Born on 9th September, 1966, I spent a happy but unremarkable 18 years growing up in Bexley, South East London before heading off to the University of Leicester for 3 years, where I graduated in '88 with a BSc. in Geophysics. After that it was up to the University of Edinburgh for a year on an MSc. in Remote Sensing and Image Processing, which I collected in 1989, with a thesis on incorporation of contextual data into remotely sensed images. I got to be fairly useful with computers that year...

Next move was to the Medical Physics department at the University of Dundee to do PhD. research into stereotactic radiosurgery, but I got rather sidelined into computing. This resulted in me leaving the PhD. programme in favour of a job in the department looking after their LAN and its clients, since I'd put a lot of the current infrastructure in place as a prelude to getting some research done.

I'm still feeding the computers in the Physics department but manage to find time for my hobbies, which are free heel skiing, mountaineering, cycling, caving, canoeing & kayaking, orienteering, games and just slumming about in the outdoors...

In 2003 I met my Other Half, Roos, and we got engaged while cross-country skiing in early 2006 (you can go down on one knee in free heel kit!), with a Humanist marriage following on August 17th 2006 (there's a page all about the Big Day if you're interested in that sort of thing).

The easiest way to get in touch is by email as I monitor it closely, usually even on vacation if I have an internet connection handy. My address is p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk

If you want to reach me by more traditional methods, my work address is the best place to get me: