UBMA member Jiteen Ahmed won the 2025 Times Higher Education Outstanding Technician of the year award. Congratulations Jiteen!
Jiteen has worked at Aston University since 1998 and recently became Head of Technical Services for the University.
Jiteen started at Aston in 1998 as a trainee technician and progressed to technical team leader. He took a degree with the Open University that was founded by Aston and have attended training courses throughout his time to develop his career. He cites being fortunate that his line manager was very supportive and they used the PDR process to identify courses that would help him to develop as a well as help the university meet its targets, a lesson for all of us as Bioscience managers!
Jiteen highlights his passion for supporting and developing others, training up the next generation of technicians and sharing knowledge across the community.
Jiteen’s story is one of quiet determination, generosity, and a steadfast belief in the power of technical services to transform universities.
He is a very worthy winner of the Times Higher Education Technician of the Year award, congratulations from the UBMA!
