Professor David Phillips

Senior Research Investigator, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London

Professor Phillips is currently the Senior Research Investigator at the Faculty of Natural Science, Department of Chemistry at Imperial College, London.

Professor Phillips was the President of Royal Society of Chemistry from 2010 – 2012. He further began his career doing postdoctoral research at the University of Texas at Austin and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He was appointed a lecturer in chemistry at the University of Southampton, rising to the status of Reader then becoming Wolfson Professor of Natural Philosophy, at the Royal Institution.

Professor Phillips was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.