Stories from February 2009

Meet the President

Institute of Physics

17 February 2009

Prof Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE

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.

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