Carole Goble is a Professor in the School of Computer Science in the University of Manchester. She is co-leader of the Information Management Group. She has a leading role in the Semantic Web, e-Science and the Semantic Grid. She applies technical advances in knowledge technologies and workflow systems to solve information management problems for Life Scientists and other scientific disciplines. She was co-PC chair of WWW2006 and is an EIC of the Elsevier's Journal of Web Semantics.
She is the director of the large UK e-Science myGrid/Taverna programme of work for workflow based middleware for Life Scientists. myGrid uses semantic technologies for service and workflow discover and metadata management of workflow-based experiments. myGrid is now part of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK; Carole is the chair of this Institute (of 40+ software developers) which has been funded to harden and support developments from the UK's e-Science programme. She is the co-chair of the Open Grid Forum Semantic Grid Research Group, and the Technical Director of the EU Strep OntoGrid, which has developed the Semantic-Open Grid Service Architecture (S-OGSA) framework for Semantic Grids.
Until recently she was the Research Area manager for the EU NoE Knowledge Web, which coordinates Semantic Web research across Europe. The Information Management Group is renowned for its work on ontology languages, reasoning systems and their practical application to real problems. Her work on the application of ontologies to biology and bioinformatics has been especially influential.
Carole has over 130 publications in Semantics and e-Science, and is a popular keynote speaker. She gave the opening keynote on the use of Semantic Web for Life Sciences at Intl Semantic Web Conference 2005 and given many keynotes on the Semantic Grid at major conferences including European Conf on AI 2004, the European Grid Conference 2005, the 1^st IEEE e-Science and Grid Computing Conference 2005, EGEE 2006 and Intl Joint Conf on AI 2007. She sits on 15 national and international oversight committees concerning e-Science, Bioinformatics, Semantic technologies and Grid Computing.