Summary
Mick Phillips is a Senior Staff Applications Engineer with 12 years of experience building and delivering complex scientific instruments that marry optics, electronics, mechanics, controls and software. Based in Berkeley, he has a strong physical-sciences foundation and a track record leading multidisciplinary projects—from super-resolution and cryo-SR systems at major national facilities to commercial cell-biology platforms at Bruker. He excels at turning experimental needs into robust, maintainable instrument control software and documentation, and has authored open-source microscope control tools adopted by multiple labs. Known for hands-on CAD, electronics and low-level microcontroller coding as well as higher-level Python and cross-platform software, he bridges lab science and production engineering. Less obvious: he also has experience building institutional processes—training, safety documentation and reproducible prototyping workflows—to scale complex instrumentation work.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at University of Nottingham