Joss Wright is a senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), co-director of the Oxford EPSRC Cybersecurity Doctoral Training Centre, and a co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Illegal Wildlife Trade. His work focuses on computational approaches to social science questions, with a particular focus on technologies that exert, resist, or subvert control over information.

Wright’s main areas of research are information controls, with a focus on internet censorship and shutdowns; privacy enhancing technologies and data anonymization; and cybercrime, with a particular focus on the online illegal wildlife trade and its implications for biodiversity and conservation.

Wright gained his PhD in computer science at the University of York, where his work focused on the modeling and analysis of anonymous communication systems. Following this, he spent time at the University of Siegen in Germany, researching security and privacy issues in cloud computing. He joined the OII as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2010.

[Last updated: June 2023]