Goksel Misirli is a senior lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Keele University, where he co-leads the Biological Systems research group at Keele. His research involves model-driven design of genetic circuits, biological data integration and visualisation, and the development of ontologies. He has been actively involved in the development of the SBOL data model and the SBOL Visual standards. He is also interested in developing computational modelling and annotation strategies using data standards such as SBML.