The managing editor of English Science Editing, Dr Paul Kolston, has worked as a research scientist at the Delft University of Technology, University Hospital Utrecht, the University of Bristol, and the University of Keele. Whilst at Bristol and Keele he was a Royal Society Research Fellow. He decided to resign from a tenured position at Keele University in order to be able to live in New Zealand. In the 3-year period immediately preceding his departure from Keele he obtained grants totalling US$ 1.4 million from three UK funding bodies, all as the sole applicant.

His work has been published in (* denotes single-author papers) *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA; *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineeering Sciences; Brain Research; *Trends in Neurosciences; *Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; *Hearing Research; *Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control; Current Opinion in Neurobiology; and *Comments on Theoretical Biology.

He has refereed papers for Nature; Nature Neuroscience; Journal of Physiology (London); Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B: Biological Sciences; Journal of the Acoustical Society of America; IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing; Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology; Acta Acustica; and Audiology and Neurotology.

He has presented his research work at scientific conferences in the USA, the UK, The Netherlands, France, and Japan.