Michael tutors in the Writing, Editing, and Publishing postgraduate program at The University of Queensland, and is a graduate of the program. He also tutors in the undergraduate course Writing: Grammar, Syntax, and Style. He interned on the Australian Journal of Communication, freelances as an academic and corporate editor, and is currently the Meetings Secretary for the Society of Editors (QLD). Michael earned an MSc from the University of Toronto (Canada) in 1989 and spent many years working as an industrial research chemist. He is the co-author of a number of scientific articles published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry and the Journal of the American Chemical Society.