Nick was awarded his Masters degree from the University of Southampton, and his PhD (2010) from University College London (UCL), working with Prof. Stefan Howorka. He remained at UCL as a postdoc working with Prof. Alethea Tabor and Prof. Helen Hailes, before joining Prof. Richard Payne's lab at the University of Sydney. Nick was awarded a Nottingham Research Fellowship, based in the School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham in 2016, and was promoted to Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry in 2019. His research group is interested in the development of new bioconjugation chemistry, with a specific focus on the site-selective installation of protein post-translational modifications.