Gregor Timlin was born in 1981 in Dublin, Ireland, where he studied Furniture Design (BA) at the Dublin Institute of Technology before joining the Design Products Department (MA), directed by Ron Arad, at the Royal College of Art London.

He currently works in two capacities;

Firstly as a design research associate at the Helen Hamlyn Center, Royal College of Art. Working with Bupa Care Homes to improve the quality of product design for Older People with dementia in care.

Secondly as a free lance designer in London, part of Propwork a collective of designers which includes Marc Owens, Freddie Yauner and Tony Mullin.