Contributor: James Crabbe

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James Crabbe is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies and Science and Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Bedfordshire, leading and managing the continuing evolution of a successful large Faculty with six departments, three Research Institutes, and many National and International partners. He is also a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University, and Visiting Professor at the University of Reading, and at Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai in China. His Internationally-recognized research spanning biomedical and environmental sciences, as well as his contribution to the Arts & Humanities, has resulted in over 135 publications in refereed International journals, 21 books and major book chapters, 14 items of commercial software, and numerous invitations as Plenary speaker at International conferences. In 2006 he won the 6th Aviva/Earthwatch International Award for Climate Change Research. Since 2005 he has been an Expert Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.His links with Industry and consultancies have resulted in many successful projects, including prize-winning commercial software in molecular modeling. He is Editor of the journal Computational Biology and Chemistry, and on the editorial boards of five other journals. He is a Governor of Dunstable College Corporation, Vice-Chairman of the East of England Engineering, Science & Technology Association, Chairman of Trustee Directors of the Charity for Access Ability and Communications Technology (AACT), a member of the College of Experts of the MRC, a member of the Advisory Board of the Coral Reef Research Unit at the University of Essex, and a former member of the Peer Review College of the EPSRC. He is currently on the Executive Committee of the UK Deans of Science, a member of the Council of University Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, has been a member of the Council of the Biochemical Society, was one of the first Academic Auditors with the QAA, and a member of the Research Boards of the EU and of the Big Lottery Fund. He has supervised 16 completed PhD students, and 11 Postdoctoral Fellows, on his own research grants. He has made over 440 logged research dives since 2000, leading teams of SCUBA divers on his research projects in Jamaica, Indonesia and Belize. He is a SCUBA dive instructor level 1, and has made several classical recordings, one of which won an award, and has worked in BBC TV and Radio, and on the Science and Art programme of the Wellcome Trust.