Professor Davies has had a diverse career across industry and academia over a wide spectrum of engineering projects in fluidization and particle technology. With BSc and Ph.D. degrees from Imperial College of Science and Technology, he then performed postdoctoral research at University of Canterbury in Christchurch. He worked several years in industry working in pneumatic systems and various measurement devices. In 2003 he joined Massey University been elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society of New Zealand and a Fellow of the AIChE.