Timothy Ebbels

Tim Ebbels is Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Head of Bioinformatics in the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction at Imperial College London. He obtained his PhD in astrophysics from the University of Cambridge and in 1998 moved into bioinformatics. His group focuses on the application of bioinformatic, machine learning and chemometric techniques to post-genomic data, with a particular emphasis on computational metabolomics.

He has worked on projects ranging from environmental monitoring, through molecular epidemiology, to toxicogenomics and his research addresses problems of data integration, visualisation, network analysis, time series and metabolite annotation. Tim is an active member of the metabolomics community, having served as a Director of the international Metabolomics Society from 2012-2018, co-organised international their conferences and is a co-founder of the London Metabolomics Network. He is an editorial board member for BMC Bioinformatics and the Journal of Chemometrics. He has a strong commitment to postgraduate education, serving as Director of the MRes in Biomedical Research at Imperial College (~900 students trained) and leading the Data Analysis short course at the Imperial’s International Phenome Training Centre. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Lifetime Honorary Fellow of the Metabolomics Society.

Education

• University of Cambridge - PhD, Astrophysics 1994 - 1998
• University of Cambridge - BA, Natural Sciences (Physics) 1991 - 1994