Dr. David B. Cordes joined the University of St Andrews in 2013 and took up a position as an X-ray crystallographer. He earned his PhD in 2006 from the University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand). He conducted postdoctoral work at The University of Alabama in 2007, Imperial College London in 2008, and the University of St Andrews in 2010, before moving to Texas Tech University in 2012 to run the X-Ray Diffraction Service in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. Dr. Cordes now runs the Single-Crystal X-Ray Diffraction Service in the School of Chemistry, providing a molecular structure determination service for crystalline solid-state materials.