Julian Gough

Career and research Following his PhD, Gough completed postdoctoral research at the LMB and Stanford University, with Michael Levitt. Subsequently, he was a scientist at RIKEN in Tokyo, a Professor member of faculty in the Computer Science department at the University of Bristol, where he worked from 2007-2017, and then a programme leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge until 2023. an AI genomics company in Cambridge, winner of the Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards 2025 "Start-up of the Year".

Gough's research interests are in bioinformatics, computational biology, molecular biology, genomics of Hidden Markov models (HMMs) representing all proteins of known structure. His research has been published in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including Nature, Science, Cell, Nucleic Acids Research, PNAS, the Biochemical Journal, the Journal of Molecular Biology, Genome Research, Bioinformatics, PLOS Genetics, Nature Genetics and the Journal of Bacteriology.

Gough's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the European Union (EU) Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Royal Society of London.