I have been
engaged in computational biology research since 1985, working for my PhD with
Professor Ray Abraham. I then moved into pharmaceutical research with Organon where
my interests turned to drug Discovery. I returned to academic research in 1992,
first with a postdoc in Professor Graham Richards’ lab in Oxford, followed by
academic positions in University College Dublin, and the Universities of Oxford
and Cambridge. I took up my position in the University of Bedfordshire in 2010.
My research
interests cover the full range of computational chemistry and Biology, from
quantum chemistry to my most recent work on viral genomes. I have a particular
interest in small molecule conformational dynamics and equilibria.
In 1997 I
published the bestselling text book Computational Chemistry (Oxford University
Press) which is still in print.