Emeritus Professor and recent Head of the Photobiology Unit, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, St Thomas’ Hospital and King’s College, London, UK, John Hawk studied at St Mary’s and Guy’s Hospitals, London and at Harvard Medical School, Boston.

Professor John Hawk was a founder in 1988 of the British Photodermatology Group, and a founding member of the American Photomedicine Society and is still on both of these committees. He is currently President of the European Society for Photodermatology and Congress President of the World Congress on Cancers of the Skin.

He has written multiple scientific papers, book chapters and books, and was formerly editor of the journal, Clinical and Experimental Dermatology.