Jim Briggs is Professor of Informatics at the University of Portsmouth and the Director of the Centre for Healthcare Modelling and Informatics (CHMI). He is also currently the Associate Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Technology.

He has been researching for over 30 years, the last 20+ of which have been in health informatics. His expertise encompasses software development (particularly of web-based systems), clinical outcome modelling and eHealth. He has been principal investigator on over 30 externally funded research and development projects. He holds BA and DPhil degrees in Computer Science from the University of York.

In his spare time, he has been an American football official for more than 35 years including a record 29 years doing it internationally.