David De Roure

David De Roure is Professor of e-Research and Director of the interdisciplinary Oxford e-Research Centre, with a coordinating role in Digital Humanities at Oxford. He has worked closely with multiple disciplines across the sciences, social sciences and humanities and focuses on advancing digital scholarship: he has an extensive background in distributed computing, Web, Linked Data, social computing, digital social research and new forms of scholarly communication. His personal research is in "social machines" and in computational musicology, and he is a champion for the Web Science Trust and chair of the UK e-Science Forum. David previously held the post of  Professor of Computer Science at University of Southampton where he was closely involved in the UK e-Science program.