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Academic Tutors
Meet our Academic Tutors
Learn from Cambridge professors, lecturers and Fellows, subject experts dedicated to your success
Each subject cohort has four Academic Tutors, drawn from the wide community of Fellows, academics and researchers from the University of Cambridge. Academic Tutors are experts in their field, each with a unique specialisation that they will share with students.
You can find out more about some of our academic tutoring team below.

Dr Juliana Santos de Carvalho
Fellow in Human, Social and Political Sciences, Isaac Newton Trust Academic Career Development Fellow in Gender Studies, Downing College, University of Cambridge

Dr Michael Ashby
Fellow in Economics, College Associate Professor, Deputy Director of Admissions, Downing College, University of Cambridge

Dr John Morgan
Fellow in Chemistry, Theory Teaching Officer (Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry)
College Associate Professor, Downing College, University of Cambridge

Dr Rebecca Freund
Parry-Anderson Fellow in Law, College Associate Professor, Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, Downing College, University of Cambridge

Rachel Thorley
Fellow in Engineering, CORE fellow (Community, Outreach, and Recruitment in Engineering), Churchill College, University of Cambridge
