Thomas Anthony Rodden is Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Research & Knowledge Exchange and Professor of Computing at the University of Nottingham.

He was previously Chief Scientific Adviser for the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport from 2019 to 2023.

[1] Before that, he was Deputy Chief Executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

[2] In 2008, as a member of the UK Research Assessment Exercise 2008 computing panel, he was responsible for assessing the international quality of computer science research across all UK departments.

[9] He was appointed CBE in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to science, to technology and to academia.