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Meet the President
Tue, 17 February 2009
On Wednesday, 28 January Institute of Physics (IOP) staff had the chance to meet new IOP president Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell for an informal drop-in session. Jocelyn began her two year term as president of the IOP in October last year.
As a visiting professor at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford, Jocelyn has filled a wide range of teaching, research and managerial roles in her career. Her career and the challenges she has faced as a woman scientist and working mother were the main focus of her introductory presentation, giving staff a much appreciated honest and sincere insight into her life.
Notes to editors:
1. For further information or for opportunities to interview Jocelyn, please contact IOP Press Officer, Joe Winters:
Tel: 020 7470 4815
Mobile: 07946 321473
E-mail: joseph.winters@iop.org
2. The Institute of Physics is a scientific membership organisation devoted to increasing the understanding and application of physics. It has an extensive worldwide membership (currently around 34 000) and is a leading communicator of physics with all audiences from specialists through government to the general public. Its publishing company, IOP Publishing, is a world leader in scientific publishing and the electronic dissemination of physics.
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