IAS Friends and Fellows Coffee Morning

On Tuesday 3rd November we will be hosting an IAS Friends and Fellows Coffee Morning, where we will welcome current IAS Residential Fellows Professor Sergey Gavrilyuk & Ms Crystal Bitutu Isanda.

Please feel free to book using the button below, to come along and join us for an informal in-person gathering at International House with coffee and cakes to meet our Fellows, all are welcome.

Professor Sergey Gavrilyuk, Aix-Marseille University

Professor Gavrilyuk is a Full Professor at Aix-Marseille University and an internationally recognised expert in the mathematical modelling of solid and fluid mechanics. His research has led to major advances in the areas of multiphase and interfacial flows, dispersive wave phenomena, shock waves, and hypervelocity impact phenomena. He has authored more than 100 research papers and 2 books. A highly-cited author, one of his most influential works is the paper co-authored with R. Saurel, “Mathematical and numerical modeling of two-phase compressible flows with micro-inertia”, J. Comput. Phys. (2002), which has received more than 236 citations.

During their IAS Fellowship, Professor Gavrilyuk will be collaborating with Dr Ricardo Barros and Dr Karima Khusnutdinova from the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Ms Crystal Bitutu Isanda, EDSAFE AI Alliance & SafeSignKe

Crystal Isanda is a Kenyan AI governance researcher, governance designer, and public intellectual whose work centres on making the systems that govern children visible to the communities they affect. She is the founder of SafeSignKe, a consent infrastructure project developing Data Rights Cards — colour-coded, bilingual governance tools delivered via WhatsApp, that translate EdTech privacy policies into plain-language consent, context, and consequence information for guardians, teachers, and students in Kenyan schools.

As a UNICEF Innocenti Youth Foresight Fellow (2025), Crystal led participatory foresight workshops with 43 Kenyan youth, producing published findings on what students need to navigate and govern AI-integrated futures. Her work appears in Young Visionaries: Child Rights Youth Foresight Report on Education 2025 (UNICEF Innocenti) and in a forthcoming Bloomsbury Academic volume on student support systems in the Global South.

During their IAS Fellowship, Ms Isanda will be collaborating with Dr Marianna Coulentianos from the School of Design and Creative Arts.