Dr Colin Johnston is Director of commercial and industrial services for the Department of Materials, University of Oxford and manager of Oxford Materials Characterisation Service. Colin holds a senior research fellowship in the Department of Materials, University of Oxford where he is active in research and development of novel materials solutions for high temperature and high reliability electronics packaging and energy storage materials. Colin is co-chair of the HITEN and HiTEC international conferences on high temperature electronics. He is a life fellow of the International Microelectronics Assembly and Packaging Institute and Chartered Chemist