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Yoann Henri LE TEUFF
Education
and Qualifications
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Sept 2004 – July
2005
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Mathematics
PGCE
University of Warwick, Coventry,
U.K.
Training to become a fully qualified
teacher of Mathematics in the U.K. I have enjoyed this training
tremendously thanks to the great programme of study and the fantastic school
placements I had. But it was very hard work on all aspects, and I am glad
it is over.
List of assignments I produced during my PGCE:
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Oct 1996 – Sept 2000
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Ph.D.
in Astrophysics
UMIST,
Manchester, U.K.
Title: "Chemical Modelling of Dust Formation in Carbon-rich
Wolf-Rayet Winds"
Wrote a numerical code in Fortran77
to investigate dust nucleation in the harsh conditions encountered in the
wind of the carbon-rich Wolf-Rayet stars (hydrogen-deprived environment).The
medium (wind) generated by these stars is very harsh and should hinder the
chemistry of dust formation, yet dust (soot) forms in this medium. I
modelled the hydrogen-deprived chemistry coupled to the physics of this
system: the chemistry is made to interact with the stellar radiation (this was made possible by implementing a non-equilibrium version of the radiative transfer theory). I found that in order
to form dust, the wind blown by the stars must be more complex than
hitherto assumed: it must autoshield from
the UV radiation of the star, it must be clumpy and not homogeneous, the dust formation region is
organised in ionisation strata
(like onion shells), with an ionisation front that scatters the stellar
radiation and helps cool the wind
very rapidly (this is the first time ever that calculations predict that
the wind can cool down to temperatures where the dust can survive; this
solves the long-standing paradox that dust was observed in a medium too hot
for it to exist!). Recent observations by new, powerful telescopes (UKIRT, Australia, using infrared interferometry;
Hubble Space Telescope) have
revealed part of the complex structure of these winds. My research
concludes that there is still much more to determine about the winds, and
further dust-formation modelling might help to determine directions for more targeted
investigations: Do the smoking
stars have a companion hidden in their dust trail? Is the wind really as
hydrogen-deprived as observations imply? Could the dust formation region
give us a better idea of the scale of the stellar system? Is the wind as
hot as in the usual assumptions? What are the true chemical rates of dust
formation at these temperatures?
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26 Sept 1996
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Maîtrise
de Physique
Université du Maine, France
(awarded for completion of BSc degree in the UK)
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Sept 1995 – June
1996
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B.Sc.
in Physics (First Class Honours)
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K.
Grade obtained as an ERASMUS student, qualifying for a Maîtrise de Physique, Université
du Maine, Le Mans, France.
(ERASMUS = one-year European
student exchange programme)
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Sept 1994 – June
1995
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Licence
de Physique
Université du
Maine, France
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Sept 1991 - June
1994
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DEUG
A(Diplôme d’Etudes Universitaires Générales)
Université du
Maine, France
General studies in Mathematics (pure and applied), Physics, Chemistry
(mineral and organic) and Computing (Pascal 386).
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July 1991
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Baccalauréat C (Scientific GCE “A” Level equivalent)
Lycée Douanier
Rousseau, Laval, France.
Subjects (grades
unavailable): Physics-Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, French, English,
History-Geography, Philosophy, Sports.
Mark: Pass.
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School
Experience
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01 Sept 05 -
present
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The Streetly School, Sports Specialist College
Queslett Road East, Birmingham B74 2EX.
Role: MATHS and PHYSICS TEACHER.
My first full-time teaching post!
I teach Maths to KS3 and KS4 pupils, and A-level Physics to one group of
Year12 students. My aim is to have as much A-level work as possible in both
Maths and Physics. Things seem to work out that way, so I keep my fingers
crossed that I WILL indeed get more A-level classes soon.
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07 Feb - 05 Jul 2005
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Lordswood Girls’ School and the Sixth Form Centre
Knightlow Road, Harborne,
Birmingham B17 8QB.
