Phillips David

David Phillips

Born December 3[math]^{rd}[/math], 1939.

Education: B.Sc. Hons. University of Birmingham Dept. of Chemistry 1961; Ph.D. (Physical Chemistry, University of Birmingham 1964)

Career

• Royal Society of Chemistry, President, 2010-2012,
• Immediate Past President, 2012/13,
• Imperial College London Professor of Physical Chemistry, 1989-1999,
• Hofmann Professor of Chemistry, 1992-2006,
• Head of Department Sciences of Chemistry, 1992-2002,
• Dean of the Faculties of Life Sciences and Physical Sciences, 2002-2005,
• Senior Dean, 2005/6,
• Professor Emeritus, Senior Research Investigator, 2006-present,
• Royal Institution of Great Britain, Wolfson Professor of Natural Philosophy, 1980-89,
• Acting Director, 1986, Deputy Director 1986-1989 University of Southampton Lecturer in Physical Chemistry,
• Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry,1973-76,
• Reader in Physical Chemistry, 1976-1980,
• Visiting Scientist, Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of USSR Moscow, under Royal Society - Academy of Sciences Exchange Programme (Supervisors Prof. V. Ya. Shliapintokh and Academician Professor V. N. Kondratiev),
• Fulbright Scholar, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, (Supervisor, Prof. W. Albert Noyes Jr.), 1964-66.

Honours/Fellowships

• Fellow of the Royal Society, 2015,
• CBE, for services to Chemistry, 2012,
• OBE for services to Science Education, 1999,
• Porter Medal [International competitive award offered by Inter-American Photochemistry Society European Photochemistry Association, and Oceanic and Asian Photochemistry Societies, 2012,
• Honorary D. Sc’s University of Birmingham, 2011; University of Southampton 2012;University of Durham, Doctor of Laws, 2013; University of Westminster, 2014; University of Leicester, 2014; Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Bath, 2013; Honorary Fellowship of Imperial College, 2009; Award for service, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2009.
• President, European Photochemistry Association,
• Honorary Life Fellowship, British Association for the Advancement of Science [now British Science Society], 2006,
• Honorary Life Fellowship, Royal Institution of Great Britain, 2005,
• Society of Chemistry; Michael Faraday Award of the Royal Society, 1997,
• Nyholm Lecturer, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1994,
• Honorary Fellowship of City and Guilds Institute, 2004,
• President British Association Chemistry Section, 2000,
• Vice-President, British Association for the Advancement of Science,
• Wilsmore Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia, 1982 and 1990,
• J.W.T. Spinks Lectureship, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 1976,
• Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry [then RIC], 1976.