Heads of EMBL Sites

They provide leadership and guidance to their units, and assist the Interim Director General in representing EMBL to external stakeholders in their host countries.

EMBL operates from six sites across Europe. The headquarters and largest laboratory site is in Heidelberg, Germany.

EMBL Barcelona

EMBL’s site in Spain specialises in tissue biology and disease modelling

James Sharpe

Head of EMBL Barcelona

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EMBL Grenoble

Located on the EPN science campus, EMBL's site in France is a centre for structural biology studies

Kristina Djinovic Carugo

Head of EMBL Grenoble

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EMBL Hamburg

Research in structural biology benefits from the powerful accelerator facilities on Hamburg's DESY campus

Thomas R. Schneider

Head of EMBL Hamburg

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EMBL Heidelberg

EMBL's headquarters and main laboratory site supports research, services, advanced training, and technology development

Jan Korbel

Interim Head of EMBL Heidelberg

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EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute

EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute uses its comprehensive data resources to enable discoveries worldwide

Johanna McEntyre

Interim Director of EMBL-EBI

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EMBL Rome

EMBL's site in Italy is a centre for research in epigenetics and neurobiology

Cornelius Gross

Head of EMBL Rome

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Governance

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