Role: MATHS TEACHER.
Three-week part-time and
fourteen-week full-time school placement as part of my PGCE training. I
taught one Year 7 top-set class, two Year 8 classes (1 bottom-set and 1
middle-set), one Year 9 class (top set), one Year 10 (top-set) and gave 2
lessons to Year 12’s, which I supported the rest of the time. I supported
one Year 11 bottom-set class, one Year 12 group and one Year 13 class. I
also supported French lessons with one Year 10 and one Year 12 class for
one hour per week. Finally, I was attached to a Year 7 tutor group, with
whom I undertook the role of a tutor. Overall, this placement was
successful but harder than the first one. I feel I made tremendous progress
towards the end of that placement. The difference between that school and
the first one is that this school is a girls’ school, whereas the other one
was mixed. I prefer mixed schools because the gender mix helps with class
management and it is more diverse populationwise,
which I like. Vive la différence! A good thing
though about girls’ schools: the work from the pupils is usually very good
because girls like to do things well.
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11 Oct - 21 Dec
2004
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Sidney Stringer Mathematics and Computing Specialist School
Cox
Street, Coventry CV1 5NL.
Role: MATHS TEACHER.
Three-week part-time and Seven-week full-time school placement as
part of my PGCE training. I taught one Year 7 top-set class, one Year 8
bottom-set class and one Year 10 middle-set class. I also co-taught French
to another Year 10 class for one hour per week. I took part to 2
Further-Maths teaching sessions for a Year 12 group. Finally, I was
attached to a Year 10 tutor group, with whom I successfully managed numeracy and literacy activities, and with whom I
undertook the role of a tutor. Overall, this placement was very successful
and strongly motivated me to complete my training. I have learned much,
especially voice control and class behaviour management.
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17 Sep 2004
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Bishop Challoner R.C. Secondary School
Institute
Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7EG.
Role: CLASS OBSERVER.
One-day pre-PGCE placement. I observed three mathematics classes
(Years 9, 11, 12) and gained a brief but invaluable overview about the
complexity of the teacher role (teaching, caring for pupils’ progress and
emotional needs, guiding their achievements, etc.).
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26 - 30 June 2000
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City Technology College
PO
Box 1017, Cooks Lane, Kingshurst, Birmingham B37 6NZ.
Role: RESEARCHER IN RESIDENCE.
One-week appointment. I acted as a tutor and helped the Year-12
pupils with their science projects. My role was to enthuse them over
science. I completed my placement by giving a PowerPoint talk on
Astrophysics, which inspired many pupils.
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Work Experience
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Nov 2000 - Jul 2004
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Program Developer
Full-time,
TNO DIANA UK (formerly part of Femsys Ltd),
Leicester.
Joined a team of 8 developers responsible for maintaining,
improving and developing the code for the FEMGVÒ software (Finite-Element Analysis pre- and post-processor) and
its numerous interfaces.
Main roles and
major projects:
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Jun 2003 – present:
responsible for the development of a new ABAQUS** post-interface, that
produces FEMGVÒ input or database files
from a new ABAQUS output-file format (namely, ODB files – Output Data
Base). I used C++ and Fortran90 to implement this interface. I am proud to
have produced the new interface as a major solution for the customers.
**(stand-alone Engineering Analysis solver)
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Sept 2001 – present: responsible for the maintenance and update of
the ABAQUS pre-interface that operates within FEMGVÒ. Also, icon designer
for the new GUI of FEMGVÒ.
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Sept 2001 – Dec 2002: webmaster of the company. Both this role and
the icon-designer one have allowed me to exercise my creativity, which I
enjoy doing.
I have been
allowed to work from home up to 3 days a week since September 2001. The
time saved from commuting between Birmingham and Leicester has resulted in an
increase in my work productivity.
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Oct 1996 – Sept
2000
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Research Assistant
Part-time,
UMIST Astrophysics group.
