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Professor Simon Philbin is Head of the School of Engineering and Professor of Engineering Management at Kingston University London in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment, a role he assumed upon joining the university in 2024. Prior to this appointment, he was Professor of Engineering Management at London South Bank University from 2018, where he also served as Interim Dean of the School of Engineering. Philbin held senior management positions at Imperial College London for 15 years from 2003 to 2018. Earlier, he worked at the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency and QinetiQ as a research scientist in the field of energetic materials. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry from the University of Birmingham (1994), a PhD in Chemistry from Brunel University (2001), and an MBA with Distinction from the Open University Business School (2007). Originally trained as a research chemist, Philbin shifted his focus to engineering management, with research interests in project management, systems engineering, research and technology management, innovation management, entrepreneurship, sustainable engineering, environmental management, renewable energy technologies, digital transformation, and engineering education. He has undertaken previous research positions as Visiting Fellow at Imperial College Business School and Visiting Fellow in the School of Business, Economics, and Informatics at Birkbeck, University of London.