Prior to founding Cyversa Prof. Reading founded with his co-inventors Azzedine Hammish and Hubert Pollock the company Anasys Instruments 2004. As this company's Chief Technical Officer he created and commercialized the product now sold as Nano-TA by Anasys Instruments and the Vesta system by Bruker. He also created Nano-IR2 by working In parallel, as a Professor at the University of East Anglia where he led, with Prof. Steve Meech, the creation of the first commercially viable technique for nanoscale IR imaging and spectroscopy, now sold as Nano-IR2 by Anasys Instruments. He left both AI and the UEA in 2010 to found Cyversa. His activities before founding Anasys Instruments include a career in industry with ICI after post-doctoral work in France. On leaving ICI in 1984, he became an academic first at Loughborough University then at the UEA. He has invented a number of scientific instruments in the fields of Thermal Methods and Photothermal Spectroscopy that have been commercialized by various companies; one of the most well know is Modulated Temperature DSC which is now offered by all of the leading manufacturers of thermal analysis instruments. Currently he works with Cyversa on new analytical methods he has created. He is also a research professor at the University of Huddersfield More information can be found on www.mike-reading.com and www.cyversa.com.