Professor Philip Griffiths

Overview

Philip Griffiths has worked at Ulster University since 1994. He was appointed Professor of Building Physics in 2015. He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across the school, undertakes research and supervises PhD students.
He holds an BSc in Resource Sciences, an MSc Energy in Buildings, a PhD in Applied Energy and PgC in Higher Education. He is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Philip is a building physicist, a fellow of both the Energy Institute the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Chartered Engineer, with a background in energy efficiency in buildings. He was initially employed at Ulster as a postdoc, during which time he researched novel vacuum glazing fabrication techniques using experimental performance testing and computer thermal modelling. Since 2000 his research focus was on novel use of phase change materials in buildings as energy storage, transport phenomena, and comfort conditioners. His research interests include low energy buildings, building retrofit, thermal comfort conditions and the circular economy. In recent years his research has expanded to look at the impact of buildings on health and wellbeing of building users and the use of post occupancy evaluation.

Philip has a track record of attracting significant EU and EPSRC funded research. He was one of two UK Experts on the EU ESF COST funded network Novel Phase Change Materials for Buildings and Renewable Energy Systems. He is currently one of two management committee members representing the UK on the EU COST Action circularb.eu which is seeking to implement a circular economy in the built environment. In this Action he is the Science Communication Officer and leads the work package on communication and dissemination.

Philip is the chair of the Energy Institute's Academic Accreditation Panel and a member of the institute's Professional Development Committee. He represents the Energy Institute's Northern Ireland regional committee on the Northern Ireland Parliament's All-Party Group on Science and Technology.