Philip Withers - Curriculum Vitae#

MAJOR NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• 2015 Co-chair 3rd Int. Conf Tomography for Scientific Advancement (TOSCA), Manchester
  
• 2014 Royal Society : University Research Fellowships Panel
  
• 2014 Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowships Panel
  
• 2005 Royal Society : International Joint Projects Selection Panel
  
• 2004 - 2007 Royal Society: Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship Selection Panel
  
• 2009 Royal Acad. Engineering : Ingeneous Public Engagement Award Panel.
  
• 2012 Danish Technical University : Review of Physics Dept.
  
• 2009 - 2012 DESY Science Council, Hamburg.
  
• 2008 STFC Chairman of Panel examining the case for funding a £21M VULCAN Laser facility
  
• 2007 - 2010 STFC : Physical & Life Sciences (PALS) Committee
  
• 2006 US DoE : Review Panel for Luhan Neutron Scattering Centre, Los Alamos Nat. Lab.
  
• 2006 CCLRC : Chair of Facility Devel. Advisory Panel
  
• 2012 EPSRC : Culham Mid-term review
  
• 2004 - 2009 EPSRC : Technical Opportunities Panel (TOP)
  
• 2001 Advised German Gov. (Sci. Coun. of Wissenschaftsrat) on European Spallation Source
  
• 1997 - 2000 Member of Versailles Agreement on Adv. Materials & Standards TWA20 defining world-wide standards for Stress Measurement by Neutron Diffraction

MILESTONES

• 2016 Interim Science Officer for the Sir Henry Royce Institute
  
• 2012 Founding Director of the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials
  
• 2010 Leads Manchester-Diamond Imaging Initiative
  
• 2009 Set up the Henry Moseley Multi-scale X-ray Imaging Facility containing a unique suite of X-ray kit imaging kit valued at £2M across scales from 1m to 50nm
  
• 2008 Set up the £4.5M Composites Certification and Evaluation Facility to help companies accelerate moving composite parts into production
  
• 2007-12 Founding Director of the University of Manchester Aerospace Research Institute, linking over 100 academics in cross disciplinary research
  
• 2006 Set up and Directed NW Composites Centre, a collaboration between Universities of Manchester, Liverpool, Lancaster and Bolton, now directed by Prof. Hogg
  
• 2000 Established Unit for Stress & Damage Characterisation; now the pre-eminent facility for stress and damage measurement working with over 30 academic groups/20 companies
  

RESEARCH PROJECTS & GRANTS

Over the 10 years at Manchester he has undertaken one of the largest research portfolios in science and engineering in the UK covering 80 research awards (40 from the research councils, 9 from industry and the remainder from the EU, government and charitable organisations). He has an EPSRC research portfolio currently standing at £14,305,031 (12 Awards) of which he is PI on 9. His current total funding portfolio is valued at £23,577,741. Over the 10 years that he has been in Manchester he has been awarded 49 EPSRC grants, either as PI (mostly) or CI, to the value of £23,753,038.