Colin Sullivan split his time between King's College London and the London School of Economics when he studied chemistry and the philosophy of science. Having spent a number of years working for the Society of Chemical Industry on its magazine Chemistry & Industry, he joined Nature in 2000 as Chief Subeditor. It was in that capacity that he was first introduced to Futures, for which he did production duties under Henry Gee from 2005 until taking over the reins in 2012. When not wrestling with the placement of hyphens, he has a tendency to stare at Roman ruins - especially those of Pompeii and Herculaneum - and to pore over genealogical records (and yes, he did find the obilgatory tenuous connection to nobility). He lives just outside north London in a town that lays claim to once being the British Hollywood.