Professor David Woods has worked to improve systems safety in high-risk complex settings for 40 years. These include studies of human coordination with automated and intelligent systems and accident investigations in aviation, nuclear power, critical care medicine, crisis response, military operations, and space operations. The results of this work on how complex human-machine systems succeed and sometimes fail has been cited over 33,000 times and synthesised in several books. He is Past-President of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the Resilience Engineering Association. He has received several awards and has provided advice to many US and international government agencies, companies, research councils, task forces, and accident investigation boards.