Steve holds a personal Chair at the University of Liverpool (UoL), before which he worked in UK industry for >16 years including Cookson (Oxford), Courtaulds (Coventry) and Unilever (Port Sunlight Laboratories). He has cofounded two Unilever Ventures funded spin-out companies: IOTA NanoSolutions Limited and Hydra Polymers Limited; and is currently Chief Technology Officer of Tandem Nano Ltd (UoL spinout) and Chief Scientific Advisor for Polymer Mimetic Ltd (joint-venture with Scott Bader exploiting new polymer syntheses developed in the Rannard group at UoL). Steve is Director of the UoL Centre for Long-acting Therapeutics (2020-date), Director of the UoL Radiomaterials Laboratory (2013-date), and is a cofounder and vice-Chair of the British Society for Nanomedicine (2010-date). He held a Royal Society Industry Fellowship (2005-2009) and an IOTA NanoSolutions Senior Research Fellowship (2007-2010), was a founding committee member of the Recent Appointees in Polymer Science Group, held two RSC Industrial Lecturerships (Strathclyde University 2001; University of Sussex 2002), was visiting Lecturer at University of Sussex (1999-2001), and visiting Professor at UoL (2003-2007). He was the first recipient of the joint RSC/Macro Group UK Young Researcher of the Year Medal (1998) for his branched polymer and dendrimer research and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His current patient-focussed research aims to utilise particle technologies in the development of long-acting therapeutics.