Laurence Tratt is Professor of Software Development in the Department of Informatics at King’s College London, and is also the Shopify / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Language Engineering. His work centres around programming languages, spanning areas from optimisation to measurement to security to flexibility. His research group is known for its open-source contributions, maintaining a number of widely used libraries and utilities. Laurence maintains a widely read blog, which explains technical and research matters in an accessible manner.

Research Interests

• Programming language design and implementation
• Domain specific languages

PhD supervison

• Current PhD / job openings

Public engagement

• Computerphile - Just In Time (JIT) Compilers
• Computerphile - Garbage Collection (Mark & Sweep)
• Computerphile - Coding a Web Server in 25 Lines

Further Information

• Research Profile
• Research Funding
• Personal Website