David De Roure Follow

David De Roure is a Professor of e-Research in the Oxford e-Research Centre and National Strategic Director for Digital Social Research. His research projects draw on Web 2.0, Semantic Web, workflow and pervasive computing technologies and he focuses on the co-evolution of digital technologies and research methods in and between multiple disciplines. These include digital humanities (computational musicology), social sciences (social statistics), chemistry (smart labs), bioinformatics (in silico experimentation)  and environmental science (sensor networks).

In Open Science he advocates sharing methods and Research Objects, and runs the myexperiment.org social website. He has an extensive background in Web and Linked Data and is a champion for the Web Science Trust. He has been closely involved in the UK e-Science programme and is chair of the UK e-Science Forum. In 2011 he was elected as a Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Blog: e-Research blog on Nature Networks

Institution: University of Oxford

Department: Oxford e-Research Centre

Twitter: dder

Webpage: http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/dder

Email: david.deroure@oerc.ox.ac.uk