Dr. Martyn Paul Chamberlain has worked at the European Commission since May 2003 mainly in the area of Materials and Nanotechnologies and is currently working in the Research and Innovation Actors and Research Careers unit working on research Infrastructure policy. He has a PhD in the theory of semiconductor materials, has undertaken research at UK universities and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics in Stuttgart, Germany. He also worked for a number of years for an Automotive OEM.