He undertakes research and teaching in process design and process control and in Systems Biology, working with a number of Medical Science Departments at UCL including the UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health and the UCL Cancer Institute.  He was a member of two key Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) committees: the Integrative and Systems Biology Strategy Committee and the Bioscience Skills and Careers Strategy Committee.  He has also been a member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) College of Engineering since 1996.

Prof David Bogle studied Chemical Engineering at Imperial College at both undergraduate and graduate levels, receiving his PhD in 1983. Following this, he worked on modelling and control projects for British Gas before taking a position as lecturer at the University of Adelaide, a position he held from 1986 until 1990. Prof Bogle joined UCL as a lecturer in 1990 and became full professor in 2000. He is Deputy Director of the Centre for Process Systems Engineering, a joint Centre between Imperial College and UCL. He is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and was made a Fellow the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2005.  He was Scientific Vice President of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering from 2018-2021 and President of the Institution of Chemical Engineers for 2022-23.