He joined the Computer Science discipline in 2006 having previously been a Research Fellow in the Centre for Water Systems and was appointed as a lecturer in Computer Science in 2009. He has research interests in nature-inspired computing techniques (e.g. genetic algorithms, neural networks, cellular automata) and their applications to a variety of difficult problems taken from bioinformatics and engineering. He leads the Nature-Inspired Computing group which currently has a number of PhD students and research staff, with 7 alumni students and 5 researchers. He has been involved with successful funding applications totalling over £2 million from the EPSRC, Innovate UK, EU and industry, details of which are available on the research page. In his spare time he enjoys playing football and cricket and watching rugby.