Prof John Harwood

Career: postdoctoral res: Univ of Calif Davis 1969-71, Univ of Leeds 1971-73; UC Cardiff: lectr 1973-80, reader 1980-84, personal chair 1984-, head of research 2001-, dep dir 2003-, head Sch of Biosciences 2004-10 (dep dir 2010-); author of over 560 scientific pubns; guide book writer for S Wales Mountaineering Club and The Climbers Club; Supelco Award 2010; memb: Biochemical Soc, Phytochemical Soc, Soc of Experimental Biology; hon fell Hungarian Acad of Sciences 2010, FLSW 2011

Books and Publications: South East Wales - A Rock Climber's Guide (ed, 1977), Lipids of Plants and Microbes (1984), The Lipid Handbook (jt ed, 1986, 2 edn 1994, 3 edn 2007), Plant Membranes (jt ed, 1988), Methods in Plant Biochemistry (Vol 4, jt ed, 1990), Plant Lipid Biochemistry, Structure and Utilization (jt ed, 1990), Lipid Biochemistry (jt author, 1991, 5 edn 2002), Climbers Guide to Pembroke, 2 Vols (jt ed, 1995), Plant Lipid Biosynthesis (ed, 1998), Handbook of Olive Oil (jt ed, 2000)