Professor Phil Trinder has been an active researcher in parallel and distributed technologies for over 20 years. He has been an investigator on 14 research projects (Principle Investigator on 11), with the projects primarily funded by the EU or the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Professor Trinder holds a DPhil from Oxford University and has over 100 publications in journals, books, or refereed conferences.

Professor Trinder's key research interest is in designing, implementing, and evaluating high-level distributed and parallel programming models. For example he co-designed and co-implemented Glasgow parallel Haskell, and is working on improving the scalability of Erlang. He has an extensive record of collaborating with both academic and industrial partners, and examples of the latter include long term relationships with Ericsson, Maplesoft, Microsoft UK Research Labs, and Motorola.