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Prof. David Phillips OBE

Prof Phillips is currently Professor Emeritus, and Senior Research Investigator in the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, where he was for 10 years Head of Department, before becoming Dean of Sciences for four years

He is the author of over 580 papers in the fields of photochemistry and photophysics, some 75 of which have been concerned with PDT and related areas over the last 12 years.

This work has focussed principally upon the development of sulphonated phthalocyanine derivatives as sensitisers, and their distribution in tissue using a variety of miscroscopies, including confocal time-resolved fluorescence imaging. Photophysical measurements have been made on these and other sensitisers using diffuse-reflectance flash photolysis, and time-correlated single-photon counting techniques.

Unrelated work involves the use of tfs time-resolved resonance Raman spectroscopy to study the structures of intermediates in photon-induced electron-transfer reactions.
Professor Phillips is also a highly successful communicator of science to non-scientific audiences and in 1999 was awarded the OBE for services to Science Education .

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