David De Roure is a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. A founding member of the School's Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, he leads the e-Research activities and is Director of the Pervasive Systems Centre. His current research interest is the application of Semantic Web, Web 2.0 and workflow technologies to enable new research in multiple disciplines. He is a pioneer of the Semantic Grid and is closely involved in UK e-Science programme activities including the CombeChem and myGrid projects, OMII-UK and myExperiment. David has worked for many years with distributed information systems and distributed programming languages, and has been active in the Web and hypertext communities. He is a Scientific Advisory Council member of the Web Science Trust and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.