Mo Afzal

Mo Afzal is a British cancer researcher and educator. He is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick, and he worked at Warwick school between 2004 and 2009, as the head of science and as a chemistry teacher to secondary age pupils. Mo Afzal has now left Warwick School, to move to Australia.
Afzal is Visiting Senior Research Fellow for an educatatory program called Science for the 21st Century Initiative, which includes the organisation and running of Showcase Science in 2005 and 2007, for which scientists (including Prof Sir George Michael FRS Medicine, Oxford University) speak to sixth form students across the UK on subjects including astronomy and biochemistry.
Afzal is Chief Executive of The Afghan Education Trust, a UK charity that aims to teach Afghan girls in the refugee camps of Pakistan.
Afzal previously worked at University College London and was head of scientific research at King's School, Canterbury. When at King's he received a Medicine in Society Impact Award from the Wellcome Trust for organising the national 6th form Frontiers of Science conference, and his students for two years running took first prize at the Science Youth Fair.
He is currently teaching at in Parramatta, Australia.

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