Oxford Faculty

After finishing his engineering degree at the University of Queensland, Nick spent three years as a consulting engineer for Worley, where he visited and worked on sites in Jamaica, Saudi Arabia, and Siberia. He then waved goodbye to sunny Australia and moved to England after he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford. Alongside his interest in engineering, Nick was heavily involved in Australian debating, working as the President of the Queensland Debating Union and Australian Debating Federation. In his spare time he likes to run, and finds the (very flat!) city of Oxford perfect for breaking his half-marathon personal bests. Nick is now pursuing his DPhil, which investigates the use of green fuels to resolve spatiotemporal mismatches in renewable energy resource quality. Nick is proficient in German. After he finishes teaching this summer, Nick will be focusing on the final year of his DPhil, playing his violin in the university orchestra, and baking for his housemates.

After graduating as a gold medalist from law school in India, Ayushi read for her master's degree at Oxford as a Weidenfeld-Hoffmann scholar, focussing on human rights, equality law, and medical ethics. She was then awarded the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights fellowship to work on improving access to justice for Afro-Colombian communities at DeJusticia, Bogota. Ayushi taught for a while in India and then returned to Oxford to commence her PhD on the equality implications of the use of human enhancement technology. She currently teaches law at Queen’s College, Oxford, serves as the Junior Dean at St. Benet’s Hall, and coordinates the mooting program at the Law Faculty. Ayushi has a keen interest in and has taught painting and mindfulness, as well as poetry to children. She is fluent in English, Hindi, and Urdu, and is proud of having traveled to 25 countries before she turned 25 (Morocco, Macedonia, and Vietnam are her favorites).

Predrag is a distinguished clinician and researcher educated at the University of Belgrade, with advanced medical training at the University of London, the James Paget Hospital in Norfolk, and Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. He specializes in the clinical training of medical students at University of St. Andrews, where he has been a senior faculty member of the Medical School for more than 20 years, and has taught on summer programs for high school students since 2012. His main interests are in medical education and OSCE assessment. He is fluent in Serbian, Croatian and English.

After growing up in China and graduating from Harvard with a master's in theater, Yan was working at the Tony Award-winning Hartford Stage Company in Connecticut when she received a Rhodes Scholarship to read two more master's degrees at Oxford. Focused on social anthropology and comparative literature, she researched the topics of aging and loneliness in anthropology and performance. Before coming to the U.K., she worked on more than 10 productions at American Repertory Theater, Hartford Stage, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, and more, and studied theater and literature in Russia, China, and Poland. She currently serves as Chief of Staff and Head of People for Masref, a Swiss digital banking startup providing financial services to people in distressed economies. Yan grew up bilingual in Mandarin and English. She has won national awards at every major English public speaking contest in China, and was awarded an emerging literary translator mentorship by the U.K. National Centre for Writing. She believes in the value and power of human connectivity, international exchange, and transcultural collaborations.