He had sailed to London on the ship SS Maloja of the Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company arriving there on 18 February 1954.

[1] His certificate of election reads: Philip Maini's mathematical and computational modelling of spatiotemporal processes in biology and medicine has led to significant scientific advances in both.

He has generalised the concept of gradient information and has proposed an experimentally consistent resolution of the chemotactic wave paradox.

He has thereby elucidated the underlying mechanisms by which particular growth factors reduce scar formation and has provided detailed insight into the design of combination cancer therapy.

[1] In 2024 he was awarded the Sylvester Medal by the Royal Society "for his contributions to mathematical biology, especially the interdisciplinary modelling of biomedical phenomena and systems".