Professor Steven Abbott studied chemistry at Oxford and received a PhD for work done in Oxford and Harvard. A post-doc in the Nobel Prize winning lab of Prof Jean-Marie Lehn in Strasbourg was followed by an industrial career in the chemical company ICI and in a coatings company near Oxford. He collaborated for many years with a team at the University of Leeds and was appointed as Visiting Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering. He has been an independent scientist since 2009, a trouble-shooter, trainer and prolific app writer, and author of free eBooks linked to the apps. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.