"Fascinates" is a terrific start, but it is not enough. What have you built or accomplished in the relevant area? You seem to be focusing on academic credentia

"Fascinates" is a terrific start, but it is not enough. What have you built or accomplished in the relevant area? You seem to be focusing on academic credentials. (I realize that's what the job posting asks.) But at the end of the day, credentials are only proxies for ability to do the job. And the best way to prove ability is to demonstrate past success in similar or related projects. Industry, even an industry apparently dominated by PhDs, is not academia.