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Expert has a PhD in radioastronomy and microwave spectroscopy and degrees in chemistry, chemical engineering, and physics. He is boundary-crossing, multi-skilled lateral thinker with unusually broad, highly relevant formal academic training in physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, and mathematics. He has developed strong scientific capabilities that allow him to find novel solutions to complex problems. He focuses strongly on fundamental science that can be translated into tangible impact.

He has published over 250 research papers (e.g. Chemical Reviews, Nature Materials, Angewandte Chemie, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, Advanced Materials) and book chapters, almost 60 research and client reports, is an inventor on 25 patents. His current H-index is 39 and i10 index (number of papers with >10 citations) is 16. He is President of a chemical societies association, has several editorial board appointments on high impact journals. Expert is the recipient a diverse International awards and honors including the Herman Skolnik award from the American Chemical Society (informatics), the Adrien Albert award of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (medicinal chemistry), the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) Distinguished Fellowship (bioengineering), and the CRC for Polymers Chairman’s Award for Excellence in Commercialization (drug design). An important aspect of his research has involved dissecting the quantitative structure-activity method and rebuilding it with modern mathematical and artificial intelligence methods and adapting evolutionary methods to design of bio-active molecules and materials for diagnostics, therapeutics, and regeneration. Some of the technology arising from this was licensed to Bio-RAD Corporation. He was a foundation member the complex systems science group established and published seminal cited papers in this field. His most recent work involves modelling the interactions of materials with biology, particular the ability of materials surface chemistry, physicochemical properties and topographies to modulate cell attachment, proliferation and differentiation, and the design of small molecule and peptides to modulate protein-protein interactions as drug leads.