Nick gained his PhD from Imperial College,  London,  in theoretical physics.  Before joining SZTU he worked extensively in Business Schools in the UK,  as well as working in China.  He has published in areas including computational finance,  interest rates,  and decision making,  and has written two books:  “Interest rate modelling” and “Implementing models of derivative securities.”  He has been a reviewer for journals including the Journal of Computational Finance,  Quantitative Finance,  Review of Financial Studies,  Applied Mathematical Finance,  Finance and Stochastics,  Mathematical Finance,  Journal of Risk,  Journal of Derivatives,   Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control,  the Journal of Futures Markets,  et cetera.  He has taught modules in Finance,  particularly in financial derivatives and computational finance but also in general corporate and investment finance,  numerical methods and computation,  computer languages such as C++,  probability and stochastic calculus,  statistics and econometrics,  and pure and applied mathematics.  His industrial experience,  before re-entering academia,  includes computer consultancy and operational research.