Wooldridge was appointed a lecturer in
Computer Science at the
Manchester Metropolitan University in 1992. 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 a five-year ERC Advanced Grant for the project
Reasoning about Computational Economies (RACE). In the same year he left Liverpool to become professor of computer science at the
University of Oxford, and served as head of the
Department of Computer Science from 2014 - 2018. In Oxford he is a senior research fellow of
Hertford College, Oxford. Michael Wooldridge is author of more than 300 academic publications.
Editorial service • 2003–2009 co-editor-in-chief of the
Journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems • 2006–2009 associate editor of the
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) • 2009–2012 associate editor of the
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) Other editorships:
Journal of Applied Logic,
Journal of Logic and Computation,
Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, and
Computational Intelligence.
Awards and honours He is a
Fellow of the
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a
European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Fellow, a Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) Fellow, and a
British Computer Society (BCS) Fellow. In 2015, he was made
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow for his contributions to multi-agent systems and the formalisation of rational action in multi-agent environments. • 2025
Royal Society of London Michael Faraday Prize • 2023
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures • Wooldridge was the 300th guest on
The Life Scientific interviewed by
Jim Al-Khalili at the
Royal Institution in London. • 2020
BCS Lovelace Medal • 2015 Elected an
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Fellow. For ''contributions to multi-agent systems and the formalisation of rational action in multi-agent environments. • 2009 British Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB) Fellow • 2008
American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow • 2007 European Association for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Fellow • 2006 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award. For
significant and sustained contributions to the research on autonomous agents and multi agent systems. In particular, Dr. Wooldridge has made seminal contributions to the logical foundations of multi-agent systems, especially to formal theories of co-operation, teamwork and communication, computational complexity in multi-agent systems, and agent-oriented software engineering. Publications • • • • • • • • • Wooldridge, Michael (19 January 2020).
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going. New York: Flatiron Books. . ==References==