Dr. Woodcock is Vice President and Chief Scientist at Synectics Corporation in Fairfax, Virginia. He is also a Visiting University Professor at the Royal Military College of Science in Shrivenham, England, and a Corresponding Faculty Member at the Center for Computational Statistics and Probability, George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He is actively involved in the development and implementation of societal dynamical models of military, economic, political, social, and medical processes as well as their interactions and impacts on low intensity conflict, peace keeping, and other operations other than war-related processes. Dr. Woodcock is also actively involved in the development of mathematical models of military combat and their translation into functional computer programs that can assist in combat-related analysis. Other work is studying the nature and impact of ambiguous perceptions and decision-making styles on organizational capabilities and has developed models of political revolutions and counter-revolutions. His work makes extensive use of metaphorical concepts from biology and mathematics in the production of minimalist models of complex systems. He is the co-author of three books and the senior editor of proceedings volumes for the materials presented at three international conferences that he organized for the Swedish government. He is also the author of numerous published papers and technical reports and has lectured widely both in the United States and overseas. Dr. Woodcock was an I.B.M. post-doctoral fellow at the University of Warwick Mathematics Institute in England; an I.B.M. post-doctoral fellow at the Tomas J. Watson, Jr., Research Center, I.B.M. Corporation, Yorktown Heights, New York; a Fulbright Fellow and Research Associate in Biology at Yale University; an Assistant Professor of Biology at Williams College; and a Visiting Scholar in Biology on sabbatical leave at Stanford University. He is a Fellow of Sigma Xi. He has a B.Sc. (with honours) in physics from the University of Exeter in England as well as an M.Sc. in biophysics and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of East Anglia in England.
E-mail: woodcock@syncorp.com