Philip Welch

Philip David Welch (born 6 January 1954) is a British mathematician specializing in logic and set theory. He is a Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Bristol. Welch earned his BSc in mathematics from University College London in 1975, followed by an MSc in mathematical logic in 1976 and his DPhil in 1979 from the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Robin Gandy. His doctoral dissertation was titled "Combinatorial Principles in the Core Model". His career includes positions at the University of Bonn, UCLA, and Kobe University, Japan. He was awarded the Inamori Foundation Young Researcher's Prize in 1998. Welch has served in leadership roles, including Coordinating Editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic, President of the British Logic Colloquium, and President of the European Set Theory Society. In 2023, he received a Senior Fellowship from the Zukunftskollegs at the University of Konstanz. He is co-author of the book "Coding the Universe".