Professor Stuart Reid is Head of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, and leads a multidisciplinary team working across astrophysics and stem cell research. He has spent the last 22 years developing technology for gravitational wave detectors, and is co-inventor of "nanokicking", where precise nanoscale vibrations are used to control the behaviour of adult stem cells which can be used to grow bone in the lab from a patient's own cells. The Sir Bobby Charlton Foundation is funding the first-in-human surgical application of this technology, for helping landmine survivors. Further clinical trials are underway where nanoscale vibrations are applied directly to patients for possible treatment of osteoporosis. His lab develops next-generation laser mirrors and holds the world-record for the optical performance in amorphous silicon coating technology. He is Director of the Extreme Performance Optics Coatings testbed (EPOC) that resides within the newly formed National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS), developing coating solutions in collaboration with industry for applications including gravitational wave observatories, next generation fluorescence imaging, and Raman spectroscopy.