Christopher W. Johnson

Christopher W. Johnson, FRSE, FRAeS, FBCS, is a British computer scientist and Pro Vice Chancellor for Engineering and Physical Sciences at Queen's University, Belfast. Previously he was Professor and Head of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, UK.[2]

Christopher Johnson
Born
Christopher William Johnson

(1965-04-15) 15 April 1965
Edinburgh, Scotland
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Known forcyber security, safety critical systems
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Glasgow, Queen's University Belfast
ThesisA Principled Approach to the Integration of Human Factors and Systems Engineering for Interactive Control System Design (1992)
Websitewww.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson

Education and early life

Chris Johnson was born on 15 April 1965. He was educated at Verulam School, Trinity College, Cambridge (MA), and the University of York (MSc, DPhil).[3]

Career and research

Johnson's research focuses on the resilience of safety-critical systems.[4] [5] [6] [7]

He supported the United Nations in improving the cyber security of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear facilities (CBRN).[8] Johnson designed the cyber incident reporting processes under Article 13a of the Framework Directive (2009/140/EC) and Article 4 of the e-Privacy directive (2002/58/EC) on behalf of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA).[9] Prior to that he helped develop European guidelines for contingency planning in aviation for EUROCONTROL[10] and accident investigation for the European Railway Agency.[11]

Johnson has held fellowships from NASA (Langley Research Centre and Johnson Space Centre) and the US Air Force. He has also supported safety and cyber security in the US Navy and the Federal Aviation Administration.

Other Appointments

He was an expert witness for the Grenfell Tower Inquiry (2020-21) where he addressed the communications issues that exacerbated the evacuation of the residents.

Johnson was elected to the UK Computing Research Committee (2016-); where he is responsible for the interface with public policy.[12] He chairs the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team on ICT (2021-).

He is a member of the Stormont All Party Group on STEM.

He was a member of the Scottish Government's Public Sector Cyber Resilience group and helped lead the Scottish Universities Computing Science Alliance (SICSA) in cyber security.

Previously, Johnson chaired the scientific advisory board to the EC SESAR programme for the modernisation of Air Traffic Management.[13] In 2017, he helped deliver the UK Department for Transport review of Cyber Security across the UK aviation industry and was the only academic invited to present at the UN/ICAO first summit of cyber security in aviation.

Awards and Honours

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,[14] a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and of the British Computer Society.

References
  1. Christopher W. Johnson publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. University of Glasgow
  3. Johnson, Christopher William (1985). A Principled Approach to the Integration of Human Factors and Systems Engineering for Interactive Control System Design (PhD thesis). University of York.
  4. Home page
  5. Johnson, C.W. (2016), "Why We Cannot (Yet) Ensure the Cybersecurity of Safety-Critical Systems" (PDF), in M., Parsons; Anderson, T (eds.), Developing Safe Systems: Proceedings of the 24th Safety-Critical Systyems Symposium, Brighton, UK 2-4 Feb 2016, Newcastle: SCSC, ISBN 9781519420077
  6. Johnson, C.W. (2015), "Barriers to the Use of Intrusion Detection Systems in Safety-Critical Applications" (PDF), in F., Koorneef; van Gulijk, C. (eds.), SAFECOMP 2015, LNCS 9337, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag, pp. 400–409, ISBN 978-3-319-24254-5
  7. Johnson, C.W. (2003). A Handbook of Accident and Incident Reporting (PDF). Glasgow: Glasgow University Press. ISBN 0-85261-784-4.
  8. http://www.unicri.it/topics/cbrn/coe/19_actions/Project19_EU-CBRN-CoE_Fact_Sheet.pdf
  9. https://resilience.enisa.europa.eu/article-13
  10. http://www.eurocontrol.int/articles/guidelines-contingency-planning-air-navigation-services
  11. http://www.era.europa.eu/Document-Register/Documents/NIB%20good%20practice.pdf
  12. http://www.ukcrc.org.uk
  13. "SESAR Scientific Committee". Archived from the original on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  14. "Professor Christopher Johnson FRSE". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 15 March 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.


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