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Employee Anniversaries

Helen Iyer
Celebrating 25 Years

Helen Iyer, Administrative Assistant for the Theoretical Physics group, celebrates 25 years at the Department of Physics.

She joined the Department in May 1996 partly working for the Laser Group (now Experimental Quantum Optics) and the Theoretical Physics Group.

Helen provides administrative support to the Theoretical High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter Physics and Quantum Optics Groups and since 2018, is the administrator for the Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC). She is also the back-up administrative support for the Experimental Group.

Her duties include, but are not limited to, the day to day administrative and financial activities for these groups, for example: processing expenses, updating webpages, monitoring the research accounts of faculty, assisting faculty with grant applications, managing mail, maintaining the photocopier, responding to in person, phone and email requests.

Helen organizes research seminars and talks, she invites the speakers, updates the event webpages, posts seminar notices, sends invitations and more. Most notably, Helen co-organizes the popular annual Welsh Lectures and Welsh Lectures Dinner with the Welsh Lecture Chair.

For the CQIQC group, she organizes CQIQC seminars and their bi-annual conference with the Fields Institute. She assists with collating applications for CQIQC Programs, organizes board meetings as well as other administrative tasks.

Rob Morley
Celebrating 20 years

Senior Instrumentation Specialist, Robert Morley, is celebrating 20 years at the Department of Physics in June 2021.

Robert can be found working away in the Physics Electronic Resource Centre where he designs and repairs electronics used in physics research.

Over the years, Robert has worked on data collection devices such as the BLAST Bus card for Professor Barth Netterfield’s BLAST experiments as well as designs for his SPIDER experiment.

Robert has also been teaching the "Introduction to Electronics" course where he enjoys interacting with students and showing them the basics of electronics. Robert says what he enjoys most about teaching this course is “starting a new design and the thrill of finishing the design to hand off after”.

Galina Velikova
Celebrating 20 years

For the second year in a row, Physics Computing Services celebrates twenty years of service by a member of our group.

Galina Velikova joined the Physics Department in the summer of 2001 to provide support for Windows operating systems and applications, with a special focus on administrative computing. Galina's responsibilities over these 20 years have included the technical challenges of deploying and supporting multiple generations of desktops and server operating systems, installation of dozens of distinct (and sometimes refractory) applications, administration of Active Directory services, including client identity/account management and dynamic addressing, and a constellation of associated services such as network file shares, file backups and VPN services.

Her professionalism and pleasant demeanor have made Galina a pleasure to work with whether as a client, as a colleague or as a manager.

We are privileged to have Galina in the Department and I thank her for her 20 years of service.
By Steven Butterworth