Piers has been Institute Manager of the Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing (IPAS) at the University of Adelaide since July 2009. He leads the commercialisation activity of the Institute and works with the scientific teams to help them develop their products, identify industrial partners and funding streams. He has secured over $100m in research funding.
Past roles have included Business and Marketing Manager for Acambis a developer of vaccines based in Cambridge UK and the US. He started his career as business development manager and Company Secretary of Roslin-Biomed the company who created ‘Dolly’ the cloned sheep.
