Manfred Grabherr

Dr. Manfred Grabherr is a world renowned expert in genomics, bioinformatics, and AI who brings with him over 30 years of experience across both academia and industry. Manfred received his PhD in applied physics from the University of Technology Vienna, Austria

(TU Wien) in 1992. He then worked on speech recognition, natural language processing, and

machine learning in industry for the next 11 years, both in Vienna and the Greater Boston Area, Massachusetts. The companies he worked for include IBM, Philips, Lernout & Hauspie, and Voice Signal Technologies.

In 2003 he joined the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as a computational biologist. Besides contributing to a number of large scale genomics projects and publications, highlights include the RNA-Seq assembly software Trinity, which has been cited by almost 12,000 studies world wide, and Saguaro, software to automatically detect signals of adaptive evolution in populations, which has since been declared the “gold standard” for other methods and analyses. In 2011 he moved to Uppsala University in Sweden, where he received associate professorship in 2013.

He has co-founded multiple companies in addition to serving in senior executive roles. Manfred has 60 publications in top tiered peer reviewed journals (Nature, Science, etc), and is an inventor on numerous patents, and has a history of prior successful exits.