Howard Slater

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Private & Confidential - Curriculum Vitae - 27 July 2023   Personal Name        James Howard Osterfield Slater Date of Birth  16 December 1947 Nationality   British, born Tamale, Ghana (Gold Coast) E-mail    jhowardo.slater@uclmail.net (professional) Address   Taunton, Somerset ORCID No 0000-0003-2409-493X

Education & Professional 1966 – 1972  University College London, Microbiology, BSc (1969) (First) PhD (1972), DSc (1986), FRSB (1988), FRSA (1991)   Career 1967 - 1969 Vacation employments Beecham Research Laboratories, Worthing, UK. Developed automated penicillin bioassay system, including statistical analysis

1969 – 1972     Consultant, Autodata Ltd. Whilst studying for PhD, consulted on sensitive O2 bioassay for antibiotics

1972 – 1975     Lecturer, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. New school of biochemistry & microbiology formed in UK’s final phase post-WW2 tertiary education

1975                 British Council Fellowship, University of Groningen

1975 – 1979     Lecturer, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. First appointment to develop multidisciplinary Environmental Sciences school with Engineering, Physics, Chemistry & Biological Sciences

1979 – 1982     Senior Lecturer, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. Promoted because of rapid development of research group in environmental microbiology

1982                 Visiting Professor, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA. As result of Gordon Conference invited to Biological Sciences & worked on evolution of novel metabolic functions

1982 – 1998    Professor, University of Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales. Appointed youngest full professor since appointment of University Principal

1982 – 1983    Senior Research Consultant, BioTechnica International Inc, Boston, USA. Accepted position as result of Connecticut sabbatical

1983 – 1988     Research Director and Founder, BioTechnica Ltd, UK sold in part to Lallemand Inc, Milwaukee, USA. Secured City of London funding for Environmental & Agricultural Biotechnology. Sister company to BTI USA

1998 Emeritus Professor, University of Wales. Resigned in part due to rapid deterioration of UK university funding, to date thoughtless increase in student numbers, and failure to respect time allocation for blue skies research. The future objective to fund a major physics/cosmology project (see 2005 to date)

2000    Scientific Panel Member, CropGen, UK public promotion of genetically modified crops with extensive media 2004 work

2002    Director, BioElf Ltd, UK technology transfer company in UK south west Universities, NHS & Plymouth Marine 2005 Laboratory. Sacked because members unable to appreciate an entrepreneurial approach to scientific innovation.

2005 Director, Advanced Physics Initiatives, UK, privately funded. Full time commitment to pure, fundamental to date physics. Two papers published in peer-review in 2023. Two further papers in preparation.