Samson Abramsky


Samson Abramsky FRS, FRSE is a computer scientist who holds the Christopher Strachey Professorship at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. He has made contributions to the areas of domain theory, the lazy lambda calculus, strictness analysis, concurrency theory, interaction categories, geometry of interaction, game semantics and quantum computing.

Education

Abramsky was educated at Hasmonean Grammar School for Boys, Hendon and at King's College, Cambridge and Queen Mary, University of London.

Career and research

Abramsky is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing at Oxford University Department of Computer Science. He has also been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 2004. His research includes the development of game semantics, domain theory in logical form, and categorical quantum mechanics.
His earlier positions include:
Abramsky 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.

Selected publications

Samson Abramsky co-edited 6 Volumes Handbook of Logic in Computer Science with Dov Gabbay and Tom Maibaum.
Samson Abramsky has published over two hundred publications and his h-index was 57 as of October 2019.
Some of the recent works of Samson Abramsky include:
Abramsky is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Member of Academia Europaea. 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 a member of the LiCS Organizing Committee.
Abramsky's nomination for the Royal Society reads: