Associate Professor and Associate Director – Innovation of the Oxford eResearch Centre in the Department of Engineering Science, where he leads two seperate research groups Energy and Environmental ICT and Advanced e-infrastructure & Cloud Computing.

He has led over 55 research projects in areas such as Cloud utilisation, Cybersecurity, Smart Energy Grids, Research Data Management, Green IT, ICT Security and Institutional Repositories. He is a member of the UK Space Agency Ground segment Advisory Group.