Julian's PhD trained at the Royal Free Hospital (PhD; London, UK), EI Dupont (Delaware, US), University of Washington, Seattle (US), and University of Göttingen (Germany). Awarded a British Heart Foundation Fellowship (1994, University of Bristol, UK). In 2017, he transferred to the University of Auckland, New Zealand; he is Director of Manaaki Manawa – the Centre for Heart Research and a Co-Director of a national Centre of Research Excellence in heart health equity. He uses multi-disciplinary research for novel clinical therapeutic treatment of cardiovascular diseases. He is founder of Ceryx Medical – a spin out company testing a new cardiac pacemaker, which he invented. Julian has trained 28 PhD students, has 460 papers (h-index 85), was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi in 2020, awarded the Vice Chancellor research excellence medal (2022) and the Sir Peter Gluckman research excellence medal (2024). Hobby: restoring and rallying the first Land Rovers.