My role has been to update and
reshape the online UMIST kinetics Database (chemical data), which
is renown and used worldwide. From this, I have gained substantial research
experience and knowledge, which also made a contribution to my field of
research. This database is accessible online at: http://www.rate99.co.uk
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May – June 1996
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Marketing survey
Carried out in Sheffield, for le Port du
Salut cheese factory, Entrammes, France. This job improved greatly my
communication skills through direct contact with customers in a
supermarket.
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July - Sept 1994
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Employee in a Petrol Station ELF
Orléans, France.
I was in
charge of the whole station, in rota with 2 other colleagues, and had to
serve petrol to the customers, check their tyre pressure and sell goods.
Compared to my previous experience in food industry, this job was more
demanding regarding responsibilities, and trained my social skills through
direct contact with the customers.
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Summer & Christmas 1992
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Chain
worker
Cheese Factory Le Port du Salut, Entrammes, France. I went
through all the stages of production of the Port-Salut
and Rouy cheeses. It was interesting to discover
the complexity of cheese production. Practical skills were of utmost
importance, especially coordination between people and machines to do an
efficient job and to reduce waste and damage to the cheese.
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Computing Skills
• Languages
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C++
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Apr 2003 – present
Working knowledge.
Used to develop a stand-alone interface program as part of
my work at TNO DIANA UK.
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Fortran90
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Sept 2002 – present
Advanced knowledge.
Used to develop part of an API (ApplicationProgramming
Interface) for the FEMGV software of Femsys Ltd.
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FORTRAN77
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Sept 1996 – present
Advanced knowledge.
Used to develop Ph.D. research computer model of the carbon
chemistry in the wind of Wolf-Rayet stars. Also
used to generate the UMIST database 1999 version.
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OPL
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March 1997 – present
Good knowledge. Have designed applications in
OPL for PSION organisers Series 3c: "Mendel", periodic table
database; "GraphYX", plotting device.
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Python
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March 2002 – present
Working knowledge. Initially to be used to
implement an interface.
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Pascal 386
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Sept 1991 – June 1996
Advanced knowledge.
Undergraduate computing course. Able to design physical
system simulation programs (modelling of potential surfaces for given
configurations of electric charges in a plane, simulation of light
transmission in an optical fibre, tunnelling of an electron from a
potential well).
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HTML
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Jan 1999 – present
Good knowledge.
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• Operating systems
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Windows95, 98, 2000, Me
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Linux (RedHat, Gnome,
KDE)
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• Applications
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Windows
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Word 2002
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Photoshop 5.5
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Web Page 5.0
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FrontPage 2000
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Power Point
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TextPad
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Visual Fortran 6.1
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Visual C++ 6.1
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Excel
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Linux
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SuperMongo
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LaTeX
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Emacs
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Ghostview
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Xfig
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Additional
Skills
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Very sociable, likes to
communicate and share ideas.
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Able to perform talks and give
presentations before an audience, with or without OHP facilities.
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Able to imagine various routes
to follow when analyzing a new situation.
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Able to learn new skills very
quickly and efficiently. Very flexible.
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Always tries to complete a job
before the deadline.
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Able to work individually or
as part of a team.
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Fluent in French and English.
Good level in German.
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Outside
Interests
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Reading about languages and
their etymology, scientific subjects in general and self-improvement
literature.
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Scientific documentaries.
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Science Fiction (reading,
writing, designing).
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Drawing (colour pencils
and inks).
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Architecture.
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DIY.
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Designing my personal web site (http://www.yoannsworld.com).
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General fitness (running, swimming, weight-lifting).
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References
Available on request: Email-me.
Achievements
DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING
OF AN INTERFACE SOFTWARE BETWEEN THE ABAQUS AND FEMGV® software
I designed, planned and implemented from scratch,
in C++ and Fortran90, a stand-alone, highly portable
interface software between ABAQUS and FEMGVÒ. I completed the
implementation one month before the deadline, designed the interface’s GUI
and wrote the GUI user guide and the interface documentation. Potential
revenues from the whole project are around £100,000.
