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Michael Wooldridge (born 1966) is a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. His main research interests are in the computational aspects of rational action in systems composed of multiple self-interested agents. His work is characterised by the employment of techniques form computational logic, game theory, and social choice theory.

Biography
Michael Wooldridge was born in Wakefield (West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) in 1966 as the second son to John and Jean Wooldridge. He is married to Janine and father to two children, Lily and Tom.

Academic career
Michael Wooldridge wrote his dissertation The Logical Modelling of Computational Mulitagent Systems at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, where he obtained his PhD in 1992. In the same year he accepted the position of lecturer in Computer Science at the Manchester Metropolitan University. In 1996 he moved to London, where he became senior lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield College in 1998. His appointment as full professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool followed in 1999. In Liverpool he served as Head of Department from 2001 to 2005 and as head of the School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Computer Science from 2008 to 2011. In 2012 the European Research Council awarded him one of the prestigous five-year ERC advanced grant for the project Reasoning about Computational Economies. In the same year he left Liverpool to become become professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, where he has been Head of Department since 2015. In Oxford he is a Senior Research Fellow of Hertford College.

Michael Wooldridge is author of more than 300 academic publications, and ranks among the top 100 most cited researchers in computer science. He is further honoured as a AAAI Fellow, an ECCAI Fellow, an AISB Fellow, and a BCS Fellow.