Steve Pettifer

Stephen Robert Pettifer is a Reader in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK.

Education
Pettifer completed his Bachelor of Science and PhD in the School of Computer Science, and work on virtual reality under the supervision of Adrian West in 1999.

Research
Pettifer's research interests are centred around the design of advanced interfaces for computer systems, in particular: scientific visualisation, scholarly publishing, and virtual reality. His main research project project revolves around Utopia Documents, a novel tool for interacting with the scientific literature.

Teaching
Pettifer currently teaches on part of the Advanced Computer Graphics course and Fundamentals of Distributed Systems.