Dr Brian Matthews

Brian Matthews is Group Leader of the Scientific Applications Group within the e-Science Centre, and also Deputy Manager of the W3C Office for the UK and Ireland.

Brian has worked on a wide-range of different areas of computing and information technology.  He took his PhD on equational reasoning systems, and worked in the are of formal methods for software engineering.  He then worked on projects on structured documentation, data modelling and the Web.   He has been involved with the Semantic Web, developing early versions of the RDF format for thesuari and other knowledge organisation systems, which has evolved into the SKOS recommendation. 

In recent years, Brian has become increasingly involved in developing technology and tools to support the scientific research and collaboration.  This has involved work in data management and distributed systems.

Brian developed the first version of the Scientific Metadata Model which now forms the basis of the ICAT Data Management infrastructure.  He has also been involved in developing STFC's institutional repository ePubs, and has been involved in other projects in digital libraries, information management, and digital curation.  

Brian has also been involved in distributed systems and Grids, including developing tools and techniques for managing security and trust in Grids.  He has been the STFC leader in the European Project XtreemOS, which is developing a Grid based operating system.

Brian now leads a team which has a wide range of interests, including Grids, scientific visualisation, data and information management and digital curation across a range of scientific applications.  

PhD in Computing Science, Glasgow Univ, thesis title "Dynamic Term Rewriting Systems". BSc maths, Bristol Univ MSc Foundations of Advanced Information Technology, Imperial College, London.

Brian is a chartered member of the BCS. 

Brian is a part-time lecturer in  Computer Science at Oxford Brookes University, where he teaches on the M.Sc. in Web Technology.