Ewan Birney

Ewan Birney CBE FRS FMedSci
Ewan Birney in 2014
Born	John Frederick William Birney (1972-12-06) 6 December 1972 Paddington, London, England
Other names	Ewan Birney John Birney
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA) University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known for	GeneSweep ENCODE consortium Ensembl genome database project
Spouse	Barley Laycock (m. 2003)
Children	Two
Awards	Crick Lecture (2003) Overton Prize (2005) Ben Franklin Award (2005) EMBO Member (2012)
Scientific career
Fields	Bioinformatics Genomics Computational Biology
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

Website	www.ebi.ac.uk/people/person/ewan-birney

John Frederick William Birney (known as Ewan Birney) CBE FRS FMedSci (born 6 December 1972) is Executive Director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). He also serves as non-executive director of Genomics England, chair of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and honorary professor of bioinformatics at the University of Cambridge. Birney has made significant contributions to genomics, through his development of innovative bioinformatics and computational biology tools. He previously served as an associate faculty member at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.