Associate Professor Paul Wright is Head of the Nanosafety Research Group, School of Medical Sciences at RMIT-University, founding co-ordinator of both Nanosafe Australia (www.rmit.edu.au/nanosafe) and Asia Nano Safe research networks, and nanosafety advisor to the Australian Nanotechnology Network (ANN). Paul is a Fellow of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and formerly an elected director of the Executive Committee of International Union of Toxicology (IUTOX).