1988: BSc (Hons) Polymer Science and Technology-Chemistry, University of Manchester 1992: PhD/DIC, Imperial College London 1992-1995: Post-Doctoral work, University of Lancaster 1995-2000: Lecturer-Senior Lecturer, University of Lancaster 2000-2012: Reader, University of Sheffield 2012-2015: Professor, University of Sheffield 2015 - present: Professor of Chemistry and Head of School of Chemistry and Forensic Sciences, University of Bradford Also spent seven years in industrial research.

Polymers, Biomaterials, Radical Polymerisation, Cationic Polymerisation, Polyurethanes, Emulsion Polymerisation, Smart Polymers, Anti-microbial agents, Tissue Engineering, Drug delivery

"Nerve Guides Manufactured from Photocurable Polymers to aid Peripheral Nerve Repair" C. Pateman, A, Harding, A. Glen, C. Taylor, S. Rimmer, F. Boissonade, F. Claeyssens and J W Haycock Biomaterials 49 77 (2015) "Amine functional hydrogels as selective substrates for corneal epithelialization" E. Hassan, P. Deshpande, F. Claeyssens, S. Rimmer, S. MacNeil Acta Biomater. 10 3029 (2014) "Glucomannan-poly(N-vinyl pyrrolidinone) bicomponent hydrogels for wound healing" M. Shahbuddin, A.J. Bullock, S. MacNeil, S. Rimmer J. Mater. Chem.-B 2 727 (2014) "Controlled delivery of cytokine growth factors mediated by core-shell particles with poly(acrylamidomethylpropane sulphonate) shells" L. Platt, L. Kelly, S. Rimmer J.Mater. Chem.-B 2 494 (2014) "Arginine functionalisation of hydrogels for heparin binding – a supramolecular approach to developing a pro-angiogenic biomaterial" L. Gilmore, S. Rimmer, S.L. McArthur, S. Mittar, D. Sun, S. MacNeil, Biotech. Bioeng. 110 296 (2013) "Thermally-reversible colloidal gels for 3D chondrocyte culture" J.W Lapworth, R. L. Goodchild, P.V Hatton, S. Rimmer, Roy. Soc. Interface, 9 362 (2012) "Highly-branched polymers with polymyxin end groups responsive to Pseudomonas aeruginosa" P. Sarker, J. Shepherd, K. Swindells, I. Douglas, S. MacNeil, L. Swanson, S. Rimmer, Biomacromolecules, 12 1 (2011) "Hyperbranched poly(NIPAM) polymers modified with antibiotics can both bind bacteria and reduce Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacterial burden in infected human tissue engineered skin" J. Shepherd, P. Sarker, S. Rimmer, L. Swanson, S. MacNeil, I. Douglas, Biomaterials, 32 258 (2011) "Synthesis of Chain End Functionalized Linear and Branched Polymers by Non-Living Radical Polymerization in the Presence of a Silyl Enol Ether" R.M. England, S. Rimmer Chem. Commun., 46 5767 (2010) "Binding bacteria to highly branched poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) modified with vancomycin induces the coil-to-globule transition" J. Shepherd, P. Sarker, K. Swindells, I. Douglas, S. MacNeil, L. Swanson, S. Rimmer, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132 1736 (2010)