Marco Couch is a Deputy Head Academic at Ardingly College. He is proficient in German and French. Colleagues describe him as "Marco is a very competent chemist and is developing excellent skills as a leader of outreach activities with young people. He has a good leadership style and works well with his peers in a team situation" and "Marco graduated from our MSci Chemistry course at Imperial College London in June 2012. he has excellent inter-personal skills and a serious interest in teaching and education. Throughout his time at IC, Marco was heavily involved in Teaching and Outreach activities including being an Undergraduate Mentor, Academic Activity Leader and Laboratory Duty Manager for Exscitec and IC's Outreach. Department. Notably, he opted to spend his 4th year research project looking into developing new experiments for our Foundation lab under the supervision of one of our Teaching Fellows; the outcome was an excellent blue-print for improvement of the lab course which we have largely now implemented."