Daniel Emlyn-Jones was born in Aberystwyth, Wales in 1973, and lived in nearby Lampeter until 1979, when with his parents he moved to Oxford. He studied for a biochemistry B.Sc. (Hons) with study in Industry degree at Bristol University (1992-1996), and went on to study for a PhD at University College London (1996-2000). His PhD research topic concerned the regulation of Photosynthetic light harvesting in a cyanobacterium. After this, he did postdoctoral research on the photosynthetic enzyme Rubisco, at the Australian National University (ANU) in Australia (2000-2006). During this time he also...