I am actively engaged in interdisciplinary research across functional nanomaterials and life science disciplines, focusing on controlled self-assembly of nanomaterials, woven wearable smart textiles, transparent electrodes for touch screen applications and synthetic scaffolds for tissue engineering. I now lead, within the framework of an UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, a multidisciplinary team to advance the development of colour-changing polymeric photonic crystals and metamaterials with the aim to develop a portfolio of industry relevant novel products and deliver a wide variety of innovations that address real-world problems.