Samson Abramsky: Short Biography
Samson Abramsky is Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing and a
Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University.
Previously he held chairs at the Imperial College of Science, Technology
and Medicine, and at the University of Edinburgh.
He holds MA degrees from Cambridge and Oxford, and a PhD from the
University of London.
He is a Fellow of the
Royal Society (2004), a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Edinburgh (2000), and a Member of Academia Europaea
(1993).
He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the North Holland Studies in
Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics, and of the Cambridge
Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science.
He was General Chair of LiCS 2000-2003, and is currently a member of
the LiCS Organizing Committee.
His paper ``Domain theory in Logical Form'' won the
LiCS Test-of-Time award
(a 20-year retrospective) for 1987. The award was presented at LiCS 2007.
He was awarded an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship on
Foundational Structures and Methods for Quantum Informatics in 2007.
He has played a leading role in the development of game semantics, and its
applications to the semantics of programming languages. Other notable
contributions include his work on domain theory in logical form, the
lazy lambda calculus, strictness analysis, concurrency theory,
interaction categories, and geometry of interaction.
He has recently been working on high-level methods for quantum
computation and information.
See research interests, projects and publications.
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