Dr Leaper obtained a BEng in Chemical Engineering from Loughborough University in 1993, MSc in Bulk Solids Handling from Glasgow Caledonian University in 1995 and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham in 2002 in the field of fluidised beds. He has also worked as a research fellow at the Universities of Greenwich and Nottingham. In 2007 he was appointed as a Lecturer at the Leicester School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University and then a Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at Aston University in 2012. In January 2016 he joined Loughborough University as a Senior Lecturer

Powder caking and storage, powder handling, formulation engineering, pharmaceutical manufacturing, drug delivery, novel particle separation, particle manipulation.