Dr Michael Fisher is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. He holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies and is a fellow of both the British Computer Society and the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He was previously a Professor of Logic and Computation in the Department of Computing & Mathematics at the Manchester Metropolitan University and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool. Dr Fisher's research concerns autonomous systems, particularly software engineering, formal verification, safety, responsibility, and trustworthiness. He has been involved in over 200 journal and conference papers and authored the book An Introduction to Practical Formal Methods using Temporal Logic (Wiley) in 2011.
