My name's Liz Towns-Andrews
and I'm the director of research and enterprise
here at the university
and this evening I'm really, really honoured
to have been asked to do this presently
and introduce Dan McIntyre's inaugural lecture
I see Dan very much as one of my peers
We were both conferred professors at the same time
and he is one of the most inspirational people
at this university that I've met
His vision, his ambition and his energy
for his subject area is phenomenal
So to me, to be asked by Dan to do
this introduction is just really an honour
And I'm also conscious that there are
lots of friends, family and colleagues here
and having done an inaugural lecture myself
which was quite a challenge, it's very difficult
knowing how to get the levels of the
