Dr Richard Clayton is a software developer by trade. In another lifetime his company wrote the system software for the Amstrad CPC and PCW computers (sold under the Schneider and Joyce brandnames in Germany). In 2000 he returned to the University of Cambridge to study for a PhD and he has stayed an academic because it is "more fun than working". He is currently the Director of the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, an interdisciplinary project to study cybercrime and to curate datasets about cybercrime and make them available to other academics.