David De Roure | |
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Born | David Charles De Roure 3 September 1962 North London, England |
Nationality | British |
Known for | Significant Contributions to e-Research[1] |
Awards | Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) |
Scientific career | |
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 |
Website | eng |
David Charles De Roure FBCS FIMA CITP is an English computer scientist who is a professor of e-Research at the University of Oxford, where he is responsible for Digital Humanities in The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH),[2] and is a Turing Fellow[3] at The Alan Turing Institute.[4] He is a supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford,[5] and Oxford Martin School Senior Alumni Fellow.[4]
From 2009 to 2013 he held the post of National Strategic Director for e-Social Science.[6][7][8] and was subsequently a Strategic Advisor to the UK Economic and Social Research Council[9] in the area of new and emerging forms of data and realtime analytics.
He was Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC)[10] from 2012 to 2017.