Sir Derman Guy Christopherson OBE FRS FREng (6 September 1915 – 7 November 2000) was a British engineering science academic.
The following year he went to Harvard University in the United States as a Henry Fellow, gaining an SM master's degree in 1938.
He returned to Oxford University as a research assistant to Sir Richard Southwell FRS, working on numerical methods for applied mechanics.
In 1941, during World War II, Christopherson was appointed as a Scientific Officer in the Ministry of Home Security, working in the research and experimental department with Sir Reginald Stradling.
He left Leeds to become Professor of Applied Science with special reference to Engineering at Imperial College, London until 1960.
[citation needed] In 1983 he became the second Chairman of the Standing Committee on Structural Safety, succeeding Lord Penney.