Professor Philip Thomas has extensive experience in the chemical and nuclear industries, with over 20 years experience at Imperial Chemical Industries and the UK Atomic Energy Authority where he managed the green-field decommissioning of the Windscale advanced gas-cooled reactor. He moved into academia in 2000, taking up a chair in Engineering Development at City, University of London. The University of Bristol appointed him Professor of Risk Management in 2015. He is a Freeman of the City of London and Junior Warden of the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers, a City of London guild. He has published over 130 journal and conference papers on control, instrumentation, nuclear decommissioning, risk assessment, economics and law. His book, Simulation of Industrial Processes for Control Engineers, was published in 1999.
Philip Thomas researches risk management, where he has developed the Judgement- or J-value (http://jvalue.co.uk/overview.php ) , a framework that enables objective decisions to be taken on expenditure to protect humans and the environment. He recently led a team applying the J-value and complementary techniques to gauge how best to cope with a big nuclear accident such as Chernobyl or Fukushima. The results of the multi-university study (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/process-safety-and-environmental-protection/vol/112/part/PA ) were reported by the national and international press. His J-value insights on managing the current coronavirus pandemic have attracted similar press coverage. He has written extensively on Covid-19 measurement and control strategies for The Spectator, the UK's longest-running news journal (https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/philip-thomas ) and the measurements of key epidemic parameters for England, made with the PCCF measurement filter he derived, are updated daily on The Spectator Covid-19 Data Tracker (https://data.spectator.co.uk/ ).
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