Professor Maya Stein
- June 2023 - Dr Valentina Mignosa
- June 2023 - Professor Jinsu Kim
- June/ July 2023 - Professor Luís Silva
- July 2023 - Dr Annika Winbo
- October 2023 - Dr Dorothy Hale
- October 2023 - Professor Jeffrey Knapp
All Visiting Scholars and Visiting Research Fellows have to be nominated by a Fellow of the College. Fellows can check availability on the intranet.