David De Roure is Professor of e-Research at University of Oxford and a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London. Focused on advancing digital scholarship, David works closely with multiple disciplines including humanities (computational musicology, digital and experimental humanities), social sciences (social machines), engineering (Internet of Things), and computer science (large scale distributed systems, semantic web, social computing). He has extensive experience in hypertext, Web Science, Linked Data, and Internet of Things. Drawing on this broad interdisciplinary background he is a frequent speaker and writer on the future of digital scholarship and scholarly communications.

David has strategic responsibility for Digital Humanities at Oxford, in conjunction with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). He is based in the Oxford e-Research Centre and is a Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Engineering Science, a member of Cyber Security Oxford, and an Oxford Martin Senior Fellow. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS) and of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), a visiting professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, where he chairs the Digital Research Cluster.

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