2015 Associate Dean Enterprise and Impact, LHS, Aston University.2013 Reader in Molecular Biology, Aston University.2013 BBSRC Commercial Innovator of the Year.2013 Aston Excellence Award for Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and/or Technological Improvement.2009-2012 Course Director, MSc Biotechnology.2006-2013 Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology, LHS, Aston University.2005-2006 LHS Innovation Fellow, Business Partnership Unit (partial secondment).2004-2005 CEO, ProtaMAX Ltd.2003-2004 Medici Fellow (Commercialisation and Entrepreneurial Training).1995-2006 Lecturer in Molecular Biology, LHS, Aston University.1993-94 Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School (PI: Prof. C.C. Richardson).1989-92 PhD, UMIST (Supervisor: Prof. T.A. Brown).1986-89 BSc Hons Biochemistry (Class 1) UMIST (now integrated into the University of Manchester)

• Protein Engineering• Research at the interface between molecular biology and the physical sciences• Development of enabling technologies for biomedicines• Protein-DNA interactions of Cys2His2 zinc fingers• Protein-DNA interactions of single Cys4 zinc fingers