Rob Brooks Phillips (born 1960) is an American biophysicist.

He is currently Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics, Biology, and Physics at the California Institute of Technology.

[1] Phillips originally did not intend to go to college and took an unconventional educational path, earning a bachelor's degree by independent study at the University of Minnesota in 1986.

[2] He then received his doctorate in physics at Washington University in St. Louis in 1989.

He was a professor at Brown University [when?]