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People, Processes, & Places

EMBL is a community of hard-working individuals – each essential to pursuing organisational missions.

Together we contribute to EMBL’s strength as a world-class scientific institute. It’s why EMBL strives to be an attractive, international employer of highly skilled scientists, technicians, and operational staff. Our alumni, who go on to have wide-ranging impacts around the world, are the greatest evidence of this success.

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A snapshot of EMBL 2022 facts and figures

Open science at EMBL

Office for Scientific Information Management

EMBL began to implement its Open Science Policy to ensure publications, research data, and software are open access, and to adopt FAIR principles.

Open science for climate justice

EMBL-EBI experts discuss open science for food security and how to preserve global biodiversity.

EMBL and DORA

EMBL began initial work to apply the San Francisco Declaration of Research Assessment (DORA) to more equitably evaluate research achievements – something to be adopted more in 2023.

“I wanted to work at EMBL as it is a mission-driven organisation that is trying to make science open and accessible to everyone.”

– Melissa Harrison, who joined EMBL in 2022 as Team Leader of Literature Services at EMBL-EBI

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Implementing our gender equality plan & more

For EMBL’s EDI Office, 2022 included publishing its Gender Equality Plan and offering staff workshops around the organisation. It also marked the start of a second cohort of women involved in the Eppendorf-sponsored Leadership and Excellence for Aspiring Postdocs programme (LEAP).

Break the bias – an interview with Louise Mullany

The theme for International Women’s Day in 2022 was ‘Break the bias’, and EMBL-EBI held a roundtable discussion that included Louise Mullany, Professor in Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham in the UK, who discussed what bias in science looks like and how to address it.

“My experience at EMBL ignited a paradigm shift in my approach to managing biological research facilities, nurturing a steadfast dedication to animal welfare, excellence, and collaboration. This transformative journey continues to echo through my career, shaping my role as a leader in the dynamic world of biology and biomedical research infrastructure.”

— Maria Kamper, Director of Biological Services Facility at the University of Manchester; Laboratory Animal Resource Manager at EMBL Rome 2012–2015

Sustainability

Energy savings at EMBL

Energy saving measures across EMBL sites led to an important reduction in total energy usage in 2022, reflecting our commitment as an organisation to reduce our environmental impact and embrace sustainability principles.

Helping to achieve a circular economy

EMBL’s Scientific instrument Maintenance (SIM) team repairs, refurbishes, and maintains EMBL’s scientific equipment, contributing greatly to making EMBL’s operations more circular and more sustainable.