Gavin Lowe is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and tutorial fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. He was a professor at the University of Oxford and President of the Senior Common Room at St. Catherine's College. His research interests included the fields of concurrency and computer security and he developed the cryptographic protocol analysis tool Casper. He is a distinguished teacher, winning awards in 2008 and 2010 and is responsible (along with Peter Millican) for the development and establishment of a new joint degree in Computer Science and Philosophy at the University of Oxford in 2012. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics, a Master's in computation, and his doctorate from Oxford.