Chris has had a diverse career, spanning 25 years in both academic and contract R&D, and the process industries. He is Principal Investigator of the Process Safety & Intensification (PSI) research group and teaches Safety & Loss Prevention, an important subject, which also underpins his research.The PSI group addresses challenges related to chemistry, scale-up, engineering materials and safety in industrial processes. Typically this research utilises high pressures to drive chemical reactions (up to ~1000 atmospheres and usually at elevated temperature) and, or the safe use of highly reactive intermediates, conducting detailed fundamental experiments and employing computational methods to yield deeper insights.