Carole Goble

Carole Goble is a full professor in the the School of Computer Science. She gained her BSc in Computing and Information Systems from Manchester in 1982 and joined the faculty staff in 1985. She was first a member of the Multimedia Informatics Group and then the Medical Informatics Group. In 1997 she founded the Information Management Group along with Norman Paton. She has worked closely with life scientists for many years and is the Director of the myGrid project, the largest UK e-Science pilot project, which has produced the widely-used Taverna Workflow Workbench. This open source software is now part of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK, a pan-university institute encompassing Manchester, Edinburgh and Southampton. Carole was the founding Chair of OMII-UK. She is also the co-director of the e-Science North West regional centre. Carole recently launched the myExperiment social networking Virtual Research Environment for e-Scientists to share workflows and othe