Extended Directorate

The Extended Directorate advises and assists the Interim Director General and Interim Executive Director in important scientific, political, technical and administrative aspects of the leadership of EMBL.

Peer Bork

Interim Director General (co-chair)

Ewan Birney

Interim Executive Director (co-chair)

Alexander Aulehla

Head of Developmental Biology Unit and Scientific Head of LAR

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Rachel Curran

Deputy Chief Operating Officer & Head of EMBL-EBI Administration & Operations

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Kristina Djinovic Carugo

Head of EMBL Grenoble

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Alba Diz-Muñoz

Interim Head of Unit for CBB

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Jan Ellenberg

Head of CBB/ Head of EIC

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Annika Grandison

Acting Head of Communications

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Anna Kreshuk

Interim Head of Unit for CBB

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Monika Lachner

Interim Head of EICAT

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Eileen Furlong

Head of Genome Biology Unit

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Kirsi Heerde

Executive Assistant to the DG

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Cornelius Gross

Head of EMBL Rome

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Mathias Hentze

Director

Jan Korbel

Interim Head of EMBL Heidelberg

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Marie-Paule Labah-Niemeyer

Senior Council Secretariat Executive Coordinator

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Julia Mahamid

Head of Molecular Systems Biology

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Plamena Markova

Chief of International Relations

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Johanna McEntyre

Interim Director, EMBL-EBI

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Michael Milne

Chief Operating Officer

Rainer Pepperkok

Director of Scientific Core Facilities and Services

Julio Saez Rodriguez

Head of Research

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Thomas R. Schneider

Interim Head of EMBL Hamburg

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James Sharpe

Head of EMBL Barcelona

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Michael Thompson

Assistant to the Director General / Head of Council Secretariat

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Nassos Typas

Head of Molecular Systems Biology

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Jessica Vamathevan

Chief Strategy Officer

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Gemma Wood

Acting Head of One-EMBL Communications

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See also

EMBL Governance

EMBL is an inter-governmental organisation with support from more than 30 countries that is led by the Interim Director General, Peer Bork, together with Interim Executive Director, Ewan Birney, appointed by the EMBL Council.

Directorate

The Directorate has a mandate to enable high-level consultation on strategic EMBL-wide matters. It oversees and guides key initiatives for EMBL and advises and supports the Interim Director General and Interim Executive Director in decision-making on EMBL-wide matters.

EMBL Council

The EMBL Council determines the Laboratory’s policy in scientific, technical and administrative matters, in particular by giving guidelines to the Director General.

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