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Role:
Department staff:
- Position:Senior Research Fellow
- Department:College of Arts, Technology and Environment FET - Computer Science and Creative Technologies
- Email:Neil.Phillips@uwe.ac.uk
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About me
I am a researcher and educator with an abiding interest in how things work and how they can be improved. Understanding the technology behind systems, how it can be adapted or enhanced. I enjoy the challenge of devising unconventional solutions by combining scientific methods and non-intuitive thinking.
Area of expertise
Research Interests:
My research focuses on practical, interdisciplinary approaches to environmental sustainability, including strategies to mitigate global warming. I work across environmental management and sustainable development, and I also explore unconventional and biomimetic computing/engineering approaches that can inspire new solutions to complex real‑world challenges.
Key interests include:
Climate & sustainability: global warming mitigation, environmental management, sustainable development, microplastics, Citizen Science
Unconventional & biomimetic systems: unconventional computing, biomimicry, liquid marbles and TRIZ
Energy & electrification: wind turbines, power electronics, control systems, electric motor design, auto‑balancing systems
Bio-inspired technologies: bio‑reactors, bio‑sensing, bioenergy, slime, and Marimo inspired systems
Advanced materials & processing: bio-degradable polymers for 3D printing, high‑temperature superconductors, and vacuum drying
Sustainable space exploration: bio-inspired sustainable habitats
Research identifiers:
ORCID: 0000-0002-7878-0196
Scopus Author ID: 57193349395
Research Projects:
UWE’s Vice-Chancellor's Challenge Award for Freezing Global Warming project: https://freezingglobalwarming.org/
Marimo Rover an autonomous, low‑cost, photosynthetically powered mobile device that uses a algae to generate oxygen for propulsion.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13036-021-00279-0
Marimo for monitoring and filtering of aquatic environments.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-025-37259-6
Co-I of PhySense project under H2020 Future & Emerging Technologies Launchpad grant. Commercialise a novel environmental sensing platform.
PhD Supervision:
I welcome PhD applications in areas including (but not limited to):
· Unconventional systems and solutions (including biomimetic and nature‑inspired approaches)
· Mitigating Global Warming
· Bioenergy
· Microplastics
· Sustainable space exploration
· TRIZ and systematic innovation methods
If you’re considering a proposal, I’m happy to discuss early ideas and help shape them into a robust research plan.
Visiting Scholar & Collaboration:
I am happy to host visiting scholars and welcome collaboration with colleagues and partners from diverse disciplines. I’m particularly interested in interdisciplinary projects that connect sustainability challenges with bio‑inspired engineering approaches.
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