David De Roure

David De Roure
Photograph of David De Roure by George M. Mood
Born	David Charles De Roure (1962-09-03) 3 September 1962 (age 54) North London, England
Nationality	British
Fields	Digital humanities e-Research Computational musicology Semantic web Scientific workflow systems
Institutions	University of Oxford University of Southampton
Thesis	A Lisp environment for modelling distributed systems (1990)
Doctoral advisor	David W. Barron Peter Henderson
Doctoral students	Ayomi Bandara Neil Berrington Eloise Biggs Steve Blackburn Migeul de Oliveira Branco Jonathan Dale Vijay Dialani Tao Guan John Ibbotson Jaime Cerda Jacobo Danius Michaelides Stuart Middeton David R. Newman Ian Millard Kevin R. Page John Revill Neil Ridgeway Melike Sah Mark Thompson Jing Zhou
Known for	Significant Contributions to e-Research
Notable awards	Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS)
Website www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/people/dder www.scilogs.com/eresearch twitter.com/dder

David Charles De Roure PhDFBCSMIMA CITP is a Professor of e-Research at the University of Oxford, Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC) and Co-Director of the Institute for the Future of Computing in the Oxford Martin School. From 2009 to 2013 he held the post of National Strategic Director for e-Social Science. He is also a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.

De Roure grew up in West Sussex and studied for an undergraduate degree in Mathematics with Physics at the University of Southampton, completing his studies in 1984. He stayed on to do a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1990 initially under the supervision of David W. Barron and Peter Henderson on a Lisp environment for modelling distributed computing.

Following an early career in medical electronics at Sonicaid, De Roure 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. He was closely involved in the UK e-Science programme and is best known for the myExperiment, the Semantic Grid initiative, and the UK's Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII-UK) for which he chaired the management board from 2007 to 2010. In 2009 he was appointed as the National Strategic Director for e-Social Science by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).