Date

Role

2009-

Council Member, Imperial College London

2009-

Chair, Trustee Board of Imperial College London Students' Union

2007-

Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator, Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London

2006-2007

Principal of the Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London

2003-2007

Chair, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

2002-2006

Director of the Graduate School in Engineering and Physical Sciences of Imperial College – a part time post

2001-2006

Foreign Secretary and Vice-president of the Royal Society

1989-2007

Professor of Polymer Science, Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London.

1993-1997

Dean, City and Guilds College.

1985-1989

Reader in Polymer Science, Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London.

1976-1985

Lecturer, Chemical Engineering Department, Imperial College London.

1973-1976

Physicist, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France.

1972-1973

Research Fellow, Institut Charles Sadron, Strasbourg, France.

1968-1972

SRC Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, UK.

1966-1968

Physics Teacher, Mexborough Grammar School, Yorkshire, UK.

1964-1968

D.Phil in Physical Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK.

1961-1964

BA Physics, Somerville College, Oxford, UK.