Oliver Rhodes is a researcher from the University of Manchester, UK. He earned a masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Exeter, and was awarded a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College London, for his work exploring optimal design methods for flexible morphing structures. After several years in industry with SIMULIA, the simulation division of the Dassault Systemes software company, he joined the lab of Prof. Steve Furber in Manchester to work on neural simulation software for the SpiNNaker neuromorphic platform.