Dr. Royston Goodacre heads up a team of 25-30 researchers in the School of Chemistry at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology. Dr. Goodacre works at the tri-section of analytical chemistry, biology and computation, and his research interests include analytical biotechnology and include disease diagnostics, detection, imaging and food security, as well as systems and synthetic biology. Dr. Goodacre has over 20 years of expertise in mass spectrometry (MS)-based metabolomics (technique used to study chemical fingerprints), Raman spectroscopy (technique used to study structural fingerprints) and advanced multivariate data analysis. Raman and MS are being developed for the rapid characterization of biological systems, including bacterial detection, microbial stress for biotic and abiotic agents, antimicrobial resistance and synthetic biology. To achieve these novel chemical and machine learning techniques, as well as network-based analyses needed to turn data into knowledge, he is working to develop models of food supply networks for the identification of vulnerability points. Dr. Goodacre's recent awards include Honorary Fellow of the Metabolomics Society (2016) and Fellowship of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (2015).