Dominic completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Glasgow before upping his roots and moving to the University of Edinburgh for his PhD.  This was followed by a three-year post-doc at the University of Leicester and another three years back at Edinburgh before being promoted to Lecturer in 1998.  In 2006 Dominic became a Royal Society of Edinburgh/Scottish Executive Research Fellow, and was subsequently promoted to Reader in 2013 and most recently to Professor of Industrial Biocatalysis in 2015.  He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and young family.