Eleftheria Zeggini

Eleftheria Zeggini is the founding director of the Institute of Translational Genomics at Helmholtz Munich, and TUM Liesel Beckmann Distinguished Professor at the Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Health. She obtained a BSc in biochemistry and a PhD in human genomics from the University of Manchester, UK. Following postdoctoral work in complex disease genomics at the Centre for Integrated Genomic and Medical Research in Manchester, and at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford, she was awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship in statistical genetics. She subsequently joined the Human Genetics faculty at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, where she established a research programme advancing analytical genomics of complex traits, before moving to Helmholtz Munich. Eleftheria Zeggini is an honorary professor at the University of Bristol, UK, and has received an honorary doctorate by the University of Thessaly, Faculty of Engineering, Greece. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK), Fellow of ELLIS, Member of the Academia Europaea, Member of EMBO, and serves on the EMBL Council. Her research focuses on leveraging large-scale biomedical data to elucidate mechanisms of disease development and progression, with the goal of accelerating translation and enabling precision medicine.

Mandate ERC Scientific Council: 1 Jan 2026  - 31 December 2029