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Alumni Relations

Connecting, engaging and nurturing EMBL’s global community of current and former scientists, technicians, communicators and administrators

The EMBL Alumni Relations programme is built to advance EMBL and the relevance of life science research in the scientific community and society at large, by fostering connections between the laboratory, its member states, current EMBL staff, EMBL alumni, and the public.

Category: General

Degrees of excellence

We catch up with Helke Hillebrand on leaving EMBL after 9 years as Academic Coordinator and Dean of Graduate Studies


Design for life

EMBL’s senior graphic designer Petra Riedinger retires after 40 years producing posters, graphics, artwork and more


Chromatin cartographer

EMBL alumnus Jop Kind, this year’s John Kendrew Award winner, reflects on the imaginative questions that led him to the prize


Thinking in 3D

Ernst Stelzer earns 2016 Lennart Philipson award for advances in light sheet microscopy





Opinion: 2006, a year of champagne

Stephen Cusack, Head of EMBL’s site in Grenoble, looks back on the early days of his collaboration with Anacor developing anti-infectives targeting leucyl-tRNA synthetase


Maltese science: From temples to genomes

As we welcome Malta as EMBL’s most recent member state, Maltese science writer Edward Duca looks back at the nation’s rich history of scientific contributions


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