John Terry is Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow, a role he holds jointly between Mathematics, Computer Scienceand the Department of Metabolism and Systems Science at the University of Birmingham. This appointment reflects his passion for interdisciplinary research and for connecting people from different communities to work collaboratively on biomedical and clinical research challenges. He is well known for the development and application of mathematical techniques in biology and medicine, notably epilepsy and neuroendocrinology. In 2016 John introduced the concept of the “research incubator”: inspired by business incubators but repurposed to serve the needs of interdisciplinary research. John is principal investigator on the EPSRC Network+ award N-CODE, which brings together communities to focus on new solutions for diagnosis and management of neurological conditions in non-hospital settings.