Andy received a BSc (Hons) 1st class at The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 1997 and then undertook his PhD in synthetic chemistry with Professor David A. Leigh FRS on ‘The Controlled Synthesis of Interlocked Architectures’, firstly at UMIST then at The University of Warwick, where he graduated in 2001. He started post-doctoral research at Yale University (USA) with Professor Andrew D. Hamilton FRS on the topic of protein surface recognition, followed by further postdoctoral research with Professors E. W. (Bert) Meijer and Rint P. Sijbesma at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) on the topic of supramolecular polymers. In 2004 he took up his first independent academic position as a Research Lecturer at The University of Leeds, where he was promoted to Professor of Organic Chemistry in 2012 and served as Deputy Director of the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology (2012-2018). Andy led the School of Chemistry undergraduate Medicinal Chemistry Degree programme (2008-2012) and served as director of postgraduate studies (2009-2012). Andy is also co-director of PPI-Net and served as a working group leader in the EU-COST action on Foldamers. Andy was appointed to the EPSRC Physical Sciences Strategic Advisory Team in 2019. Andy Joined the University of Birmingham as Professor of Chemical Biology in Sept 2023. Andy’s primary research interests centre on understanding and manipulating protein-protein interactions; his research group delivered generic approaches for inhibition of helix mediated PPIs; and, identified dual hDM2 and MCL-1 inhibition as a potential anticancer therapeutic approach. The group have also developed photocrosslinking methods for studies of peptide self-assembly, co-ordination complexes as receptors for protein surfaces and novel H-bonding motifs for self-sorting and materials science. He was recognized internationally by the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry Young Academic Scheme (2012) and through the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Bob Hay Lectureship (2012) and the RSC Norman Heatley Award (2016). He has ~100 papers (>3700 citations, H-Index 31), and is a regular invited speaker at international meetings (e.g. International Advanced School of Organic Chemistry, Ischia, 2014; Pacifichem, Honolulu, 2015). He has trained >30 PhD candidates and postdoctoral co-workers.