He is the director of the Sustainability Office and the founder and coordinator of Sustainable Engineering Asset Management (SEAM) Research Group at UoS. He received his doctorate in Maintenance Engineering from Linnaeus University, Sweden, in 2004. He has 27 years of industrial and academic experience, and his research interests include reliability, quality and maintenance engineering, lean production, productivity improvement, performance measurement, life-cycle cost analysis, and optimisation. He has developed and taught more than 25 post- and undergraduate courses covering a wide range of IEEM fields.