Carole Goble is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester where she leads the e-Science Group of Researchers, Research Software Engineers and Data Stewards. She has 30+ years’ experience of leading digital research infrastructure development, and advancing innovations in research reproducible science, open and FAIR data and method sharing, knowledge and metadata management and computational workflows in a range of disciplines, notably in the Life Sciences. Carole has worked with the biodiversity community on these topics for over 15 years – including EU projects BioVel Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory, Synthesis+ Specimen Data Refinery and currently BioDT Biodiversity Digital Twins and BGE Biodiversity Genomics Europe working with ERGA.
Carole is the Joint Head of Node of ELIXIR-UK, the national node of ELIXIR Europe, the European Research infrastructure for Life Science data. She is responsible for ELIXIR flagship services for workflow and training registration and sharing, data management, and FAIR digital object metadata middleware, and is a member of the ELIXIR Biodiversity Community.
Carole is also the co-Scientific Director of Federated Analytics for Health Data Research UK, a founder of the UK’s Software Sustainability Institute, partner of the EVERSE Virtual Institute for Research Software Quality and a partner in numerous European Open Science Cloud projects.