Professor Carole Goble CBE FREng FBCS is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. She leads a Lab of Researchers, Research Software Engineers, and Data Stewards developing digital research infrastructure and advancing innovations in research reproducible science, open and FAIR data and workflow sharing, knowledge and metadata management, and computational, reproducible workflows in a range of disciplines, notably in the Life Sciences and Biodiversity. Carole is the Joint Head of Node of ELIXIR-UK, the national node of ELIXIR Europe, the European Research infrastructure for Life Science data. She co-founded the UK’s Software Sustainability Institute in 2010 and serves on the SAB of its rebranded UK Institute for Research Software (2026). She is a founding partner of the EVERSE European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence. She has served on the Dutch eScience Center eSAC for over a decade and is a member of the Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and UK SocRSE. She represents the UK on the G7 Open Science Working Group and advises UKRI and OECD on FAIR research software. She co-leads the Workflow Community Initiative WG on FAIR workflows.