Contribution to
the Successful sale of Meshing module of FEMGV® software
I successfully designed, managed and
produced an interface to FEMGVÒ’s
modularised meshing code based on the requirements of an important French
customer (Hutchinson Ltd). The production was on time (7 days) and to the
satisfaction of the customer, generating revenues of €21,000.
SCIENCE COMMUNICATOR'S AWARD
Awarded on 28
September 2000,
Royal Institution, London, by EPSRC (Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council)
and PPARC (Particle
Physics and Astronomy Research Council), for my contribution to the public understanding of science,
engineering and technology, as a Researcher in Residence.
RESEARCHER IN RESIDENCE
One-week appointment in City Technology College in Birmingham, West Midlands, June 2000. Acted as a tutor
and helped the pupils with their science project (we designed and built a
submersible). My role was to enthuse them with
science. Completed my placement by giving a general talk with PowerPoint on
Astrophysics, which inspired many pupils.
First-Prize Poster Session winner
UMIST, Postgraduate Seminar Day, May 1998.
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
· Invited Review talk, International Workshop,
Iles de la Madeleine, Canada, July 2000.
· PPARC Assessment, UMIST,
May 1998. Their report gave me an excellent review and I was granted 2 more
years as a research assistant.
· PPARC Assessment, UMIST, May
2000. Their report again gave me an excellent review.
· International Workshop, Québec, Canada, October 1997.
· Postgraduate Seminar Day, UMIST, May 1999 and May
1997.
Publications
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Proceeding ‘Dust Formation in Clumpy WR Winds’, Y.H. Le Teuff (2001), in ‘Interacting
Stellar Winds from Massive Stars’, A.F.J. Moffat, N.
St-Louis (Eds.), ASP Conf. Ser., submitted
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Article ‘The
UMIST database for astrochemistry 1999’, Y.H. Le Teuff, T.J. Millar, A.J. Markwick (2000), Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 146, in press.
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Article ‘Small Carbon Chains and
Silicon-bearing species in …’,
I. Cherchneff, Y.H. Le Teuff, P.M. Williams,
& A.G.G.M. Tielens (2000), Astronomy &
Astrophysics,
357, 572.
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Article ‘The
Mystery of the Dusty WC’,
Y.H. Le Teuff (1999), UMIST Newsletter, Issue no.5, p.3
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Proceeding ‘Carbon Dust in Massive Stars’, Y.H. Le Teuff & I. Cherchneff
(1998), ‘Abundance profiles: Diagnostic Tools for Galaxy History’, D. Friedli, M. Edmunds, C. Robert, & L. Drissen (Eds.), San Francisco, ASP Conf. Ser. Vol. 147, p. 188.
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Proceeding ‘Dust Formation Chemistry in Carbon-Rich Wolf-Rayet Winds’,
Y.H. Le Teuff & I. Cherchneff (1997), Ap&SS Vol. 251, Nos. 1-2,
p. 389
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Booklet ‘Naissance,
Vie et Mort d’une étoile’. Y.H. Le Teuff. (1994), published for
the members of the Astronomy Club of the Université
du Maine, Le Mans, France
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Career
Objectives
I thrive to deliver a consistently
enthusing and stimulating teaching. I aim to attend to the learning needs of
the pupils and expand my inclusion considerations so that all benefit from my
lessons. In other words, I wish to provide every pupil with the opportunity
to expand their mind and their reasoning on the world they live in and the
one they wish to create.
I shall encourage them to be
curious, to always try and see what lies beyond where they stand, to try
harder and develop their skills to improve their learning.
Miscellaneous
• French driving licence obtained on 04/08/96, converted into an English one on 30/09/1997.
• Former member of the Astronomy Club of the Université
du Maine, Le Mans, France, from 1992 to 1996.
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