Philippa Gardner is a professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial. Her current research focusses on program verification: in particular, reasoning about web programs (JavaScript and DOM) and reasoning about concurrent programs. She completed her PhD thesis, supervised by Professor Gordon Plotkin. She moved to Cambridge hosted by Professor Robin Milner FRS. She obtained a lectureship at Imperial in 2001, and became professor in 2009. She is the Director of the Research Institute in Automated Program Analysis and Verification, funded by GCHQ in association with EPSRC.