Brief history
Following some great advice from John Chalker I decided to do a PhD in soft condensed matter physics. I was extremely lucky to have Mike Cates as my PhD supervisor in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University. I somehow found time to be president of Trinity College BA (graduate student) Society. After my PhD I was a postdoc with Jean-Francois Joanny at the Institut Charles Sadron in Strasbourg. I gained a lot of respect for the French way of doing physics. In 1991 I was elected a Fellow of Trinity ("under title A"), an immense privilege. After winning a Royal Society University Research Fellowship I spent some time at the University of California at Santa Barbara. It was great to spend a year in the Institute for Theoretical Phyics (now KITP) at UCSB. After a year back in Cambridge I was appointed to the faculty at Warwick before leaving, almost immediately, to become the W M Keck fellow in the Centre for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University from 1998-2000. I learned a lot about Biology at Rockefeller; it is an amazing science. In recent years I have held a Joliot-Curie visiting fellowship at ESPCI, Paris. Last year I became an EPSRC Leadership Fellow. Recently, I've been having a lot of fun working on some completely new problems.
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