Nigel has held consultancies with a broad range of international companies and serves on the editorial board of key peer-reviewed journals. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2008 in recognition of his pioneering work on biopharmaceuticals manufacturing. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and was awarded the Donal Medal for his contributions to Biochemical Engineering in 2013, he gave the IChemE/ACS Danckwerts medal lecture in 2014 and was awarded the Dunnill Prize by the Bioprocess Industry Association in 2016. He was awarded the Queens Anniversary Prize in 2015. He was the first non-US academic to Chair the Board of the prestigious ACS-supported Recovery of Biological Products conference series.