Professor Flood received his B.Sc. with 1st Class Honors in 1996 and his Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Otago with Professor Keith C. Gordon. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 2002 to 2005 with Sir Fraser Stoddart.
To date, he has authored over 180 journal articles, 8 book chapters and has made more than 200 invited and contributed presentations at national and international conferences in the field of supramolecular chemistry. He has served on the organizing committee for three international conferences including the 2013 International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC) and the 2017 GRC on Artificial Molecular Switches and Motors. He received Indiana University Trustees Teaching Awards in 2008, 2010, and 2025, an NSF CAREER Award in 2009, was a 2010 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, the Award for Excellence in Physical Organic Chemistry by Wiley, the inaugural Cram Lehn Pedersen Award in Supramolecular Chemistry for 2011, the American Chemical Society R.A. Glenn Award in 2022, and was elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow in 2024. He was the James F. Jackson Professor 2014-2022 and Luther Dana Waterman Professor 2015-2020.