I studied a general physics degree as an undergraduate in the Department of Physics at the University of Manchester, graduating in 1988. I joined Philips Research Laboratories in Redhill, Surrey where I worked for two years as a Research Scientist in the Simulation and Signal Processing Group. I then returned to the Department of Physics in Manchester in 1990 to study for a PhD in Theoretical Physics. I started work at the University of York in April 1996 as a Research Assistant in the Applied Electromagnetics Group of the Department of Electronics and became a Research Fellow in what is now the Communication Technologies Research Group in 2000. Here I worked on many externally funded research projects in the areas of electromagnetic compatibility, computational electromagnetics and bioelectromagnetics. In 2017 I joined SNC-Lavalin's Atkins Business as a Senior Electrical Systems Engineer based in York, UK.