Christopher Chambers

Christopher Chambers has a diverse work experience spanning various roles and industries. Christopher is currently employed as a Web Developer at Substantive Research Ltd since September 2021. Prior to this, they worked as a Software Engineer at Gigabyte Software from April 2019 to August 2021. In this role, they collaborated with stakeholders to create new features and resolve bugs for an enterprise system. Christopher gained expertise in PHP, Symfony, testing, MySQL, and Domain Driven Design. Additionally, they worked on small greenfield projects using Vue, Nuxt, Postgres, PHP, TailwindCSS, HTML, and CSS.

Before their software engineering role, Christopher worked as a Self-employed Tutor in Physics, Science, and English from April 2018 to April 2019. Christopher provided tutoring services to students during this time.

Prior to their tutoring role, they served as a Physics Teacher at St. Andrew's Scots School / Escuela Escocesa San Andres from February 2017 to April 2018. Christopher'sresponsibilities included teaching IB physics to senior students, IGCSE physics to middle school students, and general science to junior school students. Christopher also actively participated in science and chess clubs and a learning group that used design thinking to solve real-world problems.

Before their international teaching experience, Christopher worked as a Physics Teacher at East Lothian Council from August 2014 to July 2016. Christopher taught biology, chemistry, and physics to junior school students and physics to senior school students. Christopher collaborated with the science department to develop teaching materials for the new national qualifications and led various extracurricular activities.

Christopher'searly teaching experience includes a role as a Physics Teacher at Aberdeenshire Council from August 2013 to July 2014. In this position, they primarily taught senior classes and developed a customized physics curriculum. Christopher represented Fraserburgh Academy at multiple events and actively contributed to development groups focused on improving teaching practices and leadership.

Overall, Christopher Chambers has a robust professional background in web development, software engineering, tutoring, and teaching physics.

Christopher Chambers completed their education with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Astrophysics from The University of Edinburgh, which they attained between the years 2005 and 2009. Christopher then pursued further studies in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Utrecht University, obtaining a Master of Science (MSc) degree, which they completed from 2010 to 2011. Following this, Christopher Chambers pursued a second Master's degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Radboud University from 2011 to 2012. Lastly, they obtained a Professional Graduate Degree in Education (PGDE) with a specialization in Science with Physics from The University of Edinburgh, completing this program between 2012 and 2013.