Cardiff School of Chemistry

PhD Imperial College London(1979, Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson). Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Southern California (1979-80). Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California at Berkeley (1980-83). Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Imperial College (1983-84). Appointed as Lecturer in Chemistry, Cardiff, in 1984 and subsequently promoted to Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. President of the Dalton Division of The Royal Society of Chemistry (2004–7).