Scott is a world expert in biophysics and imaging. He is currently the University of Southern California Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Convergent Bioscience and was previously a Professor of Biology and Director of the Biological Imaging Centre at the California Institute of Technology, chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at UC Irvine and has a PhD in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University. He was a co-founder of Clinical Micro Sensors and been an advisor to numerous companies including Amersham, GE Health and Zeiss MicroImaging.