Glenn A. Burley is Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Strathclyde. His research programme is focused around the development of molecular probes to further our understanding of processes involved in gene expression. Glenn was awarded a Bachelor of Medicinal Chemistry (Hon. I) and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Wollongong, Australia. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Fullerene Science Centre at the University of Sussex (2001-2003) and obtained an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, which he carried out at the University of Munich (2004-2006). Glenn began his independent career as an EPSRC Advanced Fellow in 2007 at the University of Leicester, before moving to Strathclyde in 2011. Glenn heads several research programmes and partnerships with industry and collaborative institutions from across the globe.