Julian R. Jones is Professor of Biomaterials at Imperial College London. He has >200 articles and 5 patent applications on bioactive glass and hybrid materials. His review is the highest cited in Acta Biomaterialia’s history. He is Fellow of the American Ceramics Society and Society for Glass Technology, where he is also Vice-President. He is Editor-In-Chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Biomedical Science Book Series.