Steve Byard completed his post-graduate research at the Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Leeds and has spent more than 35 years working in the pharmaceutical industry for major global R&D organisations. He has strong interests in physical and molecular characterisation, formulation development, materials science, computational chemistry and molecular biology. In particular, he has had extensive involvement in the applications of solution and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance.    

Steve has published more than 32 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, presented his work at International Symposia and holds four patents. He has held an honorary professorship in the Physics Department at the University of Warwick, a visiting position at the University of Leeds and is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Northumbria. As a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Steve is presently an Elected Trustee for the RSC.