On Friday 12 November, Paul Smith successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Understanding Lipid Membrane Biophysics Through Molecular Simulation.” Paul was examined by Andela Saric and Arianna Fornili, who have requested that he completes minor corrections to his thesis. Paul’s viva was able to be held in a face-to-face setting, and therefore the group was able to gather and celebrate his success in person afterwards (as shown below). After completing his very successful PhD, Paul is now working as a Research Associate in Software Development in Computational Cardiac Electrophysiology in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at King’s College London.