Dr Andrew Steele

Education and employment

(See also my list of publications.)

Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Oxford (February 2012–)

STFC Science in Society grant

Awarded to allow me to continue my departmental outreach, specifically to create a programme of Accelerate! demonstration lectures across the south-east of England.

Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Oxford (September 2011–January 2012)

EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship

An award available to the top 15% of EPSRC-funded PhD students to increase the impact of their doctoral research in terms of publications, knowledge transfer and outreach.

Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Oxford (2007–2011)

DPhil in Condensed Matter Physics

Quantum magnetism probed with muon-spin relaxation, supervised by Professor Stephen Blundell.

Christ Church, University of Oxford (2008–2010)

Tutor for undergraduate condensed matter physics course.

Physics department, University of Oxford (2008–2009)

Demonstrating in undergraduate practical labs.

Wadham College, University of Oxford (2007–2008)

Tutor for undergraduate condensed matter physics course.

Christ Church, University of Oxford (2003–2007)

Master of Physics (First Class Honours)

Four-year undergraduate masters, specialising in condensed matter and particle physics and undertaking an MPhys project into graphene and carbon nanotubes in the final year.

Google UK (Summer 2006)

Summer internship in London for eight weeks marketing Google’s ‘geo’ products (Earth, Maps and SketchUp), doing a variety of research projects and building an overlay viewable with Google Earth for a comarketing venture with British Airways. more »

Adams’ Grammar School, Newport, Shropshire (1996–2003)

A-levels

Physics (A), Further Maths (A), Maths (A), Chemistry (A), General Studies (A)

AE-levels

Physics (Distinction), Chemistry (Distinction)

GCSEs

9 A*, 2A (including top five result nationally in statistics, French A*, German A*)

Academic Prizes

Gibbs Prize for Communication in Physics

Oxford University prize for a presentation about colour representation and infrared photography.

Scott Prize for Performance in Teaching and Learning Physics in Schools

Oxford University prize awarded for the best performance in the teaching course, involving a written report and short presentation of findings from an investigation into pupil misconceptions.

Christ Church English Prose Prize

The award is designed ‘to recognise quality and comprehensibility of English prose in a piece of technical writing’ on a topic chosen from a list; my essay was entitled ‘The Origin and Fate of the Universe’.

Dixon Scholarship

Christ Church prize recognising outstanding performance in finals examinations.

Skills

Computing

Competent with office software, image, video and audio editing (including Photoshop), web design (experience implementing XHTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL).

Full UK driving licence

Interests

Science communication

Photography

Enthusiastic amateur photographer. Finalist in the Royal Greenwich Observatory Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011. I add a new photograph twice a week to andrewsteele.co.uk/photography. Photo Editor of Cherwell in 2005, involving creative collaboration with editors, coordinating a team of photographers, taking photos and page layout. Occasional self-employed wedding and event photographer. more »

Web Design

Coding and graphic design of website as a hobby (andrewsteele.co.uk) and semi-professionally for commercial clients (for example, www.barlownurseries.co.uk and www.summersdrivingschool.co.uk). more »