Andrew Rambaut
Andrew Rambaut is a British evolutionary biologist, 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.; he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2014.

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

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. This is freely available on GitHub. A year later, Rambaut set up Virological, an online “discussion forum for molecular evolution and epidemiology of viruses”. 

Science reported on 11 January 2020, that Rambaut published for the first time the genome of the COVID-19 coronavirus after it was sent to him by Edward C. Holmes. Holmes has said that it “took 52 minutes from receiving the code … to publishing” on Virological. The BBC "Horizon" episode "The Vaccine" stated: “When Chinese scientists published the genetic sequence of a mystery new virus on January 10th 2020, vaccine scientists around the world immediately sprang into action”.

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