Director, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

- Present

For more than four centuries our people and their achievements have rewritten history time and againthey ve explored space revolutionised surgery won olympic medals published era defining books cloned a mammal from an adult cell and achieved much much more currently hosting more than 23 000 undergraduates 12 000 postgraduates and 15 000 life long learners and having played host to more than a million mooc learners to date the university continues to attract the greatest minds from across the globe reflecting its position as one of the world s leading universities