Author: Dion Stephen Henke
Born: 19 Sep 1969
Bio: Educated at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, then read chemistry at Wadham College, Oxford. The PhD was carried out from September 1992-December 1995, from which this thesis is derived. 

Dion then went on to do a short spell as a computer programmer, followed by a PGCE in Science:Chemistry. In 2001 he started work at City Hospital, Birmingham, and is still there now (June 2012).