Aidan McMahon is a former full-time clinical embryologist who studied as an undergraduate and postgraduate at Trinity College, Dublin. He worked at a number of in vitro fertilisation clinics in Europe before moving to Canada to become a research fellow at McGill University, Montreal. He subsequently joined a large medical device manufacturing company and held various roles culminating with him becoming Director of Global Product Management in their Women’s Health and IVF business unit. He now lives and works in Dublin as a third-party consultant to the medical device industry while writing and looking after his two children.