Andrew Rambaut

Andrew Rambaut FRSE is a British evolutionary biologist, as of 2020 Professor of Molecular Evolution at the University of Edinburgh.

Rambaut earned a BSc in Zoology from the University of Edinburgh and a DPhil in Zoology from the University of Oxford in 1997.

He was based at Oxford until 2006, when he took up a Royal Society university research fellowship position and became Chair of Molecular Evolution at the University of Edinburgh in 2010.[1]

Rambaut's research is primarily on the "evolutionary and epidemiological study of viral pathogens of humans and animals".[1]

In 2007, he published a paper with Alexei Drummond describing BEAST (Bayesian evolutionary analysis sampling trees), a software package for evolutionary analysis by molecular sequence variation, which uses Bayesian inference techniques.[2] This is freely available on GitHub.[3] They followed this up in 2013 with a set of analysis tools called Tracer, and established an online forum for users.[4] A year later, Rambaut set up Virological, an online “discussion forum for molecular evolution and epidemiology of viruses”.[5]

Rambaut is an attendee of the UK's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).[6]

References
  1. "Professor Andrew Rambaut FRSE". Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  2. AJ Drummond and A Rambaut (2007) “BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis sampling trees”, BMC Evolutionary Biology 7 vol. no 1, pages 1-8
  3. "beast-dev/beast-mcmc". GitHub. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  4. "BEAST: Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis Sampling Trees". BEAST Software. 13 October 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  5. Virological on the Wayback Machine, 2 April 2016
  6. Sample, Ian (24 April 2020). "Who's who on secret scientific group advising UK government?". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
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