David L. Robertson is a research professor, head of bioinformatics and MRC Investigator at the University of Glasgow's Centre for Virus Research.^[1]

He earned a BSc from the University of Edinburgh in 1991.^[1] He completed a Ph.D. in genetics at the University of Nottingham (1993-1996) after moving with his supervisor's research group from Trinity College Dublin (1992-1993).^[1] Subsequently, he was a research associate at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a research fellow at the CNRS, and a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.^[2][1] In 2002 he became a lecturer and principal investigator at the University of Manchester.^[2] In 2017, he moved to University of Glasgow and became head of the Centre for Virus Research’s bioinformatics research programme.^[3] His research focus has been on computational approaches to the study of viruses, molecular evolution, and the analysis of viral diseases such as HIV, COVID-19, and others.^[4]