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Phil Williamson is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the University of Southampton. He obtained his BSc in Biochemistry from St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford in 1995. He undertook his D.Phil in the laboratory of Prof. Anthony Watts, developing solid-state NMR methods to investigate receptor/ligand interactions, in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline. In 2000, he moved to the lab of Prof. Beat Meier at the Department of Physical Chemistry at ETH Zürich as a Postdoctoral Fellow, where he developed new solid-state NMR methods for structural and dynamic analysis of biomolecules. After a brief spell at CNRS, he moved to the University of Southampton in 2007 as a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, where his research group focuses on developing and applying solid-state NMR methods to understand molecular processes underlying health and disease. He was appointed Lecturer in 2011, Associate Professor in 2019, and Professor in 2023. Phil is a member of the Facility Executive of the UK’s National Highfield Solid-State NMR Facility and serves on the Advisory Committee of the Medical Research Council's Biomedical NMR Centre at the Crick Institute. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Frontier Structural Biology and Nature Scientific Reports.