Professor Stephen Emmott
Stephen Emmott is Director of Computational Science at Microsoft, where he leads a multi-disciplinary, international team of scientists focused on pioneering ‘new kinds' of science and computing to accelerate fundamental advances in key areas of science of societal importance.
Stephen's scientific career spans two decades through positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories; BT Laboratories; chief scientist and director of NCR's advanced research lab; the Centre for Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Stirling; University College London, and the University of Oxford.
His work and the work of his research groups has been published in Nature, Science, Proceedings of The Royal Society, Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences and in other leading journals, and has been featured in The Economist, the BBC, The Financial Times, MIT Technology Review, The New York Times and The Times. He initiated and led what subsequently became the highly influential Towards 2020 Science project and report.
Stephen is a scientific advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was a member of the UK government's 10 Year Science and Innovation Framework committee and has been an advisor to the Swiss National Science Foundation; the Finnish and Danish Ministries of Science, and the World Trade Organization.
Stephen holds a PhD in computational neuroscience and a BSc (first class) in biological science (experimental psychology) from the University of York. He is Professor of Computational Science at the University of Oxford and visiting professor of intelligent systems at University College London.