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Phil was officially named as our inaugural Regius Professor of Materials by Her Majesty the Queen this weekend, so we couldn\u2019t think of a better person to be talking to on this chilly Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that amazing honour, Phil is also Director of the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials, Director of the Henry Moseley X-ray Imagining Facility, and Interim Chief Science Director of the Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials. So it\u2019s fair to say he\u2019s a pretty busy man. I\u2019m more than a little pleased that he could make the time to talk for us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hi Phil. Thanks so much for talking to us. 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