Professor Philip A Wilson BSc(Hons), DSc, CEng, FRINA
Emeritus Professor
Professor Philip A Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Ship Dynamics within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Philip studied Mathematics for his first degree at the University of Leicester and was subsequently awarded a DSc by the University of Leicester. Following work for Plessey Underwater systems he started in the University in 1973 as a research fellow in the former Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics as part of the fledgling Ship Science group. He is a founder member of the former Department of Ship Science and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. Currently he is editor of the
International Journal of Maritime Engineering
and the
Journal of Royal Institution of Naval Architects
. He has published more than 250 academic papers and has appeared in such television programmes as
Blue Peter
,
What Sank the Mary Rose
? and as a judge in
Scrapheap Challenge
.
Philip has successfully supervised more than 30 doctoral students in subjects spanning seakeeping, ship manoeuvring, autonomous underwater vehicle control and guidance, sail aerodynamics, preliminary ship design, underwater noise to race car aerodynamics.
He has been the recipient of awards from the Royal Institution of Naval Architects in terms of the medal distinction twice in recent years as well as the award of the Donald Groen medal from the IMechE. Also he was part of a team was that awarded the RINA-Lloyd’s Register Ship Safety award.
He is also director of the multi-University MTEC course which provides education at MSc on a part-time basis for fully employed naval architects, marine engineers and offshore engineers, details at
www.mtec.ac.uk
.