Richard A. Taylor holds a PhD in Chemistry and a BSc in Pure and Applied Chemistry from The University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona Campus, Jamaica. He has been twice visiting scholar at the Schools of Chemistry and of Materials, University of Manchester, UK, working with Professor Paul O'Brien FRS and visiting user scientist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, US. He is currently Lecturer in Materials Chemistry at The UWI, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad. There, through a small research group of PhD students he has foccused his research on optoelectronic materials including, novel metal-organic liquid crystals, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films and nanomaterials (quantum dots) and luminescent metal-organic frameworks.