Simon Phillpot

Profile Information
Name
Professor Simon Phillpot
Institution
University of Florida
Position
Distinguished Professor
h-Index
90
ORCID
0000-0002-7774-6535
Biography
Simon Phillpot is a Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. From 2010 to 2015 he served as Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and from 2011 to 2014 he was also the Director of the Nuclear Engineering Program. He received his BA from Oxford in 1980 and Ph.D. from University of Florida in 1985, both in physics. He spent 16 years at Argonne National Laboratory prior to joining the University of Florida in 2003. He is the author/co-author of over 350 peer-reviewed publications, which have garnered more than 43000 citations. He has given more than 100 invited and plenary technical presentations at international meetings and at major research institutions. His current research is focused on sequestration of radionuclides, nuclear fuel, pyrolysis of ablative heat shields, machine learning potentials and intercalation in low-dimensional materials. He was a 2017-2019 University of Florida Term Professor and was a 2010-2013 University of Florida Research Foundation Professor. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Institute of Physics (UK), and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (UK). He is a deputy editor of *Journal of Applied Physics* and a member of the editorial board of *Journal of* *Nuclear Materials. *Phillpot can be found at http://phillpot.mse.ufl.edu and https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=156961237
Expertise
Alloys, Metals, Radionuclide, Sequestration, Simulation