Henrik Bjorn Nielsen PhD, MSc

H. Bjørn Nielsen, PhD (Chief Scientific Officer) holds a PhD in Systems Biology from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), an MSc in Biology from the University of Copenhagen, and a leader education from Harvard Business School. Prior to joining Clinical-Microbiomics, Bjørn was leading the Microbiome Systems Biology group at DTU. Bjørn has been a frontrunner in microbiome research for the last 10 years and brings extensive experience in analysing, integrating and managing diverse types of data. Bjørn’s research has mainly focused on the ecology and temporal dynamics of the human gut microbiome and its role in disease. This has been pursued by integration and mining of shotgun metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, metabolomics and patient data, and lead to the development of several important analysis methods and concepts. Bjørn has authored 16 high-impact papers published in Nature and Cell journals, and his publications currently receive more than 2800 citations per year.