Michael James McGlinchey was born and educated (BSc., PhD) in Manchester, UK. After short periods in Bristol and at Penn State University, he spent 30 years at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where he eventually became a Full Professor and Chair of Department. In 2002, he moved to become Head of Department at University College Dublin, where he is now Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry. He is a fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada and received the Alcan Award of the Canadian Society for Chemistry for Distinguished Contributions to Inorganic Chemistry. He has published widely in the areas of organometallic and bio-organometallic synthesis, sterically hindered molecules, NMR fluxionality, and X-ray crystallography. He has held visiting professorships in France (Rennes, Paris, Versailles, and Toulouse), Switzerland (Geneva and Lausanne), China (Heilongjiang and Siping), and at the National University of Singapore; in 2008, he was elected to the Royal Irish Academy. His book “Making and Breaking Symmetry in Chemistry: Syntheses, Mechanisms and Molecular Rearrangements” was published in 2022.