Peter Excell is Emeritus Professor of Communications at Wrexham Glyndwr University, Wales (UK), where he was formerly the Deputy Vice-Chancellor. He was previously Associate Dean for Research in the School of Informatics at the University of Bradford, where he had worked since 1971. He obtained a BSc in Engineering Science from Reading University in 1970 and was awarded his PhD from Bradford University in 1980 for research in electromagnetic hazards. His long-standing research interests have been in the applications and computation of high-frequency electromagnetic fields, but he has also broadened this into consideration of usage scenarios for future communications devices. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, of the Institution of Engineering & Technology and of the Higher Education Academy, a Chartered Engineer and Chartered IT Professional, a Life Senior Member of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers, and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society, and the Bioelectromagnetics Society.