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Anu Ojha

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Department of Physics and Astronomy
National Space Academy
United Kingdom

Biography

Anu Ojha is Director of the UK’s National Space Academy programme and a Director of the National Space Centre – the UK’s largest visitor centre for space science and astronomy.  He co-led the development of the UK’s National Higher Apprenticeship programme for the space sector and is the lead for Skills/Training/Education for the ongoing strategic UK Government programmes of collaboration in Space Science and Technology with China and the Gulf States. Anu is a member of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Skills and Engagement Advisory Board and was Principal Investigator for the Astro Academy: Principia educational experiment programme conducted by British European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake aboard the International Space Station. He has also worked as a consultant for ESA using data from the SOHO orbiting solar observatory and Mars Express and has written and presented numerous international teaching films for ESA targeted for European students and teachers. In his 20-year teaching career, Anu was Assistant Headteacher of the largest school in the United Kingdom, was awarded Advanced Skills Teacher (AST) status by the UK Department for Education for excellence in teaching and was National Lead Practitioner (Physics) for the UK Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. Since 2007 he has led the development and delivery of National and International teacher training and student programmes for the UK Space Agency, European Space Agency and other leading science and education organisations across the United Kingdom, Europe, the USA and China. Anu continues to teach physics on the National Space Academy’s Space Engineering (A level pre-University) and Higher Apprenticeship (undergraduate) courses run in partnership with Loughborough College and the University of Leicester and in 2010 was winner of the UK space sector’s Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Inspiration. In 2014 he was appointed OBE for services to science education and in 2016 was appointed as an Honorary Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester. He is currently President of the Astronautics Records Commission of the FAI (Federation Aeronautique Internationale) – the world governing body for airsports and human aerospace/astronautics achievements.  

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Department of physics and astronomy , nanotechnology, physics,aerospace. 

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