Education
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.
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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.
She is Principal Investigator (Principal Investigator) of the myGrid, BioCatalogue and myExperiment projects and co-leads the Information Management Group (Image) with Norman Paton. Her current research interests include Grid computing, the Semantic Grid, the Semantic Web, Ontologies, e-Science, medical informatics, Bioinformatics, and 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 Projects Agency (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in the United States and United Kingdom funding agencies including the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Council (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council), Economic and Social Council (Economic and Social Research Council), Medical Council (Medical Research Council), the Department of Health, The Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute and the Department of Trade and Industry.
Her work has been published in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including Nucleic Acids, Bioinformatics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer, the Journal of Biomedical Semantics, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing conference, the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, the Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Nature Genetics and Drug Discovery Today. Goble joined the University in 1985, and was appointed to a chair in 2000.
Goble serves on several committees, which currently includes the advisory committees of the Science and Technology Facilities Council Physical and Life Sciences advisory committee. The Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre and the European Grid Infrastructure committee.
She was appointed to the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Council on 13 June 2013.
Previously she served on the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council Technical Opportunities Panel. The Semantic Web Science Association. The British Library’s Content Strategy Advisory Board and the Councils United Kingdom e-Science Steering Committee.
She co-founded Cerebra, an early spin-off company to exploit Semantic Web technologies which has been sold.
Goble was recipient of the first Jim Gray e-Science Award in December 2008. Tony Hey, corporate vice president of Microsoft External who sponsored the award, said Goble was chosen for the award because of her work to help scientists do data-intensive science through the Taverna workbench. Her work has won best paper awards at the 3rd Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (2007) and the 11th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Hypertext. In 2002 she was honoured by Sun Microsystems for her significant archievements in advancing Life Science Computing. She has given keynotes in many forums, including international conferences on: Digital curation, e-Social Science, Grid Computing, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Hypertext and Hypermedia, Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC), Artificial intelligence, Systems Biology, Discovery Science, the Semantic Web, International World Wide Web Conference and Medical Informatics. Goble was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to science. She was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2010.
She is an editorial board member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Internet Computing and the International Journal of Web Service, and was previously was the Editor-in-chief of Elsevier"s Journal of Web Semantics.
