Co-Investigator (CI) on the EPSRC Programme Grant 'Digital Navigation of Chemical Space for Function' (Dec 2021–May 2027)
CI on EPSRC project 'Games for Good' (Mar 2024–Feb 2027), studying history determinism
Host of Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship project with Ashutosh Trivedi: 'Correct-by-Construction Reinforcement Learning for Implantable Medical Devices' (Oct 2024–Sep 2026)
Principal Investigator (PI) with Daniel Hausmann on Horizon Europe project 'Lazy Synthesis Techniques' (Sep 2024–Sep 2026)
PI with Dominik Wojtczak et al. on EPSRC project 'TRUSTED: SecuriTy SummaRies for SecUre SofTwarE Development' (Sep 2023–Aug 2026)
PI with Pierre Ohlmann on Horizon Europe project 'Valuation Structures for Infinite Duration Games' (from Dec 2023)
PI with Yong Li on Horizon Europe project 'Reinforcement Learning for Finite Horizons' (Oct 2022–Oct 2024)
PI on EPSRC New Horizons project 'Under the Branches of Universal Trees' (Apr 2023–Sep 2024), studying non-terminating games
PI with Daniele Dell'Erba on Horizon 2020 project 'Synthesising Game Solving Techniques' (Jul 2021–Jul 2023)
Research Experience
Worked as a Systems Engineer in the Command and Control Systems Command of the German Navy after 1997, focusing on analysis, construction, specification, quality assurance, and project management of safety-critical systems
Joined the Reactive Systems Group at Saarland University in 2004, beginning his academic career
Currently Professor at the School of Computer Science and Informatics, University of Liverpool, leading the Trustworthy Computing group
Founding member and inaugural leader of the Verification Group at the University of Liverpool
Also affiliated with the Algorithms, Complexity Theory and Optimisation Group and the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty