Background
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.
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.
De Roure grew up in West Sussex and studied for an undergraduate degree in Mathematics with Physics at the, completing his studies in 1984. He stayed on to do a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1990 initially under the supervision of David West. Barron and Peter Henderson on a Lisp environment for modelling distributed computing.
From 2009 to 2013 he held the post of National Strategic Director for e-Social Science. He is also a supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. 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 United Kingdom e-Science programme and is best known for the myExperiment, the Semantic Grid initiative, and the United Kingdom"s Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII-United Kingdom) 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 United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council (Economic and Social Research Council). His personal research interests include e-Research and Computational musicology and his projects build on Semantic Web, Web 2.0 and Scientific workflow system technologies.
A notable contribution to the field of the Semantic Web is his gloss of the common name for the Web Ontology Language, properly "WOL" and commonly referred to as "Office Workstations Limited", as deriving from Associate of Arts Milne"s character Owl in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
Characteristically his work focuses on the "long tail" of researchers through adoption of user-centric methodologies. He currently works on Social Machines and Web Observatories. Prior to e-Science he worked in distributed computing, Amorphous computing, Ubiquitous computing and Hypertext with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
De Roure was involved in the organisation of Digital Research 2012 and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Web Semantics, Ubiquity Press, FORCE11 and What"s the Score.
De Roure has supervised or co-supervised several doctoral students.
DeRoure is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Web Science Trust.