J. W. Sanders is Principal Research Fellow at the International Institute for Software Technology, United Nations University, Macao, China. Before that he spent 22 years at the Programming Research Group, Oxford, and is now an emeritus fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. His interests lie largely in the application of Mathematical Methods to model, and hence reason about, novel and/or intractible forms of Computation: concurrency, probabilism, security, time, asynchronicity, quantum computation and multi-agent systems.

Dr Sanders holds degrees in Mathematics from Monash University and the Australian University. He has taught across the range of undergraduate and graudate courses in Pure Mathematics and Computer Science, and has taught courses at the University of Lagos (Introduction to Specification and Refinement, July 2007) and AIMS Muizenberg (Functional Programming, January 2008) as well as other courses in developing countries (China, Iran and Malaysia). He has supervised numerous graduate students and written dozens of research papers.