Royston "Roy" Goodacre FRSC FLSW is Chair in Biological Chemistry at the University of Liverpool. With training in both Microbiology and Pyrolysis-Mass Spectrometry, Goodacre runs a multidisciplinary Metabolomics and Raman spectroscopy research group in the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology (ISMIB), and leads ISMIB’s Centre for Metabolomics Research and the Laboratory for Bioanalytical Spectroscopy.