David De Roure
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 |
| 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 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), and is a Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. He is a supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Oxford Martin School Senior Alumni Fellow.
From 2009 to 2013 he held the post of National Strategic Director for e-Social Science. and was subsequently a Strategic Advisor to the UK Economic and Social Research Council in the area of new and emerging forms of data and realtime analytics.
He was Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC) from 2012 to 2017.