Samson Abramsky

Samson Abramsky

FRS FRSE
Samson Abramsky; FRS FRSE
	Abramsky in May 2005
Born	12 March 1953
Alma mater	King's College, Cambridge (BA, MA, Diploma); Queen Mary University of London (PhD);
Awards	FRS; FRSE; Lovelace Medal (2013); ACM Fellow (2014) ;
	Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical computer science; Quantum information and foundations; Game semantics; Category Theory;
Institutions	University of Oxford; University of Edinburgh; University of Cambridge; Imperial College London; General Electric Company plc;
Thesis	Domain Theory and the Logic of Observable Properties (1987)
Doctoral advisor	Richard Bornat
Website	www.cs.ox.ac.uk/samson.abramsky

Samson Abramsky FRS FRSE (born 12 March 1953) is Professor of Computer Science at University College London. He was previously the Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing at Wolfson College, Oxford, from 2000 to 2021.

Abramsky's early work included profound contributions to domain theory and the connections thereof with geometric logic. Since then, his work has covered the lazy lambda calculus, strictness analysis, concurrency theory, interaction categories and geometry of interaction, game semantics and quantum computing. Notably, he co-pioneered categorical quantum mechanics. More recently, he has been applying methods from categorical semantics to finite model theory, with applications to descriptive complexity.

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