Alexander George Bateman is a computational biologist and Head of Protein Sequence Resources at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Cambridge, UK.

He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1997, for research supervised by Cyrus Chothia at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB)[18][19][20] on the evolution of the immunoglobulin protein superfamily.

[21][22] During this time, he also worked with Sean Eddy to discover novel protein domains using the HMMER software.

[23] In 1997, Bateman joined the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to lead the development of the Pfam biological database.

[30][31] He became the third former member of Richard Durbin's lab to win the award, following Sean Eddy and Ewan Birney.