My PhD was on the topic of cold-formed steel portal frames. Following this, I spent five years working at the Steel Construction Institute (The SCI), where I extended my research interests to include hot-rolled steel, composite construction and fire. I have been a full-time academic since 2007; I worked at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and Queen's University, Belfast, before joining the University of Auckland in 2014. To-date, I have authored around 150 journal papers and supervised seventeen PhD students to completion, six of whom pursue / pursued full-time academic careers. My research is dominated by trying to understand fundamental structural behaviour, for which I employ a combination of full-scale testing and finite element modelling.