Before joining the LMEI as a research associate, Hamid Pouran was Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF) Visiting Fellow in Iran’s Environmental Sustainability at the LMEI’s Centre for Iranian Studies and senior research associate at Lancaster University. He was part of Transatlantic Initiative for Nanotechnology and the Environment (TINE). His research was focused on developing new techniques to measure available concentrations of nanomaterials in the environment. He is currently a member, co-founder and innovation director of a spin out company from Lancaster University, Novabiomatrix Ltd, that is an R&D company in nanobiotech research.