Stephen Robert Pettifer (born September 21, 1970[5]) is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in England.

[6][7] Pettifer completed his Bachelor of Science degree and PhD in the Department of Computer Science, and work on virtual reality under the supervision of Adrian West in 1999.

[3] Pettifer's research interests are centred on the design of advanced interfaces for computer systems, in particular: scientific visualisation, scholarly publishing, and virtual reality.

[8][9] His main research project revolves around Utopia Documents, a novel tool for interacting with the scientific literature.

As of 2017[update] Pettifer teaches on part of the Advanced Computer Graphics course and Fundamentals of Distributed Systems.