Rafael Gómez-Sjöberg, Ph.D.

Rafael Gómez-Sjöberg has more than 30 years of experience developing scientific instrumentation. He obtained a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, where he developed a microfabricated sensor of bacterial metabolism for rapid detection of bacterial contamination in liquid samples. After carrying out postdoctoral work at Caltech and Stanford, where he worked on automating cell culture experiments using microfluidics, he led a microfluidics-focused lab at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. From there he moved to Quanticel Pharmaceuticals (a startup later acquired by Celgene Corp.), where he designed and built instruments for isolating single cells from very small cell samples and managed a single-cell analysis and sequencing platform. At CZ Biohub SF, Gómez-Sjöberg directly leads the Bioengineering and Software Engineering platforms; and in his CTO capacity he is responsible for the Computational Biology, Genomics, Mass Spectrometry, and Computational Microscopy platforms.