Carole Goble

Carole Goble is a Professor in Information Management at the University of Manchester. She leads research on semantic technologies, workflow management systems, and data-intensive e-Science, with applications spanning Life Sciences, Health Informatics, and Digital Libraries. Her work bridges computer science and scientific practice, focusing on interoperability, metadata, and virtual research environments.

• Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and British Computing Society
• Co-founder of the Software Sustainability Institute (2010)
• Deputy Director of EU ESFRI ELIXIR UK Node (2014)

Her research includes semantic web applications for ontologies, workflow provenance, and social computing platforms like myExperiment. She pioneers the Semantic Grid with the S-OGSA architecture and explores sociological dynamics in scientific-technological collaborations.

Recent scientific awards: Microsoft Research Jim Gray e-Science Award (2008) and Sun Microsystems Award (2002).

Key projects: myGrid (semantic web, Taverna Workflow Workbench), Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute-UK, and CLIMATE-ADAPT4EOSC. Collaborations span Systems Biology, Biodiversity, and Health e-Laboratories.