Jock McOrist

Originally from Coffs Harbour on the NSW north coast, Jock McOrist went to Coffs Harbour High School, better known for its spectacular sea view than academic prowess. Jock was an undergraduate at Sydney University where he won the University Medal and first class honours in theoretical physics under Professor Don Melrose. Dr McOrist won the BHP Science and Engineering Fulbright Scholarship to study for his PhD at the University of Chicago, which he completed in 2009 under the supervision of Savdeep Sethi. Jock won an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship which he undertook at the University of Cambridge in the centre for Mathematical Sciences from 2009-2012. Dr McOrist was tenured as Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey 2012 before joining UNE January 2020.