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Nick was awarded an MChem degree (with an industrial placement) from the University of Southampton in 2004 before joining Prof. Stefan Howorka’s group at UCL for his doctoral studies. His PhD project concerned the application of functionalised oligonucleotides to DNA sequencing and nanotechnology (awarded in 2010). He remained at UCL as a postdoctoral research associate under the joint supervision of Prof. Alethea Tabor and Prof. Helen Hailes, developing MRI and SPECT imaging approaches for targeted nucleic acid delivery using ‘stealth’ lipid nanoparticles. Nick then joined Prof. Richard Payne’s group at the University of Sydney to work on new peptide ligation methodologies. In 2016, he was awarded a Nottingham Research Fellowship in the School of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham; he was appointed Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry in 2019 and promoted to Associate Professor in 2024.