I am a physicist by background I have worked in both academia, many post docs then 1992-2000 in The Cavendish laboratory Cambridge in 2000 I moved to food industry Unilever then Kraft and latterly Jacobs Douwe Egberts; my core expertise is computer modelling, soft matter, colloid and food science. Although in my time in industry I have manged teams food manufacturing R&D and modelling, science scouting, exploratory research, analytic chemistry and IP . I am now retired from full time work and can indulge my passion for computer simulation, coffee and also the physics of dense soft matter in flow.