Anthony Hyman

PhD in Molecular Cell Biology, 1987, King's College, Cambridge.
Postdoctoral research at University of California San Francisco 1988–1992.
Group leader at EMBL 1993–1997.
One of four founding directors of, and group leader at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, 1999–2026.
Held the role of the institute’s Managing Director 2010–2013 and 2021–2023, and holds a honorary professorship of Molecular Biology at Dresden University of Technology, Germany.
EMBL Director General since March 2026.