David is well respected in the academic fields of C. elegans and ageing biology. As a postdoc, he worked with David Gems, Ronald Plasterk and Erik Jorgensen. He is now Professor at the Department of Biosciences, Durham University and Chair of the British Society for Research on Ageing. David has over 3000 citations of his work.

David is passionate about applying the strength of C. elegans research to industrial application and he cofounded the Magnitude Biosciences team to bring reliable automated technology together with experienced C. elegans scientists to bring increases in productivity to the whole field.