Dr Rhoda Hawkins

Dr Rhoda Hawkins is currently the Academic Director of the Ghana centre of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS Ghana). Whilst living in Ghana, she is still affiliated to the University of Sheffield where she was a senior lecturer in Physics until the end of 2022.

Before becoming a lecturer she worked as a postdoc in Amsterdam, Paris and Bristol. She did her PhD at the University of Leeds with Prof Tom McLeish and her undergraduate studies at the University of Oxford. Her field of research is theoretical biological physics.

She has been a member of Christians in Science since her student days and served on the committee as a PhD student rep. Rhoda was the first Oliver Barclay lecturer. (Also a CiS Trustee)