Dr Thomas Hill

Home Address: Unit 15-03, The Light Point, No. 1 Jalan Pantai Sinaran, Gelugor, 11700, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia Mobile: +60174869852 E-mail: thomas187hill@hotmail.co.uk

British Nationality:

 

Work Experience

                                                                                

January 2016 –

Present Science Teacher, Prince of Wales Island International School (POWIIS), Penang, Malaysia

Currently responsible for teaching science to students from Year 7 to Year 13. This includes teaching International GCSE and International Advanced Level courses in chemistry and physics.

 

September 2013 –

December 2015 Senior Instructor, Capstone Prep Education Centre, Hong Kong

and Senior Instructor, Capstone Beijing Limited, Beijing

Worked as an educational instructor for a private education firm. Responsibilities included teaching science, mathematics and preparing students for admission to UK universities. I relocated to Beijing in January 2014, for a year, to help set up the new Beijing branch of Capstone.

 

February 2006 –

September 2012 Senior Scientist, Karus Therapeutics Limited

University of Southampton, United Kingdom                                                   

Over six years’ experience working as a medicinal chemist on cancer and inflammation projects. Duties included coordinating multinational projects, working with up to three medicinal chemists, patent writing and running the laboratory.

 

Education

 

October 2014 –

May 2015 University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

International PGCE with merit.

  October 2002 –

July 2005 Hertford College, University of Oxford

United Kingdom

DPhil: The synthesis of densely functionalised enantiopure nitrogen heterocycles.

• Case award from AstraZeneca U.S. under the industrial supervision of Petr Kocis and university supervisor Professor Mark G. Moloney.  

 

October 1998 –

July 2002  

 

Hertford College, University of Oxford

United Kingdom

Master of Chemistry September 1991 –

June 1998                  Radyr Comprehensive School, Cardiff

United Kingdom

A-Levels: 3A grades in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry.

 

 

Skills and Experience

 

At POWIIS

• Teaching International GCSE and International Advanced Level courses in chemistry/physics (AQA/Edexcel) as well as general science for Year 7 to 9 students.

 

• Helped students to write their personal statements for their UCAS applications.

 

• Prepared science students for university admissions interviews.

 

• Organized and supported educational school trips to local attractions in Penang and mainland Malaysia.

 

• Gave private classes in school to help students with their understanding of science and mathematics.

 

• Performed weekend school duties, in which I ran activities for the boarding students.

 

• Held classes in philosophy and ran a chess club for after-school activities.

 

• Developed my teaching techniques through attending personal development sessions in POWIIS. This included detailed in-class assessment of my teaching by a fellow teacher.

 

At Capstone

 

• Taught science and mathematics in private lessons to students from Year 8 to 13 (including a student with special needs). This involved test preparation and subject enrichment.

 

• In-depth understanding of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, International Advanced Levels, SAT subject tests, SAT, ACT, SSAT and UK boarding school entrance examinations.

 

• Developed my own syllabuses for group classes in chemistry, physics, and mathematics.

 

• Taught a Scholars Program which was a combination of persuasive speech and critical thinking for students in small classes up to eight in size.

 

• Wrote my own series of Scholars lessons based around controversial topics in science.

 

• Helped hold a debate tournament at Capstone Hong Kong.

 

 

Publications

 

• Co-written several patents including:

PCT Int. Appl. (2011), WO 2011021038 A1 20110224 and PCT Int. Appl. (2011), WO 2011012883 A1 20110203.

• Co-written two chemistry reviews

Title: Progress in the Design and Development of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase (PI3K) Inhibitors for the Treatment of Chronic Diseases, Progress in Medicinal Chemistry, Volume 48, (2009), p81.

By Shuttleworth, Stephen Joseph; Hill, Thomas James et al.

Title: Progress in the Development of Small Molecule Therapeutics Targeting Th17 Cell

Function for the Treatment of Immune-Inflammatory Diseases, Progress in Medicinal Chemistry, Volume 50, (2011), p109.

By Shuttleworth, Stephen Joseph; Hill, Thomas James et al.

• Co-written two chemistry papers

Title: Spirocyclic systems derived from pyroglutamic acid, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (2011), 9 (20), 7042-7056 and Tetrahedron Letters (2006), 47 (9), 1461-1463.

By Moloney, Mark G; Hill, Thomas James et al.

 

Referees

 

Peter Kee

Head of Physics

Prince of Wales Island International School

1 Jalan Sungai Air Putih 6

Bandar Baru Air Putih

11000 Balik Pulau

Pulau Pinang

Malaysia

Tel: +60 4-868 9999

Email: ptk@powiis.edu.my

  Aoife Stranney

Head of Chemistry

Prince of Wales Island International School

1 Jalan Sungai Air Putih 6

Bandar Baru Air Putih

11000 Balik Pulau

Pulau Pinang

Malaysia

Tel: +60 4-868 9999

Email: acs@powiis.edu.my

  Simon Leese

Principal

Prince of Wales Island International School

1 Jalan Sungai Air Putih 6

Bandar Baru Air Putih

11000 Balik Pulau

Pulau Pinang

Malaysia

Tel: +60 4-868 9999

Email: simon.leese@powiis.edu.my