Anthony Ayari
Visiting Scientist from France in Residence at Green College
Dr Anthony Ayari is a senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), based in the Physics Department of the University of Lyon at the Light and Matter Institute. His research explores the behaviour of matter and electrons at the atomic scale, where classical and quantum physics intersect. He earned his PhD in Physics from Université Grenoble Alpes, France, with a focus on exotic electronic states in cryogenic environments. Following his doctoral studies, Dr Ayari joined the Nanoscience Group in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland (USA) as a research associate, where he conducted pioneering work on ultrathin transistors. In Lyon, his research on vacuum electron sources achieved record-high-temperature quantum emission and enabled the creation of highly coherent electromechanical devices, leading to multiple patents and collaboration with industrial partners. Dr Ayari serves on the scientific steering committee of the Center for Nanoscience and previously chaired the NanoElectroMechanical Systems committee at the Observatory for Micro and Nanotechnology.
Dr Ayari will be in residence at Green College for three months, beginning in early September 2026.
Jason Chin
John Grace Memorial Scholar in Residence
Dr Jason Chin is an associate professor of Law at the Australian National University, and president of the Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch and Open Science (AIMOS). He teaches and researches evidence law and the use of scientific and expert evidence in law and public policy. He has published widely in law and science journals and collaborates closely with lawyers and the judiciary. Jason is currently leading an Australian Research Council project in collaboration with several forensic laboratories and the Australian Academy of Science to improve ability of the legal system to scrutinize science, and thereby reduce wrongful convictions.
Dr Chin will be in residence at Green College for the first half of April 2026.
Christine Ferguson
Inaugural Patricia Merivale Scholar in Residence
Professor Christine Ferguson (FEA, FRHistS) is Chair in English Studies at the University of Stirling in Scotland, where her research focuses on the entwined histories of popular fiction, science, and alternative spirituality in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. She is the author of three books and two edited works, including the essay collection The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (Routledge, 2018), co-edited with Andrew Radford, and the new monograph Opens Secrets: The Popular Fiction of Britain’s Occult Revival, 1842-1936 (Oxford University Press, 2025). In 2026, she will publish the first scholarly edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Land of Mist and Other Spiritualist Writings as part of the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Dr Ferguson is also a society member of Green College. She was in residence at Green College for a week in late July 2025, and then for a longer period beginning in late April through mid-May 2026.
Matthew Hall
Cecil H and Ida Green Visiting Professor
Matthew Hall has written about the intersection of sports, crime, culture, and politics for The Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, and Foreign Policy, among others. He covered the controversial bids for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups, eventually hosted by Russia and Qatar. He has extensively covered abuse in sports and systemic cover-ups by sports organizations and educational institutions across North America. His work has triggered or been used in multiple investigations into sports organizations and abuse. He is based in New York City. His book, The Away Game, was made into an award-winning film.
Matthew Hall will be in residence at Green College for a week in early April, 2026.
Rachel Killean
John Grace Memorial Scholar in Residence
Dr Rachel Killean is a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney School of Law. Dr Killean's multidisciplinary research centres on responses to violence. She has a particular focus on transitional justice, victims’ rights, and legal innovations that seek to prevent or repair environmental harms. Dr Killean is the co-convener of the ANZSOC Green Criminology thematic group and the deputy director of the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law. She sits on the editorial board for the Journal of Genocide Research, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, and the Sydney Law Review. She also directs the Sydney Law School's social justice podcast, 'Just Cause'.
Dr Killean will be in residence at Green College for the first half of April 2026.
Megan Leitch
John Grace Memorial Scholar in Residence
Dr Megan Leitch is professor and chair of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. Before relocating to the Netherlands in 2024, she was reader in English Literature at Cardiff University, where she worked for 12 years after receiving her PhD from the University of Cambridge. She has been president of the International Arthurian Society British Branch and co-editor of the journal Arthurian Literature, and is now co-editing Boydell and Brewer's Arthurian Studies book series. She has published monographs on treason and romance in the Wars of the Roses (2015) and sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature (2021). She is now working on her third monograph, The Medieval Middlebrow: Romance, Gender and the Body Politic, c.1300-1534, supported by the Leverhulme trust.
Dr Leitch will be in residence at Green College from late August through to mid-October, 2026.
Theresa Muñoz
22nd Writer in Residence at Green College
Dr Theresa Muñoz is a Canadian poet living in Edinburgh, Scotland, with a PhD from the University of Glasgow. She has published one collection of poetry, Settle, which was shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize. Her second collection Archivum, an exploration of what it means to engage with archival artefacts, is published by Pavilion Poetry (2025) and was nominated in the Saltire Literary Prizes 2025. She has been awarded the Muriel Spark Centenary Award, Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, Creative Scotland Award, and shortlisted for The Kavya Prize and a Sky Arts Royal Society of Literature Writers Award. She has directed several literary initiatives in the UK, including the Newcastle Poetry Festival and the James Berry Poetry Prize.
Theresa Muñoz will be in residence at Green College for three months beginning in January, 2026.
Photo taken by Laura Meek.
Catherine Potvin
Emeritus College Patricia Merivale Scholar in Residence
Dr Catherine Potvin is a distinguished tropical forest ecologist whose research advances understanding of carbon dynamics, biodiversity, and community-based climate solutions. With decades of fieldwork in Panama and Latin America, her work has shaped international climate policy, including through her service as a UN climate change negotiator for Panama. She has published more than 100 scientific articles in leading journals such as Nature, Science, and Global Change Biology. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she was the first woman to receive its Miroslaw Romanowski Medal. Dr Potvin leads Sustainable Canada Dialogues, a national network of scholars developing climate action policy, and is a Trottier Fellow at the Trottier Institute for Science and Public Policy.
Dr Potvin is in residence at Green College for five weeks, beginning in mid-March, in partnership with UBC Emeritus College.