{"id":70119,"date":"2024-09-04T10:54:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T08:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/?p=70119"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:32:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:32:01","slug":"what-ive-learned-alvis-brazma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/people-perspectives\/what-ive-learned-alvis-brazma\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvis Brazma: what I\u2019ve learned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alvis Brazma has climbed some of the world\u2019s highest mountains, but the irony that he\u2019s spent most of his career in the flattest part of the UK \u2013 Cambridgeshire \u2013 is not lost on him. \u201cI traded real mountains for mountains of data,\u201d Brazma jokes as we embark on a whistlestop tour of his scientific career, including almost 30 years at EMBL\u2019s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of EMBL-EBI\u2019s longest-standing members of staff, Brazma has seen the institute grow and transform. He\u2019s witnessed bioinformatics change from a fringe science into a necessary foundation for biological discovery. Brazma himself instigated the development of some of EMBL-EBI\u2019s most well-used data resources and lobbied fiercely for making scientific data open and accessible to all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n \u201cAlvis has been a great source of inspiration and amazing fun to work with. He helped launch my career, showing me a pathway to success and when I got lost, he gave me the map.\u201d\u00a0<\/span> <\/div>\n \n