[3] He served previously as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science from 2011 to 2015 and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Nottingham from 1995 to 2015.
[citation needed] In 2015 he moved to his current position as vice-president and dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering and professor of chemistry at the University of Manchester.
[citation needed] His early independent research focussed on the chemistry of transition metal thioether and aza macrocyclic complexes with particular focus on the stabilisation of unusual oxidation state species.
[citation needed] This work led to the isolation and characterisation of unique mononuclear M(I)/(III) (M = Ni, Pd, Pt) and M(II) (M = Ag, Au, Rh, Ir) complexes.
and has Honorary Degrees from Tallinn Technical University[citation needed] and from Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences.