Carole Goble

Carole Goble
Carole Goble by Rob Whitrow
Born	Carole Anne Goble (1961-04-10) 10 April 1961 (age 56)
Nationality	United Kingdom
Alma mater	University of Manchester
Known for	myGrid Semantic Grid Open PHACTS Taverna workbench Software Sustainability Institute The Seven Deadly Sins of Bioinformatics
Spouse(s)	Ian Cottam (m. 2003)
Awards	Jim Gray e-Science Award (2008) FREng (2010) FBCS Karen Spärck Jones lecture (2012) CBE (2014)
Website	manchester.ac.uk/research/carole.goble
Scientific career
Fields	Semantic Web Bioinformatics e-Science Social computing Workflows
Institutions	University of Manchester BBSRC
Academic advisors	Alan Rector Tom Kilburn

Carole Anne Goble, CBE FREng (born 10 April 1961) is a British academic who is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. She is Principal Investigator (PI) of the myGrid,BioCatalogue and myExperiment projects and co-leads the Information Management Group (IMG) with Norman Paton.

Goble was educated at Maidstone Grammar School for Girls. Her academic career has been spent at the School of Computer Science where she gained her Bachelor of Science degree in computing and information systems from 1979 to 1982.

Her current research interests include Grid computing, the Semantic Grid, the Semantic Web, Ontologies,e-Science, medical informatics,Bioinformatics, and Research Objects. She applies advances in knowledge technologies and workflow systems to solve information management problems for life scientists and other scientific disciplines. She has successfully secured funding from the European Union, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the US and UK funding agencies including the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC),Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC),Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Medical Research Council (MRC), the Department of Health, The Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute and the Department of Trade and Industry.