[2] He is also a member of the Faculty of 1000 and held a Royal Society - Wolfson Research position.

[5] After working as a Royal Society Exchange Fellow at the University of Lund with Prof Stephen Thesleff, he was awarded a Beit Memorial Research Fellowship to work in UCL's Biophysics Department with Sir Bernard Katz and Prof Ricardo Miledi.

His research focuses on understanding molecular and functional properties of glutamate receptor channels underlying fast synaptic transmission in the brain.

His research activities also include the study of ionotropic γ-aminobutyric acid and glutamate receptor signalling and regulation of neurotransmitter release.

He has been a keen advocate of patch-clamp recording techniques combined with molecular methods for investigating central synaptic transmission.