Prof. Martin J. D. Clift gained his PhD in In Vitro Toxicology at Edinburgh Napier University in 2009. From 2008 to 2015, he spent his post-doctoral studies in Switzerland at both the University of Bern, as well as the Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg. Currently, he is a Professor at Swansea University Medical School. His expertise and research interests include studying the interaction of nano-sized materials with a variety of different biological systems and determining how these interactions affect molecular mechanisms within them, thus establishing structure-activity relationships. Furthermore, by creating sophisticated in vitro multi-cellular models of different human organs in combination with state-of-the-art microscopic and biochemical analyses, Martin can obtain a mechanistic understanding of the health risks posed by nanomaterials under realistic conditions, as well as gain valuable insight into the potential of in vitro as alternative test systems to in vivo methodologies.