About Carole Goble
Carole Anne Goble is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. Goble co-founded the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) in 2010, serves as joint head of node at the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructure (ESFRI) ELIXIR project of the European Union and is a co-author of the influenential FAIR data principles. She previously served as principal investigator (PI) of the myGrid, BioCatalogue and myExperiment projects and co-lead the Information Management Group (IMG) with Norman Paton. Goble was recipient of the first Jim Gray e-Science Award in December 2008. Goble won best paper awards at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (2007) and the 11th ACM International Conference on Hypertext. In January 2018 Goble was awarded the degree of Doctorem (honoris causa) by Maastricht University. She co-founded Cerebra, an early spin-off company to exploit Semantic Web technologies, which has been sold.
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