Philanthropist, published author, and engineer, Dr Nick Donofrio (Hon Doctor of Science, 2002), spent 44 years at IBM including as Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology, leading numerous transformational strategies and initiatives across the company.

Having worked on the world’s first driverless taxi system, John Hammersley (MPhys Mathematics and Physics, 2004) has always steered towards innovation. He’s now CEO and Co-Founder of Overleaf, a cloud-based LaTeX editor for collaborative working on scientific documents, with over nine million users and 150 university customers. Discover John’s journey from Physics at Warwick to becoming a successful entrepreneur.

"I studied Physics for four years at Warwick, taking as much lab as I possibly could - I loved experimental Physics. Since graduation I've been working as an actuary at Hymans Robertson LLP, and became fully qualified in 2020. I currently work in the pensions sector and specialise in winding up DB pension schemes at the end of their life cycles. After finishing the actuarial exams and during lockdown I indulged in one of my other passions: creative writing. I was absolutely thrilled to be offered a publishing contract for a children's book I had written. Ming Ming's Foodie Adventure will hopefully be the first of many stories and a lovely side project to my financial career."

"I have recently retired from a rare career, designing the acoustics of international opera houses, concert halls and theatres.

This has traceable routes to my time at Warwick, lighting student plays in Benefactors Hall and then the (new) Warwick Arts Centre, running the disco on the roof of the Senate building during the 1975 occupation, doing a noise-related summer placement and a project on the physics of concert halls."

"What you have to offer is precious."

The warmest of welcomes to the Warwick alumni community for all our Winter 2022 graduates from Chair of the Climate Group, Joan MacNaughton CB (BSc Physics, 1972)