Nathan Bossoh earned his PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from UCL in 2022 and is a Research Fellow in History at the University of Southampton. His main research intersects around the themes of science, medicine, museums, environment, and African Studies. A core component of his work explores how African knowledge, belief and practice, as well as European perceptions of Africanness, influenced and shaped numerous historical developments in science, medicine, and Western museums. His main period of interest is roughly 1750 to the present, and regionally he focuses on Britain and West Africa but has secondary interests in modern Japan as well.

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Between September 2022 and September 2023 he was the African Collections Research Curator at the London Science Museum where he now remains a Research Associate. Nathan's current project at Southampton investigates the historical uses and circulation of various medicinal plants found across Western Africa in order to analyse the wider relationship between ethnobotany,  museums, pharmacology, religion, and drug commercialisation.​

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Nathan became Treasurer for the Forum in 2021.