Philipp is a registered pharmacist and a Reader in Pharmaceutical Materials at the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

He obtained his BPharm and MSc from King’s College London and his PhD (2005) in drug delivery from Cardiff University. He conducted postdoctoral research at the Technical University Dresden (Germany) and Tufts University (Boston, USA). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His research interest lies at the interface of cell biology, drug delivery and material science. His research mission involves top-down, challenge-based activities centred on developing pharmaceutical materials for healthcare technologies, with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes.