JPK Instruments, a manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, has announced the appointment of Dr. Robert Field as sales manager for the UK and Ireland. Field earned a bachelor’s in chemistry from the University of Bristol in 1997. He remained as a postgraduate researcher, studying novel routes to chiral phosphines for catalysis and earning a doctorate in organic chemistry in 2001. His first commercial role was as applications scientist and customer care manager for Applied Photophysics, a spectroscopy equipment company. Following that, Field held sales management positions at Veeco Instruments, which specializes in metrology equipment, and ionscope, which makes scanning ion conductance microscopy. For more information, visit www.jpk.com