Power systems monitoring and protection
Philip Orr is chief executive officer of Synaptec, a specialist power systems instrumentation company based in Glasgow. Prior to founding Synaptec in 2014, Philip was Scotland’s first Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow, and a researcher at the University of Strathclyde’s Institute for Energy and Environment. His doctoral work focused on photonic instrumentation for fusion reactors in collaboration with the UK Atomic Energy Authority, and he is the recipient of several engineering prizes including the Sir William Siemens Medal and the EPSRC Doctoral Prize. He is the author of over 40 publications in the field of instrumentation and co-inventor of Synaptec’s core patents.
