Phil Brierley

I was born in 1969 in Oldham, UK, where I spent the first seventeen years of my life, mainly playing football and cricket.

I graduated from Hull University in 1991 with a first class honours in Mechanical Engineering. My final year project involved a novel method of extracting oil from rapeseed by using cavitation shock waves instead of screw presses.

I then pursued my interest in energy efficiency by doing an M.Sc. in Energy Studies at Cardiff. The project done there was building and testing a micro-chp system using a Stirling engine from the 1950’s, an old tea urn and a heat exchanger from a Ford Cortina.

Wishing to further pursue my main academic interest in helping to preserve the earth’s natural resources by improving energy efficiency, I started an Engineering Doctorate at Cranfield in 1994. This was sponsored by Eastern Electricity and involed work with neural networks and genetic algorithms.
(EngD=sponsored PhD + MBA)

In 1999 I set off for a holiday to Australia - and this is where I still am...