Philip is a:
►Provider of local gardening and ranging services - as in green-space design, landscaping, plantsmanship, maintenance, and protection - within the Netherexe, Thorverton, and surrounding areas

►Chartered physicist
►Expert developer of fibre-optic instrumentation
►Professorial teacher of physics
►Author of corporate  technical reports
►Physics' author, notably including the seminal introductory textbook: Physics Assimilation and Purpose

Whose current professional works involve:
►Conceiving a textbook on lasers
►The variational modelling of excited quantum states

►Team membership of EMMAY Associates

►Device reliability modelling at Gooch & Housego

Whose specialist career was:

►Seeded by Professor Malcolm Dunn at the University of St Andrews

►Inspired by Professor Harold Hopkins at the University of Reading

►Nurtured by Professor Gordon Jones at the University of Liverpool via my PhD and postdoctorates on some of the first fibre-optic instrumentation applied to explosive chemical processes, body-scanned patients, and electrical switchgear

►Guided by Associate Professor Tony Stokes, Dr Mark Sceats, and Dr Ian Bassett at the University of Sydney via my contribution to the advent of Australian Photonics under DIST-funded (GIRD) R&D programs

►Launched by Professor David Jackson at the University of Kent via my completion of SHODOS - the UK's first collaborative research project in fibre-grating based Structural Health Monitoring

Who has this comprehensive set of qualifications:

►Forman Christian College's instatement as Professor of Physics, and Head of Optics Lab

►The Institute of Physics' Award of Chartered Physicist

►The University of Liverpool's award of PhD and post-doctorates in polychromatic fibre-optic sensing

►The University of Reading's award of MSc in applied and modern optics

►The University of St Andrews' award of BSc in physics and theoretical physics

And who has amassed this substantive portfolio:

►45 academic papers in lasers, fibre-optics, Bragg gratings, sensors, and interrogators 

►Teaching of Baccalaureate physics, and MPhil laser physics

►Doctorate supervision and examination

►Reviewing of publications in Optics Express, Optics Letters, and Sensors and Actuators

►Creating the seminal introductory physics' textbook: Physics Assimilation and Purpose

►2 patents

►Training in ASET-certified business analysis

►Realignment, ISO-9001-certification, and fibre-optic engineering at Smart Fibres, now part of Halliburton

►Fibre-optic engineering at Sifam Fibre Optics, and thence, via acquisition, JDS Uniphase, and Gooch & Housego

►Modelling and qualification of high-reliability fused-fibre components

►Collaborations with ESA, AIRBUS, Thales, QinetiQ, Rolls Royce, Tyco Telecommunications (now Subcom), and Alcatel (now Nokia) involving the leading of more than 10 SME-based R&D projects

►Major advances in telecoms, defence, civil engineering, electricity, formula-1, and medicine