Visiting Fellows and Scholars

Each year the College elects one or more Visiting Fellows and Visiting Scholars.

Visiting Fellowships are intended for persons of high academic distinction; The position of Visiting Scholar is intended for persons at least five years beyond their doctorate.

Positions for the academic year 2027/2028 will be advertised on the vacancies section of the website during the summer with a closing date for applications at the end of October 2026.

Visiting Fellows 2025-2026

Professor Roslyn Bill (Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Roslyn Bill is Aston University’s 50th Anniversary Professor of Biotechnology and Director of Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence. She obtained her BA and DPhil degrees in Chemistry from Oxford. After working as a clinical scientist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, she undertook postdoctoral study at the University of Michigan as a Fulbright Scholar. She then moved to Gothenburg University to work with Stefan Hohmann before taking up a position at Aston University in 2002. While at Aston she has co-founded the aquaporin sub-committee of the IUPHAR/Guide to Pharmacology and was appointed Chief Scientific Officer of Estuar Pharmaceuticals. She also served as Chair of BBSRC Research Committee E for two terms and as Executive Editor of BBA Biomembranes. Roslyn currently holds an ERC Advanced Grant to understand the brain’s waste clearance system. Her recent BiTS/ARIA Fellowship will enable her to design a programme to slow dementia onset. Whilst at Corpus Christi College, Roslyn will work in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics to model and manipulate the molecules that control these processes in the human brain.

Professor Peter Crozier (Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Peter A. Crozier is a Professor of Materials in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona State University. He obtained a doctorate in solid state physics from Glasgow University followed by postdoctoral studies at the University of Alberta and Arizona State University. He served as Director of an Industrial Consortia in materials characterization at Arizona State University for 15 years before joining the faculty in 2008. He has extensive experience in atomic resolution characterization of ceramics, metal nanoparticles and catalytic materials for applications related to sustainable energy and the environment. He has expertise in developing and applying advanced techniques of transmission electron microscopy, including in situ and operando methods, to problems in ion conductors and catalytic materials. He is also applying electron energy-loss spectroscopy to determine the optical and vibrational properties of nanomaterials. Over the last 10 years, he has developed a deep interest in exploring atomic-level dynamics near materials surfaces and how these phenomena may impact materials properties and functions for applications. Artificial intelligence has played a key role in allowing completely new atomic level processes to be observed. He is a Fellow of the Microscopy Society of America and also a member of the Materials Research Society, the North American Catalysis Society and the American Ceramics Society. He served as the President of the Microscopy Society of America. He has organized numerous conferences, schools and symposia and has published many archival journal articles, conference papers and book chapters.

"My time as at Corpus has been immensely productive. Having the opportunity to be part of such a welcoming community while one is conducting research far from home is a wonderful gift."

Dr Amelia Worsley, Former Visiting Scholar

Visiting Scholars 2025-26

Professor Stephanie Roussou (Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Stephanie Roussou is an Associate Professor of Greek literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She studied Classics at the universities of Cyprus (BA 2007) and Oxford (MSt 2008, DPhil 2012). For her Master’s and doctoral studies, she was awarded scholarships from the A.G. Leventis Foundation (2007-2008) and the Sloane Robinson Foundation (2007–2010). She has been a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cologne (2015–2016) and a Margo Tytus Fellow at the University of Cincinnati, USA (2018), and she has worked at Thesaurus Linguae Graecae research programme at the University of California at Irvine (2012–2014) and the universities of Oxford (2017) and Cyprus (2018–2020). In 2021 she was elected Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and in 2025 she was promoted to Associate Professor. She has received funding from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (2021–2025).

Her research interests lie in the areas of ancient and Byzantine scholarship, grammar, and lexicography, ancient and Byzantine scholars and scholiasts, the reception of ancient scholarship and grammar in Byzantium, textual criticism, papyrology, and history of classical scholarship.

Professor Céline Debourse (Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Céline Debourse is an Assyriologist specializing in the languages, history, and religion of Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. Her research explores two main themes: the final stages of cuneiform culture under foreign rule, and the role of ritual in Mesopotamian society. Her first book Of Priests and Kings: The Babylonian New Year Festival in the Last Age of Cuneiform Culture (Brill, 2022), examined how Late Babylonian priestly writings strengthened group bonds and fostered priestly identity in times of foreign domination. She is now working on Babylon Beyond Cuneiform: Reimagining the End of a Culture (331 BCE–224 CE), a study of the city’s latest history that contends with the decline of cuneiform culture. During her stay at Corpus Christi, she will focus on her current book project, Rethinking Ritual: Mesopotamian Religion in Text and Context, which analyses aspects of ritual textualization in cuneiform tradition and the agency of ritual texts in processes of historical and religious change.

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Visiting Fellows 2025-2026

Professor Roslyn Bill (Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Professor Peter Crozier (Hilary and Trinity Terms)