Thanks for the replies. The work that he is repeating was done after I submitted my PhD and was work I did for a publication a short time after I had finished. The work has not been published and he (or someone) had remade all the proteins and then not foudn the same as I did.

Througout the whole of my PHD he was horrible and I had to meet with departmental people for advise. I was not allowed to do anything off my own back and when I was writing I had to do it in my spare time and submit when they said to (even though I wanted an extra couple of days). He has not said anything about Science Misconduct but I know he is a vengful man and he is likely to go that way (know how he has been with people from past experiences).

One of the things that concerns me is that some of the experiments were really intricate and took me months to start to get it to work and get data. I have a feeling that after one attempt (if that).

I purified the proteins and did all the experiments on them. The results I got were what I reported. The problem is that they have all gone (and one has had to be re-made completely). Because he is an unpleasant character he does things in anger and people suffer, the worse thing being that people rally around to keep things quiet.

I am too intimidated to contact him for fear of what will say or even worse that it will make it worse (which is has done on the past). I am getting on well in my new position and the last thing I want is for him to contact my current boss.

A total nightmare. While I was doing my studies I kept quiet as I knew that it would make things so much worse if I did not. The sad thing was that I saw someone complain about this and I kept quiet, subconsciously I think to protect myself.

I wonder if I could get some advice/help from someone who has been in the same situation.

I have left from my PhD institution and am now a postdoc. My old supervisor was terrible through the whole of my PhD and pretty much intimidated, belittled and I suppose bullied me.

He has tried to repeat one of the experiments that I did and cannot get the same results. When I was there he micromanaged me and even watched me acquire data. I did the experiments with the reagents that I had and these were the results that I got. Simple as that.

Now he has turned nasty once again. For a while I thought things were ok and we were maybe friends but this is obviously not the case.

I am not sure what to do about this. I am constantly anxious and not sleeping over what might happen next. They are generally angry and irrational and who knows what 'abuse' I will get, like so many times before.

I am not sure what to do. Shall I complain to the university about it? I know these things are futile on the whole which just makes me think that things will get worse.

For so long I was intimidated and belittled and now that I have left I do not want to have to put up with it any more. I did for so long fearing them and worrying about what backlash there might be.

Any advise would be great.