Professor Wood is currently also Chief Electro-Optics Technologist at Thales (Glasgow and Reading).

Previously he was Electro-optics Technologist and Survivability Team Leader at QinetiQ Farnborough, Principal Scientist at DERA Portsdown West, Research Fellow in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics University of Southampton and Research Assistant, Physics Dept, Swansea University.