David Charles De Roure is an English computer scientist who is a professor of e-Research at the University of Oxford, where he is responsible for Digital Humanities in The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH),[2] and is a Turing Fellow[3] at The Alan Turing Institute.

[6][7][8] and was subsequently a Strategic Advisor to the UK Economic and Social Research Council[9] in the area of new and emerging forms of data and realtime analytics.

He stayed on to do a Doctor of Philosophy degree[11] in 1990 initially under the supervision of David W. Barron and Peter Henderson[12] on a Lisp environment for modelling distributed computing.

He was closely involved in the UK e-Science programme and is best known for the myExperiment website for sharing scientific workflows and research objects, as well as the Semantic Grid initiative, the UK's Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII-UK) and its successor, the Software Sustainability Institute.

In 2009 he was appointed as the National Strategic Director for e-Social Science by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and subsequently held the post of Strategic Advisor in the area of new and emerging forms of data and realtime analytics, leading to the commissioning of projects under phase 3 of the Big Data Network.