Jonas Korlach, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer
Jonas Korlach was appointed Chief Scientific Officer of PacBio in July 2012. He was previously a Scientific Fellow, supporting commercial development of the PacBio RS II system and performing research aimed at developing new applications for SMRT technologies. He co-invented the SMRT technology with Stephen Turner, Ph.D., PacBio Founder and Chief Technology Officer, when the two were graduate students at Cornell University. Dr. Korlach joined PacBio as the company’s eighth employee in 2004. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Cornell University.
Dr. Korlach is the recipient of multiple grants, an inventor on 70 issued U.S. patents and 61 international patents, and an author of over 70 scientific studies on the principles and applications of SMRT technology, including publications in Nature, Science, and PNAS. In 2013, Dr. Korlach was honored by the Obama White House as an Immigrant Innovator “Champion of Change.” He received both his PhD and his MS degrees in Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology from Cornell, and received MS and BA degrees in Biological Sciences from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.