He holds a BSc and PhD in Chemistry from Imperial College, London and a Diploma of Imperial College in Photophysics. In his doctoral research under Dr. Garry Rumbles he discovered the first direct evidence for luminescent interchain states in a conjugated polymer. In 1996, As a post-doctoral research fellow mentored by Dr. Lewis Rothberg, Chris worked with transient absorption, aggregation phenomena, and conjugated polymers for organic LEDs. Chris Joined RIT in 2004 after an appointment as Photophysics Research Scientist at the University of Rochester and an industrial position as Applications Scientist at Newport Corporation (Richardson Gratings).