Ewan Birney

Ewan Birney CBE FRS FMedSci
Birney in 2014
Born	John Frederick William Birney[8][9][10] (1972-12-06) 6 December 1972 (age 51)[11][12][13][14] Paddington, London,[13] England
Other names	Ewan Birney John Birney[7]
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA) University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known for	GeneSweep[15] ENCODE consortium[16] Ensembl genome database project[17]
Spouse	Barley Laycock ​ (m. 2003)​ [13][18]
Children	Two[13]
Awards	Crick Lecture (2003)[1] Overton Prize (2005)[2] Ben Franklin Award (2005) EMBO Member (2012)[3][4]
Scientific career
Fields	Bioinformatics[5] Genomics[5] Computational Biology[5]
Institutions	University of Cambridge European Bioinformatics Institute European Molecular Biology Laboratory Oxford Nanopore Technologies Genomics England Sanger Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Thesis	Sequence alignment in bioinformatics (2000)
Doctoral advisor	Richard Durbin[6]
Website	ewanbirney.com

John Frederick William Birney (known as Ewan Birney) CBE FRS FMedSci^[19][20] (born 6 December 1972)^{[21][11][13][14]} is joint director of EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI),^[22][23][24] in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire and deputy director general of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).^[25] He also serves as non-executive director of Genomics England,^[26] chair of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH)^[27][28] and honorary professor of bioinformatics at the University of Cambridge.^[29] Birney has made significant contributions to genomics, through his development of innovative bioinformatics and computational biology tools.^[1] He previously served as an associate faculty member at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.^[30]