Peter Rugg-Gunn is a Senior Group Leader at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK. He is also an Affiliate Principal Investigator at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and at the Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research, and is the Chief Investigator of the Human Developmental Biology Initiative. Peter obtained a BSc from the University of York, a PhD at the University of Cambridge, and then undertook postdoctoral training at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. In 2011, he received a Wellcome Fellowship that enabled him to establish his research group at the Babraham Institute, where he was awarded tenure in 2017. Peter's research interests centre on understanding how the epigenome is established during human development and how this affects cell fate decisions in human embryos and in stem cell-based embryo models. His group is particularly interested in epigenetic mechanisms that contribute to cellular plasticity and lineage specification. Peter is also the Head of Public Engagement at the Babraham Institute and he has co-led national projects exploring society's views on human embryo research.