Current Committee

Co-Presidents

Hi! My name is Annabel and I’m one of the co-presidents this year. I really enjoyed volunteering on the Nottingham week of the 2018 roadshow, and am really exciting to see what the 2020 roadshow will hold for OxHOS! There’s nothing better than seeing how excited the students get when they see our experiments and are able get involved, and how their perception of science changes after experiencing some of the fun it can entail. I am a third year Earth Sciences undergraduate, so I study how rocks can tell us what was going on in the Earth millions of years ago!

Hi! My name is Francesca and I’m one of the co-presidents this year.

Secretary

Treasurer

Hi my name is Aadithya and I am this year's Treasurer.

Fundraising Officer

Hi! My name’s Cameron and I am this year's Fundraising Officer.

IT/Website Officer

Hi I’m Tasha and I am a third year biochemistry student. I've been part of OxHOS for two years now and last year I was Co-President with Johanna. I've had wonderful time demonstrating our experiments in Oxford and beyond and seeing the wide eyed amazement of a young student is unbeatable. I am excited to see what we do next and put it all on the website for the world to see!

Publicity Officer

Schools Officer

Volunteer & Child Protection Officer

Hello! I’m Gabriela, a second year undergraduate chemist and I am the Volunteers and Child protection officer of this year’s roadshow. I used to be a pretty ignorant child just a few years ago and I like to think that this has changed (so please don’t ruin my illusion). I also think that my ignorance was caused by the lack of correlation between what I was learning and the real world so I’m aiming to make it easier for other children. The fact that this involves doing the only thing that I’m not entirely bad at (which is Chemistry, not being a coordinator) is just making OxHOS be the have-it-all combination of my passion and my wish to change something. And if you think I am excited about this, you should see my little brother who’s happy he’s not going to be the only 13-year-old that I’m terrorizing with science facts and experiment videos anymore.

Logistics & Safety Officer

Experiments Officer

Hi I'm Anisha and I am this year's Experiments Officer.

Biology Coordinator

Chemistry Coordinator

Hello! I’m Gabriela, a second year undergraduate chemist and I am also the Chemistry coordinator of this year’s roadshow. I used to be a pretty ignorant child just a few years ago and I like to think that this has changed (so please don’t ruin my illusion). I also think that my ignorance was caused by the lack of correlation between what I was learning and the real world so I’m aiming to make it easier for other children. The fact that this involves doing the only thing that I’m not entirely bad at (which is Chemistry, not being a coordinator) is just making OxHOS be the have-it-all combination of my passion and my wish to change something. And if you think I am excited about this, you should see my little brother who’s happy he’s not going to be the only 13-year-old that I’m terrorizing with science facts and experiment videos anymore.

Physics Coordinator

I am a DPhil Physics student and very passionate about science outreach and public engagement. For the last three years, I have helped organize Lahore Science Mela, the biggest annual science festival in Pakistan. I am also very keen on building low-cost and portable experiments to teach primary school science. I plan to do that with my role as Physics Coordinator at OxHOS

Social Secretary

Hey, my names Evan and I’m a 2nd year undergraduate physicist, which means I’m at the very beginning of my exciting journey into the depths of science! I’m the social secretary of OxHOS, which means I organise all the social events with the committee and volunteers throughout the year. These can include anything from dinners and pub trips to general meetups.

General Committee

Hello! I am Miffles, currently a first year graduate entry medic at Worcester College! Awesome jazz hands! I am a general member of OxHOS, along with being a helping hand in the safety side. I bring along a wealth of experience having been in CHaOS, the Cambridge equivalent, for six years. It was sufficiently long that I had become part of the furniture, and it always surprised people that they couldn’t put me in a box from which experiments come out! I bring a unique set of skills to OxHOS, including bad puns, jazz hands, more bad puns, more jazz hands, and yet more bad puns (it really is punderful). I have been involved in OxHOS in the first ever tour (that was an exciting train journey from Cambridge where I learnt that cycling down Euston Road in London isn't great for your life expectancy). To end – what is a pirate’s favourite amino acid? AARRRGGGHHHHginine.

Hi! My name is Serena and I'm a third year DPhil in Zoology. I am really interested in evolution and my focus is on sand rats, which are animals prone to diet induced type II diabetes and have weird genes that have undergone drastic changes compared to other vertebrates. This year I am the experiment officer at OxHOS. My first experience with OxHOS was the 2017 Roadshow in the Isle of Wight and Southampton, and I really enjoyed the experience. It was a great chance for me to share science with people who were interested, and I think the Roadshow not only gave me the opportunity to share fun facts about biology but also allowed me to practice explaining my research interests to the public. I hope OxHOS will continue to give both the next generation and interested adults access to the latest topics in scientific research and get them excited about advances in STEM!

Hi! I'm Jacqui and I am a fourth year DPhil student in microbiology, studying how infectious bacteria such as MRSA evolve resistance to antibiotics. I’ve been on the OxHOS committee for the past three years, and I have really enjoyed being able to share my enthusiasm for science alongside such a fantastic bunch of young scientists! I believe that everyone should have access to science education, and there's no better way to learn how things work than by seeing them for yourself through hands-on science experiments.