Jonas Korlach is one of the founders of PacBio. He co-invented the SMRT technology with Dr. Stephen Turner when the two were graduate students at Cornell University. He has held multiple positions at PacBio, including leading the molecular biology division, Principal Scientist and Chief Scientific Officer, and is now a scientific advisor to the company. Dr. Korlach is the recipient of multiple grants, an inventor on over 100 issued U.S. and international patents, and an author of over 100 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.