Dr J. Sophie Kain

An experienced, energetic individual with excellent programme management, and people management skills, a proven aptitude for innovation and the ability to meet a challenge head on.

Date of Birth: 19th November 1974

Responsibilities & Achievements

• Strategic planning, managing and organising launch of two new web ventures
• Design, SEO and html build of both web ventures
• Presenting to over twenty universities on various subjects
• Preparation of three full business plans and bid preparation (1/4m in 2008)
• Preparation of marketing strategy (including viral marketing) and PR plans for all ventures
• Building wide and diverse internal and external networks of universities, government institutions and commercial companies

Positions Held

• Exploitation Lead for the DIF DTC (£30M/6 years)
• Project Manager for three internal R&D projects
• Programme Manager for the MIMEX industrial-academic research cluster

• Liaising closely with customers to understand their needs
• Strategic planning of short and long term programmes of work
• Innovating technology solutions
• Prospect finding and bid preparation (achieved over £3M in total this year)
• Energetic leadership of four successful teams with over 20 people in total

Jun 2001 to Aug 2005: Assistant Chief Engineer,
Thales Research and Technology (TRT)

Positions Held

• 2004-2005 Programme Manager and Marketing Manager of the Virtual Collaboration Solutions Group
• 2001-2004 Project manager of the Information Management and Adaptive Learning Systems team

• Developing new strategic business line for TRT in information management
• Effective launch of a new TRT laboratory in collaboration with the University of Surrey
• Tailoring bespoke solutions to address customer requirements
• Recruiting the best internal and external candidates to create a balanced and friendly team
• Keeping abreast of state-of-the-art technologies
• Advertising and marketing of the programme both internally and externally including weekly presentations to prospective clients, press releases, white papers, workshops and the organisation of large scale events

Other Achievements 2001-2007

• Director of Prior Kain Limited
• Chartered Physicist
• Industrial Liaison Officer for the Institute of Physics South East Branch (2004 to Present day)
• Staff Council representative (2002-2004)
• Industrial Supervisor to MSc and Phd Students (2003 through 2005)
• Member of Industrial Liaison Panel (2004 to Present day)
• Friend of University of Bristol, Lecturer on MSc degree (Oct 2003)

• 1997 to 2001: PhD in Theoretical Physics, University College London
• 1994 to 1997: 1st Class MSci in Physics, University College London
• 1991 to 1993: 'A' Levels in Pure Maths, Applied Maths, and Physics

PhD Details
"Constructing Ab initio and Empirical Potential Energy Surfaces for Water", Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London

• Extensive independent research and calculations on the above topic
• Solving high level mathematical and computational problems
• Demonstrating the skilled application of advanced lateral thinking
• Collaboration with teams on publications and presentations
• Successfully conveying complex ideas in oral and written presentations to expert and non-expert audiences

• CCIA (Oral presentation)
• EvoNet (Oral presentation (best paper award))
• IST 2002, Royal Society of Chemistry (Oral presentation)
• 16th Colloquium of High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy (Poster presentation)
• International conference on water in the gas phase (Poster presentation)
• High Resolution Spectroscopy Group (Oral presentation)

• A. Császar, J. Kain, O. Polyansky, N. Zobov, J. Tennyson, Chem. Phys. Letts. 293 (1998) 317
• J. Kain, O. Polyansky, J. Tennyson, Chem. Phys. Letts. 317 (2000) 365
• F. Divina, D. Edwards, S. Kain, Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, pgs 276 -277 (2003), IOS Press