Wood got his PhD in Chemical Engineering at Queens University at Kingston/Canada in 2012. In 2014 he joined joined the Soft Matter, Fluidics and Interfaces group at the University of Twente.  His current research interests are related to connecting the fundamentals of ion and related transport phenomena to electric-driven processes (electrodialysis/electrochemical conversions), developing hybrid unit operations/processes, solid/liquid filtration processes and using external fields to control colloidal matter.

"Fluid flow through membranes and filters is full of fundamental fluid dynamics challenges which are yet to be solved."