Frank Walsh is an Emeritus Professor in Electrochemical Engineering at the University of Southampton, where he founded the Electrochemical Engineering Laboratory. He has served as the Deputy Head (Enterprise) and Director of the Research Institute for Industry in the School of Engineering Sciences at the University of Southampton, UK. His research output, which spans the areas of nanostructured materials for energy conversion, electroactive nanomaterials, coating technology, electrochemical monitoring and sensors, metallic corrosion, surface finishing and electrochemical process engineering, includes: 4 text books, 70 short course papers, >200 conference presentations, 500+ research papers and >50 educational papers.