Michael Goldsmith

Professor Michael Goldsmith is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science and at Worcester College, Oxford.  He studied Classical Languages and Literature and Mathematics and Philosophy at St John’s College, Oxford, where he completed his DPhil in Computation.  After some postdoctoral posts he became the founding employee of Formal Systems (Europe) Ltd, a small business in Oxford, where he rose to become Managing Director before returning to academia at the University of Warwick Digital Laboratory in 2007, and to the University of Oxford in 2011. His recent research has encompassed a range of projects ranging from highly mathematical semantic models to multidisciplinary research at the socio-technical interface. He is a Co-Director of the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, where he has led many deployments of the Cybersecurity Capacity Maturity Model for Nations, and also trials of the developing AI Cybersecurity Readiness instrument.