Philip Rhoades

Philip Rhoades (born 1952) is an Australian cryonicist. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Neural Archives Foundation, the Executive Officer of the Cryonics Association of Australasia, and the Manager of the Southern Cryonics facility.

In 1976, he obtained BSc in genetics/zoology from the University of New South Wales. He did five years of biomedical research on Clotting Factor VIII (Hemophilia), but then he moved to working in Information Technology and stayed there for over 30 years. He almost finished a PhD in computer modelling (simulations) of population genetics of threatened species at the University of New South Wales, but abandoned writing up the thesis due to the work being made irrelevant by the world's sixth mass extinction.

He neuropreserved his parents at the Neural Archives Foundation in May 2016.