Glynn Winskel#
| Membership Number: | 2937 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~gw104 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 Professor of Computer Science, University of Cambridge, England
- 2000 Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England
- 1994 - 2000 Director of BRICS, Centre for Basic Research in Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- 1988 - 2000 Professor of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- 1987 Reader in Theoretical Computer Science, University of Cambridge, England
- 1985 Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, England
- 1984 University Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Cambridge
- 1982 - 1983 Research Scientist, Computer Science Department, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
- 1981 - 1982 Royal Society Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- 1980 - 1981 Visiting Lecturer, Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus, Denmark
- 1979 - 1980 Research Associate, Computer Science Department, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Fields of Scholarship
- Logic and verification
- Concurrent computation
- Semantics of computation
- Systems biology
- Category theory
- Security
Honours and Awards
- 2011 ERC Advanced Grant ECSYM `Events, Causality and Symmetry - the next generation semantics.' 2.4 million euro over five years, to start May 2011
- 2010 Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship 2010 - 2011
- 2001 Awarded the British Computer Society Brendan Murphy Memorial Prize for work in distributed computation
- One of a small number of researchers in Denmark to be awarded funding to head a research centre, in Basic Research in Computer Science (BRICS); its aim to establish a strong base of logic, semantics and algorithmics in Denmark. BRICS' funding (around 1 million euro pa) was extended after the initial five years and came to include a PhD school. BRICS achieved world acclaim and the PhD school became a leading graduate school in Europe
