Philip N. Bartlett received his BA (Hons) in 1978 from the University of Oxford and his PhD in 1981 from Imperial College, University of London. He was a Royal Society for the Exhibition of 1851 Fellow at Imperial College from 1981 to 1983 and moved in 1984 to become a Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at the University of Warwick. He moved from Warwick in 1991 to become Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Bath and then in 1992 to the University of Southampton as Professor of Electrochemistry. Phil is currently the Head of the Electrochemistry Section, Deputy Head of Chemistry for Strategy, and Associate Dean for Enterprise in the Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Southampton.

    Phil's research interests focus on the templated electrodeposition of nanostructured materials and on bioelectrochemistry.
He is the author or co-author of over 280 refereed journal publications and author with J. W. Gardner of "Electronic Noses, Principles and Applications" (1999), editor of the English translation of "Semiconductor Photoelectrochemistry" by Pleskov and Gurevich (1986) and editor of "Bioelectrochemistry. Fundamentals and Applications" (2008).

    Phil has won a number of awards for his research including the 1992 Tajima Prize from the International Society of Electrochemistry, 1994 Armstrong Lectureship of the Society of Chemical Industry, 2003 Geoffrey Barker Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2005 Electrodeposition Division Award from the Electrochemical Society, 2007 Carl Wagner Medal from the Electrochemical Society, 2007 Katsumi Niki Prize from the International Society of Electrochemistry, 2008 Electrochimica Acta Gold Medal 2008 of the International Society of Electrochemistry and 2009 Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Lectureship.  He was a visiting Professor at University of Bourdeaux in 2001 and 2007 J. Calvin Giddings Lecturer at the University of Utah.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and was elected as a Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry in 2006 and as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012.

    Phil is a past Vice-President of the International Society of Electrochemistry, a Council Member of the Bioelectrochemical Society and serves on the international editorial advisory boards of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics and the Journal of Electrochemistry. He is Deputy Chair for the Gordon Conference in Electrochemistry in 2014 and Chair of the Gordon Conference in Electrochemistry for 2016.