Professor Liba Taub has been appointed to replace Dr Terri Apter as Senior Tutor.
Dr Apter (NC 1969) is retiring at the end of September after fifteen years as a Fellow and Senior Tutor, as a Chair or member of nearly every Committee, and as Disability Liaison Officer.
She has been awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship from 1 October 2015.
Professor Taub, pictured, has been Director and Curator of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, University of Cambridge, since 1995; she is a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge; she is a Professorial Fellow and Graduate Tutor at Newnham College and she is Newnham’s Director of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
She has an outstanding academic record as an internationally-recognised expert on ancient Greco-Roman science.