Finn joined Imperial in April 2009 as Joint Lecturer within the Structural Ceramics Centre, a position shared between the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Materials. Prior to this he worked at Linköping University, Sweden where he was an Assistant Professor following a Post Doc. Finn received his PhD from the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge and has a BEng in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Bath.