David L. Robertson is head of bioinformatics and MRC Investigator at the University of Glasgow's Centre for Virus Research.[1][2]

He earned a BSc from the University of Edinburgh in 1991.[1] He completed a Ph.D. in genetics at the University of Nottingham and Trinity College Dublin.[1] Subsequently, he was a research associate at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a research fellow at the CNRS, and a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.[3][1] In 2002 he became a lecturer and principal investigator at the University of Manchester.[3] In 2017, he moved to University of Glasgow and became head of the Centre for Virus Research’s bioinformatics research programme.[4] His research focus has been on computational approaches to the study of viruses, molecular evolution, and the analysis of viral diseases such as HIV, COVID-19, and others.[5] [6]

He is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Infection & Immunity - Staff A-Z - Professor David Robertson".
  2. ↑ "Covid origin studies say evidence points to Wuhan market". BBC News. 26 July 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 "David Robertson | ICTV". ictv.global. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  4. ↑ "Our People - David L. Robertson". CVR Bioinformatics. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  5. ↑ "Professor David Robertson | COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium". COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium | UK-Wide Genomic Sequencing. 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2022-09-14.
  6. ↑ "David Robertson Interview". CURE. Retrieved 2022-09-14.


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