New Teaching Fellows appointed at Liverpool and Oxford Universities

From April 2007 the Trust has been funding the cost of The Ogden Science Officer at the University of Liverpool.  The post is held by Dr Mark Jones.  Mark graduated with a first-class MPhys degree from Lincoln College, Oxford in 2003 and progressed to a DPhil in Materials Science in 2006.  He has extensive experience of Public Communication of Science, working with the Institute of Physics, Aimhigher, The Oxford Trust, Science Oxford, Oxford Materials and Oxford Brookes University on public communication and schools programmes.
 
Mark's post at Liverpool is based around the new Schools Science Lab in the Department of Chemistry.  He is responsible for developing and delivering additional science-based primary activities, which will have the potential to be rolled out nationally;  developing, piloting and establishing Science After Schools Clubs for Years 9-12 in the Schools Science Lab;  developing and delivering a Physics, Chemistry and Biology AS/A2 academic support programme for a targeted group of young people in Years 12 and 13.
 
 
Three Ogden Teaching Fellowships have been awarded at University of Oxford, two to researchers in the Department of Materials and one in the Clarendon Laboratory.  They are:
 
Katherine Richard    A physics graduate, Katherine attended Burgess Hill School for Girls, Brighton and Hove High School, and St Peter's College, Oxford.  She is a doctoral student of Worcester College, Oxford and is studying the infrared spectroscopy of combustion radicals in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics.
 
Dr Grigore Moldovan  Grigore was educated at Babes-Bolyai University in Romania (BSc in physics), and has been a research scientist at University of Nottingham (PhD), University of Cambridge (Centre for Gallium Nitride Devices) and now University of Oxford (Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis Group).
 
Dr Vlado Lazarov   Vlado has a BSc in Physics from UKIM Skopje, Macedonia and MSc from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, with postdoctoral research posts at Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, and now at Oxford (atomic and electronic structure of materials for spintronic applications).