David De Roure

David De Roure

photo of DDeR by Adi Himpson, July 2010
Born 3 September 1962(1962-09-03)
North London, England
Nationality United Kingdom
Education University of Southampton
Employer University of Oxford
Known for Significant Contributions to e-Research
Title Professor of e-Research
Website
www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/dder

David De Roure is a Professor of e-Research at the University of Oxford in South East England and National Strategic Director for e-Social Science.

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Background and Research

David De Roure was closely involved in the UK e-Science programme and is best known for the myExperiment social web site for researchers, the Semantic Grid initiative,[1] and the UK's OMII-UK (Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute) for which he chaired the management board from 2007-10. In 2009 he was appointed as the National Strategic Director for e-Social Science by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

His personal research interests include e-Research and Computational musicology and his projects build on Semantic Web, Web 2.0 and Scientific workflow system technologies, characteristically focusing on the 'long tail' of researchers [2] through adoption of user-centric methodologies.[3] Prior to e-Science he worked in Distributed Computing, Amorphous computing, Ubiquitous computing and Hypertext.

He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and a member of the Scientific Council of the Web Science Trust.

Career

David Charles De Roure grew up in West Sussex and studied for an undergraduate degree in Mathematics with Physics at the University of Southampton, where he also received his PhD in 1990 initially under the supervision of D.W. Barron. He held a longstanding position in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton from its formation as a department in 1986, becoming a full professor in 2000. He was Warden of South Stoneham House in the late 80s. He moved to the Oxford e-Research Centre in July 2010.

Publications

  1. ^ De Roure, David; Nicholas Jennings and Nigel Shadbolt (2005). "The Semantic Grid: Past, Present, and Future". Proceedings of the IEEE 93 (3). doi:10.1109/JPROC.2004.842781. 
  2. ^ De Roure, David (2010). "e-Science and the Web". Computer 43 (5). doi:10.1109/MC.2010.133. 
  3. ^ De Roure, David; Carole Goble (2009). "Software Design for Empowering Scientists". Software 26 (1). doi:10.1109/MS.2009.22. 

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