Prof. Richard J. Murphy joined the Centre for Environment and Sustainability (CES) at the University of Surrey as a Professor of Life Cycle Assessment in February 2013 and became its Director in 2014. He has advised the UK Climate Change Committee on LCA and bioenergy and has been a member of DEFRA’s Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee. His background is in the biological sciences, with a BSc in Botany with Zoology from King's College London, and a PhD in Pure and Applied Biology from Imperial College London. He has undertaken post-doctoral work in the UK, New Zealand, and The Netherlands and, prior to joining CES, was a Reader in Plant Sciences at Imperial College London. Richard is a past President of the Institute of Wood Science (now part of the Institute of Materials), and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Mining & Minerals (IOM3) and of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).