Adam Perriman is a member of the Medical and Veterinary Sciences Faculty at the University of Bristol in the School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. He is also an Engineering and Physical Research Council (EPSRC) Early Career Fellow. He received his B.Sc from James Cook University before moving to the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University to complete Honours and PhD in 2007. After two years of postdoctoral work with Prof. S. Mann in the Centre for Organized Matter Chemistry (University of Bristol), he was awarded the Engineering and Physical Research Council (EPSRC) Cross-disciplinary Interfaces Fellowship.