Professor David De Roure heads Grid and Pervasive Computing in the School of Electronics and Computer Science. He was a founding member of the School's Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group and his current research focus is the application of advanced knowledge technologies to both Grid and pervasive computing. He is involved in the UK e-Science programme as a principal investigator of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK, and has had leading roles in the Comb-e-Chem e-Science pilot and the CoAKTinG (Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid) project. He is Director of the DTI-sponsored Centre for Pervasive Computing in the Environment. Internationally, he has a pioneering role in Semantic Grid research activities and he is chair of the Semantic Grid Research Group in the Global Grid Forum, as well as being a member of the GGF Steering Group and the Area Director responsible for Technology Innovators. He has participated in the EU Next Generation Grids experts group and was editor of the 3rd report, and is leading the Grid activity in the Worldwide Universities Network. He obtained his PhD in 1990 in the design of distributed programming languages and subsequently conducted research in both distributed computation and distributed information systems. He is a World Wide Web Consortium Advisory Committee member and actively involved in the international World Wide Web conference series and hypertext research community. He sits on national committees for JISC and the Arts and Humanities Data Service. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.