Philip England


Philip Christopher England FRS is a British geophysicist and former Chair of Geology at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, whose research centres upon the evolution, deformation and metamorphism of mountain ranges and the development of island arcs. He has widely used applied mathematics to model mountain building, proving that they behave as extremely viscous fluids.

Education

England graduated with a degree in physics from the University of Bristol in 1972. He then moved to the University of Oxford to undertake research in geophysics, receiving his D Phil in 1976.

Career and research

Since 2000, he has held the position of Professor of Geology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of University College, Oxford.

Awards and honours

He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2016. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999.

Personal life

His daughter is the middle distance runner, Hannah England.