His research career started at the University of Sydney, where he studied under Cameron Kepert. He moved to Cambridge in 2002 to work with Martin Dove, was elected to a Trinity College Junior Research Fellowship in 2004, and then appointed to a Lectureship at Oxford in 2009. His research focuses on exploiting flexibility and disorder in functional materials and is generously supported by the EPSRC and ERC. Andrew is the grateful recipient of the RSC's Harrison-Meldola (2010) and Marlow (2013) awards.