Plotkin is now Professor of Theoretical Computer Science in the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh in Scotland, where he co-founded the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS).
Plotkin is now Professor of Theoretical Computer Science in the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh. Plotkin was a PhD student of Milner, a co-founder of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS).